Friday Crop Report on a Thursday, heading into the end of September.

[TASFarms]

What about cdn durum going into USA? I think if we start pointing fingers at grain imports from USA we would start to limit flax, oats, canola oil, durum, chickpea shipments from Canada. Slippery slope.

Fingers have already been pointed. I’m sure if the US could grow good oats they would but it’s difficult for them to do it. Same with durum some states are getting into growing canola they just don’t have enough.
arent all Canadian commodities dumped in China at lower prices than in China? Isn’t that the reason China always has tariffs on Canadian imports at some level?

[AlbertaFarmer5]

After raining nearly every day from mid June to Mid July, we have had the opposite extreme ever since. If the forecast rain happens this week, we will have gone 49 days without any measurable precipitation.

Which seemed like an unusually long time without rain in my short memory.

So I looked up the data for this area. In 118 years of data, only 4 times have we had longer periods with no rain ( <1 mm per day was my criteria) and only slightly longer, and 2 of those periods had some measurable precipitation. And they were all during the winter. 2 were long ago and all zeroes looks suspicious, might be just incomplete data.
So in summer/fall, this is unprecedented.
Has been the smoothest harvest in memory. I rely on rain days to catch up on repairs. But no, not this year, just harvest every day, all day, early starts, late finishes, with very little dew.
Cracks in the ground big enough to lose a small child.
Amazing how well crops/hay/pasture held on, but kernel fill has definitely taken a substantial hit, even on the best soil.

Definitely a good time of year to have a drought.

[SmallTimeOperator]

Any thoughts on US corn getting dumped in feed lot alley and driving barley prices down to lower than cost of production?
railways have a 21% fuel surcharge. How does that help the bottom line. Rail is way more efficient than trucks at moving weight.

Ya I quit growing barley. Used to be a $1/bu premium selling barley into Alberta compared to local elevators. Not anymore. That corn started coming up by train after feed barley hit $11 in 2021. Now some of the elevators in those towns along feedlot alley are set up to unload railcars and even fraction the corn. Even feeders in Sask are bringing in corn since ‘21. This has changed domestic feed barley demand forever going forward.

[wmoebis]

See a lot of corn over the last few years in our area being put up as silage then dried with gas all year long, only to be stuffed in containers and shipped overseas.

Why don't farmers here grow corn to feed here?

[furrowtickler]

Should get most fall disking done in next few days
heading to help neighbours get done harvest this afternoon as one of the fellas has to get back to other job Monday

[furrowtickler]

See a lot of corn over the last few years in our area being put up as silage then dried with gas all year long, only to be stuffed in containers and shipped overseas.

Why don't farmers here grow corn to feed here?

Well in this area in NW Sask all the corn acres are for cow feed
some silage some graze , some do a bit of both

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Easy on that one, there's a long time poster on Agrivile who has bragged about having both oil and the cash advance in his farm tool box as revenue.

Forage, you are about as subtle as Chuck at hiding your resentment and jealousy of farmers and successful business people.

You seem quite worried about oil revenues. This is a big oil and gas area, I get to farm around 9 separate leases. One of which is on rented land so I don't get anything for it. Most of our land has no facilities.
The revenue from those remaining eight leases adds up to a grand total of 1.1% of my total gross revenue. And very grateful to get that considering how many farmers are not getting paid at all in recent years.

In exchange for that I get to farm around miles of lease roads and leases. Endless weed control issues. Chemical drift from the sites when they do attempt weed control. Water running off of acres of gravel sites and flooding out cropland. Various riff Raff using lease roads for nefarious purposes. The inability or complication of doing any subsurface work with pipelines everywhere which do not pay.

[Hamloc]

Forage, you are about as subtle as Chuck at hiding your resentment and jealousy of farmers and successful business people.

You seem quite worried about oil revenues. This is a big oil and gas area, I get to farm around 9 separate leases. One of which is on rented land so I don't get anything for it. Most of our land has no facilities.
The revenue from those remaining eight leases adds up to a grand total of 1.1% of my total gross revenue. And very grateful to get that considering how many farmers are not getting paid at all in recent years.

In exchange for that I get to farm around miles of lease roads and leases. Endless weed control issues. Chemical drift from the sites when they do attempt weed control. Water running off of acres of gravel sites and flooding out cropland. Various riff Raff using lease roads for nefarious purposes. The inability or complication of doing any subsurface work with pipelines everywhere which do not pay.

Yes I have rented one half section for 20 years with 7 different oil leases and a creek through the middle. Easy to haul grain from but certainly an adventure to farm. I have another field on which they have removed all the infrastructure from the lease but have not officially reclaimed it. I have cleaned the gravel off it, levelled it and farmed through it this year for the first time. I still get the yearly lease payment, so some good, some bad.

[dave4441]

We have about 30 gas well sites being cleaned up this fall. Have not received annual lease payments for 5 years and cant wait for these to be cleaned up and gone. Good riddance.

[foragefarmer]

Good one him / her, just don’t tell others they don’t need a direct payment from a government that is responsible for meddling in our markets through tariffs and bad policy resulting in lost exports and a reduction in farm gate prices
Again every other industry got bail out for tariff nonsense, I don’t get the problem with Ag ?

The "him" in this case will take the government direct payment and then post on Agriville he was persuaded by others to do so, or his neighbors are taking it, and therefore isn't responsible for excepting the direct government payment.