Friday Crop Report on a Thursday!

[RD414]

Starting to see orange waves in some earlier canola, some wheat dropping tillers. Seems like our best seeding was May 2nd to the 10 th on wheat an May 9th to 10th on canola. There are farms in our area that are only showing 1 to 3 inches since the first of May. Those crops are a write off.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

I would say from old pictures we are now one week behind last year.

I would say that this area is even more behind than that. Not so much the cereals(although they are behind too), but the canola.

And it isn't because of seeding late. From what I saw, most everyone had an early start, hardly any weather delays, We weren't waiting for snow to melt and run off to go away like usual.

In my travels west of highway 2, I've hardly seen a field of canola that is more yellow than green in the past few days. In fact, I would say I've seen more fields that have more dirt showing through between the green than, there is yellow fields. And it doesn't seem to be related to seeding date. Not much difference on stuff seeded weeks apart.

Some places the problem is obviously the torrential non stop rain, but other high dry land, with good crops of other types all around, and the canola is still late and patchy and unhealthy looking.

[helmsdale]

Our Farm is sitting on about 5 inches since spring , but the hot weather is cranking up down here now. Some crops look good and some are going to hurt after 2 weeks of heat/ wind.

We do have a lot better crop than last year , but personally there aren't any bin busters out there.

88*f here already. Looks like today and two more days of this, then possibly god willing, a rain on monday? The "above average crop" possibility has certainly long past sailed here, but at least there will be some material to shove through the combine this year. My skid-plates might last longer than half a season!

[jazz]

This catch you SKF? tornado warnings in it

[Guest]

Caught a half inch on 25% of the farm today
Zero everywhere else

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Has a frost event ever been a market mover? I assume western Canada is too irrelevant, and frost too spotty to ever affect the larger markets?

[Sodbuster]

Just got back from the lake, we had 2.4” this morning, doubtful that we’re spraying tomorrow. Surprisingly most of the wheat is still standing, came down hard but no wind.

[biglentil]

This catch you SKF? tornado warnings in it

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Heard it had some hard water in it.

[shtferbrains]

Bad storm went through Genfell area?

[SASKFARMER]

Totals

Cupar 7/10

Farm north of balcarres 1/4

South balcarres 1 to 1.39 south of valley

Slow mover