Friday Crop Report on a Thursday!

[red rider]

It’ll be green in a week or so. Pasture and hay does look very very good. Except the alfalfa froze, but it’ll bounce back. Already getting green again.

I wish sharing pics was as easy for me, as some on here make it out to be!

Whereabouts you at? Generally if you don’t mind sharing.

i am within miles of you. and yes you can take pictures of late seeded quarters around to show its black. and yes we will have wet unseeded acres. but you also can take pics of green quarters around you. we are later then we would like to be, I will agree , but its not the end of the world. Shit happens.

[Partners]

Whats the seed date on that.

May 16th.

[Sheepwheat]

i am within miles of you. and yes you can take pictures of late seeded quarters around to show its black. and yes we will have wet unseeded acres. but you also can take pics of green quarters around you. we are later then we would like to be, I will agree , but its not the end of the world. Shit happens.

I don’t think you’re as close to me as you assume, because 90% of the area at least, is not green. “A few miles” makes a big difference. I am about 25 miles in a straight line from partners beautiful canola. Most guys had very little in by June 1. I can stand on the high points on my pasture land land and look down at the farmland below where I can see several miles, and I repeat, there is zero green for many miles to the southwest. It’s later to the east, and earlier to the north. There are a couple emerging barley fields to the south that are scarcely green. I do think most everything is seeded in these parts. Like I said, an open fall, and we’re in for a potential bumper in these parts, just late. Can’t freeze till mid to late September, which has happened enough. It’s far less like the misery it was a couple weeks ago, that’s for sure!

Looked at my hayland again tonight , and where it didn’t freeze she’s jumping. Might be cutting some in a couple weeks. Next weeks rain will really make it go nuts. I like the grazing prospects compared to last year for sure. Easier to plan when regrowth is faster.

[Partners]

May 16th.

In contrast our last 97 acres of canola was seeded June 8th..

[furrowtickler]

Started streaming a bit more N on with the PT unit


Got er set up yesterday morning. Will just do a few fields of our best land where canola has recovered well from frost / fleas .
At 10 gal / ac can cover 180 ac per fill now with this ole outfit , very reasonable cost per ac to run this over the HC

[Guest]

whats the blend?

[furrowtickler]

whats the blend?

Just straight 28-0-0 with a stabilizer.
Had 75 lbs down ahead , so this will put us around 100 .
Will do some then see if it actually does rain , if not the rest can stay in storage till next year .
If we miss this rain , we won’t even use the 75 lbs there already

[bucket]

Just straight 28-0-0 with a stabilizer.
Had 75 lbs down ahead , so this will put us around 100 .
Will do some then see if it actually does rain , if not the rest can stay in storage till next year .
If we miss this rain , we won’t even use the 75 lbs there already

Thus is an important rain on Monday. If it fails to materialize, I think some of mine will be let grow for cattle feed. Spray it in the fall for next year.

Gophers hoppers drought , not sure why I didn't see this coming.

Lots of signs last year.
Kicking my ass for trying harder this year. I knew better.

Being optimistic can really hurt when reality hits .

[furrowtickler]

Thus is an important rain on Monday. If it fails to materialize, I think some of mine will be let grow for cattle feed. Spray it in the fall for next year.

Gophers hoppers drought , not sure why I didn't see this coming.

Lots of signs last year.
Kicking my ass for trying harder this year. I knew better.

Being optimistic can really hurt when reality hits .

Yup , we are in same pattern here too so far and need this rain . Without it not looking good . We still have a chance here but time will tell . Critical next 3-4 days in most of western Sask . Unfortunately too late for some real dry areas south

[helmsdale]

Thus is an important rain on Monday. If it fails to materialize, I think some of mine will be let grow for cattle feed. Spray it in the fall for next year.

Gophers hoppers drought , not sure why I didn't see this coming.

Lots of signs last year.
Kicking my ass for trying harder this year. I knew better.

Being optimistic can really hurt when reality hits .

Agreed. If I had the time I could drop 1500 rounds of .22 a week easy right now. Usually shoot a couple hundred every time i go looking for beetles, or check on crop staging and weeds. They are utterly insane!

There are a few pre-seed weed control problems that I'll be putting into the memory bank for years forward. For example, if last years crop was polluted with russian thistle and it's going into peas, you had better put authority down. My god, what a mess of thistle. Viper will hopefully knock them back at least somewhat, but there'll be another flush when the good lord decides we're finally due for a rain.

If the rain event for monday-wednesday does not materialize, then all the fertilizer this year will be a waste. It'll simply gas off in dry, smoking hot dirt. How does one play that differently though? My sprayer is taxed as it is, and with only a 1000US gal tank it'd be one hell of a lot of filling to stream on all the required nutrients if it decided to rain.

When it comes to optimism biting one in the backside, it could be argued that without optimism there wouldn't be a single farmer left in the palliser triangle. Why bother? But here we are... Hoping, Praying, and some years suffering, while at other times collecting a handsome bounty. The trick I suppose is not to price yourself into receivership during the bad times, so that you can still be left standing to collect in the good.