Humboldt Flooded

[vvalk]

Wasn't sure if I cm should comment but I think it needs to be said. Flooding like that always looks brutal. In a week most water will be in the low slot and will still combine a majority of he field. If you want to talk dry or drought many people in SE Alberta actual wrote crops off 2 months ago That means 0 production. No matter how wet it is it's never 0

[SASKFARMER3]

V were not the desert of SAlberta water doesn't just disappear in a few days! Crops die in 2 to three inches of water! 0 production no check because it flooded later! Excess water is not a positive. Really you need to get out a bit and see the world!

[ajl]

Having experienced losses to both flooding and drought, I can tell you I would rather lose a crop to drought than flooding because at least there is no mess left behind to clean up.

[Hamloc]

So how much rain did you get Sask3?

[riders2010]

Yes valk obviously you haven't seen the flood on flatter land there will be huge losses to crops in areas that have had decent moisture prior.
I m beyond losing much because had not much crop prior to this but now my crappy peas are flat and some covered with mud.
It was bad enough to lose the crop prior but now to get it will have to cost more by wrecking the equipment. The floods of past cost me a combine and swather. Hopefully those with a crop have enough rain to see it through because I don't want any more until this crap is harvested.

[grrrr]

Age old dilemma. Which is worse, or better. Too wet or too dry. If it is too dry, a rain fixes everything. If it is too wet, and I mean wet like it has been for eight years in some places, then it takes years for things to get back to "normal". Up until now it has been very dry, yet our roads still have soft spots, trains on our rail line still travel very slow over miles of track, and we still have springs in fields that we dare not drive near. How dry for how long does it take to get too wet back to normal?

[SASKFARMER3]

My simple answer is we need three years of drought in Saskatchewan to get our land back to normal. You hit the nail on he head with soft spots on roads and areas in fields you just don't go near. Will be working probably 30 some quarters again this fall. Make it black gives you a chance in our area.
Drought is easy to walk away like v said 0 production check in the mail. Floods you leave vast areas and walk away and get paid nothing in them from crop insurance.
Mud is a dud. If Craik area to Davidson got 4 to 6 large areas will not dry up and back to tow ropes and rubber boots.

[SASKFARMER3]

I guess it is true the NDP really do suck the life out of everything. Enjoy Alberta you wanted them.

[farming101]

Apparently, with this rain, being flooded in pothole country IS the new normal.
There has always been water in low spots here, but now where there might have been a slough with 2-3 or even 4-6 feet of water, now there are sloughs with 10-14 feet of water.
Quarters cut in two or three pieces. Land cut off that can't be accessed.
I like to make this comparison:
With a drought, you get all your work done that's worth doing then have a rest.
With a flood, you don't get any work done that needs doing, then have a rest.
One year with flooding is worse than a one year drought.
Multiple years, back to back, I think I would pick drought as being worse, but it would be close.

[SASKFARMER3]

On the hour drive from the lake to the farm excess rain don't make grain! And hay fields are F$&kes in lots of places with the rain and swaths!