How is harvest going?

**Hamloc** · Aug 23, 2016, 08:05

Yup I am beginning to feel like Sask 3, rained yesterday rained during the night, it's a mess. My neighbor is busy installing a set of duals on his swather, might be the smartest guy in the district. I would think my peas and malt barley will now be feed grade. Wish I had grown faba beans instead of peas. :-(

**sumdumguy** · Aug 23, 2016, 08:26

Combining lentils is slow-going. All the other crops are ripening (and falling over) quickly with 31 and 33.5 degree days here the last 2 days. Cloudy this morning and high humidity, but we hope to go after a couple of hours of fixing. There's a bit of down-time and days are short when you are cutting an inch off the ground. But we are counting our blessings that conditions aren't as bad as in Northern Alberta. What a terrible happinstance around Edmonton. That swirling system is like the one that parked over us the beginning of July. It destroyed most of the lentils around here. Then Rosetown and south was visited by the "the swirl" in late July/Aug and they are not happy. Excess is so damaging.

**furrowtickler** · Aug 23, 2016, 09:36

Looks like we are in Center of the swirl since last night
Some wild weather just west of here last night with same bad hail in spots

**grassfarmer** · Aug 23, 2016, 09:54

Neighbour here almost done - canola combined and half his wheat done. Would have finished today if it wasn't damp. Small scale guy with old machinery. Shows there is more than one way to skin a cat!

**SASKFARMER** · Aug 23, 2016, 10:35

The shits thanks for asking! I hate rain in excess bless some one else!

**farmaholic** · Aug 23, 2016, 10:41

NOT!!!!

"Mechanically" ready to go
"Electronically" not....

When did simple go out of fashion?

Two fricken hours of pea grinding left and get do them.
Nothing else is ready
Swathing canola
Waiting on wheat until weather settles a bit.

**tweety** · Aug 23, 2016, 10:58

Lots of rain here in NW sask. Pretty slow.

**boarderbloke** · Aug 23, 2016, 11:50

SF3, after spending day's and day's, actually weeks, working out ruts in our fields last fall,,,we're going way around those water spots you just posted. Going out of our way not to rut, screw the misses. Just way too much work and cost to rehabilitate. We are dryer than you this fall(so far), SESK.
FWIW

**BreadWinner** · Aug 23, 2016, 12:09

Busy grinding off Barley as I type, As you can tell Im the truck driver. Hope to get till later today without any rain.

How is harvest going?