Friday Crop Report on a Thursday!

[sawfly1]

Running on fumes here too , 3/10 for may is not cutting it. A week of heat will likely finish us off if it happens.
And a 15 of June rain will mean October maturity. Yikes

[Guest]

Aylsham , Sk
Done seeding a week ago
Wheat in 3 leaf

[sawfly1]

Maybe it is time to buy a baler, to salvage something from all that pricy Fertlizer. When the big rain comes on the 23 of June.from my second crop.
Made the mistake of looking at the forecast after my first post.

[beaverdam]

Beaverdam, sounds like you are in SE corner of Sask. Do you think Rafferty- Alameda has changed the macro climate as it seems that water attracts the rains?

I remember talk of that when they were built, but honestly the surface area of Rafferty isn't really that great, atleast compared to Lake Diefenbaker, Alameda is much smaller still. If they add to rainfall amounts, it would be hard to know how much. I don't think that is a commonly held idea, among farmers east of the dams.
Long term data shows that SE Sask most always gets it's share of rain. Provincial soil maps from the 80's had us in an area described as "Moist Dark Brown" In the 70's, Estevan's long term avg rainfall was higher than places like Regina or Wadena.
We'll never get much moisture from a rain that comes from B.C., 95% or more of our moisture comes from systems moving out of Montana or Colorado.
Direct seeding into standing stubble is likely more the cause of our wet fields. (more snow catch, more ground shaded from wind and sun)

[seldomseen]

Aylsham , Sk
Done seeding a week ago
Wheat in 3 leaf

Ain't that the truth! Good land pays and its hard to believe people will pay as much for our clay land as they will in that area!
Forecast was for 5-10 mm but we got 1.5 inches on fields that were already to wet to plant. Water is running out of the fields again.

[Hamloc]

Just looked at the latest weather network forecast for my area(central Alberta), in the next 2 weeks there are 2 days with 60% showers and that is day 13 and 14. Not good. No hot days in the forecast, might be our only saving grace.

[WiltonRanch]

Maybe it is time to buy a baler, to salvage something from all that pricy Fertlizer. When the big rain comes on the 23 of June.from my second crop.
Made the mistake of looking at the forecast after my first post.

If you’re thinking of doing that get on it now. Don’t buy pre 567 Deere or post 688 new holland. We had a new new holland every few years for a period. Last two were BR780 and BR7090 and quality went down. If you’re going twine on NH get the autotie and then you don’t have stupid computers that never stay programmed. Dad had NH balers from the 70’s until we went to the dark side and bought a 568 Deere in 2012. Still have the same machine today going strong. In that same time previously we would have went through 3 NH twine balers. Still those 688 and older Twine balers didn’t break down. Just sometimes they’d not tie but trip them and they’d tie. And another thing if you decide NH do not get the megawide pickup in that era. Biggest pieces of shit.

[rumrocks]

Some of the most advanced super computers in the world run 6 or 12 hour runs every day trying to "model" the weather 2-15 days out. They take all the available data from thousands of global weather stations, hundreds of weather balloons, and a handful of weather satellites... they then come up with solutions that take into account the last couple decades of actual results. Constantly inputting old data and comparing against actual outcomes and we STILL cant say with any degree of certainty what's going to happen more than next day!

But 50 or 100 years out? We got that shit down to the tenth of a degree!

I've often wondered how many of the climate change minds question the models and realize these predictions are a long shot at best but don't care because its all about wealth transfer.

And the people who truly believe that the science and modelling are accurate and correct, will not debate.

When you combine both of these camps, the result is a deeply flawed arrogant leadership.

[Guest]

Ain't that the truth! Good land pays and its hard to believe people will pay as much for our clay land as they will in that area!
Forecast was for 5-10 mm but we got 1.5 inches on fields that were already to wet to plant. Water is running out of the fields again.

Saw that yesterday
Sorry to see it
You guys sure got hammered this year
I know exactly how it feels
Hope it gives you a break
One asshole up on the hill south of town stopped and asked how I felt about all the water , with a chuckle , when we got 7” in a day and a half and nothing up there , a few years back
*** near slapped him

[SASKFARMER]

That storm in ND and moving into Manitoba has power and lots of rain.

I am hearing a few larger guys with lots and lots to go saying they will proceed till the 10th and then quit if they get to a magic number for their farm in acres seeded. We all have a number we need and some have done the math.

Some to the North East of us got 2 in again and they haven't started yet. let that sink in No way to seed and it's June 1 but Gormley and our Ag minister said it's just a little late.

So AGT got federal money again to build a fertilizer made from shit lentils peas and other crap. Good idea but will it help farmers nope but BOBOO was so happy to give 3.5 mill.

Why never anything for producers always guys with ideas that most of the time don't work.