So Alberta is Going to Save the Day! Ha HA.

[Hopperbin]

Saskfarmer you asked about yields compared to last year? We are way under last year but no one harvesting yet. Canola especially bad, will be no stubble to hold swath, barley bad, peas bad. Canary and wheat average, reports of extremely high midge. No flax crops. Two oat fields should have been a hundred fields just showing seeds now from road. Lot of dirty fields around definitely going to have affect on yields.
Spraying ruts everywhere, to damage equipment. Water still running in places. Neighbor got high clearance stuck took 2 4 wheel drives to get it out. So if anyone asks what we have for a crop here I don't know yet.

[fjlip]

Same here, looks short,thin and uneven, could be crappy yields. Nothing near harvest. Need 2 weeks. Will be a challenge NOT to wreck machinery in the mud or ruts!

[agstar77]

HRS today, probably 40 with FUS.

[seabass]

Crops here vary but HRSW is running good 50-60 some ergot but not terrible. Peas are 50-60 real pain in the arse. Right flat to the ground with ruts mixed in and some water too. Canola is anywhere from 0 to 50. Short and all over the map. Some ripe to some flowering in the same field. Gonna be a dockage nightmare. Most fields will be 30 to 40% of normal. Oats were standing and looking good until last weekends rain. Now flat and twisted up will be a real challenge. Not many oats around here so should make a buck if we can get them.

[wd9]

Drive from Saskatoon to Edmonton and then north or south of there the crops are exceptional. That is a huge area. Huge chunks of manitoba too are exceptional. Crops will more then likely finish and in the end the bad is made up by the exeptional to be guess what, an average crop. IT happens most years. Some guys will really hurt this year, some will harvest potentially the best crops of their career. But that seems to be the case most years.

I'm in NE alberta and yes there is sclerotinia but with all the moisture and other environmental factors both the seeds and disease have done ok and the yield hit not bad because even the top pods are mostly developed. At worst it is like early swathing.

Sask ag said the average for today should be 5% harvested but is 1%. Not super far behind either.

[makar]

Aint no canola in the peace to speak off. By the way the peace grows more grain than all of manitoba. No grain in the peace, no news. Manitoba issues big news.

[vvalk]

Will be interesting to see canola yields. We are NW of Lethbridge and have had rain every 3 to 5 days. maybe 2 days over 30. Canola from road looks really good but when you walk it a few things come to mind. why is this easier to walk in then most years. When you look there is lots of aborted pods and lots of short 1 inch pod. ALSO the podding zone is short. Sure the pods are fat and the top pods look good but I think yields may be disappointing. Looks like 50 to 60 from raod but may only do 35

[SASKFARMER3]

Isnt it funny only WD4 thinks its a huge crop from Saskatoon to Edmonton. Hm
Yes the peace has huge problems no news story. One guy in southern manitoba harvesting and happy big news day. Yea what a joke.

[oneoff]

YAH wd9- is a real leader. Just the fellow to speak for farmers

[Burbert]

The market is based on BS and lies, angribusiness knows it and always takes advantage of us Comedian farmers. Stats are just what they are, stats, a guess made by someone, who has an uncle on the farm in Sask or Manitoba, or used to work on their farm, during the Summer. Though I will concede that Alberta may save the day, cause the whole province is full of crap and full of themselves......

[wd9]

I don't speak for anyone.

[wd9]

Not all the areas of the peace are zero either. Southern peace got a lot of rain and the stuff is crazy - 5 feet tall. Cool weather has allowed canola to surive and some are saying not horible crops. Some really sucks.

For the math scholars in sask guess what higher then average and less then average crop averages out to?