Friday Crop Report on a Thursday!

[grassfarmer]

Grassy you're in one of the driest areas in MB.

Yep, realize that - but still 2.71" more annual precipitation on average than where SF3 is. Environment Canada data.

[SASKFARMER3]

Hey genius what station do you quote

[grassfarmer]

Lipton for yours, Ninette for mine - is that a problem?

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Where are you at in Manitoba Grassfarmer? I for some reason assumed that you wouldn't have left one of the wettest areas of the prairies to go somewhere drier? When I looked for greener pastures( so to speak), I skipped right over everything between here and Manitoba where it got wetter again, thought you had done the same.

[grassfarmer]

Where are you at in Manitoba Grassfarmer? I for some reason assumed that you wouldn't have left one of the wettest areas of the prairies to go somewhere drier? When I looked for greener pastures( so to speak), I skipped right over everything between here and Manitoba where it got wetter again, thought you had done the same.

The differences are not as great as local legend would have you believe. Rocky Mountain House only records 21.4" on average in the data I'm looking at. Only really dropped about an inch a year on average moving here (Belmont, SW Manitoba). These are only averages of course - the "wet" area we were in really suffered through the 2002/3 droughts while I understand this area was hardly affected. This year is maybe somewhat of a reversal of those fortunes but we are by no means in trouble like 02/03 out west.

[Braveheart]

We live on the prairies. Weather is unpredictable.

FYI, Grassfarmer lives just northeast of us, across the valley. 25 minutes by road. I am very familiar with his area. Where his farm is located is generally an area of excellent rainfall. The grain farmers there are used to very good crops. Forage and pasture is usually excellent.

The feature of this year for the general area is variable precipitation. We farm south of Killarney and have had perfect weather. Southwest of us 6 miles they have had half our rainfall. North of us less rain. Rain lotto for sure.

[GDR]

mb govt crop same thing, everything is wonderful. if it rains to much, thats a good thing, if its too dry, thats a good thing, if it hails, its always minor, blah, blah, blah. these guys should work for vlad putin

Maybe you guys shouldn't complain about SK & MB govt reports. Alberta government's report would be "crops, what crops" Just was thinking today while listening to the noon hour radio show, gives the update on conditions and crop progress on you guys but not a peep about Alberta, and that's not a close to the border station.

[SASKFARMER3]

Thanks grass but Lipton is wrong!

Keep guessing hahahaha

[SASKFARMER3]

Well grass we both had it wrong, I thought you were further west. Elgin

Plus what weather station at Lipton I’m curious.

[woodland]

Hay crops west of Edmonton are pathetic to put it nicely. Running 1-2 bales an acre on fairly young stands. Got a regular customer that we sell to every year and he was sure shocked when I told him the price went up 50% over last year and we’re only breaking even at that. Almost had it with growing it for sale since it is getting hazy with no wind just like last year and trying to get it dry is frustrating. We just add salt to it as a preservative for our own bales but most guys don’t want anything on it. I only need a couple hundred bales for my own since there’s three years of silage buried here which I’m very thankful for. Grain crops look to be about 2/3 of normal due to dryness. Last year they were looking the same due to flooding in the spring and baking through the summer.

Pasture isn’t looking too bad considering how dry it is. We are grazing some hayfields though since there isn’t enough grass.

All in all it’s a below average year but the family is healthy and we have plenty of cow chow so I’m not going to complain.


View out of the office window today.



The breeding heifers are happy in the hayfield we just moved them too.