Friday Crop Report on a Thursday third week of July.

[SASKFARMER]

Down pour last night in Edmonton. Man it’s wet.

rained south of valley last night and then started up
east of us.

[Hamloc]

I was close... Only wrong on both counts.

801 is by far the earliest Liberty I've ever tried. Even the earliest liberties over the years have been longer than the longest season RR's we've ever tried. It's already slowing down on flowering.

Can you explain the theory behind using pgr's on canola? I wasn't aware of that. Is it to prolong the flowering period?

We did manipulator on about half the wheat acres this year. It's now so tall I was convinced it hadn't done any good. Until I checked my test strips and there's six or eight inches of difference. Thinking I should have done the split application. Is anyone else doing two applications?

Used Modus on some Esma barley this year. First time I've tried modus. So far I'm not seeing any difference from a distance. With all of the rain in june, I was a couple of days past the ideal timing, but well within the label window.

On my fourth year of growing Esma barley. I have to be honest I have never thought of using a growth regulator on it. Generally never gets taller than 36 inches and while it has lodged when a really good crop nothing like Austenson or Durango. Will be interesting to hear how this works for you. I have always been afraid of Esma being to short when it is dry not of it getting to tall when it is wet. Great barley variety but certainly susceptible to smut and to leaf disease. Seed treatment and fungicide both a must with this variety.

[furrowtickler]

Very cool and cloudy conditions in June manipulated our wheat crop . Vegetative growth was stunted all on its own with very low GDD and the flashing from Simplicity that lasted nearly 10 days

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Thjis is our 3rd year growing Esma.
First year in the 2024 drought, it was flat essentially corner to corner. Which resulted in yet another high yield audit from crop insurance.

Last year it forgot to rain again after late July, so it wasn't ALL flat. Even though the yield was much higher.

This year, One quarter of Esma has had heavy manure applications in the past, so I thought it would be a good test.

[Agriflow]

Friday Crop Report – Third Week of July


Most guys have parked the sprayer and are waiting for the next problem to show up. Rain has quit in some areas and the heat is back in full force.

Ag in Motion wraps up today. It was good to run into quite a few followers and friends out there.

Here’s the report from our area:

Hay

Baling is well under way. Most places are probably up about 10% over the last few years. We weren’t dry, so it’s a real boost.

Pastures

Pastures are starting to show some signs of needing moisture, but there’s still lots of grass.

Hard Red Spring & Durum

Fungicide spraying is all but finished. Some wild oats got missed or came later in a few fields. A bit of spray stunt is showing up too. Most is in the filling stage.

Canola

All over the map — from cabbage stage to full flower to finished. One or two fields out there are fully podded, but they were probably just volunteer that never got seeded properly. Cabbage weevil is gone… or was it ever really an issue? Canola hates these 28+ degree days and yield is being taken. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

Lentils

Ugly, nice, and awesome — sometimes all within a three-mile stretch. Second spraying is going on, or guys are just waiting, or they’ve quit.

Peas

Looking great and tall everywhere, from finishing up to just getting started. Same story as lentils — ugly, nice, and awesome in the same three miles.

Flax

Doing okay, but there is way less of it this year.

Canaryseed

All over the map from nice to just okay. Not that many fields around.

Barley

Barley, barley, barley. It’s showing signs of heat stress pretty fast and ranges from great to just okay.

This is the week of high water use, and heat like we’re getting takes grain.

Have a great week and share what’s happening in your area. Those mud ruts are rock-hard now.

The variability you’re describing across such short distances is fascinating. It really highlights how difficult it can be to make decisions based on broad regional data when conditions can be completely different from one field to the next.

This is actually one of the problems we’re trying to address with Agriflow ([url]www.agriflow.io[/url]) using data and AI to help farmers get a more localized and timely view of what's happening across their operation. Great report!

[Agriflow]

Thjis is our 3rd year growing Esma.
First year in the 2024 drought, it was flat essentially corner to corner. Which resulted in yet another high yield audit from crop insurance.

Last year it forgot to rain again after late July, so it wasn't ALL flat. Even though the yield was much higher.

This year, One quarter of Esma has had heavy manure applications in the past, so I thought it would be a good test.

That’s a really interesting field-scale test. Three very different growing seasons, combined with the history of manure applications, should make for some valuable data.

This is actually the kind of thing we’re exploring with Agriflow ( [url]www.agriflow.io[/url]) connecting historical field, input, weather, and yield data so farmers can better understand what is actually driving performance over time. Would be really interesting to see the results from the manured vs. non-manured areas this year.

[SmallTimeOperator]

Sean Haney on Real Agriculture said everyone was bragging about their wheat crops at Ag In Motion. So cat is out of the bag. Doesn’t matter that some areas have issues. Expect wheat prices to crash from now til March. Peak was Wednesday in my Bunge texts at $8.75. Down 50 cents by Friday. Basis will widen to cancel any gains in Futures.

Guys we need to shut up when it comes to crop yields. It is not a dick measuring contest. The trade takes that info and F$cks us.

[SmallTimeOperator]

Meanwhile in canola, last blooms will make nothing. Field of Liberty beside me is done in 15 days of bloom. Wilted leaves every day. No rain here since July 2nd after a kind wet end of June. Taps have shut off hard here. Been 30 plus temps almost every day, and if not, 27 plus. Secondary blooms from leaf axils and branch connections started to bloom but have all aborted, so no bonus yield. Top 3 to 5 pods on what has made pods will be nothing if it doesn’t rain in the next hour, which it won’t. Seeds will be getting smaller throughout the plants if it doesn’t rain soon. There is moisture down deep but it’s just too hot, no rain and the plants have made up their mind to shut down the bloom.

[furrowtickler]

That’s hard to watch STO, been there way too many times

We have very rapid regrowth on the hailed canola from July 10th . You can see now where we left check strips in our fungicide / foliar mix on the canola after the hail .
Used 1 lt/ac Alpine F18 , 1 ltr /ac Alpine G22 and 250 mls/ac Crop Aid Plus with the fungicide.
Recovery was much faster and robust than anything not sprayed . Hopefully we gain enough maturity combined with these higher GDD’s that it has a chance to make it to harvest .
Still at mother nature’s whims till then

[ry0972]

Meanwhile in canola, last blooms will make nothing. Field of Liberty beside me is done in 15 days of bloom. Wilted leaves every day. No rain here since July 2nd after a kind wet end of June. Taps have shut off hard here. Been 30 plus temps almost every day, and if not, 27 plus. Secondary blooms from leaf axils and branch connections started to bloom but have all aborted, so no bonus yield. Top 3 to 5 pods on what has made pods will be nothing if it doesn’t rain in the next hour, which it won’t. Seeds will be getting smaller throughout the plants if it doesn’t rain soon. There is moisture down deep but it’s just too hot, no rain and the plants have made up their mind to shut down the bloom.

We have the same situation/conditions here. Crops seeded before the 3" rain/snow mid May are doing OK. Mid May to end of may are taking a beating and deteriorating fast.
Some June seeded canola looks to have flowered LESS than a week and is done.
Wheat heads you can see the tops are burning off and drying up, it had some very nice large heads but doubt any of the higher ground fills near potential and low ground is flooded out.
Lentils and peas that aren't full of disease may do ok???