5.5 inches of rain in Assiniboia overnight

[LWeber]

Frost north of Edmonton

“You can have money piled to the ceiling but the size of your funeral is still going to depend on the weather.”

Chuck Tanner - baseball player

[cottonpicken]

Those poor bastards
Makes you wonder about lentil quality now

[skip]

Heavy downpour in the Weyburn SK area last night - will have to check the raingauge.

[SASKFARMER3]

remember I complained about no rain may, June, July, well august the tap is opened up. Oh well will help next years crop.

[lakenheath]

Actually some farmers east of Assiniboia received 7 inches of rain last night.

[dave4441]

Laird Lentils are pretty green in assiniboia and probaly will not stain at this point. Will cause some harvest issues likely. Reds of course are more ripe but should not affect quality, but will be problematic for harvest.

[bucket]

You are talking lentils or rice? It can't be good for lentils to have that much rain - its gotta put them down.

Its starting to look like the harvest from hell.

Middle of august and I haven't combined a pea.

[mustardman]

dave441 - that is a huge understatement- 'will cause some harvest issues likely" - by the time its dry enough to combine they will all be shelled out.

[furrowtickler]

And sprouted, been there before.

[dave4441]

What I am saying is that they are green enough that will not cause splitty product. I agree it will cause some problems, but we have seen late matureing lentils get rain and if they are green enough (and they are in Assiniboia) they will make it thru on a quality basis. Seeds have not started to mature.