OK last year by tomorrow night I had 200 acres seeded!

[SASKFARMER3]

Funny how the crappy weather of 2010 is continuing. Hm looking at my morning weather bug temp and a balmy -4 and the fire place is on. Oh well saving the air conditioner.
Looked at last years calendar and found we had close to 200 acres seeded by the night of the 20Th. Hm this year might get main drill out and in the yard by the 20Th. WE still have snow in trees and fence lines and fields. Melt is still not on. Yes maybe this weekend but man its got weeks to go. Probably if I was to guess the 10Th of may for a start day this year.
HA that's 20 Days behind last year and 12 later than the 10 year average.
Yes Houston we have a bin buster on its way.
What are others finding.

[SASKFARMER3]

WERE NOT ALONE! No its not the ET story out of Russia.
A year ago this week, farmers in the Corn Belt were off and running on what would be for many a quick, painless spring planting season. What a difference a year can make.

Corn planting progress is way behind where it was a year ago, with the "I" states -- Iowa, Illinois and Indiana -- seeing only single-digit planting progress compared to double-digit strides last year at this time, according to Monday's USDA Crop Progress report.

In Iowa, only 2% of the crop is planted compared to 16% last year at this time, while 2% and 9% of the Indiana and Illinois crops are planted, compared to 16% and 29% a year ago, respectively. According to Monday's report, farmers in Minnesota -- where measurable snow fell over the weekend -- have yet to get started planting. A year ago, 11% of that state's corn crop was in the ground.

Hm so perfect conditions all way around.

[SASKFARMER3]

Oh even our beloved. (Swallow tounge) CWB feels we have problems.
Farmers in Western Canada's waterlogged crop belt expect to plant their crops 10 days to three weeks behind schedule, raising the risk of lower yields and quality, a Canadian Wheat Board official said Monday.
Snowfall late last week and through the weekend worsened wet conditions that have kept tractors idle this spring, reports Reuters.
Planting delays leave crops dependent on close to ideal weather the rest of the growing season, said Stuart McMillan, crop and weather analyst for the CWB.
"The later we get we are increasing the risk of problems with frost and delayed maturity, just like we saw last year," McMillan said, adding that planting has not started

[FarmRanger]

Southern Alberta
-10 here right now, 2 inches of snow left from the
big dump last week. Lakes everywhere, frozen
this morning. 2 weeks of warm dry should get us
started.

Last year, we had 250 seeded by now.

[BTOfarmallll]

I was completely done Canola by this time last year. Started on beans April 21. Looks like could be going April 30th if'n this warmer weather that is forecasted holds true..........

[fjlip]

Snow was all gone but we already had 2" of rain and was too wet to field work.

Cold from Apr 24 to May 12 with more rain every few days kept us all stopped.

Started spraying and fertilizing on 13th, seeding started on the 20th.

Lasted 3 days, then the 3 day rains came often enough to not allow any more drill seeding. Some floaters and air seeding done with mixed results.

Could it be worse? Till April 12 2010, it was dry, now we are water everywhere!

[fjlip]

Rain and snow in US at the moment.

http://www.accuweather.com/us/radar/sir/us_/radar.asp?play=true

[Koldkanuck]

Can't remember exactly what year it was, late 70's or early 80's. Weather was about the same as it is now. Cold, wet etc. Then when it finally dried by the middle of May, it started raining heavy. Started seeding about 24/25th of May, and most of the first seeded crops were mudded in. Going around 30 lakes on each quarter. Seeded wheat until the 5th of June or so, then switched to barley. Good thing we decided not to seed late canola, because it froze early that year. What a country.

[Busted]

North Edmonton area, still white everywhere,field roadsides starting to show stubble, worse north and west of here, water starting to pond but no big runoff yet. Looking at least May 7-10 to start, Last year started on April 25 could have gone earlier, one local guy had 7000 acrs in by May 1. We did have one year in the 70's where the start was May 19. Sure don't want to experience that again ( froze in the fall)

[fjlip]

That was 1979 here a late cold start and everything froze but Polish Canola.
1984 finished seeding by May 5. Fantastic fall, top grades, done combining in August.
That is the perfect year in my memory.
One out of 40.

[newguy]

The more the sun shines in the next few weeks the more canola will go down in price. Contracted some yesterday for fall.

[BTOfarmallll]

I feel sorry fer the Genies wit Zero Till this year. NOT the year to playing wit yer Pet Project. Will notice this year BIG time, wait & see whos goin first & see whos sittin on the road watchin. Umm canola price go down??? Ain't gon be much if'n it does, why??? WE need record bushels of all grains gist to satisfy demand. Likely gon happen??? Not likely. Go ahead price away & away & away, more money fer me to make next year when I sell this years crop.......

[newguy]

Canola will get in.There will be lots to go around this year. Other crops may get short though,. Elevators will only have room to take contracted canola in fall. Need to turn over X amount of dollars in the fall and can not count on board grain to do that. Never lose by contracting a profit.

[SASKFARMER3]

Why sell at a loss to an elevator. Crusher is way to go.

[furrowtickler]

Depends where you are at, here local elevators are within $.25 to $.30 of Lloyd price. Basicaly the cost of trucking. Plus we can haul 10 loads a day compared to 2 if need be.
BTW weather looks O.K. for a while, keepin fingers crossed. We started may 1st last year stopped May 2nd, got rollin May 6th through May 21st. If weather holds we should be rollin 1st week May - good luck to all. This time last year we were driest ever.