So maybe crop conditions arent as good out west as some let us believe.

[blackpowder]

I've seen pics of a sprayer pulled in half. Dig dig dig.
To the topic; I've driven the length of Hwy 21 and zig zagged both sides. That's the 'breadbasket'.
I saw very damn few poor crops. Likely close to half Canola. Looking trend line at least? Meaning, nice but not record.
About the hell that is Sask. most of us here will never know what that's like. I've never seen anything sink to the belly pan here.

[SASKFARMER3]

Take a foot of rain after years of excess rain and you have the shit we have! That is for the reports!

[hobbyfrmr]

Drove from Blaine Lake to Biggar. Excellent crop conditions. Big big crop coming. Drove from Leask through Prince Albert to St Brieux. Lots of drowned from standing water, but what's left is exceptionally nice, so the extra yeild will make up for lost acres.
I do not have the money or time to drive through and report on entire quadrants of Saskatchewan, but anything I have seen "around here" is on the way to being exceptional....again.

[Lex]

Farmaholic. Yes, I'm embarrassed to say. I did cross the water. I thought it would be better on the other side. Was like driving on top of lemon merange pie. Track hoe never had a chance to try pulling. It just sunk as soon as it got close. Lucky when I dug down 4 feet I found bottom. Pulled the mud out from in front of the tractor then pulled it into the hole and then up and out. Made a ramp and walked the hoe out too. Then put the two tractors in tandem with about 400 feet of cable and pulled the sprayer out. Took a whole day.

[farmaholic]

Glad to hear you got it out, and safely :-)

[SASKFARMER3]

Hobby take 60 on 40% of a quarter and 20 on 20% and 40 % on nothing. How is that a balanced out crop!
That's a 27 bushel crop that they spent on 80% of a quarter before the flood! Their losing money!

[blackpowder]

Time for someone to go to the lake for a month and leave the internet behind.
Hmmmm, I'll never know what that's like.
Woes me.

[Hopperbin]

How are you marking out klause? Did you get out
Yet.

[hobbyfrmr]

Wow, Sf3 that is some rough math all right . 27 bu/ac x $10.00 is only 270/acre. If a farmer put 300/ acre into I the is short $30.00/acre. Use an round number like 3000 acres canola planted would leave a $90,000 loss.
If this really happens, some farmers are going to have to take from their savings accounts.

[seabass]

What savings account? After the last 5 years of which 1 maybe 2 were good its tough to put much money away when we are always in recovery mode. Next year will be a recovery year if we are lucky. Sick and tired of pumping hundreds of thousands into the ground just to breakeven or lose money.

[ado089]

Maybe if we pay more freight we'll make more money.

[SASKFARMER3]

Hobby take your 10 down to 9 and who seeds the whole farm to canola throw in wheat at 4 x 27 = $108 plus your 270 divided by 2 = 189 - 300 expenses the farmers are only losing 111 an acre! God do you live in the city and not farm!
Thus is a huge fricking loss!