To help you Market, here is my crop report

[booboo04]

In an effort to help each other, I feel crop reports will help us see what is happening in different parts of the province. Please give us your report.

I'm 10 miles north of Craven. 4,500acs. Red Lentils, Canola, Y Mustard, and Peas.

Lentils - yielding 20 to 27, lots of dockage so far. 15,000 bu so far grading an x-tra 3, 35,000 bu to combine and will be sample as it has at least 25% sprouted. Buyers say they are willing to deal now and you can expect grading considerations.

Canola - ours looks good, will average 35 bu/ac, 10 bu more than my average. Rumor is Richardsons and Viterra will take 12% moisture now. Looks like canola is going up. Most Canola here looks like 25 to 30 bu/ac.

Y Mustard - looks good and should yield great again. Likely 30 bu/ac but we have to see. I use 275 lb/ac of fertilizer. Would like to keep my mustard until price is 30 cents/lb. Sold 12 bu at 25 cents in March.

Peas - good yield, 50 bu, but about 60% of our area is in swath or standing. My peas are in the bin but I doubt everyone else will be so lucky. I would like to wait for $7/bu

Other crops - durum is lite and thin, wheat is better but no hell, barley left out is garbage, flax is laying down,

Can some other guys tell me what they see?

[bucket]

275lb/ac on yellow mustard. Thats seems a bit heavy to only return a 30 bu crop.

Good report, you should be able to cut a good deal with the elevators. They will be begging for everything you have.

Now its just a matter of time.

[JDGreen]

Red Lentils running 35-50 all will be shit crap now with very high sprouted and damage. But hey the buyers wanna see what you have and wait for your contracts with no act of god in them.. They want to work with you .. haha ya right..

Green white and black moldy Lentils 30-40 .. Any swathed will be complete pigfeed.. Why would ya swath lentils in the rain??? Plain stupid

Durum 60 -80% is green and will grade a 5. Ours is all dessicated for 20 days so will be better but who knows how much

Wheat 50-60 of frozen, shrivelled, diseased, wheat midged, rusted out crap. Many fields will be too green to even burn the shit let alone harvest anything. Our wheat is ready to dessicate so wont be as bad. We are the minority

Canola 35-55 All over the map.. The only bright spot if we can even harvest it. Checked mine today and it is sprouting standing :-(

Peas 30-45 of decent quality 80% wrapped up here. The remainder are hailed shit and some slowpookes

5.5 inches in last 12 days.... 26 0f last 32 days with at least a shower... Completely and utterly hopeless if weather doesnt turn next week. And yes I am officially bitter on 2010.. Happy marketing if you have something...

[sumdumguy]

Hope yellow mustard gets to 40 cents not much off

[bucket]

If it freezes flax goes to what??????

[wmoebis]

I shelled out some durum, peas and lentils by hand today.
Durum- in one(1) head I found - 1 ergot, mildew that is already heavey and moved beyond brush end, fusarium, smudge, midge and grasshopper dmg the rest of the kernals in that head still looked good, although they were swollen and could sprout very easily with heat. Other heads were still good with good colour although more ergot (big pieces) than I would have liked. Anybody know how long ergot will grow or is it done?

Peas are down on ground, moderately earth tagged but didn't see anymore dease than week ago when quit combined all that was ready. Rest ready to go when/if it dries up.

LRG green lentils down bad but still look okay will depend on visual of overall sample,likely still reasonably good natural colour.

No problem finding deer trails to show crop ins before I fire up again. Just incase a terd sneaks in sampler at elevator.

Oh ya then we got another inch of rain afterwards. I think it being cool is saving our bacon from sprouting and bleaching so far, that still to come maybe. Grasshoppers are still munching away, not hard to see on heads. Mildew will realy grow if we get some hotter weather it has a good foot hold and is moving up kernal even in these cool conditions. It will be interesting to see how bad the severe midge is or gets if it starts growing after it dries and warms up.

Greenfeed- mostly cut, baled, sold.

[gustgd]

North and east of Davidson.

Barley around town 90-95 bpa malt quality (best barley crop ever on this farm) about 1/2 sold delivery next week.

Canola about 35 should have been 50 but sclorotina kicked the hell out it. only 10% done just waiting for it to dry down. all swathed and ready to thrash. Seeder in field ready to get the Ptarmigan in. Cargill called today 12% is dry enough

Lentils 25 on the sand #2 all off, the rest look like maybe a 35 but hopefully they make an extra 3
awful seed coat colour but the inside is still nice and orange. Might have to invest in a gravity cleaner

0 new crop durum None planted, 25% old crop allowed in. last years 3 is this years 2.

Andrew looks good, but it will take alot of Nat. gas to get it marketable.
Now looks like the $4.30 to Belle Plaine might have been sold to soon???

Mustard looks like hell. (hail)

Hair turning gray, but not thinning to bad yet

[gustgd]

Any ideas on spreads between lentil grades, specifically difference between 2 extra 3, three ect.....

Is there such a thing as extra 2?

Reds are my only interest but if others want greens.....

[wmoebis]

No such thing as X2's The dif between 2-X3-3 is mostly in the "degree of soundness" (colour) And in total damage including splits,P&B and other dmg also in the total allowable total FM. Sorry I can't help you on price question.

One other question. How was your durum a #3 last year and a #2 this year? What are the degrading factors and what did you do to improve the grade?

[SASKFARMER3]

Well OK North of Qu'Appelle valley.
Harvested HRS yesterday an area for Bags. Testing 22.3 will dry today should make a 2 color OK Yield with drowned out area 30 at best where thick 50 to 60 but then 4 to 20 protein 14.6.
Durum last week seeded in April desiccated for 3 weeks. 45 but will need all of last years to get to a 2 protein 13.9.
Peas after all said and done 30 over the whole farm that's anywhere from 50 down to 15. Not a good year.
Oats has promise but cant spray with ground rigs way to wet stuck up to boom yesterday then had to pull 1/2 mile to road couldn't stay up.
Barley is totally fu-ked. Dirty second growth and so short will have heads touching the ground. Mess.
Canola 15 to 25 at best worst crop since 1961. Canola doesn't like water and with last weeks rain have more swaths now under water.
Oh yea its raining again last night had wipers on med all way back to city.

[northfarmer]

Central Peace.

Peas done, all good quality, greens and yellows, from 30 to 45 bu depending on showers.

Oats done, all milling, or pony 80 bu

HRWW, all prem, 50 to 60, took advantage of may long snow and rain, only real moisture till two weeks ago, since we have had inch and a half, still no worry about the ground carrying, ground still cracked up and hard.

HRS no worse than a 2, lots of good 1 before showers and rain two weeks ago, 25 to 45 depending on showers this summer and ground

Canola, started yesterday, 30 ish, lots of 15 and better in area, straight cut dessicated slow to mature, lots of guys waiting for green in swaths, very little dry coming off, terminals taking tough canola.

HRWW seeding. Done today, Enough moisture to germinate. Still very dry sub one inch. Could take 5 inches no problems.

Serious hay shortage, no carry over. Pastures poor, things are greening up but too late for signicant growth. 60 to 70 for hay bales, have waiting list.

Coming from an area that has suffered from many years of way too much rain, tracks and 4wd drive kits and driers are common, I feel your pain. I will not complain about our drought, third year in a row of way below normal rainfall, but in the end we may be the lucky ones. Good luck to all. Thanks for sharing the real story.

[furrowtickler]

30% done, peas off, some canola. Wht testing around 20 - and canola around 13.5 - 14. Nobody moving but some of the big guys. Some wheat comin off at 25%, If canola gets below 12 the elevators will fill. Nothing done here for 10 days now and the latest forcast is getting worse. 300 ac HRWW in on the canola stb.

[Klause]

Peas done... lots sprouted, feed quality. 3bu/ac
avg.

CWSWS done... half is #1 Select, half is #2. 14 - 20%
moisture. 40 - 50bu/ac... counting flooded areas
30bu/ac.

Canola swathed... expecting 15 - 40bu/ac... Mostly
15-20 bu/ac.

Area HRS did 10 - 35bu/ac depending on
drainage... high moisture, all grading #2 and #3.

Early canola yields 10 - 15 - 30 bu/ac. #2 on
account of green, sprouting.