Friday Crop Report on a Thursday last week of june

[furrowtickler]

I would imagine after all the early June high winds could make this a bug year, always something ..

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rU1Is0dUEoU?feature=share

[Hamloc]

I have been out scouting, trying to decide if fungicide is necessary. Crops look decent but really haven’t had enough rain to justify fungicide. Some signs on a half of wheat we grew back to back wheat on, other than that unless the forecast changes tough to justify. We had a couple of tenths under 3 inches in June, which I am very thankful for, but we have zero subsoil moisture. We have 60% chance of showers forecast but usually 4-5 days out. Wheat around the area is heading. Early seeded barley is headed and has had a fungicide app. Neighbours oats looks pretty good, about 30 inches tall, flag leaf, hasn’t headed yet. A couple more shots of rain it could be a decent crop. Canola lots of yellow fields. Our last seeded canola just getting ready to bolt. Lots of guys starting cutting hay, maybe average on some, needed more water. The next two weeks will tell the tail. Crops need more rain, that simple.

[furrowtickler]

Peas on 15 in rows doing better now

[shtferbrains]

Grain markets took off on a rip in the afternoon for no real identifiable reason?
Hopefully just bullish sentiment?

[furrowtickler]

Seen that today

[sumdumguy]

[QUOTE=Hamloc - The next two weeks will tell the tail. Crops need more rain, that simple. [/QUOTE]

Need a good soaker. ????

[WiltonRanch]

I watched guys tear out fences , disk up pasture because it couldn't raise cows too dry the last few years . So they protilled it twice to black, seeded it and now it's a crop insurance claim but it could have been used for grazing had they left the fence. That extra half acre the fence took up will never pay .

Meanwhile go to farm shows and there is program to seed land back to grass.

The left hand doesn't know what the right one is doing.

Sounds like the trend is the same in the states as well. Cost of grass seed now you just about need a subsidy to afford the crap vs the economic return. Not to mention breaking grass is a bastard and you don’t see a decent crop for at least 3 years. Even with decent cow prices there isn’t enough incentive to piss around to getting a grass stand going and spending $5000 a mile in materials to build a fence and countless sums maintaining said fence and keeping brush away! Fortunate I have a lot of fenced quarters, unfortunate most fences are at the end of their life. Simple investment cost of even rebuilding a mile or two every year, and cleaning lines eats substantially into any profits.