Drive in to Farm Show

[wcfarmer]

Just thinking about the drive into the Farm show and back. We left the north side of Lake diefenbaker and crossed the ferry to riverhurst and on through moose jaw and into regina. The consensus in our van was this. Dinsmore/Beechy/Luckylake area is in pretty good shape a little later than normal but not to bad. Riverhurst to tuxford lots of flooded low spots and flats, a few unseeded acres but overall mostly seeded. Moosejaw into Regina was not nearly as bad as what we have been hearing, there were a few unseeded quarters along the #1 but we were expecting huge lake area's on the flat and none were seen. The crop conditions are probably 2 weeks later than normal but overall this 300 mile drive was not nearly as depressing as we thought it might be. Canola along the way looks excellent(albeit not a traditional canola area). Lentils, and there are alot of them on this drive are a little water logged, but could come though quite ok. Peas look fantastic, The one concern/potential bright spot is that durum/wheat/barley acres look to be way down and look to be late to very late. This may help with the carry out of Durum and hopefully the price(if the board has not already blown it out at rock bottom prices). I realise that this is a small area and not in the main problem area of the province. I just thought some may like to know what we thought of this area, and that it's maybe not all terrible in the province yet. What did other's see on their drives into the farm show? There must be other area's with some potential also.JMHO

[bobofthenorth]

I didn't drive to the Farm Show but I've been around a bit. We drove from Regina to Ft.McLeod 2 weeks ago and that trip looked good. Nipawin to Regina the week before that - Nipawin to Melfort was pretty well 100% seeded but it was a wreck from Melfort to Regina and I don't think it has quit raining since that trip. Last week I flew from Airdrie to Drumheller then north up the Red Deer river, across to Olds and back into Airdrie. There's lots of unseeded soggy ground under that flight path. Talked to a variety of guys at a conference in Calgary last week and heard lots of numbers between 8 and 12 million unseeded acres. I still have trouble with the high end of that but maybe 12 million "affected" acres is accurate.

R.J.(Bob) Evans
www.farm4profit.com

[ProFarmer]

Wet all the way from Manitoba to Regina. Good show. Alot of late poor crops. What was with the burnt Quadtrack on the south side of #1 in the slough or pothole?

[gregpet]

Check out this site about the quadtrac

[URL="http://talk.newagtalk.com/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=172381&mid=1242556#M1242556"] AG Talk [/URL]

Apparently was rear ended by a cattle liner and burst into flames.

[tipsy]

What was the attendance like for this years show?

[Gerald_sk]

Just love these 100K/hr reports. Sure, if you drive the highway
between Melfort and Tisdale it is 100% with a bumper crop. But
look over the hill where all this water drained and it is a different
story. If there hadn't been a lot of canola floated on the 14-16th
we wouldn't see much crop in area. I am only 7 miles from Melfort.
Only one green field in the seven miles. That field was burnt
and seeded about may 20. Using your survey method that works out
to less that 10% done.

[wcfarmer]

Gerald, I'm not saying that all the crops we drove by are healthy. I was just reporting about the general areas. I also realize that your area is in a lot of trouble. The area in which we drove were not a wastland as some have said is all I was saying.

[bucket]

I drive to Riverhurst to MJ often to know you must of been sleeping.

Still lots of water and unseeded areas. Riverhurst is sand. An inch can disappear in an hour therefore those things called pivots.

2 miles either side of 42 highway lots of unseeded and flooded areas.

[food4u]

Same on the west side of the lake.Three to four miles north of highway 42 is a valley that is heavy clay. I can count 10 quarter that all have some seeding but not finished.The ones that are seeded are turning yellow because of TOO much moisture.

[amun]

Bobo travel rode Melfort to Tisdale regulary,there is not more than 30% seeded average done in area is about 45% with 15% of that gone.

[food4u]

Just checked the rain gauge and today we got 28mm between a thunder storm and stead rain that followed.

[bucket]

Central Butte got 4 1/2" between 3:30 and 5pm today.