Well, it's almost election time you can smell it in the wind. What a wind yesterday as we had to quit swathing because it was trying to flip barley swaths going North and south on the outside round. Yes, it's thin as shit but lots of green in the sample.
Real easy report this week.
The rain we got a 1/4 inch but 10 miles west of us up to 2 in. South up to an inch But at least it was something to build for 2022. This year has been a challenge because you need 4 to 6 inches depending on soil moisture to grow a crop miss one step and your ****ed or are you. 30 plus for weeks on end and warm nights this year I believe did more damage to the 2021 crop than lack of rain. In our area, the soil probes still show a 60 wheat and 40 canola is achievable yet the crop is less than half of the last few years. Pull plants or dig with the backhoe and it's wet below. Plants didn't recover at night and the heat was too hot for too many days in a row to bring moisture up out of the ground to survive so they shut down or quit and made seed. So I'm going on a limb and saying lots will be happy with what they got but there are no 70 canola and 100 wheat any place in Western Canada. None.
Here we go.
HRS, lots have begun to shut down the HRS as yes in our area we still have foxtail thistle and whatever other weed trying to grow in the crop below. So well kill something even if the crop is brown. Few have swathed but most don't in our area so shutting wheat is the priority. The early wheat seeded in April is finished and harvested and in the bin. Don't know the yield but it is off and done. Lots of April seeded towards Regina will be harvested soon also. We have sprayed the first wheat seeded on May 1 and are doing it at sections at a time. 4 today and then 4 two days later and so on. Wheat will not be 90 or 80 or 70 or 60 but some might make 50 and it's down from there. I'm guessing in the 40 range or less than half of last year.
Durum is starting to dry down and will be swath very soon.
Barley some has been harvested with disappointing yields but its off. Ours is swath and will go Sunday and Monday. It makes a swath but nothing to write home about for yield. Yield will be in the same range 30% to 40% of our normal. Heat cooked it.
Peas and lentils are coming off all over the place lentils are a little better and peas are like all else if your use to 50 you have 25 or less. Across the valley, it's a hard 50 BPA and looks great but 10 in of rain does that. Small pocket.
Oats took it on the chin like the barley and shrunk as the head and no moisture continued. Yield will be down and will be light.
Canola wow I can't figure out this crop this year its hilarious we have three guys I know with old flexicoil 5000 air drills with new tanks. They all three have some of the best canola around. One quarter in a section has three surrounding seeded with best Bourg and the fourth is flexicoil and you can see the distance in the air or on the ground. Another east side vs the new Vader same thing and north same besides the new deere drill. Snowbank sat thick no snow nothing in the field. Tall stubble vs cut at ground and chem fallow vs direct seeding win. Organic work three times nothing at all.
A problem is happening with canola in extremely dry areas the pod's arent splitting but is falling off due to being that dry. So another shit show for a shit show year. Furrow has more info.
Canola yield will be down because of one thing a month of 28 above and no relief at night or rain once a week to keep it alive. So no 70 plus and 60 and yes a few 50 but most will be 25 and down. How big an area look at the soil map and if you're read it's not great.
For us were over half less than the last few years. Wont need any bags this year. I'm sticking with the 12.7 MT crop you cant make lemonade out of shit. Oh Sask Canola **** you on the 16.9 mt get out of the ****ing office.
Pastures are basically ****ed and cowboys are scrambling. Late seeded green feed suck the big one and no one is getting a second cut and if they could they arent because it is so dry they need to catch the snow for next year.
The straw will be dropped for a few cattle guys to help out by us. You do what you have to do.
Contracts and getting out are a shit show. Yes, we signed them and were responsible but some of the make-believe fees are a ****ing joke. Next time the elevator has a contract for January delivery and it's delivered in March I'm going to send them a bill for $100,000.00 for nondelivery penalty. We need contracts that work both ways or no one will contract ever again. Were done off the combine delivery for convenience and I really only do a very small amount.
To all the idiots who are salesman for either fertilizer or equipment or chemical or seed or anyone who makes their money off farmers. If you think you're going to get big bonuses and be living the good life thanks to the huge money farmers are getting paid for grain this year you're ****ing more stupid than Trudeau. Farmers in all of western Canada and the northern states will be licking their wounds for the next two years some will be gone. Spending will not be stupid. Yes, a few who got the rains will spend but the rest will not at all.
Finally, the three western provinces did something for the cattle guys but it's not enough to stop the sale of animals and that's a shame. Grain guys, we need the livestock because if it ****ing freezes next week even the good areas will have feed for sale that needs a home.
You need both to be successful.
The sad part is Trudeau and BOBOO gave more to foreign countries and projects that were never even completed or done and CERB to Highschool students than western Canada is going to get for a drought that's in the caliber of 1961 1988 and 1930s.
Remember the Gov has a stress line because for some who are new to this game that's really all we have and each other.
Keep safe and let's get what's out there in the bin and move on to 2022.
Real easy report this week.
The rain we got a 1/4 inch but 10 miles west of us up to 2 in. South up to an inch But at least it was something to build for 2022. This year has been a challenge because you need 4 to 6 inches depending on soil moisture to grow a crop miss one step and your ****ed or are you. 30 plus for weeks on end and warm nights this year I believe did more damage to the 2021 crop than lack of rain. In our area, the soil probes still show a 60 wheat and 40 canola is achievable yet the crop is less than half of the last few years. Pull plants or dig with the backhoe and it's wet below. Plants didn't recover at night and the heat was too hot for too many days in a row to bring moisture up out of the ground to survive so they shut down or quit and made seed. So I'm going on a limb and saying lots will be happy with what they got but there are no 70 canola and 100 wheat any place in Western Canada. None.
Here we go.
HRS, lots have begun to shut down the HRS as yes in our area we still have foxtail thistle and whatever other weed trying to grow in the crop below. So well kill something even if the crop is brown. Few have swathed but most don't in our area so shutting wheat is the priority. The early wheat seeded in April is finished and harvested and in the bin. Don't know the yield but it is off and done. Lots of April seeded towards Regina will be harvested soon also. We have sprayed the first wheat seeded on May 1 and are doing it at sections at a time. 4 today and then 4 two days later and so on. Wheat will not be 90 or 80 or 70 or 60 but some might make 50 and it's down from there. I'm guessing in the 40 range or less than half of last year.
Durum is starting to dry down and will be swath very soon.
Barley some has been harvested with disappointing yields but its off. Ours is swath and will go Sunday and Monday. It makes a swath but nothing to write home about for yield. Yield will be in the same range 30% to 40% of our normal. Heat cooked it.
Peas and lentils are coming off all over the place lentils are a little better and peas are like all else if your use to 50 you have 25 or less. Across the valley, it's a hard 50 BPA and looks great but 10 in of rain does that. Small pocket.
Oats took it on the chin like the barley and shrunk as the head and no moisture continued. Yield will be down and will be light.
Canola wow I can't figure out this crop this year its hilarious we have three guys I know with old flexicoil 5000 air drills with new tanks. They all three have some of the best canola around. One quarter in a section has three surrounding seeded with best Bourg and the fourth is flexicoil and you can see the distance in the air or on the ground. Another east side vs the new Vader same thing and north same besides the new deere drill. Snowbank sat thick no snow nothing in the field. Tall stubble vs cut at ground and chem fallow vs direct seeding win. Organic work three times nothing at all.
A problem is happening with canola in extremely dry areas the pod's arent splitting but is falling off due to being that dry. So another shit show for a shit show year. Furrow has more info.
Canola yield will be down because of one thing a month of 28 above and no relief at night or rain once a week to keep it alive. So no 70 plus and 60 and yes a few 50 but most will be 25 and down. How big an area look at the soil map and if you're read it's not great.
For us were over half less than the last few years. Wont need any bags this year. I'm sticking with the 12.7 MT crop you cant make lemonade out of shit. Oh Sask Canola **** you on the 16.9 mt get out of the ****ing office.
Pastures are basically ****ed and cowboys are scrambling. Late seeded green feed suck the big one and no one is getting a second cut and if they could they arent because it is so dry they need to catch the snow for next year.
The straw will be dropped for a few cattle guys to help out by us. You do what you have to do.
Contracts and getting out are a shit show. Yes, we signed them and were responsible but some of the make-believe fees are a ****ing joke. Next time the elevator has a contract for January delivery and it's delivered in March I'm going to send them a bill for $100,000.00 for nondelivery penalty. We need contracts that work both ways or no one will contract ever again. Were done off the combine delivery for convenience and I really only do a very small amount.
To all the idiots who are salesman for either fertilizer or equipment or chemical or seed or anyone who makes their money off farmers. If you think you're going to get big bonuses and be living the good life thanks to the huge money farmers are getting paid for grain this year you're ****ing more stupid than Trudeau. Farmers in all of western Canada and the northern states will be licking their wounds for the next two years some will be gone. Spending will not be stupid. Yes, a few who got the rains will spend but the rest will not at all.
Finally, the three western provinces did something for the cattle guys but it's not enough to stop the sale of animals and that's a shame. Grain guys, we need the livestock because if it ****ing freezes next week even the good areas will have feed for sale that needs a home.
You need both to be successful.
The sad part is Trudeau and BOBOO gave more to foreign countries and projects that were never even completed or done and CERB to Highschool students than western Canada is going to get for a drought that's in the caliber of 1961 1988 and 1930s.
Remember the Gov has a stress line because for some who are new to this game that's really all we have and each other.
Keep safe and let's get what's out there in the bin and move on to 2022.
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