Ah the Blue Canola, Not a good sign, But what aren't the Experts telling us.

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Have to get the terminology correct.

"wee goof".

[furrowtickler]

On my knees praying for Rain !

Those in the Rain belt please send a few tenths to way out here !

Very very dry here .... to a long ways east
But Big Big crop

[farmaholic]

Went to look at ours after supper tonight, I wish I hadn't. Can't wait to get this one off the field so I don't have to see it anymore. Maybe it will surprise me....it takes quite a bit.

[furrowtickler]

Blue canola plants don’t make abundant black canola seed ... sad fact

[farmaholic]

Not so much blue plants here as a patchy mess, seems we had an overall better catch last year. Both years were a shitty start but there's something about this one... Buy $500 hail insurance and pray for hail? I'm sure it will turn out kinda ok...I hope

Plane flying around spraying the local BTO's canola.

[biglentil]

Not so much blue plants here as a patchy mess, seems we had an overall better catch last year. Both years were a shitty start but there's something about this one... Buy $500 hail insurance and pray for hail? I'm sure it will turn out kinda ok...I hope

Plane flying around spraying the local BTO's canola.

Yep when the sub soil moisture is gone its not so easy to replenish. 9 inches in 9 days filled the sloughs, drown the lentils and turned the gumbo into pavement. Lighter land looks better. 1st Durum is headed out and flowering on the light land.

[farmaholic]

Ah yes, that damn Slum of the Ghetto light loam soil. Useless shit!

[furrowtickler]

Ah yes, that damn Slum of the Ghetto light loam soil. Useless shit!

Should be great for peas. These gumbo areas now produce zero yield here in peas

[sawfly1]

Took the drive yesterday . It is getting really ugly.
The lightest land is getting close to toast.
Golden brown might be good for some things ,but not 8 inch high wheat.1/4-1/3 field looks like that. The rest can not be far behind. Canola across the road same area. Brutal
Wilt .looked great last week. Bolted stems now almost touching the ground

[farmaholic]

Should be great for peas. These gumbo areas now produce zero yield here in peas

It's not "fool" proof and it takes a fool to farm it. Enter Farmaholic.

[sumdumguy]

What killed lentils in Manitoba. Lentils were big in Manitoba in the seventies, long before Saskatchewan (until zero-till.) i think that disease and compaction killed the Cinderella crop. Lentils disappeared from the Manitoba scene. Correct me if I am wrong, Manitoba growers.