It is dry in Alberta

[chas]

Charliep: Cattle buyers buying most of the expensive ones, do not know where they were going but buyers said it was going to rain for sure somewhere but didn't give a time limit or how much. We got anywhere between a 1/10 to half an inch in the Camrose area last night. I got 3/10 and the humidity has gone from 20 percent to 90 per cent today, maybe it will rain some more now. Chas

[cowman]

We got about 1/2 inch of rain on the twenty fourth but it has been hot and windy since. If you have any hay you can pretty well name your price! The hay crop is going to be real ugly whether it rains now or not. I think most cattle men better be thinking about feeding a lot more barley and straw this winter(providing there is any to be had!). And I would suspect the price will be pretty steep! The cattle market just keeps rolling along but I can see a real wreck coming if it doesn't start raining real soon. A lot of grain is up in my area but it is sort of patchy, especially the later stuff. Haven't seen any canola up yet.

[melvill]

Was out looking at the crop at our farm yesterday. We're trying to figure out whether we should spray or not. There was only two things growing in the fields - wheat and patches of wild oats. Not any other weed of any kind growing anywhere.

We've been thinking that maybe we should spot spray for wild oats (the patches really stand out) and then spray the whole field for broadleaves if we get a shower later. Anybody got any really brilliant ideas about what to do?

Lee

[chas]

Sprayed some wild oats out of the pea crop where the avadex didn't work because of being to dry. and would like to spray wildoats out of round up canola but wind won't go down below 50 kmph. No other weeds coming yet. Chas

[JD_GREEN]

Its very dry here too. I'm just south of Swift Current. However the pulse crops are looking great right now. They just seem to hang in there. I, like you chas am spraying wild oats in peas and wondering whether or not I should continue. We,ve had only 3/10's of an inch of rain here since April 1

[TOM4CWB]

Well the last two days have been really bad.

I watched my neighbours buildings burn to the ground this afternoon, not a thing anyone could do about it. Started in the green house and then took everything out. They escaped with their lives.

The fire jumped across HWY 16 and 300 meters away it destroyed all the neighbours hay. They were able to stop his buildings from burning though.

We have had less than a tenth of an inch in May in Sherwood Park, with the dryest 7 past months on record.

[JD_GREEN]

Wow what rain will do to lift your spirits. Finally we received a nice shower. The entire Southwest portion of Sask. received 0.75 to 1.25 inches this morning. With my own farm getting close to 1". IT was a nice soaker. I hope this is the start of more to come for everyone!!

[TOM4CWB]

Finally northwestern Alberta has rain.

Over an inch just east of Edmonton.

Reports of up to 2 inches in the Peace.

This hasn't gone very far south though.

[sewen]

Here in Northeast Alberta it's been difficult to squeeze more than a 1/10 of an inch out of the clouds. Enviroment Canada says there is rain on the way, lets hope so. I have found you can get accumulation totals on farmzone.com.

[cowman]

Still awfully dry here at Red Deer Alta.
The barley and wheat are just surviving and the grass isn't growing. The last four days the SE wind has been blowing and it is fairly cold. I am thoroughly sick of feeding cows! Hay is very expensive...150/ton for round bales. Very few weeds growing so far and nobody doing any spraying.