-1 tonight

[Klause]

Yikes


That'll kill a lot of freshly emerged canola here that came up in the heat and isn't hardened off.

[furrowtickler]

*** sakes that wind is cold and right from the north

[freewheat]

Not entirely unusual, stressful though it may be.

See the map. Again, there is good reason to be careful seeding sensitive crops too early. There is a good reason the old timers never put canola in the soil until the 20th of May. This kind of risk goes along with the rest of the kind of spring it has been. SF3 would say this is normal. It kind of almost is.

http://www.saskcropinsurance.com/resources/maps/last-spring-frost-map

[Klause]

Yeah free wheat your right.... glad we weren't in a huge panic

[freewheat]

Tried texting you yesterday. You get it, man?

For those who do hurry, I do not mean to be silly, I am just pointing out history, you know?

[agstar77]

Three times a charm, for seeding that is. Most of reseeded canola wont be up.

[Rareearth]

Well, I hate to point it out, but I will. The average 1st killing frost is about sept 15, plus or minus a week for different regions. It's been a long time now since we had a early fall frost. What would a august frost do again ? Time will tell when the best time to seed was, it's not in the bin yet.

[Hopperbin]

Klause klause. all your equipment was broken you could not start earlier. Bin there done that. Happens.

[Guest]

well we seeded canola may 23 and up in row so thats well after the 20th . it got broke in 2 nights ago, lol , some froze , alfalfa yellow again , but your right fall frosts are worse than spring frosts . i think its hardened off after today , froze my ass off looking for cutworms ,so far none . lumiderm really looks good can't find any flea beatle bites at all ? i would of thought they had to sample the canola to kill them ?

[Klause]

Lumiderm (and Coragen) in layman's terms put the insects mouth muscles to sleep after thr first bite.


It takes a lot of bites to make visible damage...

[Guest]

well i am impressed , never saw canola so bite free

[jake550]

Thought we were done the "second pass" with the drill reseeding. Dang it.
I agree though a spring frost is bad but not nearly as bad as those late August or early September.
As they say... "That's farming".

[furrowtickler]

Even canola seeded 4 days ago is up so .... Wtf ever on specific seeding dates . We waited till mid May to start canola and even our last field is up so be a genius and pick a date .

[furrowtickler]

90% of the time here, canola seeded after the 25th will get hit by frost in the fall before canola will be damaged enough to reseed after the 10 th of May if that makes any sense - I duno she's all a cheap shoot . It's the dryness that will be the killer not the -1 to -3 . And btw - we are only at 10% of normal rainfall for most of western Sask - not normal at all , especially for us - has it happened before - yup - but no where near fukin normal .

[farmaholic]

That's my thoughts furrow, Tell me when is the right time and I'll follow the lead...
It's like the supposed "second coming", no one knows the time or place! :-P