Friday crop report on a Thursday.

[seldomseen]

The good the bad and the ugly. Peas beside my canola. The ground so wet they are really struggling.

[farmaholic]

Seldom; The ugly side of too wet.

Neither extreme is good!

[seldomseen]

Yes to wet is ugly. I think only two years out of 37 have been to dry. The field with the peas had a good crop of wheat last year and after harvest I ran the spiked over it trying to bury as much straw and bring up as much dirt as possible then leave it rough for the winter hopefully getting rid as much moisture as I can before spring seeding.

[farmaholic]

Yes to wet is ugly. I think only two years out of 37 have been to dry. The field with the peas had a good crop of wheat last year and after harvest I ran the spiked over it trying to bury as much straw and bring up as much dirt as possible then leave it rough for the winter hopefully getting rid as much moisture as I can before spring seeding.

Pretty hard to begrudge a guy what works for him....

[woodland]

Barley is looking good here except for the drowned out spots. Lots of disease showing up so fungicide and a plant growth regulator to try and keep the height down will be applied shortly. After scalping the mud last fall to pick up flattened crop anything is worth a shot.


Finished spraying the corn today and sunk the sprayer good. The weeds are getting ahead of it after the three inches of rain last week. The corn is coming and looks ok until you realize it’s not the beginning of June anymore.

Pasture is still phenomenal and hay crops are too. Not too sure about how or when they’ll come off.

Plan A is dry bales......... highly unlikely
Plan B is silage bales ............ doubtful if we can get it dry enough for that
Plan C is to chop it ........... would rather not as I don’t need any more feed for this winter.


The apprentice is checking up on my work. Only got about a thousand pieces to put back in it.


The best part of checking crops and moving the water truck for my brother.

P.S. Currently raining ........... again. Might need floater tires for the silage trucks. Yippee

[Hamloc]

Woodland have to be honest I am truly only experiencing one issue that you are and that is wondering what to do with my hay. We are not near as wet as you, we can still travel fine in the fields with the sprayer if you go around the wet low areas. But haying with the present forecast and the hay being heavy and wet make it quite a conundrum. Certainly could put it in the silage pit but I have to be honest I am not a big fan of hay for silage, much prefer barley. Anyway good luck and hopefully we will start to get more sun than rain.

[SASKFARMER]

This wet that some of you are experiencing for the first time. Try it for 15 years in a row. It gets very tiring. The land is lost, fields are smaller inputs are wasted and rubber boots are your work shoes. Being dry is kind of interesting.

[woodland]

This wet that some of you are experiencing for the first time. Try it for 15 years in a row. It gets very tiring. The land is lost, fields are smaller inputs are wasted and rubber boots are your work shoes. Being dry is kind of interesting.

If being “dry” is interesting to you then you’re not really dry. When you can’t tell what you’ve cut in a field since there’s no swath then your officially “DRY”.

[sumdumguy]

If being “dry” is interesting to you then you’re not really dry. When you can’t tell what you’ve cut in a field since there’s no swath then your officially “DRY”.

The dirty grass hoppery, blowing fields 80’s is all the dry one needs in a lifetime. Ugh!

[newguy]

The dirty grass hoppery, blowing fields 80’s is all the dry one needs in a lifetime. Ugh!

yep.farmers north told me everything in the south should be grass and government should not give drought aid.