Friday Crop Report on a Thursday.

[Sheepwheat]

What sickens me is people who don't get the concept.

I hear you. I wish you good luck with it. Sure isn’t fun. Grrr.

[woodland]

Only spray that works is lead and not registered here .

Works here, the only thing is the application window is quite narrow. 😉

[AlbertaFarmer5]

They only come uninvited and leave rotting carcasses in the middle of the field.

I would rather have a rotting carcass than another moose tramping through the crop all year.

I have a few first nations "applicators" and they are really respectful, and appreciative of the opportunity. I just need a lot more.

[makar]

I would rather have a rotting carcass than another moose tramping through the crop all year.

I have a few first nations "applicators" and they are really respectful, and appreciative of the opportunity. I just need a lot more.

Apparantly you haven't scooped one up in August combining peas with a 80000 header, not me but cousin dodged 3 in 1 field. All missing front quarters.

[woodland]

Busy planting a different kind of crop this week.



Lotsa fun in the mud and hills here. The hoe is the only thing that will chew through the mud or reach across to avoid it with the tracks at least. My son was out with us for part of the day and I told him that hopefully he doesn’t have to do much maintenance with this fence........... ever.



The corn on the sand is looking like last year which means it’s late and not going to make cobs. The majority that’s on clay ................ not worthy of pics or discussing hardly.

Gave up spraying fungicide and growth regulator part way through as the barley is heading already and the sprayer is sinking and sliding all over. Crop is starting to go down in spots and not looking forward to harvest........ whenever that is. Haying has yet to start and maybe if the rain can stay away for a week the fields might get rid of the standing water at least. It didn’t rain today so that’s a positive start for a trend......

Has anyone else started making hay yet?

[AlbertaFarmer5]

I feel your pain Makar. Not near that bad here, but worse than I expected, and getting too late to bounce back even if it does ever quit raining every day.

The people who say the high ground will make up for it have never been around here. Once our clay gets saturated, crops drown out on hill sides, and flat areas on hill tops, it runs continuously across high land and kills it too. Ground has just been saturated continuously since snow melt. No till, adding lots of fibre, and lots of landscaping and drainage helps a lot, not much can be done when it rains everyday. Official EC station is up to 60 days consecutive days with precipitation( assuming July 1 was an error, when we had an inch, and they show zero).

Wheat still looks really good here. Shouldn't have planted any canola. It was all seeded either side of a 3 inch rain( and during), one quarter was badly compacted from spring combining on the saturated ground, then it kept on raining. Issues with straw, too wet to spread or flow. Flea beetles, and today I see slugs are busy in places. Crusting, compaction. Places that handled the first few big multi inch rains, have recently given up.

[GDR]

Busy planting a different kind of crop this week.



Lotsa fun in the mud and hills here. The hoe is the only thing that will chew through the mud or reach across to avoid it with the tracks at least. My son was out with us for part of the day and I told him that hopefully he doesn’t have to do much maintenance with this fence........... ever.



The corn on the sand is looking like last year which means it’s late and not going to make cobs. The majority that’s on clay ................ not worthy of pics or discussing hardly.

Gave up spraying fungicide and growth regulator part way through as the barley is heading already and the sprayer is sinking and sliding all over. Crop is starting to go down in spots and not looking forward to harvest........ whenever that is. Haying has yet to start and maybe if the rain can stay away for a week the fields might get rid of the standing water at least. It didn’t rain today so that’s a positive start for a trend......

Has anyone else started making hay yet?

I cut first field of hay yesterday, will wrap it unless the forcast is wrong. Hay wasn't as good as it looks from the road, alfalfa just starting to bloom so is a couple weeks late. We need some heat, this weekend was good but cool days ahead of sub 20 degrees and showers.

Lots of barley only 6 inches tall, only a few fields of early wheat starting to head, gonna need a long fall here.

[SASKFARMER]

Excess water is rally bad. I said it for years as every rain storm dumped 1 to three inches year in year out. Creeks rain continual. Mud is a dud.

[sumdumguy]

We saw our largest “dump” or piddle of 1/2 inch Friday evening. We need a few more of those. Canola is a pittiful sight. Seems every year we are waiting longer and longer for the “million dollar” rain. 🙏🏼

[Rareearth]

Sask farmer, what would make you more money drainage or tile, (assuming you pay for all infrastructure)?

Or maybe it both?