Stick a fork in it. Lake time **** it this one is over zero rain in July!

[sumdumguy]

You young punks never saw this before. The last 10 years have spoiled you BUT don't despair, hopefully prices will triple like they did in the eighties. There's more than one way to skin a cat! What surprises me is how much better the crops look than in the eighties. Most crops are truly miracles around here. Hope the grain hopper proves it to us - I think we'll be surprised. No Worry - be happy. I never wanted to see the eighties again but I know that Mother Nature holds trump card and Omega blocks last 3 months so get her in the bin, you lazy bums.

[helmsdale]

.....BACK OFF..... I always stick up for the picked on underdog who is bullied!

Oh yeah.... and we'll probably be desiccating peas next week. I'm trying to deflect the focus off SF3...... quick kicking him when he's "down"!

Mother nature is saving me the cost of chemical dessication... 5 to 95% color change on my peas in one week.

[foragefarmer]

How can anybody take a guy serious who complains and whines that he's had 11,12, 13, 14, 15 years in a row of wet weather and now is facing a drought when he hasn't had rain in the month of July this year?
Meanwhile posting pictures of top of the line equipment and then spending all winter holidaying in Hawaii and posting on here his Friday cocktails! Can only imagine what non farmer readers think when they read posting like that! Not to mention a thread complaining that Agrilnvest being reduced by the Federal Liberals. Then we all wonder why the general pubic has absolutely no pity for farmers who truly are suffering hardships due to uncontrollable weather after reading posts like that.

Sk3, as for you wishing you ancestors settled in the Red River Valley we wouldn't want a whiner like you in Manitoba anyways!

[SASKFARMER3]

See forage you just proved my point a C$&t is a C$&t

Have a great day why some of you just hate so much when some one is down.

Forage how well would you be doing if the last rain was farm progress show. Tell us your wisdom on that.

[Blaithin]

If you can't manage the fickleties of weather I wonder why farming would be a chosen occupation.

Crops here are looking pretty good actually. But farmers are scared to say that because the hail and weather are just being brutal.

This was yesterday at Red Deer.



Just like rain that can fall inches in one place and tenths a mile away, hail will take out one field and leave the one beside it untouched. Is one worse than another? Holding out hope that it might rain while your crop burns off vs watching it grow and fill out beautifully only to be smashed into the mud in ten minutes?

If it's not one thing, it's another. We're almost through hail time here but now we've got to dodge early frost. And then hope it doesn't rain during harvest so they can get into fields and everything doesn't sprout.

Not like anyone can sit around and crow that they have a wonderful 2017 crop. Nothing's over until it's in the bin. Preferably at the elevator.

[FarmerSmuck]

Stop picking on my buddy SF3. I have been lucky in the rain lotto this year. But my fate hinges on mother natures frost plans for my area. Let's say it freezes early this year I might have to fly economy not first class to Maui. And might only stay 7 weeks instead of 8. LOL. All kidding aside I pay for all my inputs and fuel with Credit Card, it buys my flights every year and usually the condo also. I fly my kids over for 2 weeks also, they stay in our condo. Sure you can have heat/drought/bugs/frost. But when I'am 90 years old in the old folks home and think back on my life. I will remember my family vacations to Maui, well before I will think about a crop.So cut SF3 some slack!!!

[newguy]

quote from skf3 not long ago.《rain is the problem.drought is the answer》

[SASKFARMER3]

Yea new guy that's correct but when you never been skunked for rain in July since you and your father began farming. Yes sloughs are gone that's a god thing no great but no rain since farm progress tell me how well you would do?

[stonepicker]

I think SF3 should be aspired too as a model of perseverance and determination despite all odds, whether it be mother nature, the govt, railroads, neighbours, Chinese, etc.., all conspiring against him to force him to the brink. For he now has seen the worst of droughts ever seen. And we all know the only worse fate then a drought is flooding of biblical proportions, which SF3 has had to contend with for at least a decade or two. Some people in other areas may have it much worse then SF3, but they don't count as they are not used to what could of been, nothing gained nothing lost. So my hat is off to you SF3, for you are not only able to survive in times of such hardship, but thrive. Are you sure you are not a closet ndp'er.

Seriously though, it really sucks being so close to great potential, and have it taken away by lack of rain or hail or a number of things beyond your control. It makes a person feel powerless, and for that I can't fault you. I enjoy your posts, keep em coming, but sometimes you have to back it off a notch, as your posts and pics can show two entirely different things.

Bullshit!!! and farmoholic isn't far behind when it comes to whining! Grow a set! ( as sk3 says! )

[newguy]

Yea new guy that's correct but when you never been skunked for rain in July since you and your father began farming. Yes sloughs are gone that's a god thing no great but no rain since farm progress tell me how well you would do?

Not many my age made it through the 80s around here.I did.Had cattle and grain.never got rich but never went broke.grasshoppers so bad we lost evergreen trees to them.We have got 1 good rain 80 points mid June.Our crops were almost out of moisture 3 weeks ago.

[grassfarmer]

Blaithin, almost through hail time? wouldn't be so sure on that. We had a wicked storm hit west of Rimbey in '09 around 24th August. Small area but total devastation, our neighbours got hit on about 40 quarters and 25 would be totalled. It's so much more destructive when the crop is all ripe and brittle.

[farmaholic]

Bullshit!!! and farmoholic isn't far behind when it comes to whining! Grow a set! ( as sk3 says! )

I take my right to whine and complain, bitch and moan very serious!

If I want what others have, I better shut up and put up.....take the risk, put in the time, if some are lucky enough to have inherited "$ilver Platter Farms....good for them!!! But SF3....some are right...you will have to take it down a notch and be grateful for what you have and the crop in your fields. I just don't think people can put together the pictures of your crops with your comments. It could always be worse and as my Pappy says, its never so bad that it couldn't be worse, like it is here...could be worse.

Stoney, please skip over my posts or block them with the ignore button, don't let them drag you down! Take care man!

[stonepicker]

Hey, i'm not getting dragged down! I'm an eternal optimist, i'm just a little surprised that some farmers on here ( who have actually had extremely wet conditions on a regular basis ) don't go to sk3's farm and kick his ass! He's a pathetic whiner! He has every right to be on here and say his shit just as i do! So if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen!

[Jagfarms]

hopefully it's not the start of this article from the Western Producer



" A 50-year-long drought may not be as crazy as some people think.

According to a new book, it actually happened on the Prairies and not that long ago.

And that’s not all. The book, titled Vulnerability and Adaptation to Drought, suggests that droughts will become longer and more severe on the Prairies in the future.


“We dodged the bullet in the 20th century compared to previous centuries,” said James 
Warren, professor at the University of Regina.

“There was never a century where we missed one. The 20th century out of the last 10 has been one of the moistest. Most of them were much worse. Even in the 19th century, there were 20-year droughts,” said Warren, a specialist in drought and water management issues.

He said that concept fits with the historical record when explorer/surveyor John Palliser came to the Canadian Prairies in the 1860s and declared southwestern Saskatchewan and southern Alberta as too arid for farming.

“That was during one of these extended periods of drought.”

However, many people don’t look further back than the famous 1930s decade-long drought.

“People talk about the 1930s as the be-all and end-all of droughts. The ’30s was a walk in the park to some of the droughts in the previous centuries,” said Warren.

“We’re talking about multi-decadal. That’s pretty ominous. That’s something we have to get our heads around.”

Warren is one of three co-editors who produced the book, which has been short-listed for the science award in the High Plains Book Awards.

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It is the result of a decade of interdisciplinary efforts conducted by 24 researchers from Canada and Latin America.

The effort aims to look at international droughts and related climate change issues in attempts to understand rural people’s vulnerabilities to climate in arid areas.

“We all jointly operated under the assumption that to understand people’s resilience — understand their vulnerability to drought and how they can go about increasing their resilience and minimizing risk — it’s important to understand drought and drought processes from both the scientific and the social science perspective,” said Warren.

The book looks at past droughts on the Canadian Prairies from a paleo-climate perspective.

It explores governance systems for prairie drought, water management and strategic planning by offering insight into how communities can reduce susceptibility to drought.

One chapter focuses on the vulnerability of an agricultural system in Chile and offers potential lessons that could apply to Canadian agriculture.

Outside of the differences, many similarities exist at the regional scale between the Canadian Prairies and the Maule region in Chile.

The book also addresses the damaging effects of recent droughts on the Prairies since the famous one in the 1930s.

One chapter that Warren wrote was on the changes in farm management and tillage practices during the last 100 years.

He said it resulted in the minimum tillage revolution in the 1990s, which minimized the amount of soil disturbance that occurs in relation to annual field crop agriculture.

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“One of the big advantages of this technology is reduction in soil erosion you get under drought conditions.

“You simply have more trash on the surface to hold light soils down in the event of hot, dry weather with lots of wind like we had this spring. I would think down in the Regina vicinity we’d have had some soil drift. We would have had a heck of a lot more if people were using the technologies from 50 years ago,” he said.

However, in spite of the minimum till technology, the drought in 2001-02 was still economically damaging and contributed to a $5.8 billion decline in Canada’s gross domestic product.

“But we probably saved a lot more soil than we did, for example, in the droughts of the later 1980s when there was less min till,” he said.

If future droughts last for more than three years and result in total crop failure, Warren said institutional supports like crop insurance and agri-stability programs would be compromised.

“We’d have to make big changes. But we’re highly resilient and we’ve got a really good adaptive capacity — probably as high as anywhere in the world because the state of human capital here is so high.”

Another of the book’s articles presents a long-term view of climate conditions on the Prairies in the context of climate change.

“We can anticipate more in-tense storms, more intense rainfall events and probably more intense droughts with possibly longer duration than we’ve experienced in the past 100 years,” he said.

william.dekay@producer.com

[SASKFARMER3]

F$&k you stone picker. Bring it on bitch.