Wtf

[Partners]

At least you can seed in the dust..We can't do shit in the mud..
No new equipment is made for mud..Just dry seeding conditions.
Way cheaper to seed in dry than spinning all day and burning fuel to get the same result..Nothing grows either way,but dry is easier, and cheaper..

[furrowtickler]

It's fukin the first week of May - every one chill.
If you get rain , there is still time - it's not May 20th
Dry areas are indeed in bad shape , with no hope until rain comes .
We are on the edge of all it seems although extremely dry on top still grabbing good moisture seeding canola now .
Hopefully the over wet forecast changes for some , and rain comes very soon to the west and south

[furrowtickler]

Just checked weather models again , yes the east is in for it , west fukin zippo. S/f - don't sleep , giver

[farming101]

Re:Ft McMurray ya whether we're too wet or too dry its small potatoes

[newguy]

We are suppose to get 2 to 3 inches over 3 days.our ground will sucking it up easily.

[sumdumguy]

Where are you getting these forcasts? Environment Canada just says showers.

[fjlip]

Satellite gif still looks like a blocking going on....http://weather.gc.ca/satellite/satellite_anim_e.html?sat=goes&area=nam&type=1070
Surely we all can agree that a good rain kills a drought, grows a crop, but BIG water takes YEARS to go away, and for the salinity to go down. 2010 still adding to our misery, legal drainage projects over grown, barely move water. Farm is 100 acres smaller than 2009. For once rain where needed and NOT on MUD! Need some positive feelings in my late Ag career.

[farmaholic]

Without sounding cold hearted......several people drew the plight of Ft Mc. to what some Ag areas/Producers are staring in the face. I think some operations have the potential to financially lose as much as some of the poor folks of Ft Mc. I realize its not a home, but value wise, it may be no less tragic. And as fj pointed out. ...maybe no less stressful either!

[farmaholic]

If our "area" is fortunate enough to see some rain, it will be interesting to see if the system will peter out before it reaches us, splits and goes around us, simply slips past us or runs up against the imaginary barrier that wont let it advance over top of us then it just sits there and rains beside us...all like last year.

[Klause]

I realize a lot of you are dry... and I know it's hard ain't saying wet is worse. What I'm saying is how can we have 3 inches and you have 0. Something is bizarre. They dropped amounts to 15mm total noe but frost coming doesn't hurt us we got seeding yesterday.... but the guys who go hard started Tuesday some wheat and canola poking out already.



Our roads are complete crap. 1 semi rolled on a grid yesterday when the shoulder gave out. I can't go west road closed. Same going south. Only other way out is north to hwy 5 and goof thing we have high trucks or you'd bottom out in the 2 foot high frost boils.



Fields still saturated got stuck with a lemken then a rock picker. Harrowing to build a crust now