Friday Crop Report on a Thursday!

[farmaholic]

Neighbor combined some barley that was supposed to be malt. Anybody know a market for 42 lb barley?

Lite beer?

[jazz]

The pic is from a good part of the field.

I wouldn't turn my back if I got out of the combine. Who knows whats lurking in that treeline.

[seldomseen]

That tree line is the banks of the Carrot River. Farma i often wonder what it would be like to farm where it doesn't rain all through harvest?

[farmaholic]

That tree line is the banks of the Carrot River. Farma i often wonder what it would be like to farm where it doesn't rain all through harvest?

Farming in the Ghetto isn't for the faint of heart or anyone who knows better.

[Sheepwheat]

3/4 inch in ten minutes or less again. Feel for the folks who swathed all their barley...

[farmaholic]

3/4 inch in ten minutes or less again. Feel for the folks who swathed all their barley...

Showers going by here today, missed us. It's harvest I don't need rain now. Just want to get this crop off that I'm greatful to have considering how critical things were before the first good rain arrived. And a poorer crop than last year at that.
Perspective..... glad I don't have to give any up to rent, that would be a game changer

[makar]

Last time I combined in August was 1973, 14 on a super 92.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Seldomseen. I think I may have been through your neck of the woods afew times in the past on our way to Jan Lake. I thought it would be kinda neat to grain farm where evergreens grow. Yes or no?

On the positive side, evergreens are less of an invasive weed than poplar trees are. Spread slower.
On the negative side, spruce trees indicate acidic soil, probably too wet.
They provide excellent hiding spots for the deer and moose who eat and trample the crops close by, also good hiding spots for the cougars who eat calves.
They suck up the moisture and nutrients from a wide radius and nearly kill the crop, although not quite as bad as poplars.
They create 100% shade on the north side, and less so on the east and west side, guaranteeing nothing grows, and the ground never dries.

I think it would be neat to grain farm where no trees grow, slowly achieving that goal without moving.

[woodland]

On the positive side, evergreens are less of an invasive weed than poplar trees are. Spread slower.
On the negative side, spruce trees indicate acidic soil, probably too wet.
They provide excellent hiding spots for the deer and moose who eat and trample the crops close by, also good hiding spots for the cougars who eat calves.
They suck up the moisture and nutrients from a wide radius and nearly kill the crop, although not quite as bad as poplars.
They create 100% shade on the north side, and less so on the east and west side, guaranteeing nothing grows, and the ground never dries.

I think it would be neat to grain farm where no trees grow, slowly achieving that goal without moving.

Amen to that brother 😉

The pines here are where the really nasty ground is. Spruce is good ground unless it’s the swamp variety then you got other issues going on. Poplars ............. that’s why they make yellow iron.

[helmsdale]

Started knockin off wheat then she pours !

What a kick in the nutz !

Wheat probally won't make 90 like sf3s !

I need to get one of those 120' D****r headers to put on the front of my itty bitty 1660 so I can run it through a low spot to get a feel for a 90bu crop!