Harvesting dilemma

[Hamloc]

Here in central Alberta the weather network has rain starting Thursday then snow flurries Friday through Sunday with lows of -2 and up to 5 cm of snow. Norway forecast model has a couple of tenths of rain on Thursday and snow beginning Saturday into Sunday capped off with lows of -4 on Monday. Either way the forecast is shit. My son and I are arguing over whether to swath all the wheat, digging all that flat wheat out of the dirt last year sucked. My thought is yesterday we combined a 40 acre field of barley we swathed 19 days ago. 3 o'clock tests 15.2, nice sunny day with a breeze away we went. Tested the sample pail when we were done, tested 15.6, fml. Thought it would dry down more as we went. So I am not that crazy about swathing it.

[jazz]

......so just let the shit lay there in a swath "hoping" to get it dry later!
But in the meantime it's losing more weight and possibly sprouting it even further down than the allowable tolerances for a # three?

There is a ton of standing durum around here in the same boat. Not sprouting yet but probably lost 2 grades and will be feed by the next rainfall event. Take it tough and stick it in bags? don't know what the solution is anymore. We haven't had a week of decent harvest weather yet.

[bucket]

This spring an older guy said we would just be going through the motions. ...next time I hear that.....the sprayer is making 2 passes and I am going to the lake....

No one gets paid properly to do this shit. ...

Can't buy anything over 14.5 ....well maybe they should invest in dryers instead of individual farmers....

If you have 200000 bushels to dry it's not a small investment...

[chuckChuck]

Dad calls me on the cell yesterday as I was running a test. Says because of climate change we are going to have to gear up different, get more aeration etc. Just about choked on my sandwhich.

I am surprised by the number of ordinary people who probably vote Conservative and don't like Trudeau who admit human caused climate change is real.

And your father is right. Farmers will have to adapt to more erratic weather, longer droughts, longer wet spells and longer heat waves, and bigger precipitation events.

Prairie weather is always erratic but the intensity and frequency of events is increasing.

[samhill]

Not if you’ve been here for 140 years.

[farmaholic]

This harvest reminds me of an old drunk pissed to the gills stumbling around...

One step forward. Two backward. Five sideways. One more back. Three forward. Fall over and struggled to get back up only to do it all over again.

[jazz]

And your father is right. Farmers will have to adapt to more erratic weather, longer droughts, longer wet spells and longer heat waves, and bigger precipitation events.

He got demoted right after saying that.

[fjlip]

I am surprised by the number of ordinary people who probably vote Conservative and don't like Trudeau who admit human caused climate change is real.

And your father is right. Farmers will have to adapt to more erratic weather, longer droughts, longer wet spells and longer heat waves, and bigger precipitation events.

Prairie weather is always erratic but the intensity and frequency of events is increasing.

WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG, 1930's disaster decade, 1950's a decade from WET HELL, 1970's frost wet cold, 1980's drought decade, 2000 HOT HOT, 2010 flood, 30% seeded rest fallow. And this COLDEST year ever on prairies, NO forest fires, even WET in BC, what a shame it's not burning to scare our kids! F ck off your Climate BS!

[farming101]

This harvest reminds me of an old drunk pissed to the gills stumbling around...

One step forward. Two backward. Five sideways. One more back. Three forward. Fall over and struggled to get back up only to do it all over again.

I'm getting dizzy....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D0c44POQm8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D0c44POQm8

[Crestliner]

Climate change is just a big hoax to scare people into allowing the Government to confiscate more of your hard fought for money.

The carbon tax will do nothing to improve the weather....but it will make you poorer! It’s really sick how these climatards are scaring the kids. Geez.

The weather has been in flux forever, dozens of shitty falls I have seen; grain left out, piles to dry all winter, nothing new, the struggle is always real.

It just seems worse because our farms have grown
....so lots of work in front and the cost of doing business has sky rocketed making the stress level higher.

But as an old guy that worked for me said...” if it was easy everyone would be doing it”