Friday Crop Report on a Thursday week one July.

[SASKFARMER]

Friday Crop Report – First Week of July

Rains continue across the region, though the volume has eased somewhat. If you’re in the path of a supercell, button down the hatches — they still deliver an absolute deluge.

The heat has been very welcome. You can almost hear the crops growing.

Market Note

Canola prices are rising as bins sit empty. The talk of a massive crop earlier in the season looks like it was mostly just that — talk. In a year with this much flooding, those big acreage numbers never really added up.

Crop Progress

• Wheat & Durum: Most fields are at flag leaf or just beginning to head. Fungicide applications in our area will start next week.

• Canola: Stages range from cabbage to full flower. We started fungicides on our fields yesterday. Cabbage weevil is present but still just under threshold; some of the earlier fields received insecticide. The crop was still quite wet at 3 pm.

• Peas & Lentils: Fungicides are underway or already completed on most acres. We’re seeing a tale of two crops — some fields look sick while others are excellent. A standout section at Indian Head looks like a loaf of bread with sprayer tracks between the passes. Excess moisture is trimming yield potential on both peas and lentils.

• Flax: Just starting to flower or elongate.

• Barley: There is more barley around than I’ve ever seen in this area, even on farms that don’t normally grow it. So far it looks good; fungicides will go on next week.

• Chickpeas: Not great.

More heat is on the way, but so are daily thunderstorm chances.

Have a great week everyone.

How are things looking in your area?

[SASKFARMER]

Out of all our pea fields 1/4 are shit 3/4 great, but those never had peas for 8 plus years or ever.

canola fields seeded later are struggling more than early seeded this year.

[blackpowder]

Peas.
10-15% underwater.
20% yellow
The rest green for now if you can get to them.
Likely a claim here on peas and canola.
Land type and topography a big one.
We'll attempt to fung some peas for quality and seed.
Wheat for sure.
But geezus the checkbook needs to close here asap.

[goalieguy847]

Big areas around edmonton are about done.
Personally on our farm we will be discing down about 80% of our peas...30% of our canola...and only have 80 ac of barley in that is yellow like a banana.
winter wheat and fall rye booked with plans to be seeding about 1/3rd of acres into fall seeded crops.

Fungiciding has started but its.... kind of silly to be honest. Ive seen a spray plane bombing around doing wheat fields that probably wont yield 30. Ill assume these are crews that dont carry crop insurance.
decision making is easy at this point.
2nd pass canola herbicides didnt happpen...many walked away from spraying at all.

Crop insurance has started yield assessing large acres of barley.

edmonton and area is looking at 50% yield of avg.

Wheat is the only crop thats hanging on...but crops will be stunted due to nutrient deficiency.
This whole area really needed the water thoughh...just came too quickly.

( thats what she said)

[AlbertaFarmer5]

After nine and a half inches of rain and over a month of completely saturated soil and cold, the situation has flipped here.
After the dry start to the year, the canola was looking good and the wheat was pitiful. Now the wheat has finally filled in and caught up. Areas of yellow and drowned out, but not terribly significant.
Now the canola is shades of purple and yellow and spindly even on decently drained ground.
Inexplicably,.
Lots of very thin and uneven canola from the extreme dry earlier. Gophers eating big holes in one quarter.
So of course, this is the year that we increased our canola acreage and decreased our wheat acreage.
The barley ever looked back. Seated late May shortly before he finally started raining.
Hardly any peas in the area this year. For all the talk about fertilizer prices I thought we'd see a lot more.
Huge swabs of hail to central Alberta recently. Some completely written off.

Pastures recovered like they haven't grown for years.

Some hay recovered from the extreme dry to look like very good crops, some never did amount to much. Can't grow hay without moisture in May around here.

[SASKFARMER]

Weed pressure and some fields really bad and I have a few fields that rain fast 1 hr sucked. It's wet this morning; hopefully going later today on Canola. Looks like it's go time next week on everything.

No sunshine thiamprming and zero wind.

Peas done spraying onto early Canola and wheat spraying.