Well another hot dry week and yes the water is finally going away. We will be back today seeding some more low areas that haven't had a crop in 8 years grown on them. To most farmers in East Sask that I talked to this week welcome the normal weather pattern and are enjoying the seeding process for the first time in 8 to 10 years. We actually finished up a full 15 days ahead of last year. Driving up to Yorkton last night lots were just wrapping up the seeding process.
Funny people still cant believe that 8 years or more of floods does to a farmers soul. You get to a point that you just want it to end, you try every thing in the book but still mother nature destroys your hard work. Yes we still are one heavy rain away from having things go backwards but for now wow is this the greatest spring ever.
Even started spraying in crop Canola yesterday in may. Might be flowering on Farm Progress week.
Some areas I realize are getting dry I feel for those farmers as once again mother nature runs the show. All the variable rate tec and Paying some one to show you how to farm don't work when one thing is missing.
Mother nature runs things your just along for the ride.
Wheat is coming up or full rows and within a week some early fields will be sprayed. Wild oats is showing up on some fields and not on others. Seems every one has had a good catch so all the hype about poor seed maybe was a little over done. Not every one used seed treatment in our area and still have great results. Makes you wonder.
Canola early is up and has its first app or chemical. Our Round up is all sprayed moving on to the Liberty next week with its first app. Its hot and dryer than normal so maybe just one app will do. Their is some flea beetle damage happening closer to the valley and has been sprayed.
Peas wow is all I can say. Best crop ever on fields that were burnt. Rows end to end and thick. Will be spraying in crop on Monday or Tuesday of next week. The half I left and didn't burn is slower but still has peas coming time will tell but for now the winner is burnt.
Barley is just poking out and has just had a round up sprayed on it days before emergence. With the dry weather we are having lots of my crop was not sprayed before seeding as we were to cold for any real true positive results. Now that it has turned dryer spraying jus before the crop is out of the ground is having excellent results and we might be able to save on in crop if the weather stays. Round up and cold temp don't work.
Oats is just seeded so not out of the ground.
Soy are in but our acreage is way down just enough to keep Sask Crop Insurance happy so have a yield results.
So to sum up the week no moisture really since the snow left and it is just fine. In a week to three we will need that first sprinkle to get things to stage two but for now the roots are going one way and that is great.
One note the water that was present for so many years has caused some problems that I am noticing all over the place. Excess water and soils and now with the dryness all the salts that were pushed up are showing up as white spots in some fields. Water destroys land when it is over abundant. Yes lots of land will take years to be back to full production even after the water has left.
So yes a lot of farmers in the East side are one happy bunch and why not the rains we have had for the last 8 to 10 years were not normal and did nothing for this once productive area. So yes I am happy and will tell the story of farming.
Enjoy the end of seeding the beginning of spray season and most of all be safe its only a crop that every one else takes a piece of your hard earned work.
Ah Farming looking better.
Funny people still cant believe that 8 years or more of floods does to a farmers soul. You get to a point that you just want it to end, you try every thing in the book but still mother nature destroys your hard work. Yes we still are one heavy rain away from having things go backwards but for now wow is this the greatest spring ever.
Even started spraying in crop Canola yesterday in may. Might be flowering on Farm Progress week.
Some areas I realize are getting dry I feel for those farmers as once again mother nature runs the show. All the variable rate tec and Paying some one to show you how to farm don't work when one thing is missing.
Mother nature runs things your just along for the ride.
Wheat is coming up or full rows and within a week some early fields will be sprayed. Wild oats is showing up on some fields and not on others. Seems every one has had a good catch so all the hype about poor seed maybe was a little over done. Not every one used seed treatment in our area and still have great results. Makes you wonder.
Canola early is up and has its first app or chemical. Our Round up is all sprayed moving on to the Liberty next week with its first app. Its hot and dryer than normal so maybe just one app will do. Their is some flea beetle damage happening closer to the valley and has been sprayed.
Peas wow is all I can say. Best crop ever on fields that were burnt. Rows end to end and thick. Will be spraying in crop on Monday or Tuesday of next week. The half I left and didn't burn is slower but still has peas coming time will tell but for now the winner is burnt.
Barley is just poking out and has just had a round up sprayed on it days before emergence. With the dry weather we are having lots of my crop was not sprayed before seeding as we were to cold for any real true positive results. Now that it has turned dryer spraying jus before the crop is out of the ground is having excellent results and we might be able to save on in crop if the weather stays. Round up and cold temp don't work.
Oats is just seeded so not out of the ground.
Soy are in but our acreage is way down just enough to keep Sask Crop Insurance happy so have a yield results.
So to sum up the week no moisture really since the snow left and it is just fine. In a week to three we will need that first sprinkle to get things to stage two but for now the roots are going one way and that is great.
One note the water that was present for so many years has caused some problems that I am noticing all over the place. Excess water and soils and now with the dryness all the salts that were pushed up are showing up as white spots in some fields. Water destroys land when it is over abundant. Yes lots of land will take years to be back to full production even after the water has left.
So yes a lot of farmers in the East side are one happy bunch and why not the rains we have had for the last 8 to 10 years were not normal and did nothing for this once productive area. So yes I am happy and will tell the story of farming.
Enjoy the end of seeding the beginning of spray season and most of all be safe its only a crop that every one else takes a piece of your hard earned work.
Ah Farming looking better.
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