Friday Crop Update!

[newguy]

Canola on flat land bolting.Looked great till last 3 inches and now needs some serious sun. Canola on rolly land looks great. Peas look best ever.Seeded on well drained land. Durum will have alot of drowned out flats but still has potential. Will need a month of nice weather to get down roads to harvest. Thousands of acres unseeded around me with some sun will look like chemfallow gone wild.

[JDGreen]

Diddle daddling - expression used to describe the pathetic efforts of certain farmers in my area. Examples include but not limited to.

1) Waking up on May 10th and deciding its time to start seeding when others are 1/3 done. Oh wait better clean seed first. Ooops no mills available.

2) Watching for a day or two after a rain while others are seeding wondering if its dry enough to go yet.

3) Buying $275,000 HC sprayers only to run them at 8 mph so as not to get them dirty or abuse them. Oops cant seed now because preburn is behind

4) Sitting at home because you cant get preburn done when your seeding wheat into last years previous clean pulse stubble. Probably better to seed and deal with it in crop than sit and do nothing. Oops its raining again for 3 days. Damn !!

5) Ahh Sunday what a beautiful day. Better take the day off whether I'm religious or not. Lots of time left to seed. Dammit its raining now on monday for another 3 days.

6) Time to pick up the fertilize. Drills empty and sittin while the truck waits for 8 hrs in a lineup.


These are examples of diddle daddling. Diddle daddling applies in NO ways to you who have suffered record wet and the significant challenges that have come with it. All the best to those who have done their utmost.

[vvalk]

agreed JDGreen. these are the same folks who sit around the coffee shop bitching about how hard it is to make a living. Then proceed on to complain about how the neighbour can keep buying land, new equipment, pick up trucks and spend a month in Mexico.

[riders2010]

Same boat as you freewheat, all those acres saturated from last year, and now we seeded about 75% but were fearing any amount of rain would cause another disaster. Well it's here, pretty much all the areas not seeded last year or seeded and flooded now with the 3 to 7 inches of rain large areas screwed.

all low areas of canola gone, wheat and barley yellowing.

As far as dilly dallying none of those guys left here for about 10 to 15 years now. You guys that have those dilly dalliers left must be farming in the easy to farm areas.

Too bad Wall didn't just fire the whole works of crop insurance and do like alta tender the work out. That way not so many cronies that were hired by ndp or sk party giving breaks to their buddies.

The canola acres are not the issue, the issue for canola is how many seeded are gonna make it period before frost, and how many gone from the excess rain?

[Klause]

Soybeans are starting to show disease... lower leaves of peas are brown, rest are OK.

My wheat is ranging from just germinating, to 3 leaf within 50' of each other.


Yes, I was diddle-daddlying. My seeding season was 47 hours, which I pretty much ran through without sleep.... 400 acres seed/fertilize/spray.


I'm getting effin tired of farming in Ethelbert. I can tell you that!!!!! 2004 too dry. 2005 flooded out 2006 flooded out 2007 dry. 2008 ok. 2009 awesome. 2010 flooded out. 2011 a calamity.

[farmaholic]

A little late posting in this thread.
Some crops look like shit here. Barley sick yellow. Canola drowning after 3.5 inches of rain in a week on top of already saturated soil. Lentils in the draws are yellow. Peas yellow in the strangest places in fields. Higher, lighter ground doing better than the lower "better" soil. We need some warm days with a breeze to warm things up and dry it up a bit. I'd never thought I would compalin about rain but.... We are typically looking for rain. I will remember this one for the rest of my life. I think this is going to take more than one year to correct itself. All the low spots that we can seed through(more often than not) are really full. Places where there are haysloughs are full past their boundries. Now I can understand the frustration that other parts of the praries suffered with excess moisture. The bin doors will remain closed for the rest of the year!!!

[freewheat]

Farmaholic, good point regarding land texture etc. My best looking stuff, oats on my lowest assessed land, a loam/clay loam dark grey soil which is rolling and better drained and higher elevation is fairly green. My best thick black clay loam/clay which is flat and high assessed with high production in dry years is in tough this year. In years like this soil assessment/texture/soil color, the guys with sandy loam are lauging. So far anyway.

[FarmRanger]

It depends on the sandy loam freewheat. We've
had some pretty bad leaching on some of ours.
This year we have the most unseeded acres
since I started farming.

I used to say that moisture was our most critical
nutrient, now I'm not so sure.

[freewheat]

Yeah at least the water may soak, but so too the nutrients.

[fjlip]

Freewheat, I went to Saskatoon today and the canola gets better west of Humboldt!
Bolting, fantastic around Petersen.

Wadena west just gets better, barley heading at Clair.

Watson to Humboldt all crops are more advanced.

Now I'm disappointed even more with our WET WET WET!

[hedgehog]

we had a wet spell like yours here in scotland in 1985,86,87. and again in 2000, 01 ,02
both times it ruined plenty and halved the land price.

[hedgehog]

in ,85 my dad cut the hay at the end of june and he went off to canada for 4 wks. when he came back i still hadnt baled it, and half the field was under water.

[farming101]

8 mph top speed in this field!

[farming101]

2nd try to link pic

http://s1211.photobucket.com/albums/cc421/farming101/

[farmaholic]

Farming101: That is bizarre, did you actually seed that?
Freewheat: some of our sandy soil is also causing problems in the discharge areas(water moving through and coming out somewhere else), we couldn't seed some ground because of it. Not that there was water standing on it but it was just too wet. Every time it rains there is water in the sprayer trails(ruts).