Farmers will never come together!

[jethro456]

Im from Southern Alberta, and things dont look good here. This is an area where we never seed in June and most are usually done mid May.

I cant give accurate percentage of seeded acres, but I can say that there is a lot left to go in certain areas, and it is very wet. Guys are mucking it in, works on the sandier land but the clay looks terrible.

As for the crops that are up, there are fields all over that have 40 acres bare patches where it stayed wet too long. Others havent emerged and I fear they will be worse. Our land drains very well but Im still seeing huge areas where nothing emerged. One guy here reseeded 15000 acres and he thinks its done again.

Calling for mid twenties next week, just in time to crust everthing over.
What a year

[SASKFARMER3]

Hopper it is a general comment of whats happening some days we had 1 inch in Regina farm had 1/4 or less. Isn't it really really wet in Sask that's what I was saying all along its just getting worse yet some of you tell me its just perfect. Great I guess I was wrong and all the province got seeded Oh well. God the province is at 70% Hm I guess its just perfect out their. I'm full of hot air GREAT just GREAT.

[SASKFARMER3]

Sask is at 70% completed its just been released.

[furrowtickler]

Is there an acreage breakdown, as far as what percentage of each crop is in? I think for that we will have to wait for Crop Ins deadlines.

[mcfarms]

Years ago my father made a comment to me that still sticks to this day and it was
" Son the bad thing about farming is the reality is that for you to have an above average year and make some good money somewhere someone else will likely be having a bad year and making very little or losing money they may be across the world or around the corner but is a reality of the industry "

These words come back to me in years like this.

[cityguy]

If Sask Ag is right at 70% seeded then have to figure that about 9-10 million acres aren't in as of last Monday. Figure hardly anyone turned a wheel this week and it's a long shot that 2 of the 10 make it in the ground. How do you want to split that up - 3 wheat /1 durum / 2 canola /1 barley / 1 oats.

Figure alberta and manitoba is mostly in though there's the question of what's in and under water but that can wait until another day.

CWB out tomorrow with crop report - over/under's at 10 million unseeded??

[fjlip]

Area 5B at 29% up 1% all week. That's us, on average, last to seed. We are direct opposite to the poor guys normally too dry to the west. As much as those fear drought, we fear too wet in spring and at harvest. Each of us unable to fathom the other's predicament. Last year their short crop, this year we are big unseeded losers.
9AE PA 43%, 8B Melfort 46%, 8A Tisdale 51%, 5A Yorkton 58%, 6A Watrous 65%, 2A Weyburn 65%, 1B Grenfell 68%. the rest are all better. N of Maple creek the most at 94%.

[furrowtickler]

I think close to zero flax was seeded in sask.

[agstar77]

U.S. Weather office says above normal rains for Sask next week.

[wd9]

Like last year, the crops were oh so bad yet very close to long term averages. MArkets don't care a lot if SF3 ******* all the time, he will even if it was perfect. But the grass is green and it is sunny on Portage and Main and is only June 11th. Especially with the long season in Manitoba it will still be wait and see for a while yet.

[wd9]

Thought I would give my 2 cents as well

Its really bad where we farm and we managed to try and seed about 70 of the acres. Some of those are lost to flooding and more will likely be lost because it continues to rain and good growing conditions are slim.

I keep my hopes up that the crop that is seeded turns out okay and that this fall we can look back and say I would never had thought it could have turned out like it did.

For the rest of you that are better off, I am happy for you and hope you have a great year. You would have experienced challenges in the past that we would not have experienced but now its your turn.

Unfortunately we all cannot have great years every year and definitely not all at the same time.

I like the comments you made mcfarms because it is the reality of the industry and every other industry

[checking]

SF3.

We all don't believe that you are full of hot air. That's the good thing about a forum like this. There are a variety of agricultural interests presenting their views here, and some of them are not on your side. Be happy that with all the moisture out there, that they haven't yet said that "you have spit for brains."!!!