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    Friday Crop Report!

    Well a page will turn on the Calendar tomorrow. Gee when I was a kid a rain exhibition week in Regina and the Crop was made. Ha maybe the earth did shift because the next five to 10 days feel like the second week of July. So maybe we are like a time change except we jumped back two weeks. Because we seed second week May since the snow is still here till then. Spray into first week of July get a monsoon from May long till July 5th. Now finally heat like early july.
    Soy love what the week has thrown at it. Heat and Inch rain and its been flowering since Sunday. Looks great has nice potential since it is flowering two weeks ahead of last year but also its a new shorter season variety than we use to grow. Probably helps out. Yes I pay for a shorter soy season seed because their actually is something happening to get it to speed up.
    Canola is flowering to shutting down on early fields again in flowering stage even a Retarded sister can look Not bad but after the flowers are gone its the same short thin shit on flood damaged fields. Some are recovering not bad but Ugly is still Ugly. My late seeded in Early June has potential plus my Hailed out shit has potential if we don't get a frost for 4 to 6 more weeks. Now the neighbour who seeded June 20th and its just trying to Bolt and Cabbage not sure. I like his sprayed out last years Canola crop the best. Canola people will be surprised on some fields and surprised on some others One good and one bad.
    HRS has finished flowering and is starting to fill. It is thinner than last year and I suspect will not yield like it did. Heads are their but with the heat and shallow root system I don't expect it to fill also like last year. Time will tell it is by far the one crop that made it through the floods the best.
    Durum wish I would have grown again, Nice but you really had to follow the guide to dealing with disease this year. Those that did have a very nice crop coming those that didn't have a crop coming.
    Flax again is very very nice only the worst water logged fields have issues or hail. Flax and hail is a fail.
    Lentils and Peas are same category this year. WTF happened. Even the Red army who has never had a dud has a dud whole section. The nicest peas I have seen all summer is a half section in valley south of Cupar N ice even tall and podded to top with big pods. Hailed fields in area are trying to flower but most should have been written off.
    Finally Barley, Hello did any one grow this crop, Europe has issues with grade for Malt need to get what we have off and decent shape. Early is thin as barley and water actually have issues also. Late is thick but late. Taking forever to head. Potential is their but early and late have two issues. Heat and frost. Time will tell.
    Oats again not very much out their surprised must have been the fact the railways were not shipping grain south so all farmers are just delivering now their 2014 oats so why grow it. What's their is Awesome on early seeded late has a few issues its growing so slow.
    So to wrap up the week the heat is awesome to push this crop, it is drying the ground up and that's great. The 3/4 to 1 inch rain was just what we needed and Saturday a little shower would be icing on cake.
    One thing I am noticing is just because you give a crop every single thing from best seed, best seed treatment, to best spray to best disease control, It doesn't matter a bit mother nature picks the winners and losers in the farming game.
    Have a fun Saskatchewan day on Monday and be safe its just a farm.

    #2
    I guess the one real big thing that hit home this week after walking fields and on the quad, This crop isn't even close to last years on all crops. Soy yes for now looks like the winner but has a long way to go. The rest Canola peas and Lentils are way way lower and Unfortunate for us with shallow roots it looks like the cereals will also be lower.

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      #3
      Took a drive to look at some equipment. Went from Whitewood north to Yorkton up #9 then down #10 to Fort Qu'Appelle. Yikes, didn't see alot of good crops til we got to Balcarres. There is a large area of shitty canola crops. Tomorrow he head to Prince Albert, it will be ineresting what we see in that direction.
      On our farm wheat and durum look good. Flax looks good. Canola is ok but doesn't seem as heavy as last year. Peas are still ugly with patches in the fields that will give a bit of a crop. The decent field we do have lacks height, but maybe that will help them from laying over. After the drive yesterday, I'm very grateful for the crop I do have, albeit not in the bin yet.
      Good luck.

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        #4
        Are there lodged crops anywhere?
        Saw a bit in western Alberta in barley where double fertilized.
        Our own barley has very little in contrast to last year when it hurt yield and made for difficult harvest on higher ground. Think we had denitrification on lower areas.
        Other crops have no lodging so far, do not see why lodged crops should yield better other than that it is usually an indication of adequate to excess nitrogen. Also comes from driving rain.

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          #5
          Hot and muggy.
          Crops filling fast with rain last week. Heat this week has advanced our crops to ahead of normal in the past few years.
          Huge pods on canola,
          Peas filling great well podded,
          wheat finished flowering and filling now.
          Our flax is just about done flowering.

          Faba beans are done flowering with pod fill commencing on the top of plants.

          Barley just getting through water stress as many later seeded fields did not enjoy the rainy season. Early barley now turning... as is winter wheat.

          Oats looks great but many later fields look behind somewhat.

          Another week of heat that has been forecast will push us into harvest a week early.

          Hope we can avoid the big white combine.

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            #6
            So tom you have the perfect crop! Good for you! Must be perfect weather in that part of Alberta! Enjoy I remember living in a sure crop area! Lost that since the 2000s hit! I want it back! Enjoy!

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              #7
              Drove down to Wynyard today. Most crops suck. The very odd decent wheat field. Peas short and shutting down prematurely, canola mostly pathetic, flax barely started blooming, many canola fields just starting blooming, MANY oat fields not headed out yet.

              These farmers "put the inputs in" like any farmer anywhere, but unfortunately, their crops suck.

              For those with good crops, Alberta Crop Insurance, and a wife that is a nurse or teacher, enjoy. Do not forget there are those less fortunate thanks not to their "input" and "expertise", but thanks to rainfall amounts that many simply can not come close to comprehending.

              For myself, I am reasonably fortunate. Might be a near average crop. IF it makes it and there is no frost by late September. But having actually lived through those pathetic years and years of drowning and flooding, and all that it entails, I have feelings for these poor guys.

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                #8
                SF3,

                All I did was report what is going on.

                And when we were dried out or too wet... that was a part of growing grain in Canada... I do not understand why you jump off the deep end saying I have a perfect crop and am arrogant and selfish... without any compassion for those who are not exactly like we are now!

                Untrue.

                So you do NOT want a crop report if it is from Alberta?

                Or only from Northern Alberta where growers are worse off than you... maybe?

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                  #9
                  If your crop needs until the end of September free wheat you are one of those "poor' guys. Or will be.

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                    #10
                    Riders, you saw my point, huh? I have wheat just headed. I have canola just coming into flower. A function less of late seeding, and more of cool temperatures.

                    I had asked in another thread about this "heat" that is apparently out there somewhere. We just aren't getting crop pushing heat.

                    It is indeed all a big "IF"...

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                      #11
                      Annual ryegrass should be swathed Monday or Tues. Agronomist for the seed company says it's a good stand.

                      Spring wheat is filling nicely. Looks better than last year. Could be astounding yields. Maybe a couple weeks from harvest.

                      The canola is the most amazing canola crop ever on our farm. Huge pods, with seed filling nicely. The later canola on sprayed out hayfield is improving every day. It might be in a time crunch to beat an early frost.

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                        #12
                        Tommy boy a little sensitive today are we!
                        No I like the fact you have a bumper coming it's a great feeling I know, I remember it we'll!
                        It's nice to see one area have some great luck with Mother Nature! I don't wish bad on any farmer!
                        Never have never will! Only thing in canada all the planning on the world Mother Nature still holds all the cards in this northern climate! We grow a crop on the fringe area it only makes sence!
                        So please keep posting good luck with harvest!
                        You will be shipping and delivering a month to 6 weeks ahead of us in the east!

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                          #13
                          I have farmed for 34 years. I never saw the perfect crop, but I knowbsome farmers have experienced the ecstacy. Good for you who are enjoying. I hope that it will make it to the bin in great shape. SF3, you are a passionate farmer and I respect you for that. Its all good. Long weekend is here. Hope all the Agrivillers have a great one. Marguerita time!

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                            #14
                            I agree sum margarita time! Honestly have nothing to work on till Tuesday!
                            First break in the season!

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                              #15
                              Sask3 Your post does sound like a whiney spoiled brat who normally gets his way but isn't. Sorry but have to call you out. You only seem to want the typical coffee shop whining about everything and not the facts. There are nice crops out there and it would serve you well and your marketing to see that

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