Mother Nature just took another million tonnes off the books

[freewheat]

HA HA! Looked out at the sheep today.
They are damp, but not unable to breed
and have lambs, the prolific buggers!lol

Seems they may take work, and no trips
to HAwaii for my family this winter, but
a guy needs to do what he needs to do to
make a living, when he is building a
business with no shirtails to grasp
onto.

Sheesh the crops are flat today. Anyone
use a pull type swather any more?
Probably not, but if there is anyone out
there, should I look into the rotoshear,
or the sabre divider? Which is better? I
always have issues swathing leaning
canola, but this year it is
unprecedented for lodging after that
wild wind and rain yesterday. I could
straight cut it, but only have a rigid
auger header. Would that work ok? I cut
some volunteer canola last year, and it
worked ok, but I fear I will have
shelling issues with this setup???

[TOM4CWB]

Freewheat,

We have been using flex headers since we started straight cutting wheat in the 80's.

Rocks are the biggest reason... flexes jump over if they have been rolled. We roll everything now... and pick the big rocks.

If the rigid is smaller... and your rocks are looked after... they can work OK. Just like swathing... I have done a week of night swathing now... works the best.

[hedgehog]

finished direct cutting flat canola today, had to buy a sideknife, but worked ok.
yield about half of last year.

[dubsy]

Wilagro. You said you hiked off to the city to get a job. Did you hike downtown to the CWB headquarters by any chance? All this time i thought you were a farmer with your blinders on but if your working at cwb makes sense you would know whats best for farmers...

[parsley]

farmaholic, could I take some wine-olyn lessons,
instead? I think I want to live up to my
reputation. Pars

[wilagro]

dubsy: Nope, never worked for the CWB but never could see why some farmers absolutely detested the CWB. I had a neighbour who recorded his sales of barley through the CWB and recorded the equivalent non-board returns at the time and he maintained that the CWB brought him more return about 97% of the time. Had it all down in a scribbler. Unfortunately he passed away a few years ago.

If you want to know what's good for farmers just ask Ritz and Harper...they'll steer you straight and pardon you if you make a few mistakes as well.

[malleefarmer]

fooled me too wilargro i presumed you
were a farmer
makes no difference still read your posts

[TOM4CWB]

Willy
Strange you should use Barley as a crop
the Cwb was beneficial to grain growers
on.
No market power, proof year after year
the pool lost growers big money.

Cheers.

[wilagro]

malleefarmer: I did return to the farm. Inactive farmer now as I'm too fricken old but have grown cereal crops, canola, cattle, horses, swine, chickens, hay crops and lots of wild oats.

Tom: My neighbour grew barley (feed and malting) for over fifty years...his records did show more return through the CWB than local non-board sales. Your records may differ.

[Hopperbin]

I think if I tried to direct cut my last field of Canola I would have just as much dirt in the hopper as canola. Could a person actually sell shit like that? LOL

[Hopperbin]

Making more money from a crop than a different crop or making more money from a crop are two different things.

[JDGreen]

Why are most fields seeded north/south when my whole life the most damaging winds to canola swaths have come from the west? Been switching fields east/west for a few years now. My swathed east/west fields are perfect, the neighbors north/south are not so good..

[cottonpicken]

Free,i distinctly remember the vast majority of posts
being empathetic to your prior weather wows.

[furrowtickler]

Jd , I agree , i have no idea why guys seed and swath north to south - bafling. Then piss and moan the swath blew. The swath always settles way more the dierction of seeding and blows less with the 90% prevailing winds.. Same guys that go to Vegas and bet the house on a pair of 7's i geuss?? Also compmplain that that variety blew worse than the other seeded and swathed east west ???

[furrowtickler]

I know i am going to hear ,"it did not matter which way" - maybe not, but 90% of the time it does. Much like the fungicide debate , but it did make a huge diff here - if it(caonal/peas) were sprayed at the right time it is huge. B/C of the earlier rains (in this area) than the past 5 years, 20-30% flower was a huge benitfit, 50% flower too late. Sucked but while every one else was at the lake fishing, I sat on the sprayer. Then I went to the lake.
No doubt in some areas it did not matter, with thin stands and way too wet but some are just coming up with excuses here. And yes we have been lucky with weather up till now, but so has everyone else in a 20 mile radius of here. Outside that area it is a different world and not slinging mud at most of you. Localy I got abused for spraying too much, again time will tell. I played the cards as they fell, not coffie shop shit. Good luck too all, very wet here now, can not even swath.