land out of production from flooding

[Jagfarms]

Driving by from the road you can see quite a bit of
water laying around but I got a shock tonight when I
went flying on how much water there is out there.
There is quite a bit of land under water that you can
not see from the roads and lots that you can see from
the roads the crop is higher than the water and lots of
it is totally saturated.
There is way more land flooded than I thought there
was.

[SASKFARMER3]

Thanks for that jag. Yes once your in Sprayer or plane and get into the field wow. Is all one can say. The trade has no ficking idea how much land is gone in Saskatchewan. Its huge.

[newguy]

Alot of people will have seeded report done to crop insurance before spraying. Most of the drowned out will not be noticed until fall. Unless a pencil pusher hops a ride on some farmers sprayer..

[SASKFARMER3]

Talked to my neighbor who farms south of Regina. 7000 acres prime land total seeded finally stopped last night, 4000. Yea it all got in BS coming out of the trade and its only NE what a crock.

[bucket]

Some of the land will be too wet for years.

[wmoebis]

Yep! "PRIME" land is the hill tops this year. Asking price for hilly land just went up.

If weather straightens out and we get this one off, as we always do, the hill tops will do the best they ever have and will out perform sloughs and be better quality than low areas.

So if you want prime land that out does Regina plains, on real wet years, never floods and grows better quality than low areas reduce your risk and help cover cost of flooded land you should be expanding into some of the areas that has rolling hills. Price on this prime land will be climbing fast.

[agstar77]

Even land that is well drained ,is so saturated that plants are stunted and going into shock. Forecast for more showers and thundershowers this weekend. There is a tipping point where the atmosphere is so full of moisture, that any little front moving through , causes precipitation. I can't see any change till winter, when there is a change in weather patterns. This year is a write off.

[cottonpicken]

I don't know much about but I cut a sixty year old ash. Tree down and had a good look at the rings it seems we have been in quite dry spell for the past few decades compared to previous

[parsley]

In the fifties, I had to go barefoot to "test" the depth of the water on #9 Highway to see if the car could cross the long lengths of water that was level with the ditches, sometimes 200 ft stretches. In February,1947, I watched my sister walk home from school walking on top of the drifts covering the telephone lines; yes, the drifts were as high as the telephone poles and hard packed like cement.

Weather, like a cloud, can turn ugly.

But 2011 is sure to come, and hopefully it will be kinder.

Hopefully you can find some peace of mind in believing in something bigger than your doubts. Pars

[Hopperbin]

You can get 10 dollars per acre back on liberty tolerant canola seed. Land that was previously planted but now flooded. Not sure if everyone knows about it, talk to you supplier, application must be in end of June seems I will have maybe 250 acres maybe more when I finally hit the canola with chemical and really see what damage is there.

[NeilS]

That $10 per acre only applies to canola that is not taken to production, sprayed out or otherwise killed off, as I understand it.

[Hopperbin]

Dealers here are telling us anything killed off by flooding we should count.