Friday Crop Report on a Thursday!

[farmaholic]

Farmaholic, the heck with technology, I’ll just wait for Saskfarmer to post it. He probably lives so close to me, I might hear him if he yelled loud enough. We had such an unbelieveable weekend that you couldn’t have woke me even to check the temp.

When we were just starting Laird Lentils in 1980, we had 180 acres of registered Lairds on SMF. What a crop, never after that did I see double pods like that and plants that looked like Parsley’s beans. But anyway, we had them hail insured for $650/acre. It had rained and most were swathed and pretty well rotten black. My brother-in-law lived 13/4 miles west of us and storm clouds approached and we could hear him yell, “Hail you SOB, hail”. It did hail and pounded them into the ground, only problem was, as we found out, they weren’t covered in the swath. 😱

Sometimes I like getting up early and checking the prone spots in person.

I sleep, like a baby....I usually piss the bed and wake up bawling half the night. Actually sometimes weather does keep me awake. Like the other night when I could hear the rain on the roof and was hoping the peas wouldn't be pasted to the ground the next morning.

Those lentils in the swath....that would be covered with today's policies, right?

I stand by my mantra...."wouldn't it be nice if it didn't matter?"

Take care Sumdumguy and I hope you and your family have a safe, happy and bountiful harvest!

[woodland]

This one field of corn has been a pleasant surprise. It was in alfalfa and we worked it under this spring and has turned out better than the ones in wheat or canola last year. Considering it hasn’t hardly got above +20*c for the past week it still put on 2 feet of growth and started on cobs which I never expected. Hopefully the rest can catch up and still get a month or more of growing weather.

[farmaholic]

Get off your knees woodland, and I'm not insinuating your down there praying!

[woodland]

Get off your knees woodland, and I'm not insinuating your down there praying!

I should be to the sun god since he’s been really slacking this summer 😎

[sumdumguy]

I think today’s hail insurance covers you up to a date, standing or swathed but I could be wrong. You too Farmaholic, best of luck this fall. At this time last year, we were combining but I don’t think we’ll be on the plane to Vegas this labour day. 🐢

[grassfarmer]

That's a healthy looking crop woodland.

Here was the best of ours yesterday - the hail damaged leaves are still in evidence.

[woodland]

That's a healthy looking crop woodland.

Here was the best of ours yesterday - the hail damaged leaves are still in evidence.

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Looks good👍

We got some hail on one field of ours by my brothers place that shredded some top leaves too but it seems to be recovering. Not complaining for a second since some folks west of us had white and tan cows turn red from getting cut up with hail. They were in the swamp and the spruce got stripped down to sticks and lost all their standing silage as well. It can always be worse.