For those who do not believe wet is bad.

[furrowtickler]

We were going to put sectional control on the drill this year for the liquid fert - kickin me arse now we did not.
I never thought we would have near this amount of water , there was not enough snow to snowmobile half the winter.
Your right on the time issue, takes about 30-40% longer on each field now.

[blackpowder]

Somewhere above, there's a teepee full of old cheifs laughing their asses off.

[sk_wheatking]

its going to take years and years to recover and get back to normal from this never before seen rainfall over the past 5 years. guys are figuring out ancient creek beds that will drain their land down to the next guy and are pumping water into them causing problems 50,60 or a hundred miles away. Every low area is full causing water to just keep cascading down the line. I can tell you for sure that no one alive has seen this kind of water or ever knew that land in their areas would ever be flooded like it is with no hope of drying for years. Think about it,bush that is 50,60 or 70 years old or more,dead,drowned out,all over the country side! People thought that 2002 was a catastrophy with the drought,well this excess moisture will make anydrought look like a joke down the road in history. and Alkali is slowly eating up the good land where it never was before because the water table wont go down.

[farmaholic]

SF3 didn't start or responde to this post so GF doesn't have to antagonize him... lol.

[freewheat]

Sk wheat king. I hear you on before unknown creeks and runs. I have a few that I never even knew were there, but now are running continuously draining marshes and lakes that are over full.

[freewheat]

Farmaoholic!

I never brought this up really to argue or be snide. I just feel for those guys. Imagine if that was your yard?

Klause, losing 900 acres is insane. Did you get it back before you left the country?

[Klause]

Nope. This was in MB. Got a piss ant settlement.... basically assessment value when land was selling for 3 to 4 times that.

Sold our non flooded yet land to investors and got the heck outta there.

[freewheat]

Klause that sucks, man. When I said left the country, I mean the communist stronghold of Manitoba.

I did not know that was how it went down for you. So the gooberment coughed up a bit? I wonder if there is anything at all for the Quill Lake folks who lost millions worth of land.

[tipsy]

For those that have never experienced to much rain or farming mud, will never never never understand how difficult it is and I hope they never do.
What the dry land farmers don't get and understand is the difference from to wet/mud and to dry is us mud guys keep spending and spending and spending money we don't have and working doing what we can to get a crop. Saskfarmer3 has explained and outlined this a hundred times, from buying equipment you would not normally need and working land you don't want to. Dry land farmers don't have to keep spending money trying to salvage a crop. Anyways us mud guys can explain this all we want but some just won't understand.

[Guest]

wow , that is unreal ! can't imagine losing land like that ? hopefully things improve there

[cottonpicken]

Well i for one really appreciates that this little on line community exists where we we can share our troubles in relative annonimity and dummies like me can get advice from the guys that know what they are doing(not all of us where ment to be farmers)

[Richard5]

Drove up to see this a couple weeks ago

Not that the Quill lakes isn't a significant issue that needs a long term solution but...

The picture is from a while ago, guessing a year ago??, maybe someone knows for sure. If you took that today, the berm around the yard is large and has kept the water contained.

If it broke there would be huge troubles for this farm.

[foragefarmer]

Yes farming in mud is bad I have done it many of times, but let's start by looking at what many farmers have created themselves. Every farmer's goal is to drain their land, knock down bush, empty soughs and send it else where so some other farmer can deal with it. Most everybody's goal is to get bigger and produce more, they all want full quarters to farm. Everyone on here is guilty of it one way or the other.

Marginal land that should have never been opened for cropping is now in full production. It should have been left for for pastures or not even touched. There are less and less cattle producers out there. Many farmers are getting up in age to start cattle production, and many don't want all the extra work involved. As this could fill the void of marginal land and keep family farms intact.

For all you in the eastern part of SASK. you water ends up in the RED River here in Manitoba, which on wet years is full to the maximum at any give time of year. This doesn't take into account all the water the Red River handles for Man., Minn and North Dakota.

So this is a much bigger problem than the rain coming far to often. Agriculture as a whole has to address this issue looking at all causes.

Freewheat, I understand wet land farming, but you comments about Manitoba and our problem government is useless for the thread. Stick to the facts it helps your cause.

[Klause]

Manitoba could be letting way more water into Hudson Bay.... Instead thanks to the geniuses in Water Stewardship and hydro they are stockpiling it to produce power.


The lakes in MB are not a dead end like the NDP keeps spouting... All that water goes north and out into the bay

[foragefarmer]

Klaus, so are your saying this is the cure all solution. Your now farming in SK, does your new location's water all end up in the RED?