Friday Crop Report on a Thursday!

[furrowtickler]

I don't know how far hay will be trucked when diesel is $2/L and cattle prices are where they are. I've heard from numerous life long cattle producers that they're cutting back or getting out of cattle entirely.

Agree , and sadly hearing the same here. Meanwhile the consumer is paying more for beef in store than ever before.

[Happytrails]

I don't know how far hay will be trucked when diesel is $2/L and cattle prices are where they are. I've heard from numerous life long cattle producers that they're cutting back or getting out of cattle entirely.

Very true. Still there will be some feed hauled to cattle and some cattle hauled to feed. That is usually the cheaper option.

[Hamloc]

I think it was 1982. 🤷

The worst May snow storm I lived through was 1987. It was blowing and snowing so hard you couldn’t see your hand in front of your face.

As far as cattle, certainly a concern. I was talking to a neighbour yesterday about this very topic. Farmers returns raising cattle need to improve or people will just keep leaving the industry. My neighbour commented that one guy he knew rented a new to him chunk of land with fresh alfalfa planted on it. He worked it up and planted canola, he said to much money to be made in canola.

We ended up with about 6/10 of an inch of rain yesterday. It was welcome here. Many of my neighbours finished seeding here. If I didn’t have cattle I would be done as well. My local mechanic’s family farms around Yorkton. Apparently very little seeded and still very wet. Sounds like a very high stress level. Input prices already have ramped up the stress level.

[SASKFARMER]

Wasn’t 2022 a fun year to farm. Oh wait it’s spring not November

[Guest]

Bet you won’t see that pic on the state broadcaster?

[checking]

Wasn’t 2022 a fun year to farm. Oh wait it’s spring not November

If it was thirty yeas ago, I'd tell you to ease off on the marker foam.

[Sheepwheat]

Bet you won’t see that pic on the state broadcaster?

Still looks like that today at 2pm. Because it snowed more today. Temp is two. A high of plus two for late May? Now, if it was hot, it would be in the news, specifically on that there state broadcaster.

[Partners]

RP rep said today no price in yorkton for canola for sept/oct/Nov. All booked up with forward contracts..
Oh my..

[WiltonRanch]

RP rep said today no price in yorkton for canola for sept/oct/Nov. All booked up with forward contracts..
Oh my..

Ouch!! Polish canola still grown in places or did that go the way of discers and 760’s? (760’s were damn fine machines)

[bucket]

RP rep said today no price in yorkton for canola for sept/oct/Nov. All booked up with forward contracts..
Oh my..

And what will happen when those contracts can't be filled????