Ok boys how dry is it where you farm!

[Klause]

A rain around JJune 10th and one in July will set us up for record yields here.


Ample sub soil moisture dry on top. Seeding is perfect.

Flax germinated in 2 days wheat in 3.

Never seen peas germ in 3 days but it's happening this year.


Our drill is giving us awesome weed control and along with a pass pre emerge fields are clean.

I love this year so far.

Vvalk there has always been a line. Ask the boys at dekalb bayer and Dow.

I recall a rep telling me if you grow lentils you shouldn't be growing canola... except for a strip between Colonsay and Davidson.

8 years of above average rainfall changed all that... but law of averages states we gotta go the other way at some point.

[cottonpicken]

The trend that is not changing is the level of extremes we are facing. Higher high pressure systems lower low pressure systems drought flood no sun spots weaking magnetic shield. I wouldn't bet on anything

[cottonpicken]

Weird the wind disappeared again

[bigzee]

Some are a week away from a drought and SK3 is one rain from a flood.

[vvalk]

Sask3. What do you mean by couldn't find a farm if I was standing on one? Are you saying I don't farm? Not sure if you really want to get in a pissing match when you don't even know me.
Krause the area you guys talk about in SW sask and SE Alberta is that big where you should be be growing canola if that's even right to begin with. If your land is so traditional why could you buy up land out there for $250 an acre not 8 years ago.

[fjlip]

Same here now, dry top wet below. Seeding through all low spots. However fields that were direct seeded or pre worked, then seeded May 8-15, dried very lumpy with a hard crust. Canola will have it tough to emerge. Wheat stubble dry hard on top. There will be spotty germ till a decent rain. Big water, 30 acres on our field dropped 2.5" in 2 weeks.

[Klause]

SE Alberta... you mean the special areas?


What was land worth down there 8 years ago?


Lentils make more money than canola anyway. I don't get why guys are he'll bent on growing it in hot dry regions... kinda like guys trying lentils here. Grow what grows where it grows.


HOWEVER Humboldt is in Sure - Crop country... farms here have amassed unbelievable wealth over the years from growing steady predictable crops. Then 2010 hit hard.

It's the same in Manitoba up until this gong show started the area around Dauphin and over to Valley River was known as always producing high yield high quality crops year after year. Even shit hole Ethelbert had plenty of grass and always enough hay... then the monsoons started. What was a desert became moist and what was moist became a floodzone.

I've been driving the prairies for 10 years now... and could see the line move. Puddles kept getting bigger. Started seeing potholes in Rosetown. 5 inch rains around Oyen.


This year may be a blip.... but if we go back to a 50 year average climate things will be interesting.

Makes farming fun. Always adapting always learning new things.

[foragefarmer]

Klaus

"Even shit hole Ethelbert" You leave there, and now you make your classy remarks. When immigrants first came to Manitoba they were sent there to homestead, they had no choice in the matter. Many worked hard to make a living and raise families. Through their hard work they were successful. Not everybody has the resources to pickup and leave a farm that has been in the family for several generations.

When you were farming in that area I don't recall other posters on here making those kind of remark to you!

[Klause]

Actually...


When the English first settled the area they spent about 5 to 10 years and moved on... through a special program through Dominion of Canada they were given a parcel of land in a different area as it was deemed unsuitable to farm.. I traced 6 of the original homesteader families. 2 ended up in the Binscarth area. One family in Keld 1 in Birch Hills and the rest went out of what is now MB.


About 30 years later when Ukrainian settlers were brought in to build the Rail line they were given this land as payment... a poor deal for hard work imho.


As far as many generations... actually the titles to all put land had changed hands 12 to 20 times in the 140 years it has been settled.



And actually more than one person has referred to that place by... um... "classy" modifiers. LOL.

[sk_wheatking]

You guys need to settle this in a parking lot not an on line forum

[JDGreen]

Non traditional, palliser triangle, deserts... Normal weather LOL... Normal for our area in the palliser triangle is 7" of in season rainfall. So far this spring 0.6" total in 2 rain events. 3-4 feet of good subsoil moisture lots of time for rain yet. Not whining cause could really care less if crop is big, small or inbetween. My grandfather is 98 and has a little more of an idea what "Normal" is Mr Klause and SF3 than both your ideas and experiences put together plus 35 years. His opinion right now is this is not anywhere near normal. Have a neighbor with 63 years of daily weather records also saying this is rather bizarre and far from normal. With province wide fire bans and record dry areas to spout that this is normal is beyond ignorant and arrogant. I am hopeful that this doesn't spread western Canada wide thru the rest of 2015. Fires, grasshoppers and starving livestock are not a pretty sight. With water there is hope, with none there is no hope. Now I am also happy that the wetter areas are finally seeing a better season to get started. May your good fortune continue.

[fjlip]

Our area had similar hot dry, even windy, in 1980, 95, 2001, 2008. Guess that makes it NOT normal, about 10% of my time.

[fjlip]

Whoppee, forecast changed 30% chance of T- storm on our farm today!

[farmaholic]

If you're looking for perfect weather somewhere, better get out of farming.

This seems to have turned into a dick comparison thread. I have more/less than you. Just make due with what you've been given...manage it.

[JDGreen]

Farmaholic my point exactly..