Drier Weather for Prairies in 2015? Yes wishes do come true!

[furrowtickler]

There is no such thing as normal weather - maybe one week during the summer or one day in the week.

[oneoff]

It's pretty ironic that anyone would be yearning for a return of a year like 1961. Some do remember the very best crops of wheat (on summerfallow) at maybe 12 bushels per acre. It does need to rain to grow on arid non irrigated prairie soils. and we have been saddled with excess production despite excess moisture stress.

The intent seeming is still to make the world awash in extra production....is it not?

Excess production; from whatever cause; does more to ruin profitability than a desire to control environmental factors that are currently out of the hands of producers.

We better keep it that way. The Mother Nature part at least.

[SASKFARMER3]

We still harvested a crop in 1961 not big but did!
The 80s were great! The palliser triangle was noted in history for a reason! And it wasn't excess moisture!
8 years were purple for moisture it's time for a change!

[bucket]

Yeah I could gain close to 640 acres without buying at stupid prices.

[bucket]

Well thanks to those in some sort of "state of mind" advising a "largely empty" headed ag minister I think we are left in the bozo zone.

Is that better farmaholic or still to loose?

I welcome your feedback. Lol.

[sumdumguy]

Well written. What can we say? We can argue with the comments based on fabricated stats, but the fact as I see it is that the government dropped the puck. When the Wheat Board monopoly was removed there was lots of work to do. Instead we only heard silence, as if we were dumped in a culvert. llogistics was forgotten, BUT and a big BUT- where the "h" were and are our famous lobbyists like APAS - not much word from the peanut gallery.

[bucket]

I think they are busy making the rules on ditching to place that "culvert" in.

You have to like that one farmaholic/political advisor.

[freewheat]

I do wish for the 1988's, the 2001's and 2002's, etc. Those were great years. The dirty thirties? HA! 100 bushel oats, 60 bushel wheat. Oneoff, we do not all live in a historic desert.

I do think there was a normal. Look at the soils of Saskatchewan. The long term trend is obvious. Getting out of this rut of a soppy mess would be so great. Trouble is, for us in the wet zone, it will take a few years of drought to do it.

I DO NOT wish drought on anyone. But if one is in a typical drought zone, I would hope that the past decade did not make you think it will be this way forever.

Same for us. The past decade of hell I do not expect to hang on forever.

What will the seed folks say if their latest canola and wheat yields trend down due to dry?

[blackpowder]

This thread is not worthy of response. Let's see how much action Oblivious gets.

[Oliver88]

If would be good to have a few dryer or "normal" years to gain acres.

If it gets dry again, on former farmland there will be a lot of willows taken out and ALL the darn beaver dams will be gone!!