Friday Crop Report on a Thursday, wow the last week of August.

[Old Cowzilla]

Barley yield was ok but early seeded canola on good dirt running 20 bu/acre . Guess June and July rains are important Parts guy very busy in mornings at local shop everybody giviner!

[furrowtickler]

The amount of canola pods on the ground from that hail storm last week here is staggering in this area

[fcr]

Lots getting sprayed here to even out crops,almost immpossible to book a plane or chopper.We will finish spraying wheat today,leave last alone for seed.Some are taking tough and bin drying,scary binning tough with this heat.Neighbour said 16.4 and 34 degrees,yikes but for some its a race to get done.It is hard to sit and watch combines going all around.Lots of rocks being injested doing lentils.Huts new case had a 68000 insurance bill from rock damage.

[GALAXIE500]

Pea yields for my outfit averaged 7bpa. Durum so far is about 8-9 bpa. YAY another year of diminishing returns! It's Trudeaus fault in my opinion.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

The amount of canola pods on the ground from that hail storm last week here is staggering in this area

We went through this two years in a row, with an early September hail storm just as harvest started. My sincerest sympathies.

I kept looking at all those pods/heads/seeds on the ground and speculating if there could be a way to vacuum them up behind the header, then sort out all the dirt before running it through the combine. One header has an air reel, might be a way to convert that into a vacuum.

Hopefully such a rare event that it wouldn't worth even attempting.

[furrowtickler]

Sad part is guys just east of us are hit much worse
At least we have something to salvage except for a few that are totally wiped out to zero

[goalieguy847]

That stinks about the hail...
a friend of ours did some oats yesterday that got hailed..
full outside round on a half section.. not even half a hopper full.

Tough day.

Also.
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Dealing with malt barley in 34 degree weather sucks. No other way to say it. Devil.dust.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

And the best part about a hail storm on a ripe crop, it's the gift that keeps on giving. The volunteers kept coming for 2 or 3 crop years.

[furrowtickler]

Crop insurance claims will be huge in most northern Sask
yields results coming in and other than a few small pockets they are way below average

But record crop , record crop is all you hear lol

[furrowtickler]

Funny thing is local elevators now calling with “premiums” for wheat
$7.10 from $6.85 lol lol
Trains need to be filled and they can’t find wheat
The bigger crops they were all sooooo excited for are not even remotely there or still in the field for 10-14 days yet
the few acres of wheat starting to come off is going in the bin and ain’t moving at these prices . Lots of yields 25-35 in traditional 50-70 bus areas .
Drought area north of Hyway 16 is not good and finally they are panicking a bit .

Unfortunately some of the best crops north of 16 east of the Battlefords all the way to Martinsville got either wiped out or at minimum moderately damaged by the big storm last week .

thankful for the dry weather now as we can shave the ground to get what’s left in some fields