Frost warning....

[mcfarms]

Leduc - Camrose - Wetaskiwin - Tofield
3:16 PM MDT Friday 14 August 2009
Frost warning for
Leduc - Camrose - Wetaskiwin - Tofield issued

Patchy frost expected tonight.



An unusually cool airmass combined with clearing skies will produce frost in areas through Central Alberta tonight.

[SASKFARMER3]

Dam its coming.

[Burbert]

Frost on the 14th of August, yeah right! Let's terrify already terrified farmers, maybe Angribusiness kin squeeze some more bucks outta guys using some kinda new technology. I say f it, if it freezes in August, we all might as well ferget it an line up at crop insurance or at the welfare offices fer help. Maybe ag stability, or agrisilly or agrivilliny will come to our rescue. Bailouts after all are a good ting for the economy, aren't they after all they are sexy!!!An Harpies boys like sexy, fer example the Ritz cracker leadin us all is sooooo coool.

[grassfarmer]

Skies are certainly clearing as predicted here - we were only at 8C at 11am this morning so it's not a stretch to imagine frost. A swath of land south of me got badly hailed out on Tuesday night. Pretty much a wipeout on anything it hit. Frost would be the final straw.
We had 1/4 inch sheet of ice on the deck on the 1st July so if that was the last of the spring frosts and tonight is the first of the fall frosts that gives us about 45 frost free days. Glad I only grow grass.

[furrowtickler]

There has been frost here every month already in many areas , 4th of Aug already for some, so no suprise to me at all. Overnight lows for the next five hights have dropped in half from this mornings long range. Jack frosr is pissed at mother nature this year!!

[grassfarmer]

Guess we sc****d through - it was 1C at 7am with enough water on everything - no sign of frost.

[LWeber]

Where are you grassfarmer?

There was 30F registered last night north of Edmonton.

[grassfarmer]

West of Rimbey

[checking]

I'd never wish a hailstorm on my neighbour, no matter how much I might dislike him. The reason being that if it were to hit him there would be a significant chance that I would suffer the same fate. Like the hailstorm, what happens is going to happen with frost, so if you are terrified, then you've concentrated energy on an area that your mind should not have gone in the first place. I acknowledge that farmers likely need a major countrywide agricultural disaster somewhere in the world in order to profit. Maybe this is our turn coming to make that contribution.

[bucket]

The difference about making our contribution to the cause (ie. western canadians take the production failure) is that our grain prices won't change thanks to the cwb.

They have already presold what they feel comfortable selling and now they are waiting to see how this crop pans out. For instance durum won't change even after a frost because they know how much they held back for their preferred customers.

Non board crop prices are not moving up because the buyers know farmers have to sell something to pay bills. And the cwb prices are in the tank.