Friday Crop Report second week of September.

[RD414]

We had an early rain that most missed in May and then fairly steady small rains after the end of June. All that smoke seems to do a lot of good. Haven’t started canola, not ready but wheat is probably once in a lifetime numbers. Best to date was done today with 155 acres producing 18000 bushels. Using one bag per 1/4. Told my sons to enjoy it, might never see that again. Hate to list numbers but buyers have been talking about our huge crops locally a month before we started combining. Unfortunate that when west central Sask. has a big crop, prices drop every time. Good luck to all on the rest of harvest.

[fjlip]

1.8" overnight, N of Wadena. No more dust/fire risk in fields!

[goalieguy847]

Is that a 400 foot bag?
bagged some wheat this yr for the 1st time imto a 300. And no clue whats in there... wheat was heavy at 67 lbs but im calling a 10x300 = 13000 bushels?


I had a chat with a canola research bud ( he has pioneer seed variety patents.... smart cookie) and he said that this yr lined up alot like 2 yrs ago where in our area there were some big crops, despite very limited ( sub 3 inches) of rain. Back in july he was predicting that we would see canola ( taproot) outyielding wheat in some areas around here ( northeast of edmonton).


That yr, like this one, Seeding went into decent moisture which germed everything...then it got dry and plants pushed roots DEEP...
makes sense as it allowed them to scavenge for more water..but also ( and i think we forget about this process when thinking of roots) allowed the plants to scavenge for deeper nutrients. Last few yrs being as dry as they have been, many of our fertilizers arent washed too deep so maybe this yr our plants tapped into that.
Also, the real killer didnt happen this yr... heat blast during flowering.

[Dr Tone]

Is that a 400 foot bag?
bagged some wheat this yr for the 1st time imto a 300. And no clue whats in there... wheat was heavy at 67 lbs but im calling a 10x300 = 13000 bushels?

Approximately 50bu/ft for a 10ft bag and 40bu/ft for a 9ft bag if both are filled properly. That's volume of course so if it weighs up adjust your estimate accordingly.

[RD414]

We usually get 17000 bushels wheat in a 10 by 400 bag. Using 380 feet, 10 feet on each end to fold, 45 bushels per foot.

[fcr]

Sounds like with these great yields in most areas, prices will stay where they are at.With the rains this weekend lots will have enough moisture for a good start on next year.We had 3/10 and hail on 320ac of i/p canola. Will be a claim on this, sucks as it was our best field. Sure seems to be alot of severe hail across the west this year.

[furrowtickler]

Is that a 400 foot bag?
bagged some wheat this yr for the 1st time imto a 300. And no clue whats in there... wheat was heavy at 67 lbs but im calling a 10x300 = 13000 bushels?


I had a chat with a canola research bud ( he has pioneer seed variety patents.... smart cookie) and he said that this yr lined up alot like 2 yrs ago where in our area there were some big crops, despite very limited ( sub 3 inches) of rain. Back in july he was predicting that we would see canola ( taproot) outyielding wheat in some areas around here ( northeast of edmonton).


That yr, like this one, Seeding went into decent moisture which germed everything...then it got dry and plants pushed roots DEEP...
makes sense as it allowed them to scavenge for more water..but also ( and i think we forget about this process when thinking of roots) allowed the plants to scavenge for deeper nutrients. Last few yrs being as dry as they have been, many of our fertilizers arent washed too deep so maybe this yr our plants tapped into that.
Also, the real killer didnt happen this yr... heat blast during flowering.

We are seeing the same thing here locally, just before we got our first rain in four weeks in early August the canola was still hanging on and g th he wheat was all but done
but hard to really tell now as most this area has hail damage to some degree and it varies tremendously now

[shtferbrains]

I think you are right about the roots having more soil to work with Goalie.
Les Henry also used to talk about the microflora dying off when the soil becomes extremely dry.
Then when it wets up again all the stored nutrients of all kinds becomes available to give the crop a flush.

[furrowtickler]

Constant fog every morning and high humidity the past 4 days has ground harvest to a halt even without rains .
been a fortunate run harvest wise since hailstorm, definitely been the good , bad and ugly . Combined every day since August 20th, about 80% done now here
Big yields coming from south of here, decent in this area where not hailed and as you go north yields are well below average

[blueversi]

Dry years just seem to be so much better than the wet, here at least. It was looking bleak but caught one last timely rain that helped finish the crop. Without that I think this crop wouldn’t have filled out like it did. First wheat and oat yields are best I’ve ever had. 35% complete, fog then 6/10 rain couple nights ago now fog again so catch up on drying and moving wheat and hope there’s another window.