Friday Crop report on a Thursday. Week 29.

[furrowtickler]

Here on July 1st all crops were fantastic, 250 mm of rain so fungicides were applied, then the furnace got turned on and I would have been smarter to have taken all the money drove to the nearest casino and bet it all on red.
Except for the irrigation where it worked very well until Aug 05 and every single pivot got pretty much wiped out by hail. Again would have been smarter to take all that money and gone into my ag direct account and put it all on additional hail coverage.
Sometimes it's just a do your best practices and see.

Same here , absolutely agree .
until they come out with “sustainable reliable forecasts” more than 3 days , you have to do what is best at the time .

[Sodbuster]

Finished up our last field of flax yesterday, great day for combining and the flax was actually dry. Nice to be done, now off to the next project, have a mile of 2” pipe to bring water to the shop and house to replace the poor well in our yard.

[fcr]

Anyone know where all the brand new and next to new equipment is from on the upcoming saskatoon ritchie sale.Are things that bad or they cant sell cheaper at a dealer so as not to piss off those who have bought already.

[fjlip]

Auction prices still high

apparently lots of $ , great crop high prices?

no deals out there

[blackpowder]

Dealers will take trade price from RB before they sell it to you for that. RB then sells it for retail. Values maintain. Obviously lots of buyers.

[blackpowder]

In our zone it seems fung pays on everything but canola. Even this year, the wheat that got a rain showed return. No sclerotinia but enough blackleg in canola.
I wish I knew 5% of what goes on in a plant during the season. Drives me nuts trying to make a decision.

[shtferbrains]

Don't recall ever seeing the volume of equipment on dealers lots at this time of year.
If one dealer has 30-40 or 50 combines and the dealer down the road has the same?
Most dealers seem to be using off site lots to park them all.
Saw 13 new large JD track tractors on the front row at one dealer.

Not sure RB can get them out this time?
Supposed to take 2 buyers for every one to make an auction.
Can't keep them all.

[fjlip]

Hopefully used numbers reduce and first buyers EAT more depreciation...this is ridiculous!

[makar]

Looks like we are weathered in for the year, some ugly canola left out including me, but 40 acres of 10 bushel I won't lose any sleep over it

[AlbertaFarmer5]

We finished on Saturday.
And I wasn't quite the last one in Alberta, since we helped a neighbor finish yesterday.
So far the rain and snow event has been a non event. So we didn't have to slog through the tough, green, flowering canola, could have waited a few more days and let it freeze dry more.

2nd year in a row with no hail. Nothing fell from the sky during hail season, so it stands to reason.

4 year in a row of having adequate heat units to mature most crops in decent time.

This may have been the only year in recent memory where the crops didn't see snow in either spring or fall.

Rarely got stuck this spring, never got stuck this fall.

Nearly all grain taken off dry. Only dried one batch of wheat, and will probably dry the last quarter of canola.

Nearly all crops mostly standing. We have had years where every acre is flat on the ground.

Makes this farming thing sound easy.