Fricking Rain! Early this morning!

[farmaholic]

You mean to say Mother Nature hasn't applied enough "Octobercide" to desiccate those fababeans? I can understand if they just won't dry down because of constant pissy rains and high humidity, but they must be dead by now....?

I bet there will be aome decent days in the beginning of November. Just hope Tuesday's rain doesn't materialize for you guys, but I'll take your allotment.

[Jay-mo]

One thing I learned about fabas this year.
If your harvesting fabas and you get some rain, quit.
We were doin fabas, going through silky smooth. Get a light shower, within a minute both machines are stopped with plugged feeders. The stalks go from turning into dust when they hit the feeder to turning into baler twine. The stalks started wrapping around the top shaft of the feeder chain and jumped a cog.
A couple days later it was dry and ripped off the rest of the field without a problem.

[freewheat]

They were not even close to dessicate at Sept 10th, and we still have not had a frost that has been hard yet. Nothing colder than minus 2 ish so far.

But then, this is an area where I have 150 day barley not combined yet.

Remember, we get red river valley moisture, with Iqaluit heat units! lol

It is hard to explain to those who do not experience this high moisture. Also, the soil is unbelievably wet. It is very hard to get crops to mature when the soil is soaking wet, and it is harder to get them to dry out enough to harvest.

Today, the canola was testing 14, and I was going UNDER A MILE AN HOUR, because it is so wet. Easy to see if you are here, hard to understand if you have no experience with falls wetter than spring. My buddy came for a ride today and we observed water running in the field, like it is spring.

[seabass]

U need a drier. I would be insane waiting.

[SASKFARMER3]

Foot tall volunteer RR Canola in field yesterday starting to try to bloom. Different world boys when its wet.

[Guest]

this whole country is yellow with blooming volunteer RR canola that got missed , , what a f$&$ing weed! we have had -1 a couple nights , for very short time , that's all

[bucket]

Anyone notice the volunteer canola takes alot more frost.

[farming101]

Freewheat, 2009, November was dryer and warmer than October. It could happen again.

Volunteer canola in full bloom. With the shorter days it will probably take till March to mature but it might make 20.😉

[sumdumguy]

Look at this string. It's title is, "Fricking Rain! Early this morning!" Funny.

[freewheat]

Yup. 2009. STARTED combining November 8th. Got the whole crop off by the 26th??? After tomorrows rain, it looks like it actually warms up again. lol

I am hoping. Yes I need a dryer, or a second combine.
Thing is, you have to be able to put it through. Right now, it is barely possible to put through.

Again, hard to even fathom, unless you live through tough wet falls. John Deere used to send their prototypes up to this area, to see how they perform in wet conditions, no joke.

I envy what harvest must be like at Kindersley or Assiniboia, or Eston.