Friday Crop Report on Thursday!

[SASKFARMER3]

Main line melville to Regina heavy rail

[Klause]

Heavy rail traffic here. Blocks access to my yard daily at 10 2 and 7.

Oil tankers. Haven't seen a grain train in a week

[Sheepwheat]

That track looks abandoned, is it used? CP has a 100 men and millions in equipment changing rail north of Wadena. Hope we get our field crossings back and SMOOTH highway crossings!

Those Foston crossings are pretty rough indeed. 😲

[Sheepwheat]

Other than my flax screw up, crops in this immediate area are ten pretty well. First time in years been able to say this. We are too good at growing crops. Watch for more rail issues. Watch for tanking grain prices.

I am heading west with the family for a two night stay in Drumheller. Will be interesting to get reality check on more than my backyarditis. Will report back on Saturday nite if I get back early enough.

[Klause]

Other than my flax screw up, crops in this immediate area are ten pretty well. First time in years been able to say this. We are too good at growing crops. Watch for more rail issues. Watch for tanking grain prices.

I am heading west with the family for a two night stay in Drumheller. Will be interesting to get reality check on more than my backyarditis. Will report back on Saturday nite if I get back early enough.

Stop by for a coffee or beer on your way home lol

[poorboy]

Dry here East of Calgary. Only 3” rain since the snow melted. Biggest rain event 1/2”. Been living on just in time small showers.

No hay crop and pasture is really thin. Grain crops look very good all things considered, but the lack of subsoil moisture and forecasts of a week 30C temperatures should finish us off.

A lot of central and southern Alberta will be in trouble if we get a hot week and no rain.

Hoping for a big hail storm!!!

[Oliver88]

Other than my flax screw up, crops in this immediate area are ten pretty well. First time in years been able to say this. We are too good at growing crops. Watch for more rail issues. Watch for tanking grain prices.

I think you will be correct with your predictions for the most part for railways and prices. (March- July 2019 will see the usual pricing opportunities though....if recent history repeats itself.)

Another safe prediction:
There will also be stretches this upcoming winter with heavy snowfall and cold weather so it won’t be the fault of CN/CP.
Also no construction will start on the public owned Kinder Morgan pipeline and pipeline protesters will continue to use fossil fuels. 🙈

[fjlip]

Other than my flax screw up, crops in this immediate area are ten pretty well. First time in years been able to say this. We are too good at growing crops. Watch for more rail issues. Watch for tanking grain prices.

I am heading west with the family for a two night stay in Drumheller. Will be interesting to get reality check on more than my backyarditis. Will report back on Saturday nite if I get back early enough.

Did that with 10-12 year olds, fascinated by all the dinosaur stuff, Tyrell especially! Of course tourist trap/ pricey. Probably need more days but enjoy, the kids sure will. Almost another world, moonscape like, pretty.

[SASKFARMER3]

Some fields way more rain within a mile

[AlbertaFarmer5]

West Central Ab. Finally caught some showers this week. 1.25" overall, was getting to be desperately needed. Hard to believe it went from so wet to so dry so fast this spring.

Hay crops are all very poor by our standards, 30 above with no rain in all of May wasn't what the hay needed.

Our pastures are doing very well, but we only pasture wet ground

Lots of good canola crops around, We had very high flea beetle pressure again, anything I had without Lumiderm ended up getting sprayed twice, and still lost lots of plants, a few bald areas slowly filling in, and set it back by a lot. I had a constant battle with myself this spring about seeding depth, moisture was barely adequate, coming from too wet, with rain in the forecast that never seemed to materialize, so I changed depth every few acres trying to get it right for the conditions, can see where I changed for the better or for the worse. The rest of the canola looks very good.

Most of our wheat looks very good. Rain came just in time, lots more tillers still coming now, even though it is starting to poke heads out. Have one piece that I'm not sure what went wrong, 2nd year of direct seeded into hay sod, poor emergence, thin, patchy, and the existing plants are not thriving, and of course it is by a main road.

I have hardly any barley this year, too much hail and and too many drowning, the one piece we do have looks very good.

Tried some grazing corn this year, it has been a disaster so far, seed in the mud, crops a dud...


In my travels, I'm surprised to see how many drownouts there are south and east of here. we've never had enough rain to even make a puddle, but lots of low spots completely lost elsewhere, or unseeded even though it gets even drier further east. Pasture looks like fall in many places. Overall, from what I've seen and heard, most of Alberta is too dry, but has got some relief with this past system.