Well its been another interesting week to say the least.
Down in Montana, ND and Wyoming. Yes one last little getaway and parts run.
They have corn and Beans and Wheat. Yields are so so but good protein on wheat. Corn lots all over the place and beans are less. Both crops are late.
Ok for us seems mother nature has turned on the sprinklers again.
Rained Friday sat and sun. Then on and off all week.
Peas are soft that were desiccated might go if rain stays away. Rest of the hailed out shit that regrew will be sprayed today. Talked to a friend that has a lot of peas seems the ugliest ones are about 5 BPA to his best at 40, guess what on over 3000 the average will be Just at crop insurance guarantee. No payment. Could be in soil.
Lentils look ugly and no comment they hate water.
Soy had a great week loved the rain plus the heat and is now just under waist high and growing and podding and filling. Bottom pods have seeds that are getting bigger. Flowering didn't start to quit yet, they are at the full greenest time of the year. Still feel the new variety or the year has something to do with two weeks ahead of last year.
Oats is turning on early fields, rain is laying out a lot of the crop because seems when their is a rain storm we get a wind not just a little breeze but full bore tornado wind. Late is filling but still needs time. Maybe larger producers than early due to this years climate. The week in July without rain and shallow roots did take some yield.
Barley is same, early is ready to harvest or just about. Do you swath or wait is the question. Problem is if the 5 inches of rain that are forecast arrive the barley that's early will be Fu%ked do to sprouting. If you swath it will be worse. Late is filling and has huge heads, but will it make it or not is the question.
Canola, well this is one plant that wants to grow if conditions are right and wants to just get its life over and produce a few seeds if conditions suck.
Now that its done flowering and guys are getting into their fields to swath the damage from the floods is easy to see. Look at the swaths Wide nothing wide nothing wide skinny wide nothing. All way up and back.
If its green put the swather back in the yard. On drive back last night one guy was going at right time but their is a real nice field that went down and it was green. Why when you luck out and actually grow some thing would you Fu$K it up by swathing to early. Take the weekend off and go Monday it will make you money.
Last canola that was seeded on June 25th is now just in full bloom and fertilizer he spread on it is kicking in. 90% of the Normal guys canola in the area is done flowering and shutting down. The next 10 to 14 days swathing will start and the rush is on. Take last years yields and drop by 30 to 50% and that will be our area average. In the great areas of Sask take off 15 to 25% and that's your yield based on last year.
Wheat and Durum will start being desiccated this week or Monday for most. Yes its kind of catching up. One more week of 36 plus would have really helped out. Fusarium is taking some seed out. Its hit and miss and should be similar to damage from last year. But yield will be down from last year. Protein time will tell.
Flax the real good fields look good and the ugly look ugly.
Seems to be the story of 2014. Fields that were missed by hail and have better drainage or time of seeding or if they were burnt or preworked are better off. It will be a year where your harvesting on a half section and think this might be a ok harvest only to move a mile over and start another half and go WTF happened here.
One comment the hail adjusters had was how little Sclerotina we have in our area. They walked enough fields and both guys I know have their Degrees in Agriculture. They were fair with the final assessment on damage from the July 5th storm.
So it seems we have another week till full blown harvest activities start, time to get the equipment all ready from augers,trucks,swathers and combines lunch pales to grease guns.
Oh heads up any one with the new DEF fluid using Deere's their is a problem with the filters plugging on a preburner that's under the side shield on right. Their is a fix on Agtalk that works.
So be safe, be careful, slow down its just a farm. No one cares just your family that you come home safe and sound. Food is cheap for a reason in this world its because hard working people give it away so a few can profit. But what a great life it is. Harvest on. Some will have a great one and some wont, just keep safe.
Down in Montana, ND and Wyoming. Yes one last little getaway and parts run.
They have corn and Beans and Wheat. Yields are so so but good protein on wheat. Corn lots all over the place and beans are less. Both crops are late.
Ok for us seems mother nature has turned on the sprinklers again.
Rained Friday sat and sun. Then on and off all week.
Peas are soft that were desiccated might go if rain stays away. Rest of the hailed out shit that regrew will be sprayed today. Talked to a friend that has a lot of peas seems the ugliest ones are about 5 BPA to his best at 40, guess what on over 3000 the average will be Just at crop insurance guarantee. No payment. Could be in soil.
Lentils look ugly and no comment they hate water.
Soy had a great week loved the rain plus the heat and is now just under waist high and growing and podding and filling. Bottom pods have seeds that are getting bigger. Flowering didn't start to quit yet, they are at the full greenest time of the year. Still feel the new variety or the year has something to do with two weeks ahead of last year.
Oats is turning on early fields, rain is laying out a lot of the crop because seems when their is a rain storm we get a wind not just a little breeze but full bore tornado wind. Late is filling but still needs time. Maybe larger producers than early due to this years climate. The week in July without rain and shallow roots did take some yield.
Barley is same, early is ready to harvest or just about. Do you swath or wait is the question. Problem is if the 5 inches of rain that are forecast arrive the barley that's early will be Fu%ked do to sprouting. If you swath it will be worse. Late is filling and has huge heads, but will it make it or not is the question.
Canola, well this is one plant that wants to grow if conditions are right and wants to just get its life over and produce a few seeds if conditions suck.
Now that its done flowering and guys are getting into their fields to swath the damage from the floods is easy to see. Look at the swaths Wide nothing wide nothing wide skinny wide nothing. All way up and back.
If its green put the swather back in the yard. On drive back last night one guy was going at right time but their is a real nice field that went down and it was green. Why when you luck out and actually grow some thing would you Fu$K it up by swathing to early. Take the weekend off and go Monday it will make you money.
Last canola that was seeded on June 25th is now just in full bloom and fertilizer he spread on it is kicking in. 90% of the Normal guys canola in the area is done flowering and shutting down. The next 10 to 14 days swathing will start and the rush is on. Take last years yields and drop by 30 to 50% and that will be our area average. In the great areas of Sask take off 15 to 25% and that's your yield based on last year.
Wheat and Durum will start being desiccated this week or Monday for most. Yes its kind of catching up. One more week of 36 plus would have really helped out. Fusarium is taking some seed out. Its hit and miss and should be similar to damage from last year. But yield will be down from last year. Protein time will tell.
Flax the real good fields look good and the ugly look ugly.
Seems to be the story of 2014. Fields that were missed by hail and have better drainage or time of seeding or if they were burnt or preworked are better off. It will be a year where your harvesting on a half section and think this might be a ok harvest only to move a mile over and start another half and go WTF happened here.
One comment the hail adjusters had was how little Sclerotina we have in our area. They walked enough fields and both guys I know have their Degrees in Agriculture. They were fair with the final assessment on damage from the July 5th storm.
So it seems we have another week till full blown harvest activities start, time to get the equipment all ready from augers,trucks,swathers and combines lunch pales to grease guns.
Oh heads up any one with the new DEF fluid using Deere's their is a problem with the filters plugging on a preburner that's under the side shield on right. Their is a fix on Agtalk that works.
So be safe, be careful, slow down its just a farm. No one cares just your family that you come home safe and sound. Food is cheap for a reason in this world its because hard working people give it away so a few can profit. But what a great life it is. Harvest on. Some will have a great one and some wont, just keep safe.
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