Friday Crop Report!

[MarshallDillon]

Land prices getting scarry out here too. Last year 2K, this year 3K. About 1400 will cash flow. A former apprentice of George Soros is in the area and is buying up land and increasing rents by double and more. I do not see how rent can go from 50 to 120 in one year. I am an established farmer with virtually no debt and I cannot compete. My 10 year crop insurance average does not lie. At these rents, in this high moisture area, everyone has to grow either continuous soybeans or fold the tent. Only hope is unproven corn. This is heavy clay with not enough heat units a lot of years mind you. Any foreigner dumb enough to not know about the soybean-wheat-soybean rotation without any phosphate and never collecting the last rent deserves what they get. On the other hand, if the fed keeps printing money........

[Hopperbin]

SF3 true the geese will move 2 swaths over from a combine. Scare cannons do work and 2 on one quarter section should do it. Have heard rumours that after a while they ignored the cannons but it takes a little while I thinks. Seems all the nieghbours around here are trying to get crop ins claims for hail. Cause the hail ins guy cannot find the neighbour but can find my place for some reason.

[SASKFARMER3]

Its by a grid road they dont even move. To
much water in area. The blue dot on larrys
last map in East thats us.
I hate peas and so do most neighbours were
just going to quit feeding Ducks
unlimited.
Marsh one way to kill high rent is tell
the asshole to farm it him self. He will
learn fast.

[farming101]

Peas are out of the rotation here too. This'll be the third time we'll never grow them again!!! Ours might only grade feed. Feed pea price is less than feed wheat. Nice. Cutting so low a snake went through the combine.

[bucket]

In this area, with the amount of disease in both peas and canola, there could be a big shift back to cereals next year. Guys got 50 bushel canola swaths and the yield monitors are reading 20. And the trucks are not coming off the field very often.

I watch trucks not the yield monitors. The guy next to me had 3 deeres going on lentils and had to move to the next field before the super b and tridem was full. Even loaded to the pins it can't be yielding very well, considering the 5 trips over with the sprayer.

[sumdumguy]

Where you at Bucket? Crops SE of Regina are
pretty good. I fear that this disease in Canola
could kill the Cinderella crop just like ascho in
Lentils in Manitoba. What effect do you think that
will have on cash rents?

[fjlip]

Wow 20 bu out of 50 swath! We don't have much of a swath, guess 10 then.
The many hard rains in June killed the canola potential. Poorest stand on hills and hard soil types. Best stand on peat soil. Must be the packing effect of rain and hail then wind to flatten crop.
Lack of oxygen to the roots in early growth stage.
Big early rains take grain.

[agstar77]

Canola yields coming in at 15 to 30. Heat disease have killed it. Starting to kill soybeans too.

[freewheat]

All this talk of 50 bushelswaths with 20
bushel seed yields. I gotta ask, is it a
surprise once going with the combine, or
do guys know ahead of time by looking at
the crop that there will be that big a
yield hit? Because like FJ, if we yield
half of what it looks like, we would be
doing good to hit 10-25. I have done
extensive looking though, and I see
regular amounts of seeds, and fairly
decent podding. IE. peeling hundreds of
pods, I find none empty or half full
etc.

So is it noticeable before combining for
the guys with these poor results?

[agstar77]

The RRV has not received regular rains like sask , thus greater stress on canola.

[fjlip]

But 20" like we got still makes a disaster of a crop.
Two extremes, same result.
This area would be happy with drought.

[furrowtickler]

Pea yields anywhere from 10 - 50 depending on rainfall and fungicide useage. Most averageing 30 or less.

[furrowtickler]

Canola will be the same and wheat will be more stable in the high range.

[jethro456]

A lot combined in Southern Alberta lately. Here's
some of our yields:

Barley - 87.5 by avg. Looked good all year. One
fieldran 100 but some poor land after brought down
the average. Bu weight is only 49 lbs.
Canola - 41 bu avg. Would have been higher but the
swaths blew worse than I've ever seen. Had to
combine entire field and headers shelled a tonne
with their wheel. Some guys using straight cut
headers to pick up swaths. This crop had no aster
yellows but about 10% sclerotenia.
Peas- averaged 58 over 4 fields

[Partners]

WE did 225 acres of Bly..40 b/a(with weight adjusted) and weighs 43 lbs..Crop insurance time again..for Bly and Canola...SO what do we seed next yr.?