Friday Crop Report on a Thursday!

[helmsdale]

Drove to Dafoe, sk and there are alot of garbage crops along the way.

Cereals burning up. Lots of barley that looks very poor. Significant burn outs and spots, sometimes fairly expansive, where heads aren't even going to make it out of the boot. Some crops cooking without even making the flag!

Canola though... I caught myself numerous times muttering to myself, "o my god," "wow"(not the good kind of wow), and alot of, "that crop's phucked,"

Thin, shitty stands. Alot of places where it just bolted and significant chunks of fields have that dark golden flower color, or even worse white. There wasn't a single field along the way to get excited about. A few that were *ok* considering the year, but not a single hummer.

[Partners]

One thing that is a real problem is bly foxtail this yr.
To cold at seeding time to spray it.
Now its visible on alot of cereal fields..

[biglentil]

By the end of next week with no rain in the forecast and temperatures in the upper 20’s a lot of us will be hoping for hail. We have had 4” of rain to date with the last one .4” on June 19th, all cereals headed out and canola in full bloom, crop going backwards every day. Will be interesting to see if the early seeders fair better than the late seeders or those that had to reseed their canola.

Hail? That would require moisture to fall out the sky.

[fcr]

Neighbour today is looking for bids to cut his barley for feed. Wheat prob not far behind

[sawfly1]

Canola seed salesman lady came to look at canola today, that forced me to walk into the crop.
The best fields 2 weeks ago are now the poorest. Thinner the better and latter the better now.
Not enough moisture down there for everybody. 2.7 inches this year. She mentioned some
Yield numbers , Ha Ha , spindly knee high canola with 6 pods coming out of flower . Will not have a 4 or a 3 as the first number in the yield, lucky to be a 2 And that is with a rain in a week.

[makar]

Best land good bto canola pods inch long, fat lady getting dressed.

[beaverdam]

Drove past some early planted canola fields today,,, they didn't beat the heat!
Bloomed two weeks, the second week which was 32-38'C
It'll be lucky to make 15.
If it doesn't cool down or rain,,, the later planted will make even less.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

A while ago I mentioned a volunteer canola plant that is growing in the yard. Lots of water by the eave of a building. Plant looks great and healthy. Started flowering not long before the big heat hit. I checked the main stem, and so far out of the first 35 potential pods, 33 are blank, from there up it improves quite a lot, and the secondary branches are doing better. Must have been formed after the heat let up. Never been short of water or nutrients.

Canola in the fields ( my own at least), was just bolting towards the end of the heat, so I haven't checked what effect it had yet.

[SASKFARMER]

Well, we got skunked again on rain today. Nothing at all. Built-up west and south of valley from us it was moving North east then stopped and moved back west.

[furrowtickler]

Canola seed salesman lady came to look at canola today, that forced me to walk into the crop.
The best fields 2 weeks ago are now the poorest. Thinner the better and latter the better now.
Not enough moisture down there for everybody. 2.7 inches this year. She mentioned some
Yield numbers , Ha Ha , spindly knee high canola with 6 pods coming out of flower . Will not have a 4 or a 3 as the first number in the yield, lucky to be a 2 And that is with a rain in a week.

Unfortunately you will be very correct