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[Klause]

Btw Reed canary grass doesn't grow well in sask.


I know because we grew and harvested it for seed in MB... Planted 10 acres for the horses in a wet spot it never caught and turned to foxtail in a few months.

[freewheat]

Braveheart, my soil is never ever exposed. Except in the areas where torrents of water have made their own, not before seen, creeks in slight runs in fields. When the water won't stop running for years at a time, there is no chance to regain and fill in, and seed down those runs, that become 4 feet deep, and 8 feet wide, in previously very productive, barely there runs.

Nothing will grow where water never stops running.

Part of my plan, is that when it is wet, you simply do not try. Pulling a drill with two quad tracks, is just stupidity.

When it is that wet for 8 out of 10 years, it is not comprehensible by those who maybe saw this one or even two years.

Outside this area, it is not easy to comprehend. Not many areas never seeded crops for 4 years out of 10. I mean no crops, not half, not 2/3 of normal acres, I mean ZERO acres...

[freewheat]

Grass, NOTHING grows in water that is running hard for four and five years straight, over land which you would never even assume there was a water run...

[freewheat]

We have some excellent reed canary in areas. BUT it will not grow in running water! lol.

I repeat, it is not even fathomable to guys who think they have been wet once. When it rains 2 tenths, and water pours off the fields after each and every rain event, you might have a clue...

Yes, our soil can soak up a pile of rain, but not 40 plus inches of nonstop rain...

[freewheat]

I would never ever try to even say I understand drought because it was dry here once. That one time in 2002 when I actually hoped it would rain, because I thought we were dry, does not even come close to me having a clue what a drought is.

[Braveheart]

It's smart to stay away when it's that wet. To do otherwise only costs money.

[freewheat]

And sometimes lives with flying chains and cables and straps!

[farmaholic]

......you must be doing something wrong!

....there's only two ways to do something,
the wrong way and ________________'s way!!!

....the only thing worse than a "know-it-all" is a "know-it-all" who thinks they know-it-all...

Happy Family Day Everyone!!!!

[grassfarmer]

Saskfarmer3's way? I've been trying to tell you guys that for a while.
I find the whole conversation amusing actually. For all the whining and handwringing that goes on over things you have little chance of controlling guys owning thousands of acres of land don't understand the basics of soil biology and the water cycle. If they did they wouldn't be spraying the $%#& out of everything apart from the monoculture crop that they want to grow for 110-120 days a year or using anhydrous ammonia to turn the land to concrete so the water can't be absorbed.

The big claims about farming in the toughest environment in the world is a joke. You want to go pick up a hoe and a handful of seed for a season in sub-Saharan Africa and tell me how that works out for you?

Bigger irony is that the ones complaining about too much water here don't realize they are sitting on the most precious resource for mankind going forward. It'll be worth more than oil before we know where we are.

[freewheat]

Anything is precious, grass, but only if it is actually needed.

[BTO_farmalll]

Great,

More QuackGrass Seed To Deal Wit Down Stream!!!!!!!!!!!!

[farmaholic]

Wrong BTO, THE WATER NEVER MOVES FROM WHERE IT LANDS, REMEMBER!

[fjlip]

That was very true here in 2010,
"It's smart to stay away when it's that wet."
Those that seeded/mudded in and the rains continued, were sorry they tried at all. Shitty, weedy crops plus a harvest from HELL.
The SMF was cheaper seeding plus 2011 turned out fine,70% canola in this area.

[SASKFARMER3]

Grass keep cherping your showing more and more how little you know?

[dykercaseih]

Sask3 just curious how close are you to big quill on the south side?