Harvest May Be Done in SK

[charliep]

Woke up this morning to 2 inches of snow in Saskatoon. Dunno what else can go wrong this year; what is the weather like in AB?

[TOM4CWB]

Larry,

In central Alberta we are still real wet, need a couple of warm sunny days to restart the harvest, even to put the grain through the dryer at high moisture.

2 inches is not necessarily the end, but if there is 6 inches... the writing is pretty well on the wall...

Although SK is historically cooler at this time of year, but we have had a couple of nice weeks in November before, many times...

Will we get this in 2002?

I tell you, I am really praying for global warming big time now...

Cause even with a warm July, this 2002 is one of the coldest years on record so far!

[TOM4CWB]

Thanks for the info, Tom.

[jensend]

4" of snow at Cupar. Most people have something left to combine; canary seed or flax mostly.

[rodbradshaw]

Harvest in Central Alberta has come to a halt as we have turned white again. We need it to either get very cold so we can blow the snow through the combine or five days of 8 or better to dry up the standing grain let alone the swathed stuff. Neighbours tried some canola the other night, it was the consistancy of caviar in the hopper. This has sure been a TRYING YEAR.

[rodbradshaw]

Maybe we can trick the Russians into buying the caviar and get some of the money they owe us from the 1980's back!

[charliep]

More snow around Edmonton and indications this is just the start. All we can do is hope for a chinook and go like crazy when things dry up a little. Driers and elevators with drying capacity will be in demand.

[rodbradshaw]

Larryweber
Does the CWB want that money paid back as then they wouldn't be able to churn as much money to provide interest to pay for the operating costs of the Board causing returns to drop and more questions of what they actually do for us?

It is 8 am and it is snowing heavily and the ground has about an inch of snow and it is suppose to snow most of the day with temperatures dropping to -14, we are going to need one good chinook to just get rid of the snow and it will have to blow for days to dry up the swaths so we can bale straw. Hopefully this isn't like 96 when the snow came now and never left.

[TOM4CWB]

Larry;

Locally just east of Edmonton, we got 6" of Snow yesterday on parts of our farm.... this is real good for the winter wheat, but not so good for the Canola...

-20C it sure does look, feel, smell, and even taste like winter this morning...

Alberta Crop Insurance must be sweating bullets!

[TOM4CWB]

Sask Crop report last night states we are 65% combined; with abandonment it equates to 81%. Crushers will be sweating bullets too but we still need a hiccup in the South Americna bean crop

[wedino]

rodbradshaw, "Larryweber
Does the CWB want that money paid back as then they wouldn't be able to churn as much money to provide interest to pay for the operating costs of the Board causing returns to drop and more questions of what they actually do for us?"

From a taxpayer’s perspective , I can’t help but think that the interest churning the cwb does is a fraud. If the taxpayer has to pay this interest the cwb should only charge the Gov’t(you & me) at cost.

Snow on the ground here, too. Harvest mostly completed in this area, some dabs of flax & canary left.