Could be bad news..

[farmaholic]

I told people instead of spraying that field for bugs I should have taken the drill out instead. It wasn't too late yet, now I will monitor it and still possibly reseed it. Still earlier than when we finished last year!

Good luck fellows. My weather station said it didn't get lower than 4, skies just clearing.

[tweety]

furrow do you have moisture to germinate?

Here its so dry there is no point and with no rain in the forecast, well its probably over for this year.

Is it too soon to call it?

[farmaholic]

The Markets are headed straight for the moon. Bahahahaha, hahaha, too bad I sold last week!!! Canola, up up up. Tight ending stocks AND frost damage. Hold hold hold.

[freewheat]

Was 0 at 5 am, but there was no frost on anything. Canola has not emerged here quite. Only maybe half the fields have any emergence around here, cereal, pea, or what have you.

Sounds worse west than here.

[cottonpicken]

How bad in scope is this situation?

[hobbyfrmr]

If there is a substantial rain around here, the drill will stay in the yard and the reseed canola will go into the ground with the old heavy harrows with valmaar, followed by harrow packers.

[furrowtickler]

Don't hold your breath - but like your thought .

[furrowtickler]

Tweety - locally here yes - air drills are rolling in area , moisture still ok. South west and north west of here - no, unless they caught a lucky heavier rain 2 days ago. The canola seeded earlier that stumbled through the first 5 frosts was getting hammered from striped flea Beatle then got a knock out this morning . All other canola seeded from about the 9 th till 5 days ago got wacked hard in various severities depending on location and crop residues . It's a shit show. Canola that looked ok at noon , by 5 pm is gone . Other canola that was froze stiff early this morning and kinda dark , looked ok after five - every fukin field is different .

[furrowtickler]

I am sure that the market will still find a record crop come Monday due to overproduction in Mongolia or Niva Scotia with their canola crops as usual ...

[hobbyfrmr]

I seem to be growing a new specialty crop. Cajun blackened faba beans.!