Canola cupping leaves! Drought or it just hit the gas!

[farmaholic]

Now would be a good time to get-the-****-out-of-here instead of watching a crop wilt to near death and not being able to do a thing about it. I don't know if the near two inch rain on June 14 is going to support our crop. Canola: We are bolting and budding and see a tinge of yellow flowers in spots. Flowering in near thirty, and thirty plus degrees and likely low humidity and who knows about the winds..... ain't going to be pretty! During the heat of the day the leaves will wilt and look like rags hanging off the stalks and hopefully overnight it can suck up enough moisture to re-hydrate itself, but how many days in a row can it do this? Last year we had a hot spell that the leaves didn't even wilt...tonnes of moisture and the plants could keep up to transpiration, no way will it this year.

Wheat will likely take on a "blue" color.

If there is any consolation, the crop here NEVER has been what I would describe as lush, so at least it doesn't have to try and maintain all that "extra" vegetative growth, it kinda sucked right from the beginning.

God I'm sick of the roller coaster ride! At this point, the least I'm hoping for is my expenses back.....stupid enough to try again next year!


Some of you guys post some amazing looking pictures of canola, I didn't think I have anything worth showing, embarrassed, and it's likely only going to get worse with the forecast. In fact mine is one of the "not so bad" ones in the district, there is some real shit out here! Dry begets dry! Sorry if this seems like whining but we will be back to near critical again. With the pics of some of those crops you guys will have trouble gaining sympathy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[furrowtickler]

I hear ya , been there , some in here never ever have
We are nosediving there fast, regardless of pictures

[furrowtickler]

Wet os horrible .... for sure , but so is having a decent crop and putting in all the time and effort , only to watch it wither away . We are not there yet , but it is close at hand . Again , some here have never ever experienced that .... it's no fun either

[furrowtickler]

The icing on the cake if that the last 5 days every retailer in the area is screaming about get your fungicides right now !!!' Lol

[SASKFARMER3]

Watched the storm last night on radar start in Alberta intensify as it moved and then died as it hit into Saskatchewan. Ah dry weather where one rain makes you look like you know what your doing. Critical time for canola yield Cabadge bolt flower vs heat and wind.

[furrowtickler]

Well hopefully we can pick up a freak thunder storm here the next day or so.

[furrowtickler]

Even this morning it just missed us , getting good rains just NE of here .

Setting up an irrigation system today on the kids sweet corn field ...... it's going to need it . At least they can make a few bucks then ... lol

[Partners]

buy a seedhawk and dump the bourgaults with mrb !


# seedhawk = perfect crop

Ya right.Sf3's canola looks like poor germ.
My 8810 looks better than neighbors chicken hawk.

[helmsdale]

Ya right.Sf3's canola looks like poor germ.
My 8810 looks better than neighbors chicken hawk.

Seen a few guys that seeded into unharrowed wheat stubble or God forbid untouched pea stubble. Those seedhawks make excellent muskrat habitats. BTOs gotta getter done in one pass all in the name of efficiency!

[farmaholic]

Helmsdale...I was one of those "God forbid untouched pea stubble" guys. Seeded canola into it. It was dry and didn't work too bad but far from perfect. Some heavy residue in places, I guess that's what happens when you grow a 60 bu/ac pea crop the year before.... Like I'd ever know... never done it before that. I would bet the farm the germination results may have been dramatically worse if I did anything to it before seeding.

An eye opener here was a guy who seeded flax into lentil stubble that "protilled" parts of the field last fall.... you could see the spots that were done as plain as day.... just like you cut it with a knife...areas done versus areas left. Not that everywhere else on the field was perfect, just that everywhere it was tilled was that much worse! Too loose, too deep, too dry, I don't know....they're blaming it on cutworms! Re-seeded it.