This year I will produce crap.

[ianben]

We are having a wet harvest here in UK.Wish I could send you some rain.
Sprouting is widespread in all crops.

I have customers millers maltsters crushers who need my crops but not in this condition.

I hope they will get supplies from elsewhere and be there next year should the sun shine for me.

I thought this was the role of your CWB.
I thought they supplied the quality from wherever it was produced and kept your customers in business confident they would be supplied with the quality they NEED.

This is what the grain traders do for us over here but they take a profit wherever they can as is only natural.
Do they care where that grain was produced?Why should they?

I wish we all had Marketing Boards which looked after the farmers and our customers interests.

Our customers are our future.

Is it be so bad for European or US grain to livestock herds viable till you can supply them again ?


I certainlly dont want my millers etc. to go broke or move elsewhere.

[charliep]

Thanks for the update. A very difficult year for farmers in many areas of the world. It will be an interesting year to see how markets respond.

[TOM4CWB]

Ianben,

I agree about the marketing boards and working together.

The Ontario Wheat Board, and even to a large extent the Australian Board have been threatened, and now have responded by really trying to provide the services needed and required in high performance agricultural product marketing.

Will the CWB recover sanity, and rebuild trust soon enough to prevent its own exxtinction...???

[TOM4CWB]

Pea crop droughted down to 15 0r 20 bus. acre now rain has come and split the pods and split the peas inside them and causing them to germinate. It will be nothing but crap. Oh what a wonderful cropping season from Hell.

[ianben]

That is just what happened to ours peas as well. Looked a great crop till 5days of drizzle with high temps split the pods and they germinated. Now they have roots about 1inch long and are falling on the floor. Fine weather today but they are 25% moisture and ground still very wet.
Canola germinated in pod also but mostly without pods splitting.
Managed to harvest that but not sure what crushers will make of it. I estimate over 50%sprouted.

Farming sure is an interesting hobby!!

[TOM4CWB]

Ianben,

Parts of Eastern Sask. has had 5-7" of rain in the last week, with sprouting in the head etc.

It really is a torture test... we obviously are all on this ride together!!!

[jensend]

We're 45 min NE of Regina, 20 bu peas, frozen lentils, grasshoppers ate what canola survived the heat, wheat will have frost damage, but barley and canary look okay.

[rosco]

I farm at Galahad AB. We harvested our first field of yellow peas on Friday. Ran 5. other yields from the area are 6-10. Most canola is either sprayed out or silaged. Some barley fields were silaged and what's left i expect won't make 15. the wheat is our best hope, I'm hoping for 12 to 15.