WEATHER

[agstar77]

August 1st predicted to be High of 12 and a low of 8.Yeah, real good growing conditions. This could get really ugly.

[bucket]

Weather is one thing all farmers have in common. This year especially. Doesn't matter if your crop was in early or late - its all behind and not gaining with the weather we are having.

If we were just auto workers there would be no problem explaining this pending disaster to the pee ons in Ottawa. Because this is going to sink alot of farmers through absolutely no fault of their own.

[SASKFARMER3]

Its 2002 and 2004 all over again. Huge potential lost on GD Frost. Its like a slow motion car crash, you can see the out come. Yea Ottawa would be all over this if it was GM workers. But its just us dumb farmers who feed people.

[boarderbloke]

SF3, you nailed it, "It's like watching a slow motion car crash." There have been farmers in this area SESK in denial about the lateness, but now it's starting to sink in as there are plenty of cereal fields not fully headed yet! and it's the last week of July.
We're very very dry right now, rains have been spotty and we're trying to grow a crop on snow melt and 4" of rain since April 1st, but now you can see in the fields, plants shutting down, where there are areas of poor soil or knoll tops, the general height of the crop is starting to get quite variable. Early flowering canola shut down (after blooming only two weeks) after it got a 1" rain on it, even when it was cool, the later canola won't fair better, BUT IT"S BECOMING A QUESTION OF, do you want rain only to further delay the crop, or do you just want to take what's out there and be done for this year, for the most part, before the frost? Frozen grain in the bin is worth Jack sh*t, especially when there are millions of other acres as well.
Just give us one last rain, and turn up the heat, full tilt!

[silverback]

I have a lot of respect for almost everyone on this site, but some of us out here are still trying hard to see 2 inches of rain since April, with the biggest rain being 2/10 ths at one time.

Lateness is now the last of our worries.

Having enough crop to pay the inputs is.

Just my 2 cents today.

[boarderbloke]

what area silver? have you been missing showers or have there just not been any in your area at all?

[jrkfarms]

We are in the same boat as Silver just east of Three Hills AB, less than 2 in of rain since April crops are finished here, already some going down for greenfeed this week. Fall rye yielded 1 bushel per acre on the best of the field that wasnt cut and baled. Canola didnt even bloom for two weeks peas are somewhat filling in the pods but shrinking in on themselves going to be fun to harvest