Update on crop conditions

[charliep]

Just looking for an update on crop conditions.

On the way in this morning, someone told me it has rained 20 of the last 30 days around Edmonton. I am assuming (farmers from the Edmonton area may tell me different) that disease issues will be coming to the forefront. Need sunshine and hotter weather. If occurs, I suspect we will be looking pretty darn good for respectable yields. Lots of canola in full flower based on my Sunday ride.

Others comments. Include your general area.

[silverback]

We have missed every shower that has gone through. Crop needs moisture now after extreme wet 3 weeks ago. Ridiculous I know.

[freewheat]

Wadena/Kelvington area. Crops are decent, but probably just average when you take out the drowned stuff. The best soil, (flat) has the worst crops this year. The worst soil, loamy hilly stuff, is the best.

Speaking personally, my canola is very variable within fields, and from field to field. I have some excellent canola on some higher land, should yield well. But my other canola on better land is barely fair overall. Excellent areas broken up by very poor areas that flooded, so average or a bit less.

The oats look excellent in all but one quarter, they seem to do better with wet conditions maybe.

NO flax anywhere, lots of canola, lots of barley, a fair amt of oats, a bit of wheat, few peas. Barley suffered.

I'm sticking to an average at best canola crop, and a solid oat crop, below average barley, no flax, poor peas, and who cares about wheat til next year???lol

One thing is for sure, the crops are LATE. Nothing headed out yet, barley poking beards, canola just getting into flower.

[freewheat]

Oh yeah, the rain can bloody well stop already. Still can't get down some roads, as the water runs out of lakes after every rain still. We have had rain every other day pretty much. The only thing saving us now is that the crops are using moisture, and the sunny days are half decently warm.

[ado089]

In the southern NW and N central everything looks good compared to last year but average at best describes things. It's easy to be fooled by solid yellow or green at 65mph but when you get into the crops the are still lacking density. NW ranges from drowning to thin due to frost, cutworm and gophers. She's no bumper crop up in this neck of the woods.

[agstar77]

Surface dry, good subsoil moisture . Early wheat boot. Soybeans flowering and branching.

[furrowtickler]

agree with ado. Wht and peas look very good around here. Canola is exteemly variable in crop stand and maturity.

[Jfreedom]

North of Elrose w/c Saskatchewan really dry crop
will go back if it doesnt come soon Lentils early
flower some disease spraying Durum about
25%headed to headed some midge spraying
canola full flower you can send us rain any time
just don't freeze it first please

[JDGreen]

excellent on everything just south of Swift Current. Canola full bloom, peas flowering, early durum/wheat heading, Lentils flowering and early ones starting to pod. One problem also. Hasn't rained since June 27th and the crop has set up big. With 30 pluses in the forecast by friday here we need a rain within the next 7 days or will be going backwards rapidly after that. Still would be a decent crop rain or not.

[SASKFARMER3]

East Sask. The Durum I seeded Excellent to bad I didn't get the other 700 acres in but that ground was way to wet. Barley wow.
Oats not my best but doing ok.
Peas well drained fields excellent the flat ones ps poor. Look like shit hope for hail storm.
Canola well its all over the map. Some excellent some ps poor. Frost did take toll and thin out early seeded canola. Late stuff looks good but next weeks extreme weather could hurt. Field at edgeley will finish flowering this week its starting already.
HRS just finished with disease control all looks like a normal HRS wheat crop Early hrs heading with 18 rows.

[craig]

Lacombe Area
Currently estimating 10% crop lost to flooding and
over 50% suffering severe stress from excess
moisture. Disease pressure coming on, late flushing
weeds with no crop competition would suggest below
average crop.

[Gofer]

Edmonton area. This morning it has not rained for 26 hours ! Hay all around has been cut since July 4th and washed many times. Crops are very lush and ripe for fungus. Too wet to spray fungicide till now. This afternoon we will try and see how deep the ruts will be. Trying to get a plane to do 2 wet 1/4s with drowned spots, but booked through next thursday at the earliest.