So from snow to rain it has been a wild weekend in the western prairies. South of Winnipeg places are approaching 10 inches for the week. Emerson Saturday pm 6 inches one down pour. Sask3 re the guy in Calgary - do not care how many acres of canola are planted. Those number may be changing by the hour as I bet a lot of it is sitting under water right now or even snow. Will be a lot of damage and reseeding might be on the minds of some farmers. If it stops. For those who have not seeded - you are not any further behind than some of us that planted. Just wondering how the weather has been in your areas this weekend. As for the fog and days to rain. In my area it has been almost to the day. Much more to come in June if this pattern continues. May need some current plans for an ark.
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My theory is that since almost everyone in western canada is now direct seeding and when a system comes from the west over the rockies-it is now picking up alot more moisture from the evaporation of the more moisture that the ground now carries and when that system hits sask. it has to unload on us! Just a theory? Any rebuttles?
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Silver, the organic crops might fare a little better. Planted late, some not planted yet. It reminds me of a bumper sticker fron the 70's (?) on a junker vehicle. "I many be slow, but I am ahead of you!" Basically its just farming, the weather dictates, no one is immune from crazy bad weather. The only possible saving grace is there would be a little less cash pumped into the ground in regards to fert and chem. I say "a little" because organic burn off consists of diesel fuel, tractor hours and cultivator shovels, harrow packers, rodweeders, and all that other stone age shrapnel! Its pretty fun telling the hired man we are going to have to "pass the rod" on field #4. The industry has not found any chemical resistance to the dreadful rodweeder! Another perceived biased advantage is, there are no skulls and crossbones on the stuff we are handling. On the other hand, its not that much fun listening to frost warnings in August/early Sept. My neighbors climbed on me about organics and weed control for a couple of years, then the "bad spray" stories (too hot, too cold, too wet, too dry, too early, too late, not enough water volume, too much water volume. Did I miss any?) would come out to justify a "late flush" of something. Then I would say, you should spray it again, and again. Good grief they invest in a big SP sprayer, threaten me with it, then they dont want to spray the weeds that are there! I digress, ultimately its just farming, everybody just wants to grow a crop and make a living, deep down thats all they are asking for.
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