WTF its White and its a good sise area this morning!

[SASKFARMER3]

Yes Hobby for once your right it was a good decision to add the extra to my insurance for unseeded. loose 5% of acres then it pays so 500 no check rest have some.
Sad part if I don't seed their will be no need for employees this summer layoffs will begin.

[SASKFARMER3]

Bucket your correct the temps for tonight is min 10 that's not going to warm up.

[LWeber]

Saskatchewan all wheat yields
bushels per acre - 1967 would be the crop year for 66/67 after that wicked storm in the spring

1964 18.1
1965 21.6
1966 27.7
1967 17.2
1968 19.6
1969 27.0
1970 26.2

[bucket]

And that's probably based on black dirt that would have some heat radiated into it.

[hobbyfrmr]

The 1967 yeild is lower for sure. This was before fertilizer and conservitive herbicide use. We have come a long way and yeilds will be higher. Harvest may go into November,not the best case scenario, but not the end of the world either.

[freewheat]

EVERYONE I talk to remembers getting big snowfalls in April and May. NO ONE I
talk to remembers having below zero highs, half the winter snowfall left, and
8 foot treeline drifts still intact in May. That is the difference for you
guys who think it is not too bad. This is unprecedented, so it is hard to
guess when it will be time to seed.

As far as the 100 bucks being a gold mine until the next harvest, remember
this. It is 18 months until the next revenue stream. Rent is more or less half
of that 100 bucks. Other payments, fixing ruts, broken hitches, expensive tow
straps, leached nitrogen, cost of tillage, herbicide etc. to keep the land in
shape for the year, cuts that original 100 dollars down to nothing. Nothing to
live on. So then you pretend like you are an old established farmer with grain
in the bin, but wait there is none, cuz you never farmed in the 70's or 80's.

All I am saying, is that 100 dollars disappears and fast. As I have said
before, I am a frugal bugger. I can tighten my belt, spend less and get
through. I am not asking for extra government aid.

The part many do not fathom, or seem to care to fathom, is that this is an
ongoing problem, not just a year or two. This has been 7 years of watery hell
on earth. That is what makes it so financially miserable. I personally have
not seeded all my land since 2008. And 2006 and 2007 were also unseeded years.

That is the problem in some of these areas. If it were a single year, it would
be almost fun, and a tiny blip on the balance sheet. But year after year, it
gets financially tough, mentally impossible, and frustrating beyond
understanding.

Sorry about the rant, not looking for sympathy at all. I am hoping to bring
some reality to the situation for those that do not seem to get it.

I am a big boy, I will make do. But many are not big boys yet, and have a lot
of useless iron debt, household debt, etc. So when you hear the screaming for
more aid, it will be them, not me. Please remember that!!!

Any way, I should go and try to move a bit of snow; my favorite thing to try
to do when the ground under it is soft and spongy!!!

[bucket]

Maybe start booking some feed wheat prices now for fall. And ride the good stuff in the bin for a while.

[hobbyfrmr]

I cannot change the weather. The end.
If I want to control the weather, best thing is to work in an office. Optimum conditions to do effective work.

Like bucket, I have been considering alternatives. He has a good suggestion, I am thinking of forward contracting feed/ethanol wheat to the ethanol plant.
I am also considering more winter wheat. More barley, more oats. Stuff that can be planted later in the month.
There was a time when the area would band all the fertilizer, then turn around and seed the crop. This would most often take us into first week of June. Dont get all knotted up yet. Its just farming. We are not that important. Ask around. Its not like we are building new houses,selling vehicles or 60 inch TV's.(sarcasm)Relax,everyone is in the same boat.

[fjlip]

That's the answer if weather gets to us, quit and try something else.
On the past years, early seeding does not mean early/good results. 1968 was early here but long wet harvest lasted till November. Terrible quality, all needed drying, but driers were rare.

[hobbyfrmr]