Friday Crop Report — Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026
Second week of September. East-central Saskatchewan.
Rain, rain, and more rain. Four to six inches so far this month. It’s building soil moisture for 2027, which we will need. Right now Mother Nature can sit this harvest out.
Combines have been parked since Sunday. Harvest has inched ahead to about 16–18% provincially. Most of what came off was lentils, some durum, and the odd canola. Five-year average at this point is closer to 39%. We are a long way behind.
Wheat will take a downgrade from this. Elevators are already licking their chops. They can knock that $9-plus wheat back to $8 and still sell it over $10 at the coast.
Durum does not like rain. A lot of it is tangled and going flat.
Lentils and the odd peas still out there are flat in the mud. Headers do not work great in that.
Flax is sprayed or drying down.
Canary seed is a tangled mess.
Chickpeas are shutting down. Thin stand, but they did pod.
Barley still standing is a tangled mess and downgrading fast. Swathed barley is just screwed. If you already have nice barley in the bin, tell the malt guys to pound sand.
A lot of canola is getting swathed this year to beat frost. Standing canola might go tomorrow. Swathing in this rain might wait until Monday. On our farm it is an average crop — probably 6 to 8 bushels lighter than we hoped.
StatsCan keeps talking about last year’s very large canola and wheat crops. Every farmer I know emptied the bins at $9 canola and $19-plus wheat. The bins were not full of mystery grain.
We can still dry. Capacity is about 21,000 bushels before we have to sit if it is not ready.
Have a good day. Share what your area looks like.
Oh Fargo Big Iron Shownext week if we get a inch Monday I'm heading south. Also realistically the count down clock is starting to tick downward to end if October. 52 days till November.
Second week of September. East-central Saskatchewan.
Rain, rain, and more rain. Four to six inches so far this month. It’s building soil moisture for 2027, which we will need. Right now Mother Nature can sit this harvest out.
Combines have been parked since Sunday. Harvest has inched ahead to about 16–18% provincially. Most of what came off was lentils, some durum, and the odd canola. Five-year average at this point is closer to 39%. We are a long way behind.
Wheat will take a downgrade from this. Elevators are already licking their chops. They can knock that $9-plus wheat back to $8 and still sell it over $10 at the coast.
Durum does not like rain. A lot of it is tangled and going flat.
Lentils and the odd peas still out there are flat in the mud. Headers do not work great in that.
Flax is sprayed or drying down.
Canary seed is a tangled mess.
Chickpeas are shutting down. Thin stand, but they did pod.
Barley still standing is a tangled mess and downgrading fast. Swathed barley is just screwed. If you already have nice barley in the bin, tell the malt guys to pound sand.
A lot of canola is getting swathed this year to beat frost. Standing canola might go tomorrow. Swathing in this rain might wait until Monday. On our farm it is an average crop — probably 6 to 8 bushels lighter than we hoped.
StatsCan keeps talking about last year’s very large canola and wheat crops. Every farmer I know emptied the bins at $9 canola and $19-plus wheat. The bins were not full of mystery grain.
We can still dry. Capacity is about 21,000 bushels before we have to sit if it is not ready.
Have a good day. Share what your area looks like.
Oh Fargo Big Iron Shownext week if we get a inch Monday I'm heading south. Also realistically the count down clock is starting to tick downward to end if October. 52 days till November.
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