Friday crop report!

[SASKFARMER3]

Winter wheat is having a little bit of a problem
coming up. Top 1 inch is dry and hard.
Durum done bellow average to average.
Hrs most early done 3 to 2 high protein fuss and
ergot main down grade factors. Yield average to
odd one just above no 60 s any where. 30
common.
Barley a total total shit show 45 tops 20 low and
it's not plump 29 % . Ugly.
Peas 5 to 30?
Canola 6 to 25 to 28 late very good best 35. Most
sick with their canola early seeded is by far worst.
But late aren't getting great reviews either.
Oats coming in average to above, should have
mudded in that flooded quarter extra.
Lots of fall work happening, one thing seeing lots
of tandem disced or cultivated fields besides
heavy harrowing. Deep till ages are coming out of
retirement.

[ALLFARMER]

Sask3. How did the red army's floated on canola
turn out?

[SASKFARMER3]

The red army didn't, I believe broad ass never did
in the end. One guy did it didn't turn out to good .
We never did this year either.

[SASKFARMER3]

Actually I just remembered one guy did on the
reserve. Lemkine machine then floated and
harrowed. Looked ok but they swath to green so
could have done better

[fjlip]

Our Wheat 34 to 43, 1,2& 3.
Lots of wheat in 20's after standing got wind shattered.
Shattered oats looks awful.
Canola swaths a mess, everyone lost 5-10 bu/acre.
Our early seeded 20, last after wind from hell, only 27.
Barley in area as low as 20, max I heard 50.

[pourfarmer]

ground hard as a rock here, could be the
reason for all the discing? my small POS
deep tiller wont even go in the ground
with 6" sweeps just skids on top until it
catches then she goes down about 6" and
pulls up big blocks of packed dirt. Might
have to wait for rain, or pull out disk.

[Klause]

Finished canola 24.85 bpa... total acres
divided by total bushels delivered to
Viterra and Richardson... Have about 10
ac left standing that I gotta thrash.

Working on barley.. was an amazing
crop... then the wind hit. Went from 80
bpa to 40 - 50.

Wheat looks good.


Flax looks awesome.

Yes, late out here... finished MB a week
ago.

[tstep]

Just finished. Peas 26-30. Canola 28-32. HRS 30-40

[furrowtickler]

All good .... done. Peas 42 ish, hrsw 50 and canola Low 40's ave . not great but ok.
Last yeild test today
LL 130 37.8
46H75 46.8 SXS. Field Ave 51.8 - ok
Plus exp trial numbers in truck - dont care right now.
Anything not looked after- canola (fert/fung) 35 ish - anything looked after 40-45 ish, with some over 50 easy.
Now before I get bashed from some here, this is what happened here, not anywhere else .. OK ??
Fungicide on Canola - 6-8 bus on 4 diff test strips
Fungicide on HRSW 10 bus
Peas no check - know it is stupid not to spray - sorry.. in this area
Dekalb sucked - big time
L130 and 5440 did well minus cleavers and wild oats
VT 500 stood very well - lower yeild
46H75 - yeild king - by far
45H31 - best r/up
74-44 did well
73-45 absolutely sucked
PHI sclero varieties as advertiesed- 50-60% reduction in 3 tests.
Lance rocks , vertisan sucks.
Micros - were a waste - all of them
Sclerotina absolutely killed earlier canola here(may 1 - 15th) - not sprayed

Next year - heads up on sclero if any rain in May / June IMO

Going to bed, good luck to all.....

[SASKFARMER3]

furrow nice to see some one had a great
crop. Also nice break down of what you
saw and which varieties did OK or awesome. Also each area is different
like you said, in your area what you
stated worked. After harvest Ill break
down what our tests showed. One thing I
can agree on right now the top up micros
were a total waste of cash. One note a
very strong fertilizer program maybe
helps to, that's why were not seeing any
bounce. Two sections left of HRS and
were on to custom combine north of us.

[HappyFarmer]

Furrow, did you have a problem getting the green
out of your dekalb stuff this year? Hear it has
been a problem this year but unsure of which
variety.
Our farm.
45h29- did the best, 42-38 bu/acre
45h31- very close second. 32-35 bu
45s52 and s54- 25-28 bu.
L150-17 bu
Nice to hear your results on h75, I going to try
some of that next year for sure.
Micros waste of time as well but will but awaken
on the cereal seed next year for sure.
Sprayed all our h29 and some of our 31 with
lance, the rest didn't. Big mistake.
All and all really really happy. Lots of canola in the
area yielding 5-15 bu/acre. East of us in the
dauphin area hearing some guys burning canola
swaths, aster yellow was so bad it is 0 bu/acre.
Crop insurance riding on combines for a couple of
rounds and making the call if they can destroy
rather than combine. NEXera sounds the worst. I
know that sounds crazy but it's true.

[HappyFarmer]

Furrow, did you have a problem getting the green
out of your dekalb stuff this year? Hear it has
been a problem this year but unsure of which
variety.
Our farm.
45h29- did the best, 42-38 bu/acre
45h31- very close second. 32-35 bu
45s52 and s54- 25-28 bu.
L150-17 bu
Nice to hear your results on h75, I going to try
some of that next year for sure.
Micros waste of time as well but will but awaken
on the cereal seed next year for sure.
Sprayed all our h29 and some of our 31 with
lance, the rest didn't. Big mistake.
All and all really really happy. Lots of canola in the
area yielding 5-15 bu/acre. East of us in the
dauphin area hearing some guys burning canola
swaths, aster yellow was so bad it is 0 bu/acre.
Crop insurance riding on combines for a couple of
rounds and making the call if they can destroy
rather than combine. NEXera sounds the worst. I
know that sounds crazy but it's true.

[crusher]

Our farm is pretty much done harvesting. Bumper crop of wheat and canola turned out to be a little below average, barley worse. No hail would probably put us in at average. All our canola seemed okay including RR Nexera and Cargill V12. Lance worked well ( 10), Rovral just okay. We didn't see the great yield pop from the fungicides in the wheat like last year. Blackleg showing up in the canola plus I'm in the heart of clubroot country. Some very good farmers in my area getting yields they're not accustomed to. The old 5000 and concords yields right up with the JD conservapak.

[fjlip]

Same here, $300K 84' drills in some fields worse than older Bourgault air seeder and harrow packer. Talk about negative return on investment!

[MBgrower]

Micros and all those other fertility additives are a
waste of money. IMHO spend your dollars on N P
K S, not that snake oil.