Mother Nature still wins in Canada, One of the hardest places in the world to grow a crop!

[fjlip]

If I would have been making the rules a hundred years ago, every quarter section would have 100' deep of trees along the west and north fence lines. About 12 acres worth off of 160.
We would never see this kind of disaster!
Micro climate perhaps?
Would have helped when tillage was the rage, and yesterday.

[freewheat]

That is kinda how my owned land is.
Surrounded by woods on several sides.
Its beautiful indeed! And yes, my canola
that is in the bushland is staying put.
But unfortunately half of my canola is
on the newly balded praire where the
owner a couple years ago, HAD to have
the extra acre, and pushed the bush
down. Scattered badly on those fields.

And micro-climate? I had canola on one
of these fields that went over fourty in
2004. In the open, yields were 0 to 3.
My canola was no earlier than the other
stuff. I actually had wheat adjacent to
this canola that weighed 42 pounds that
year, and a zero yield flax crop. But
the quarter sheltered by bush went 40.

The guy who hassles me continually to
remove a fencline, and thinks trees are
evil, had his barley swaths blow around
yesterday, not a tree in sight. But on
my adjacent field to his north, with
trees on three sides, I have a few
canola swaths blown a bit, but not all
that bad.

I aint a treehugger, but I do hunt, and
enjoy having a place to hunt I can walk
to in 3 minutes. Thing is, all the tree
pushers beg to hunt on my land! I think
not!

[Potashprincess]

We lost 15 bpa minimum on 600acres, some rolled some not, fence line or no fence line, the wind took no prisoners. In fact our worst field, a 40 bpa down to a 20bpa was a treed on all four sides... i like fencelines too but they don't stop hurricanes

[Hopperbin]

Only way to tarp a truck in a wind like that would be up against a tree line think about it then.

[Potashprincess]

Hopper i dont have to think about it, I was doing it. Did you lose 20 bpa or more from wind? I did and I seen what fields were affected most severley, no rhyme or reason...and fyi, 75% of our land has fencelines...

[sumdumguy]

Never saw wind blow like this day after day,
maybe its hurricane season in Saskatchewan not
Kansas.

[fjlip]

A half of rain over night!!!
None was predicted. Rather have had the frost predicted.
Anyone else get stopped harvesting?

[fjlip]

Inch that is

[furrowtickler]

Yuup, all across northern sask. showers started in
north east Alberta and slide all the way to
Manitoba . Why not the wheat just got dry around
5 pm last night. Lol

[freewheat]

Same here fj. Kinda annoying, eh?