Knob & Kettle Terrain

[ColevilleH2S]

Quote SF3 "...To the west half of sask. enjoy because when we go back to normal so do you. Wink wink."

Wink wink, Oh your a mean one Mister Grinch. LOL

[freewheat]

Oh man, you must be kidding! Some sure
is knob and kettle, some is rolling
strongly, and some is flat as a pancake.
Some is flat with good drainage, some is
rolling with good drainage, some is knob
and kettle with anywhere from 3 to 50
sloughs on a quarter. Some is flat and
sloped, some is clay, some is sandy
loam, some is clay loam, some is silty
clay loam, some is gravelly loam, some
is fine sandy loam, some is....

I only mean that looking at some map,
and generalizing dramatically, is like
outsiders saying Saskatchewan is flat
and treeless!

How about Nipawin? Knob and kettle?
Tisdale? Kob and kettle? Kamsack? knob
and kettle?

Just saying! lol

[SASKFARMER3]

It's the truth when the east part goes back to
normal rainfall, what happens in the west.

[sumdumguy]

This weather pattern is repeat of the 50's

Dad took us to school at Bechard on a
tractor fender.

[SASKFARMER3]

Cupar, Indian head, Wadena, Yorkton, balcarres,
etc etc.

[mcfarms]

Should be done seeding this week.......

[mcfarms]

and then after the garden goes in maybe the fields will be dry enough too

[fjlip]

I think Drew talked about the cycles at one meeting and his guess is wetter till peak at 2019, before getting drier years.

That ought to eliminate many of us.

[freewheat]

Huh, I made the decision on the way home.
I am building fences this summer. What a
sickening mess. I refuse to wait until
2019! Grass is green, fields are
saturated. Water running in the creeks
like it is April 10th. Bye Bye grain
farming. HA!

[freewheat]

Buchanan, Kelvington, Carrot river,
Norquay....

[ALLFARMER]

Freewheat

I quit big modern grain farming 5 years ago. I
don't miss the input bills and risking the farm
every year.

100 cows x $1000 calves = 100,000$/yr

[freewheat]

All farmer, I have enough land that I am
sure I could run 300 head if I went that
route. I am leaning sheep. 700 ewes is
1000 lambs at 185 bucks is 185 000...

But it will take time, but I have had
near enough of the way things are going.
Mostly weather, but just general
traditional farming is such a gong show
anymore.

At the least, I will become mixed. In
say a 5 year transition, maybe the
weather improves and I capitalize on
these grain prices like everyone else
has, or it stays wet and sloppy, and I
forget the mixed and become a shepherd.
The options are there...