Friday Crop Update!

[SASKFARMER3]

Well lets try something new this year a update of how your crop is doing and at what stage its at plus moisture or deficit that you had.
HRS and Durum any where from out of ground to 6leaf. Disease is present on Wheat on Wheat. Durum sprayed for disease wheat next.
Canola from bolting to finally rows. Cabbage for the first time in years on some early fields. 5 inches of rain causing yellowing in allot of fields because of soil saturation. One more rain those areas gone.
Winter wheat doing extremely well if sprayed for disease.
Flax whats their is yellow from moisture.
Lentils are non existent.
Peas are almost the same and the ones that are their are yellow. That's not the variety.
Barley and Oats very little grown so any where from just up to 6 leaf.
Rain for week 5 inches since last Friday, more on way for weekend.
Note for our area is spraying is way way way behind. Some Canola fields will be flowering before machines can stay afloat on them. Planes hired but list very long.
Summer barbecue at local Dealers the other day and all attending said were now like last year for ground saturation. Problem is their is no bottom like last year.

[freewheat]

Hey saskguy. A timely update.

We WERE in the garden spot. It hadn't rained since april hardly, and things were really nice looking. BUT, it was seeded into very wet conditions. And we got about 4 inches. I think 1/3 of the canola is gone, 1/3 is pathetic, dropping leaves etc., and 1/3 is half a crop. It is in the 2-5 leaf stage.

What sucks is my farm got an extra fast half inch that started literally at my front door, and extended north to all my land, then petered out. You can now tell I got that extra half in in ten minutes, because of how poor my crops look, compared to neighbors south. It sucks to see!!!

My oats looks like a damn bunch of lemon fields. Yellow and suffering, and very late. Earliest is 2-3 leaf. Its just not growing with the clouds and saturated soil.

I am very glad i have half decent CI coverage, but was really hoping for a good crop to get back on my feet after the previous years of crap. I am very scare to spray suffering crops. They are fairly clean, but so sick looking, I think they could get extra injured form herbicides...

I also have a half section that was borderline too wet to seed. At least now i can claim it and not worry about
CI being belligerent. lol

For the area, very late, some half decent crops, none really very good. Many leaves drooping in cereals, low areas golden colored. Some farm roads re-washed out, erosion in fields.

Walked across land yesterday. Ankle deep slop, water everywhere. Crops dying in yeaterdays heat, they just can't cope. Ironically we need heat, but yet when saturated, crops can't cope.

AHHH next year.

[freewheat]

Leaves DROPPING in cereals. And canola actually.

[sumdumguy]

Likely root-rot combined with poor rot
development?

[SASKFARMER3]

Likely saturated soils and 5 more inches of rain.
Dah! Same all the way to valley and on to
Regina. Canola field south of CKCK station a
very wonderful yellow. Oh it's yellow because of
rain.

[freewheat]

Not sure, but a combination of no roots
reaching the mid row, and too wet. The
hills are almost normal. But the good
land unfortunately has few hills.

Neighbors with pre-seed banded n, at a
high rate, is the same thing, dying out.
Combination of bad stage too. I think if
the roots had hit the n, it would have
been more vigourous to grow through the
high moisture conditions... The earlier
by 5 days canola is better, it got the n
in time. Needless to say, banders are
going for next year. Hate them with a
passion, waste of money P's of S!

[BTOfarmallll]

Freewheat thought yous had a Million Dollar crop coming, thats why we ain't hear from yous. Now the crop is on its way to being F*cked and we kin't hear enough from yous. What kinda drill yous running with MRB's??? If'n yous gon run em' got to know how to use em' eh. YOUS got to put fert. down with the seed also, kin't expect the roots to reach the MRB'd fert in time, duh. Go ahead switch away from em' = less bushels on the market = higher price for my grain!!!!!

[fjlip]

Freewheat you could be right about the N. Lots of sick yellow crops here too.

We fall applied all N S and so far descent looking.

One half section got 7/10" real fast and is the poorest, dropping leaves etc.

Three miles away half the rain and our best canola, sprayed yesterday, a 10.

All wheat is coping with wet better, lush, canopied.

Better stop raining, or crops will go backwards.

The area crops are all over the place.
Half sprayed, some getting late, big weeds, lots of water, but wet varies wherever thunderstorm downpours happened.
Herbicides will add stress, no win situation.

[SASKFARMER3]

Likely saturated soils and 5 more inches of rain.
Dah! Same all the way to valley and on to
Regina. Canola field south of CKCK station a
very wonderful yellow. Oh it's yellow because of
rain.

[freewheat]

Hey BTO, your right thought I had the
millioner crop. Then it rained too much.
Got lotsa time to whine and snivel
now!!!

Here I thought I was doing it right. The
banders I mean. Silly me, must of forgot
to lower them...TEE HEE.

Saskfarmer was askin' I thought I'd'n
answer him.

Went to Humboldt today. Hopperbin must
be tickled, lotsa nice canolie out west
where the saturation is not too bad.
Some poor around quill and clair. And
the crops are Way ahead at humboldt.
Bolting cabbaged canola. From half a
mile, mine is still not visible hardly.

Oh well lookd like some sun finally
coming our way.

Oh, and BTO, I am putting 25lbs n with
seed for oats, 60 in mid row. How much
kin I be puttin' der big fella? Mebbe if
a guy speaked yer language you'sun give
a guy some tips on perfection.LOL

[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)