Fall Rain! Good for soil Crappy for Harvest!

[SASKFARMER3]

Well it looks like we will be down for a good 5 days or more. Our farm got to the 50 Percent mark late last night, the weather forecast is for 2 to 3 inches of moisture out of this run. Good for soil since we had more rain in august than all year and more in October than all summer. Just wondering how moisture levels are on others farms. Were good for next spring now and low snow cover would not hurt at all but would be welcomed.
Now on harvest most small guys just have flax and a few fields of canola and oats. Lots swath oats so could be real interesting. Yields still amaze me so far, maybe just maybe years of direct seeding are starting to pay off. On yields I did call canola for a 10 plus crop a while back and still beleive that 11 maybe but just above.
Crop prices amazes me how each day we keep going lower for no reason at all. Bad harvest weather in USA and market doesn't even react. HM HM.
Flax and Mustard markets I feel will have big problems with the GMO issue this is pure and simple politics and it sucks really bad.
One last thing any one listen on radio to new advertisement or information on News Talk radio from some money manager about Potash and how farmers cut back and only can for one year or so and the demand for our product will go up and up big time. Farmers have to feed the world so have to fertilizer. It goes on and on and on. Listen to it and respond.

[charliep]

SK3

Please send some of your rain to Alberta. Anyone wanting to fall apply fertilizer here is dealing something more like concrete than soil. An inch of rain would do a lot to help getting spikes in the ground.

[fjlip]

I envy your dryness most years at harvest time. This has been my question for the last 35 years, why does rain coming up from Idaho not fall further west where you always seem need it? It obviously passes over you. Instead it builds up and pours here in east Sk and Manitoba usually ruining great crops at harvest. Long range says highs of 3 to 6C for two weeks and snow by the 15th. I'd say harvest could finish in 2010 in our area. We are at 80%. The area is about 60 to 70%, most canola still out. Our sample had sprouts before this rain. But no prices won't go up unless the US has crap harvest weather, and then only reluctantly. The market waits as long as possible before bottoming.

[cottonpicken]

Man is regina ever getting it on the radar.

[LWeber]

http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?product=N0Z&rid=GGW&loop=yes

[cottonpicken]

Gerome the weather knome said 42mm as of noon in vregina.

[JDGreen]

First solid inch of rain here since july 15th so it is very welcome.. Area is 99.99% complete (Swift Current).. We can use much more precip this fall, but am willing to hold off on the rain dance if it helps others finish up.. This is definately as dry as i ever remember it in this area for a loooooooooong time..

[furrowtickler]

Missed the heavy rains here, but cloudy cool and damp - zipo for harvest here today. 3/4 done here for the most part.

[fjlip]

1.6" till 7 pm Wadena and North. Hope that's it or fields will be soft. Near term is poor, maybe by Tuesday above 10C and sun. -8 forecast for Red Deer tonight.

[sumdumguy]

The translation for Regina is Rainville.
We're getting a little damp around the ears.

[SASKFARMER3]

A little wet your car just floated by my house.
The farm only got 3/4 of a inch yesterday thank god. But we are really wet now. Water is every where. Heavy hrs crop went down and down hard. Oats went down not total flat just down. Wow is all i can say.

[mustardman]

Wouldn't add up to 1/10 of an inch here around Cabri area and we are Very Very Dry. 99% of Crops harvested 3 weeks ago even on the big acre operations.

[SASKFARMER3]

News story the Ark is starting to float start gathering the animals. Leave lawyers and politicians and CWB but bring rest.

[fjlip]

Any fall left in 2009? All cloudy and cold! This forecast would have to change for the last 30% to get done. http://www.farmzone.com/index.php?product=farmltermfx&placecode=sk008 http://www.accuweather.com/canada-forecast.asp?partner=accuweather&traveler=0&postal code=S4N%200A1&metric=1&set=99

[boarderbloke]

looking at Accu weather 15 day temps, may as well winterize the sprayer, and maybe the combine too. 1/4 Flax, 1/4 Canola, & a couple loads of HRSW from trimming and low spots still out. Could've been worst had we not had the good winds and heat over the last two weeks, could have been much much worst!