Friday Crop Update!

[JDGreen]

canola is awesome. cabbaged and some bolting. If weather stays fair it has HUGE potential for our area. Lentils are 11/10 if you know how to grow them, early ones are vegetative. Peas 11/10 once again the those that know how to grow them have outstanding pea fields. Good fields 14 days to flowers. Durum is tillering to early seeded in the shot blade and one of the best we have ever had at this stage. Wheat is 4-6 leaf and looking awfully small for June 23. Other than that it looks great. What is glaringly obvious in the area is those that understand crop production are well on their way to a bin buster. Those that dont have yellowing, thin, weedy crap. There is a a lot of cereals, pulses and canola that got in very late in the area. It will take a miracle to escape frost for those that diddle daddled all spring.

[silverback]

Define "diddle daddled".

Do you mean hoping for the hurricane wind to stop after 4 straight days because some fields really need a burn down and having to say screw it anyway and now it's a wreck?

Do you mean watching it snow and rain for 2 weeks at the end of april and early may and knowing how late it is?

Do you mean looking out across the fields and seeing water laying in spots that have never held water in 40 years and knowing it is May 10? Then wondering how the drill can even fit between the water holes?

Do you mean knowing that in order to get the crop seeded by a "decent" date you will now need 3 or 4 other helpers and run 20 hours plus a day? Too bad it was a little late by then.

Do you mean having your main tractor down for 3 days after going through all of the above?

It must be nice to have perfect crops after a perfectly timed spring and now to enjoy a perfect summer being all wrapped up. I can tell you that in our area there has been enough grief for some to last a lifetime.

[freewheat]

Thank you silverback. I am a diddle daddler for the exact same reasons you are. Some guys just don't get it.

[Hopperbin]

Yes I am happy Freewheat, those crops you seen west of Humboldt are not mine though they sure look good. Amazing crops for that area. Still have my fingers crossed, less than 1 percent drown out and hills awesome the higher up. The 2 inches give the crop a boost but still don't need any more, need them roots to go down a bit now.

[BTOfarmallll]

Silver. He uses all Deere Equipment - (air quote with fingers)

[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.