Total production contest

[rockpile]

Saskfrmr - you got me - checkmate! 5 bears - that
made my day, best laugh in a long time! Still, from
some of the posts you can see that the ball of
averages is still afloat. Hope you aren't too cranky
because my Stamps whooped your Rider's ass big time
today. And ah yes, there is still a long season ahead...

[dave4441]

I was past your place today JAG, and i think you seemed to have got the worst of it, but do you think you lost 15-20%? Not sure where your land is exactly, but is the water south/SE of your Dad's the worst? We lost about 10 ac on 3000 seeded. I thought it would have been worse then it was. Some sloughs have not seen water in 5 years, but not really catastropic as i was expecting.

Canola at Eatonia is starting to bolt. Looks like MB crops i have seen in the past.

[Jagfarms]

Dave
The water SE of my dads yard is the worst and all the water that is there that you could see is on the land that we farm There is some land we farm around my Uncles yard NW of Sceptre that has quite a bit of water as well. Then there is a bunch of smaller 2O-25 acre sloughs all over the place.

20 percent might be pushing it but it is well over 10 percent pretty close to 15 percent of our seeded acres not the total acres we farm. The areas that were flooded are all areas we continious crop as they are flats that have moisture even on the dry years. They have been under water for 3 years at a time in the past. I think in the 70s they were flooded most of the time. They have not flooded in the last 12 or 13 years.

Not sure how much water is there now as we took off Friday morning for a road trip. Hope some of it soaks in.

I think on what is not flooded there is potential to grow one of the biggest crops we ever had.


When I get home will have to go up and fly around to see where all the water and wet spots are before we start spraying.

[checking]

Are you sure the expression "don't mess with Texas" shouldn't be substituted out. (lol) You have a vicious little front in your display window, cp.

Put your listening ears on, oh sensitive one, and search for the explanations that are plainly visible. I've tried that with you, but all I come up with is your poor grammar, a reluctance to answer, and half riddles.

There could be an explanation for you as well, if you're in your early forties. I was in charge of a K class in the Weyburn area when a tiny tyke ran over and wrapped his arms around my leg. My first thought was to pick him up, and give him a hug which was all that he was wanting. Instead, I unlatched his arms, and scooted him away. My guess is you're down a hug, which explains why you are the way you are, cottonpicken.

[btjadenlepp]

suggest we specify the rules for this
little contest then post some estimates,
by a certain deadline, then re-visit it
in october.

you guys have only been talking about
saskatchewan i think with your
estimates. should be total w. canadian
production.

crop-by-crop is more interesting than
total crop production: wheat, durum,
barley, oats, canola, peas, lentils,
flax. estimates for harvested area and
yield.

will probably get in trouble with my
colleagues for sharing internal
estimates, but this is a game that set
up right i'd love to play.

www.farmlinksolutions.ca

[cottonpicken]

No the anvil and hammer I've been between for the past 20 years of farming has made me me.

I'm early thirties so I doubt we have met.are you in a nursing home yet or just one foot?

Your age doesn't give you a by,when you slap expect to get slapped back.

You have no clue and no morals that is obvious get back to your garden and let the real men talk about real things

[checking]

An unstoppable force coming up against an immovable object, or caught between a rock and a hard spot. I don't much like the hammer and the anvil because it causes too many blackened nails, which leads to cursing. Some of us have that down pat, already. Right?

Slapping, was that what you were doing. I thought we were having a friendly conversation, cp. (lol) Why so worked up? I just asked about the prize, and a little bit of geometry.

I figure a few more years, and I'll sell out to a Hutterite colony. What do you think? Good idea? I talked to a couple of them a few days ago, and they brought up that they'd like to buy our place to start a split off colony. They have 130 people on 5400 acres, and say they don't know how they do it, but their getting by. That I find amazing; not some 70 bushel/acre canola farmer sitting on 5400 acres who whines that he can't make a go of it when the weather turns.

[cottonpicken]

By all means sell,another family farm flushed into the
waste bin of history,good job way to go,spend a few
years at the lake and forget about anything you did
ever making it.

And fk the screw ball hutterites that live like a bunch
of lepers without the backbone to face the outside
world like a man,and continually perpetuate the fear
and loathing on the next generation.

[checking]

That's pretty much what I thought you would say, and how you would say it. Someone else might have said, "DYODD, and treat your property like the ***** it is."

I hear they have a cribbage tournament going on down at the senior center this evening. I'd better shuffle on out of my garden before I forget. I'll mosey on down now, as the seats fill up fast if you don't get there by 7:00 P.M. (lol)