That is some WET snow!!

[BreadWinner]

4G your just giddy thinking about others that are too big with crop out. Hope you get a bit of karma for your caring. East central sask in the past week has seen upwards of 3 1/2 inches of rain and 6 inches of snow. Everyone I know is worried about this crop and next spring. Ive been in this buisness long enough to know that much rain and snow is not good for anyone no matter how big or small.

[fjlip]

" we use 1500 ac/class 8 combine , for our needs in this country "

Agree, we are about there, still takes 15-20 actual days we are combining to get done. Multiples of that are needed JUST IN CASE 2016 happens! Local HUGE farm, finished with 3000/ combine all straight cut. Lots of dryer time too, lots of hired help.
2-3 week window is about it!

[nicolaas]

someyears you leave your crop out. We dry our grain, but you first must get it through the combine. Who would have thought the harvest would end in the last days of September? October looks like/ is crap. I believe the crop will stay out, and it has happened before, and you can't do anything about it.

[4GFarms]

Breadwinner, I have had enough karma to go around two or three times in my short farming career. If you think i am giddy about people having crop out you are wrong. Some of my good friends have crop out and we will be the first to go help when it comes time. You are an arrogant A** for assuming that is what I am like. I will give you my shirt off my back if you need it but piss me off and you will be lucky if I give you my sweaty gotch!

[bigzee]

Twenty some days no harvesting pretty much sums things up. I have a 10k ac farm, run 3 class 8 combines and not done. Durum was taking for ever to mature, some taking 135 days. I've farmed for 30 yrs and this had to be one of the most challenging. The idea of "having more than you can chew" is only about jealousy. There's a lot of smaller farms with crop out yet.

[4GFarms]

And there are alot of bigger farms that are done. Even bigger than you bigzee. I am already planning for future years like this one. Looking at different combines, the possibility of a dryer, etc. Everyone gets dealt shitty hands sometime and I have been through those. How many of you enjoyed the $14/$15 bu canola years when we hardly seeded anything because of excess moisture. Funny nobody is hassling the canola and flax guys that hope the crop stays out so the prices will go up in the other threads.

[biglentil]

Should we feel bad for the Bto's that are not finished farming land in 5 different rm's. Live by the sword die by the sword. They love to claim efficiencies of scale well enjoy!

[AlbertaFarmer5]

I can't speak to other areas, but for me, no amount of equipment would have changed my progress. Although descication would have, and a grain dryer would have. I've been told that more harvest happens in Oct than Sept historically here, and it certainly has been true in my time. So I wasn't panicked, when nothing was close to dry. We went hard on the few dry days, but could only find bits and pieces of crop that weren't off the charts wet. In hind sight ( so far) should have taken anything that would go through the combine, and deal with the consequences, but if the weather straightens out, that could have been a disaster.

What should have been the earliest harvest ever in this area will instead be the latest. People were seeding in Mid April here, which is unheard of. But no heat and rain almost everyday just prolonged the agony. There is still first cut hay to be put up around here. And what did get baled was mostly garbage.

Standing crops are shedding the snow fairly well. But ground is saturated, even standing water. Remaining barley was flat on the ground, so won't dry very easily.

[Blaithin]

I can't speak to other areas, but for me, no amount of equipment would have changed my progress. Although descication would have, and a grain dryer would have. I've been told that more harvest happens in Oct than Sept historically here, and it certainly has been true in my time. So I wasn't panicked, when nothing was close to dry. We went hard on the few dry days, but could only find bits and pieces of crop that weren't off the charts wet. In hind sight ( so far) should have taken anything that would go through the combine, and deal with the consequences, but if the weather straightens out, that could have been a disaster.

What should have been the earliest harvest ever in this area will instead be the latest. People were seeding in Mid April here, which is unheard of. But no heat and rain almost everyday just prolonged the agony. There is still first cut hay to be put up around here. And what did get baled was mostly garbage.

Standing crops are shedding the snow fairly well. But ground is saturated, even standing water. Remaining barley was flat on the ground, so won't dry very easily.

You must be near me!

[AlbertaFarmer5]

You must be near me!

I'm straight west of Red Deer, about as far west as anyone dare try to grow grain. We had a few very short decent harvest days, but not enough to get any crop dry or ripe.