Friday Crop Report on Thursday!

[bgmb]

looks like a nice crop coming SF3! Crops looking very promising here as well. hope you didnt kill your soil for life with the fungicide app. Cheers

[grassfarmer]

Crop is growing rapidly and needs water. When I talk one inch after seeding and one farm progress show and one craven week and one exhibition week it’s a great crop on way if you get it........

........Total rainfall is now 7.5 inches since snow melt......

.......Overall the crop is doing great in our area but how big will depend on next few weeks. If the rain keeps at the 1/2 to 1 inch every week it will be good if missed and turns very hot and dry yield will be dropping off real fast.

Still can't decide about the water thing hey? You only need 4" to grow a crop - you've had more than that already - but you still need a 1/2 to an inch every week to keep yields up.
Sure wish we could get the 1/2 to one inch a week - that's what I've always said we need but unfortunately we are getting nothing like it this year.

[bgmb]

depends how much subsoil a guy starts with. This year is was lower so more rain is needed

[grassfarmer]

depends how much subsoil a guy starts with. This year is was lower so more rain is needed

Yeah but after 15 years of epic floods you wouldn't think it would deplete that fast lol.

[bgmb]

we went from beyond saturated spring of 17 to done sloughs empty on some of our land by fall of 17 grew a big crop on minimal rain in 17.

[grassfarmer]

Imagine how much worse it is for the guys that haven't been saturated.

[Hopalong]

Something seems to have happened to nesting success this year.
Have yet to see gosling broods, or for that matter, ducks and ducklings.
High time to see population decline in this area.
What are others seeing?

[farmaholic]

Something seems to have happened to nesting success this year.
Have yet to see gosling broods, or for that matter, ducks and ducklings.
High time to see population decline in this area.
What are others seeing?

Little to no goslings....see afew ducklings. Honestly though...because of less surface water here they seemed to have moved on to "wetter pastures". Even mudhens(coots) seem to know when to leave an area. No muskrats around either.

But the deer population has kinda exploded after two winters of easy foraging.

Ebb and flow....

[grassfarmer]

Something seems to have happened to nesting success this year.
Have yet to see gosling broods, or for that matter, ducks and ducklings.
High time to see population decline in this area.
What are others seeing?

Plenty goslings around here but ducklings are very scarce. I've seen a few ducks sitting on eggs still - isn't that getting awfully late to hatch?

[Sheepwheat]

Lots of goslings, lots of ducklings. Lots of grouse.