snow

[grassfarmer]

So are you SF3 - particularly your knowledge of the English language "chirping" lol.
Did you come up with any rainfall records yet? or are you too busy setting up your new farm organization - NOT!

[SASKFARMER3]

If you had as many vodkas As I have had today you wouldn't be spelling correct either a.
Who cares a rats ass if one has perfect spelling. Really. Spell check recharges words all the time.
Reality is you know shit all about wet conditions.
Shit all.
Have a great night I'm off to the pool for a after super swim!

[SASKFARMER3]

Look on enviroment Canada total accumulation map for the last 8 years. One area is purple in sask every year. Welcome to where I live.
Mud wrecks land and one rain your drought is over.

[parsley]

Hopper, I would suggest fluffing all the cattail heads, and filling pillows with them, and sending them to the MIddle East Justin wanted blankets. So they could use some pillows. pars.

[grassfarmer]

Have another drink and keep on kidding yourself SF3. I grew up in a country where some areas on occasion got 6 feet of rain in the first 3 months of the year. Have you any concept of how much condition that takes off hill sheep?

[furrowtickler]

One rain never ends a drought .

[freewheat]

Depends where you are, furrow. Here one rain can last for two weeks, so yes, a single rain event can kill a drought. Not that it's ever been dry here, but I am just guessing! lol

[parsley]

Two miles south of where I live, water began come in from the south, in January, flooded the ditches, the municipal road, and the neighbour's yard. In freezing weather. The municipality got in a track hoe so the water ccould slow along the ditches. A week ago, the water started flowing in again, fast , and the municipality again had to bring machinery.

Water is a problem on fields and ditches because the water table is really high. Higher than Id like to see

When the water tables are high, the ground get soaked like bread in milk. And that is what too many farmers have to deal with. Probably a big part of your probs, freewheat and sask.

In the 50's, all municipal roads were soaked right through and they were pure mud. There was nowhere for the water to run off. Cars were driving stuck on provincial highways.

Good farm managers in those days, sat along the highways with their tractors and dragged, yes dragged, traveller's cars and trucks through the mud, and charged a fee. With a long chain.

Farm kids would go barefoot in the water and test the grade, to feel how deep the erosion was. As soon as a spot in a road became impassable, a field became the new road.

You have no idea how wet Saskatchewan wet can get, grassy. pars.

[Hopalong]

During 1950's, Sask govt was involved with providing ditching dynamite for drainage.
When dryer years came in sixties, some ditches were filled in and worked through, some were left and kept functioning and others were maintained and often deepened.
Can forsee problems for authority that orders blocking of drainage not properly registered.
At same time, grandfathering rewards those who went ahead on own.
Landowners and farm operators can pay attention, in particular to bureaucrats and environmentalists who may want to push forward with own agenda.

[Braveheart]

Haven't most of you guys resorted/reverted to tillage? The wind will blow most of the snow off your fields n'est pas?

[SASKFARMER3]

Yea right just as much on black fields as stubble! Wet is wet man!

[freewheat]

Some have gone back to tillage, but I am a firm no tiller. It depends where you are, and what is happening. Here, the no tillers get out there exactly the same time as the tillers. Yes, the snow blows off more, but it also drifts more too. Also, for us, the snow is the initial concern, but incessant rain is the biggest problem. You could have bare soil, but if the rain won't stop, it is irelevant what your tillage practices are.

[Braveheart]

I agree that when it's wet, it's wet not matter farming styles.

Drew's forecast is favorable for your areas, so, hopefully he's right.

[grassfarmer]

Aren't you near Wawota Parsley? I see Wawota has recorded an average annual precip of 18.38" between 2000 and 2012.

Both Wadena and Wynyard which I assume are close to SF3 recorded 18.44" over the same time period. That must span a lot of your 8 year flood SF3 eh?

Rimbey, Alberta recorded 20.69" over the same decade and that is the driest decade recorded here since settlement.

I guess I can't imagine how wet it gets in SK, LOL.

All figures taken from http://www.worldweatheronline.com

Useful site if you are interested in facts not fiction.

[farmaholic]

I have a variety of soil textures on our modest size farm. Some of our land can take on alot of water other stuff not so much when its already saturated it only accumulates, where the sandy stuff just "soaks" away. Saturation is saturation. We went into last fall with the soil profiles fuller than the fall before.

One day at a time and I'm not going to worry about what "might" happen.