Simply said......

[farmaholic]

I wish I would have spent more time in the sprayer this season......!!!!

[boarderbloke]

your kidding,,,,,right!!!???

what did you miss,,,,weeds, pests or disease?

hope I don't feel that way when I get on the combine, however, I sense I may too.

crop isn't "all that"

[farmaholic]

Weeds get the full meal deal but should have done more disease and insects. Sclerotinia, midge, fusarium, aphids.

[fjlip]

Torrential rain, 100kph wind, heat and HAIL on most of the farm don't leave much to spray more money on.
Insects will have to move to a good crop.
Losing bu to you name it.

[hobbyfrmr]

Don't worry, the season is not over yet. You can
still spray for loopers, bertha army worm,,
sclerotia, dessicate something, pre harvest
roundup for thistles and quack, and, if you
planted late, you can spray for frost. Then, there
is post harvest spraying.
The more acres you spray, justifies ownership
Simple answer.
You can spray to your heart's desire. Protect your
investment. If you think about it, you can't afford
not to spray.

[bucket]

Or you can spray away your investment.

Trying to best mother nature with a
sprayer is not a winning proposition.

[furrowtickler]

One of the best quotes I ever heard was " You only have about 45 days to realy look after your crop, dont *** it up. That leaves 320 for every thing else."
You do not have to outsmart mother nature but we do have to live off her.

[TOM4CWB]

Furrow,

PERFECTION is not possible... but good planning and hard work bring us closer to being good stewards.

When the bad weather event comes... then all the investments made have new values... but seldom are worthless.

On a Wing and a Prayer... there are folks south of us that are under much more stress than us!

We need that weedy field and thin stand to appreciate all the good planning and blessings that did work out the way we had planned!

Cheers!!!

[bucket]

And when they invent a spray that
protects your ripe durum from a five day
rain, I will buy it.

But I have seen more number one durum go
to a five more than I care to. And all
the planning didn't change the final
result.

So now I enjoy the lake days with the
kids. Those days i can't get back.

[rhoff]

Bucket it's funny you say that cause there is a
product in Europe that will be available here soon
that uses pine resin to water proof you're wheat
stand for about 20 days or so. Does it work ?
Beats me but I guess time will tell. It's called
desicoat.

[furrowtickler]

Bucket that's exactly why we don't grow lentils, did not matter how much we sprayed, we had more crappy lentils than good. Not all crops fit all areas, but the ones that do on good years are worth saving other wise why seed at all.

[farmaholic]

Don't get me wrong, I don't like spraying but looking at the potential of these crops and not going the extra mile is going to cause some problems. I agree, in the end Mother Nature dictates and has the final word but there are some things I could have done to at least help ensure yeild maybe wouldn't have been lost, quality too but Mother Nature stills plays the last card there. Challenging, it is.

Did disease in lentils, barley and flax; did disease and bugs in durum. Didn't do disease in peas and now mycosphaerella is rampant and aphids showed up on same field(hard to justify a insectide when it is so diseased). Didn't do disease in springwheat(not too bad at all) but didn't do midge either(expanding seed for a midge tolerant variety for next year) And worst yet didn't do sclerotinia in canola and think that is the one I will regret the most.

[bucket]

Overall, can you guys pinpoint which
impacts yield the most? The shitty
weather at the beginning of the year,
the disease during the middle, or the
weather to finish the crop?

And when do you think the traders
realize this isn't the crop that was
here last year?

From what I hear and what I see on my
farm, I lost more acres after seeding to
moisture than the mistakes my hired
people made, there is more disease and
the weather to finish looks like it may
cut yield. Oh throw on some hail for
good measure.

But luckily the slough acres are coming
back to seed for next year. Always next
year. But those lake days and a string
of pickeral make it worthwhile.

[charliep]

bucket

What is it that you expect from the market? Do you
not believe industry has some pretty good capabilities
of analyzing crop conditions and likely yields.

My job in a past life for a grain company and I made
use of the entire elevator system information that
spanned the whole prairies. UGG published this
information (for the most part doesn't happen today).
Knowing what was likely for sale, planning logistics
and making sales based on this information was a
pretty critical part of having an efficient elevator.
When an elevator companies screws up (happens), the
elevator plugs up and your signal is limited ability to
deliver out of that site.

I highlight we are currently have record prices with
the US corn and soybean crop concerns the driver
plus eastern Europe/wheat. Can we go higher?
Maybe but look at the full picture - not just what is
happening outside your window.

[wmoebis]

I always was told when the elevator plugged up it was the railroads fault or the CWB's fault. WOW the elevators can make mistakes.

Not sure but with the year we have seen from here on, there maybe more money made/lost on the grading bench than in the field.

Diseases, insect and weather factors carry on into sample. We are set up for alot of grading factors with some uneven fields that were flooded and came later increasing the risk of FR, FRGR and mildew issues.

Conditions are ripe for midge, sawfly and we still have lots of ergot spores floating around.

I would hope producers know thier product when they go to market. I like to tell my buyer what I have for sale, not ask them what I have. Or at least subjectively and objectively go over the factors together.

Like Charlie implied "elevators do make mistakes" and not only bringing in wrong commodities at the wrong time.