Friday Crop Report!

[Braveheart]

Rockpile, didn't take any bait. Jumped in, eyes open. TV sucks Thursdays. I was bored and wanting to live up to the first line in my file that reads, "doesn't play well with others".

I understand what you're saying about not meeting specified grades or, getting dumped on by bad weather and circumstance. That's when the contingency plans come in.

This business is about managing risk. Knowing what you can do with 7% FHB, or low grades. Being as lean as possible in crop inputs till things turn around.

Is John D'Amico still alive? I can't skate worth a shit so I hope it's not a hockey fight.

[SASKFARMER3]

Boy did this thread get side tracked.
It's about being safe not worrying about a worthless crop. Meaning a crop that's getting close to your cost of production. We lost another one of us tonight. Be safe.

[Braveheart]

What I am trying to say without saying it out loud is about being safe inside your head. Having depression and anxiety can be as harmful as any farm accident. Trying to maintain a positive outlook as much as possible helps. I try to suggest ways to help. I've seen firsthand how unsafe the wrong thoughts can be.

SF3, are you writing of a tragedy in your area?

[blackpowder]

News flash from Tom country. Everyone bullshits. You might as well grin while you bear it.
The usual suspects got done just before rain. The main herd finished Saturday. Coffee shop yields good average. I should publish AFSC reported yield for area when available. More lower average I expect.
I'll start some fall banding Saturday. Keep it sane.

[BreadWinner]

Sorry to all the family and friends of the farmer that was killed in a farm accident today. I heard a 57 year old man was killed trying to tow out a stuck combine. Very tragic news.

[farmaholic]

I knew exactly what you meant SF3, although saying it was worth nothing is a little extreme. But I said the same thing here to the people who help me. We put in extra hours and slugged the durum crop through the combine before the threat of looming rain, like it was gold, knowing full well it was poor quality. No one to blame but myself for trying to preserve what little, if any, quality remained after a growing season that proved too wet/damp. And nothing but help from the same source of the cause
could reverse it, if She would have just provided some drier conditions at the right time. It was precipitation at harvest that ruined this crop on our farm.

And no, it isn't "worth" risking injury or death for what they're offering to pay for it.

[farmaholic]

Pardon me, it was supposed to read: it WASN'T precipitaion........


Man I especially dispise hereing of people dying while farming. Especially the way we're treated. Another hurt family, what happens when police or firefighters lose their lives while on duty, is what we're doing any less valiant or honourable. Wasn't farming at one time one of the higher risk occupations? Another unsung hero.....

[fjlip]

News item of a farmer pinned under a tractor when pulling a stuck combine. Anyone have more info?

[Braveheart]

SF3, I'm sorry I didn't understand what you were trying to say. There have just been so many threads on here that go down the road of low prices, poor crops, nothin ain't worth nothin, that thats all I saw coming.

We always maintain that safety is first. We have to have fun doing what we do as well. But there is no crop, no cow, no,piece of machinery, no amount of money that is worth the health and safety of the people here.

[foragefarmer]

Braveheart

It's nice that you finally got what everyone else understood was being said. Go back to lobbying in Ottawa they speak your language.

[Braveheart]

I'm not not sure I know what you mean Forage.

AgriVille is a lot like Ottawa. There are people who like to find ways to adapt to change. There are people here who like to push change. There are NFU types who have no vision, view everyone in business as a den of thieves, and who want the ag industry back in an ISIS- like Stone Age.

It's just like Ottawa without the travel.

[SASKFARMER3]

Brave heart I here you but all the safety in the world can not prepare any one for what wet falls do.
Try being stuck as soon as you pull your combine in the field and drive 20 feet. Your starting at 11 or 1 depending on the frost dew or rain from last night. You have the grain cart driving a mile in because the back road is flooded so trucks cant get down it your loading in a neighbours dry spot on a hill or on a grid road. So Then you pull it out drive around the field and think wow I got this just dumb luck and start a GPS run. Down you go. Ah that's ok combine two goes past and around and creates a new line and down he goes, Well that's ok combine three has the 4x4 kit and will create a perfect line he gets to the end of field as your pulling one out and you realize he is stuck. This shit goes on all day and night you get good at pulling out then after doing this since early September, you get sloppy after the 100th time and accidents happen. Some you guys have no clue what playing in the mud does.
Adapting to change F?&k me were trying every thing to beat the hell out of this mud. New machines that dry land so you can see. Eddy match wont work because you cant light a fire with a blow torch so how can a match work.
The big boys left along time ago in this area because they couldn't adapt. Text book farming from Calgary or Toronto doesn't work.

[Braveheart]

SK3, when I talk adaptation, I mean farming without the Crow Benefit, or post CWB monopoly. Policy changes that require adaptation.

You're talking about mud. Mud is shit. It requires sun and wind.

I know all too well your situation with mud. We've had it as well. It was only a stroke of luck we were out of it this year. It started literally 10 miles in every direction from me.

[SASKFARMER3]

Yes those who didn't adapt after the Crop and CWB have other issues.
I still believe its us farmers against all industry. They need us to keep the game going. If we don't feed a crop, grow a crop, and ship a crop. A lot of people are out of work. A lot.
If farmers could ever figure that out wow would we win. But hey in India a lot of farmers are Committing suicide this year because the inputs are going up. Hm what a system. Good thing that's not happening here.
Be safe all its another wet cloudy morning. Ah hope the wind comes out and grain will go through the dryer. Looks good for next week, Geterdone.

[agchat]

Not trying to be an ass here saskfarmer, this is a harvest from hell. Just a little advice, i think i see your problem. Shut the ****ing gps off, forget about that beautiful straight line, and drive around the potholes instead. Just be safe, we do not need to hear you were in a accident too. Be safe everyone.