Well the shit show continues. This fall sucks.

[bucket]

If the crop in the field has quality and volume there is no payment. See what it's like in the spring.

Interesting comment...I have made good money on upgrades of shitty crops than good ones....

Last time I grew green lentils they were 8 cents as a three....when I sold them two years later they graded a 2 for 32 cents .....I can't hold grain like I use to but there could be some good prices coming ...although thats no consolation for this with crop in the field.

[biglentil]

Chickpeas still soft and chewy, when the hell are they going to cure? Might be the 1st and last year I grow em. Then again might have to change my handle to Nolentil at these bloody prices. Who else wants in on the class action to get our checkoff dollars back for pulses? Im thinking 5 or 10 years retroactive.

[Hamloc]

Latest forecast from weather network for my area has snow on 5 out of the next 7 days. Only 25% done, I think the fat lady is starting to sing. It will certainly take a large change in the weather now!

[fjlip]

We have been even WORSE than 2018...2010 Sept 27 only 29% harvested in Sk, 3 weeks later 97%. And in this area we all remember waiting 6 weeks in 2009, to finish Nov 17, wheat swaths tested 17%. Lots of canola done that year 15-20%, some still spoiled after drying twice.

Weather must have turned in our favor.

[bigzee]

Drew said have patience, that was last wk.

[wd9]

Drew said have patience, that was last wk.

Amazing anyone even listens to the "dart throw lands on sunny weather" guy. 3 days is still the absolute max for forecasting to be slightly above 50 50 odds for precip, 5 days for temp.

[BreadWinner]

David Phillips just said we can expect above normal temp from middle of Oct till the Middle of Nov, does he realize he has been wrong %100 of the time. This will not be good!!!!!!
Just great now we will have to way till mid November to combine.

[fjlip]

Oh come on you DENIERS! Grass and Chuck personally know 99% of scientists that are absolutely accurate to the tenth of a world temp 50 years from now, 30 days is no brainer for a forecast. Hell they can do that in their sleep! We can all do that...forecast, DARK tonight.
Just checked radar forecast, appears the snow chances all week are south of #16 , Melfort, Nipawin none forecast.
But harvest most progressed were snow fall might happen....

[seldomseen]

Don't give up hope yet guys. Winter usually starts around Halloween here in NE Sask. In 2009 it snowed 6 inch's on Halloween night and all the canola in this area was still in the field. Snow on Halloween never goes away here so everyone thought that was the end. Then the sun came out the snow melted and all the canola came off most of it had to be dried but one guy I know waited long enough and got his dry about the end of November.

[farmaholic]

Wd9...

You make a good point and I don't put alot of stock in long term forecasts...ANYONE'S. Drew's daily(three day forecast newsletter) is pretty good...no one can know exactly the direction a system will track or how much precipitation it will drop where. I do think short term forecasting accuracy has improved but still isn't an exact science.

I find the longer the forecasting period the more it seems to change.

Sun activity, ocean temperature, trends, seasonal normalities, atmoshpheric conditions, jet streams, inland conditions. Anyone care to put all that information together, analyze it and make a "prediction"?

Whether you are in dire need of rain at critical times or in need of drying conditions at other critical times...forecasts give us "hope" for what we want or frustration that what we need likely isn't on the near horizon....the long term extends that "glimpse" of what might be on the horizon.

We all need to make plans....but in farming, and regarding the weather...you just can't plan the outcome.

I hope everyone is provided the opportunity they need to harvest the efforts put into their crops...

Be ready and work safe when those opportunities present themselves. Take advantage of any reasonable opportunity to get the crop off the field, at least the grain can be dealt with later when the window of Harvest 2018 finally closes. Like someone else posted a while ago...this has turned into a salvage operation.

Good thing no two years are exactly alike.

Take care.