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  • WiltonRanch
    Senior Member
    • Jul 2012
    • 4547

    #41
    We can handle enough water as a rule. Most drains away and sloughs get bigger but hills produce more to make up for shortfalls. One year in my memory we had 20% unseeded because of excess moisture and was disheartening. I can not even come close to fathoming what you guys go through who get too wet. Probably worse than too dry for us.

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    • Sheepwheat
      Senior Member
      • Jun 2017
      • 3137

      #42
      Originally posted by WiltonRanch View Post
      We can handle enough water as a rule. Most drains away and sloughs get bigger but hills produce more to make up for shortfalls. One year in my memory we had 20% unseeded because of excess moisture and was disheartening. I can not even come close to fathoming what you guys go through who get too wet. Probably worse than too dry for us.
      I have some land that is very rolling and well drained. Lowest assessed land I have, but it produces when it’s wet than my better land. So long as I can get it seeded. It’s in hay right now. So it doesn’t really matter.

      The thing about it isn’t that one couldn’t seed the hills etc. The thing is the inability to get enough time between the rains to dry it out. I doubt your land would fare well if it rained literally daily. Or three days of rain and snow, two days of eleven degrees and minimal sunshine, then two days of rain, three days of fifteen, a day of rain, repeat. It’s the weather more than the land and soil texture and topography. Though I will say that clay loam land is too heavy for our weather a lot of the time. If we had heavy clay, we’d be screwed with our weather. It would just stay a lake forever.

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      • agstar77
        Senior Member
        • Jul 2001
        • 6303

        #43
        6 mm last night 40 for tonight. No seeding here.

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        • Sheepwheat
          Senior Member
          • Jun 2017
          • 3137

          #44
          Originally posted by agstar77 View Post
          6 mm last night 40 for tonight. No seeding here.
          Not like. Can’t like. This is nuts.

          Been snowing here heavy for six straight hours. Maybe an inch on the ground. I wonder how much it actually snowed had the ground been frozen?

          Even if it does get nice now, how long to dry out? A week? Ten days?

          I’m with breadwinner.

          A low whistle for any guys who priced grain that won’t get seeded? This is gunna hurt.

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          • Partners
            Senior Member
            • May 2010
            • 3105

            #45
            Was it last summer that Drew said a 2 yr drought????

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            • cuban_assassin
              Senior Member
              • Mar 2014
              • 126

              #46
              Hey blueversi we got some flakes falling here but your at higher elevation so I guess that’s why yours is snow.
              Case IH we are on doorstep of greenwater provincial park.

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              • agstar77
                Senior Member
                • Jul 2001
                • 6303

                #47
                We may get a a few days in but not enough to seed 10000 acres or even the 50000 some operations have. It is pouring right now.

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                • makar
                  Senior Member
                  • Jan 2007
                  • 1702

                  #48
                  Got a hundred acres in yesterday with no where to go. Then it showered all night then snowed at 3 and hailed at 6. Looking hopeless.

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                  • SASKFARMER
                    Senior Member
                    • Dec 2005
                    • 7147

                    #49
                    She’s spinning back around probably get snow tonight.

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                    • Guest

                      #50
                      Originally posted by agstar77 View Post
                      We may get a a few days in but not enough to seed 10000 acres or even the 50000 some operations have. It is pouring right now.
                      hope it smartens up for you , been there lots , very disheartening

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