Rain Shower Last Night looks good the next three days!

[SASKFARMER3]

Rain makes grain is true when one does not get three inches every couple days.
Last night is the first rain since spring began. Still rumbling this morning as it came over long lake then down to the valley. Not a big rain event but still rain.
This week looks like rain tues at 40% and wed at 60% then hot comes back.
Its Mosaic in Regina this coming week and that usually means the rainy season starts.
To those still waiting this looks like your chance also to get some needed moisture.
Good luck.
Canola up nice over night with Soy oil leading the way.
Yes if fields are as bad as Furrow says then reseeding is only option. Again the one time we used a no till disc drill and just seeded the canola was the best reseeding because it didn't really kill that many seeds that missed the frost.
Water ban going on in Regina and Moosejaw its voluntary. Lots of guys head north fishing this week.

[SASKFARMER3]

Oh on the marketing side looks like any one who didn't sell canola off the combine and wants a nice spring price to some crushers your just pennies away from $11 plus a bushel.

[furrowtickler]

Its not "if" - guys that started reseeding swore it was never worth it.
Not everything is 100% the way you seen before - ever.
This is new territory for us now, we have left many frozen fields before and we will again but to add hail and washed in furrows now is going to be interesting. Again some fields were fine maybe 20%, and some with 40% damage is generaly not an issue - but some guys are at 90-100% damage with 80% dead - that's a reseed not matter how you look at growing canola.
Crops - peas and cereals not damaged too bad will be very good now for a while, also any canola that makes it in good shape will be very good with the moisture we have now. Problem is , localy we are 4 days from being in the field now.

[SASKFARMER3]

Furrow I understand what Frost does quit trying to make a argument I do understand. If the fields had that much damage their is no crop coming and reseeding is the only option.
One thing with the rain that you got and the four days till in the field. The moisture will get the new planted fields up and running fast and they might catch up the ones left.
Plants are funny.
Yes the -6 Temps did kill lots of crops.

[fjlip]

1 mm, just smells good, still waiting, forecasts don't agree on this week for our area.

[farmaholic]

.23, not very much but we're not suffering either.

[sawfly]

we are in trouble , 10-20 % chance in the next week.
and when it is this dry that means zero

[SASKFARMER3]

Saw I hope you get rain soon drought sucks bad! We finally got a shower this morning on all land around a half like I wanted! Last ten years it would of been a three to 4 inch rain!
It shows maybe the dry cycle is changing for the better!

[HFL]

Very dry here too. Basically nothing since the last little snowfall on April 2nd. I remember some very dry years like 1988, we got a few spits here and a few spits there, this time around not a drop for 2 months.

[fjlip]

44% humidity AFTER the spit of rain = little chance. Animated satellite looks like a dry spot over Sk. Clouds W, S and N, colder Tuesday Wednesday.

[sawfly]

1988 was super hot april/may. (lake weather)
untouched summer fallow turned to 4 inch
deep soft ash by the 20th of may.
it started to rain around the 18th june.
the worse seeding job you did . the better crop you had. the stuff that never grew til june went 30-40.
the early germ stuff went5-8.