Friday Crop Report Thanks Giving week.

[LEP]

Going hard two heavy harrows the mandako and kelly before Sunday as that could be it

I would leave the tow strap at home so no one gets tempted to go where they shouldn't.

[makar]

I would leave the tow strap at home so no one gets tempted to go where they shouldn't.

Anyone getting stuck harrowing in a fall like this needs a new place of enployment.

[Old Cowzilla]

I'm just probably going to regret not pausing the last few pivots of canola and getting calves weaned and sold before Carney trades away the beef sector too based on what the us trade secretary said about moving all vehicle assembly to the US. The Liberals are running out of Western commodities to screw over for eastern jobs that are going away anyhow.

Seeing some really nice shinny steel showing up in cattle yards these days. I hope they paid cash.

[shtferbrains]

Next they will be outbiding the BTO on the farmland and putting up fence?

[shtferbrains]

Kind of inconvenient.

Bit early for a week of shit weather.

[fcr]

Yes from now till May is going to make for a long winter.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Having second thoughts about not taking the 20% canola a few days ago.
But at least all the moose in the picture appreciate it.

[blackpowder]

Darn, you are on the edge of the cash grain region there A5. Good luck.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Literally. Or slightly beyond. I consider the Clearwater river to be the boundary. We farm some quarters within a half mile of it. Not much crop land on the other side, and the farmland peters out only a few miles past it.

I'm just pleased the canola didn't become a frozen mess back in August or September.
Seeding was going far ahead of schedule, then we had 10 days of rain delay just as we started canola. Followed by blow torch hot and dry, which affected germination in a big way, then high flea beetle pressure that really set things back, Bad hail on one quarter in June. Then when it finally started raining again eventually, conditions were ideal for growing biomass, so the canola grew 6+ feet high and kept flowering till the end of August. Without the two months of hot and dry weather since early August, and no frost until October, this could have been a much different outcome.

Next year I will go back to seeding some canola first, then wheat, then back to finish canola. Last year that strategy resulted in a 25 bushel penalty on the early canola, plus the early canola froze before the later was out of the ground. I'm always fighting last years battle a year late.

I used to say that we have harvested canola with snow on the ground more years than not. Except the past 5 years have had long open falls with no snow until after harvest, so I can no longer make that claim to fame.

Edit, I'm almost certain that the past 5 years will prove to be the exception, and not the rule. Between drought, and heat and no out of season snow, it certainly has been enjoyable. To take a page from forages book, I don't think I'll bet the farm on this happening every year, or even ever again.

[blackpowder]

Confess to looking the Clearwater up on a map. First one I thought of runs into Ft. Mac lol.
One ex used to camp at Ya Ha, another hailed from McMurray.
Yup, you're out there. West of the 5th as they say.