Friday Crop Report on a Thursday!

[furrowtickler]

At this point in the growing season for western Canada for all crops I will change my 1/3-1/3-1/3 guesstimates from a month ago
40% poor
40% below average
20% average to above average

Not much will change now unless there is an early frost in the good areas, but that’s unlikely at this point .
Rains from now on will change very little in yield prospects for the most part .

[SASKFARMER]

Heavy rains and soy just flowering should be good for yield in Ontario. Dry start and the corn was hurt but catching up with rain.

Western Canada is not going to
Have a good Durum and Canola and barely crop

The rest average to just down

[jazz]

Western Canada is not going to Have a good Durum and Canola and barely crop

Last years durum crop graded #3 due to fusarium. Took a sample of what I had left over and magically it now graded a #1.

Hilarious and sad at the same time.

[furrowtickler]

Last years durum crop graded #3 due to fusarium. Took a sample of what I had left over and magically it now graded a #1.

Hilarious and sad at the same time.

Happens every year after harvest with all wheat , come May / June grade magically changes
Yup one can contract all kinds of grain ahead of time but 80% of the time you get screwed on grade off combine because you have that contact with them and you have to haul to that location.
Canola usually not an issue other than dockage

[Goodtime]

Glad the temps are cooler to keep things from burning but 15 degrees at noon yikes.

[SASKFARMER]

Plus two at the one station south of town at 5 am. Oh memories of 2002.

[Hamloc]

Quite an interesting week weather wise. Last weekend we were haying and the temperatures were between 28-31. Finished baling Monday evening. Tuesday was cloudy, a little cooler, a thunderstorm came through the area and depending on which cloud you were under received anywhere from .5 inch all the way to just over 2 inches. If you went 15 miles south they got about 2/10. Yesterday it was cloudy, drizzly, got up to maybe 12. Interesting weather. The IPCC has upped the rhetoric from Climate emergency to climate boiling. I guess nobody was getting excited enough anymore!

Anyway driving around looking at crops is quite interesting. The formerly black hilltops have filled in. In the wheat fields it is a mixture of wheat and canola. In canola all the hilltops are in bloom, amazing how the later germinating canola catches up. In the wheat fields the low areas are ripening and the hilltops are green, ass backwards to normal. Earliest seeded canola is done flowering like Saskfarmer’s picture up top. Wheat has certainly improved, but harvest date certainly a ways off with all the new tillers and regrowth, will need a long fall. Barley certainly looks good. Pea crops look good, finished flowering. Not much for peas in this area as I said before.

Pastures certainly helped by the rain. I got some grasshopper spraying done. Used Coragen at 80 acres per jug. Certainly makes a difference. Working at getting ready for silage now. Enjoy the week.

[Hamloc]

Pioneer L516 for reference the person in the picture is 5.25 feet tall. Lol still didn’t take the picture right.

[SASKFARMER]

I am 6.1 ft tall and not kneeling like my friends at Elrose were texting me.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Quite an interesting week weather wise. Last weekend we were haying and the temperatures were between 28-31. Finished baling Monday evening. Tuesday was cloudy, a little cooler, a thunderstorm came through the area and depending on which cloud you were under received anywhere from .5 inch all the way to just over 2 inches. If you went 15 miles south they got about 2/10. Yesterday it was cloudy, drizzly, got up to maybe 12. Interesting weather. The IPCC has upped the rhetoric from Climate emergency to climate boiling. I guess nobody was getting excited enough anymore!

Anyway driving around looking at crops is quite interesting. The formerly black hilltops have filled in. In the wheat fields it is a mixture of wheat and canola. In canola all the hilltops are in bloom, amazing how the later germinating canola catches up. In the wheat fields the low areas are ripening and the hilltops are green, ass backwards to normal. Earliest seeded canola is done flowering like Saskfarmer’s picture up top. Wheat has certainly improved, but harvest date certainly a ways off with all the new tillers and regrowth, will need a long fall. Barley certainly looks good. Pea crops look good, finished flowering. Not much for peas in this area as I said before.

Pastures certainly helped by the rain. I got some grasshopper spraying done. Used Coragen at 80 acres per jug. Certainly makes a difference. Working at getting ready for silage now. Enjoy the week.

We were visiting your neighbors on Sunday. I was amazed at how green it was, and how good the crops and pastures looked, especially after the desperate start. Turns out you've had considerably more rain than my area, and that is rare. How big is the area? I know it got worse in a hurry going south and east from there.