Rain forecast for central/eastern AB

[TOM4CWB]

Forecasts of 1/2 " today will be much appreciated if they arrive!!! Perhaps then I can finish weed spraying!!!!

[farmaholic]

Good luck!! Getting rain this year is a bit like winning the lottery. Hope your numbers get picked.

No sarcasm intended.

[charliep]

Was out in your neck of the woods yesterday Tom. The two things that struck as an economist doing the 110 km/hr drive by. The first is how late crops are. The second is variability between fields. Good luck on the rain.

[TOM4CWB]

Hi Charlie,

From 2 tenths to 2 inches within 5 miles this year since the snow melted. Very uneven crops... but as our Sherwood Park farm indicates... the subsoil moisture... for those who conserved it... has brought this crop in an amazing way. Good Rain and then heat would bring it along fast! Peas/Faba Beans are just starting to bloom as is early Canola. Wheat is just waiting for a shower to head out and pollinate. Flax wants a drink.

[farmaholic]

Hi Tom.!!!!!

[blackpowder]

We'll be below crop insurance coverage yields on some crops regardless of rain event now. Just nicely settled the dust so far.
You have seen the difference in drills all spring. But with no rain all it did was make us have to run the combine.

[farmaholic]

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Not much improvement, eh??? No problems here, nothing to see, move along folks...

[farmaholic]

Watch that ****ing system slip right under us(SE of Regina)....just like almost every other one did this year.

[fjlip]

IR Satellite appears to be moving up from Idaho, the stuff that drowned us in 2007 & 2010, so with tonnes of smoke particles to stick too, and radar looks stationary in AB and SW Sk, IS ANY BODY getting WET??? Is rain washing smoke down?
Choking on f*cking smoke all day here. Enviro statement says those with respiratory issues stay inside...how about we ALL got lung issues now! Like smoking 50 packs of Cigs today!

[silverback]

Those maps are very misleading and inaccurate? There are some areas north and south of CALGARY that have had all the showers and look excellent!!! They are even going to be spraying fungicides if you can believe it

[farmaholic]

Silverback. Map shows better south of Calgary than north. "Isolated" showers probably are just localized. Maps may be a generalized view. I cant verify their accuracy but they would be pretty accurate for where I live!

There is the odd "young guy or some who pay for agronomic advice" who are spraying a bit here, what for? Doing a bit of side by side comparison? Haven't figured out you can't spend your way out of a wreck? Following recommondations from people
who don't pay your bills? I refuse to spend another nickel unnecessarily on this crop. Hope to get most of my expenses back(absolutely in denial) let alone incurr more!!!!


Signed: Living on Reserve and fading.

[crusher]

Some of our crop has average potential due to subsoil moisture reserves. We will likely spray the good canola and the pedigree seed fields. Light rain now - wasn't sure if we were going to see any for the rest of the year.

[bucket]

Farmaholic

".....living on Reserve...."

I didn't know you were first nation.

Not that there is anything wrong with that.

[vvalk]

I was under those dark clouds in the radar 2 different times last night. Earning out and all. Even had some yellow over the farm on the radar. All added up to 1/10. I guess it's better then wind. As to fungicides we have some decent disease levels in the barley for how dry it is. We have been spraying. Did some every other passes in some fields to see that I did throw my money away.

[sumdumguy]

We flew over huge billowing water-laden clouds
last night near midnight ( flight Calgary to Regina). We thought finally our rain order had arrived, but no, a sprinkling enough to wet the ground, that's all that fell. With all the heavy cloud, colourful radar and satellite, no way. Well, the air is fresh for the moment.