1988-- Anybody Remember?

[canolacrazy]

just grew wheat that year. averaged 15 bushels an acre. highest temperature we had was 42 degrees in early june. cooked the crop. it rained half way through harvest and swathed crop was on the ground so it sprouted. sold it for feed. forget the price, but is wasn't much. crop insurance was busy that year. many didn't pull the combine out. they might have been the lucky ones.
what a blast that year was.

[MBgrower]

Wheat yields were 12-30 bpa depending if u got the one rainshower that summer. Recall storm clouds rarely dropped rain. Grasshoppers were so hungry they stripped off shelterbelts around yards. At least there was no lawn to cut that year. Driest year i can recall.

[farming101]

Wheat 4-10. One farm went 15.

Yellow mustard went 10 but it was is 2 or 3 different stages. seeded it 3 inches deep. It came up in 4 days. Soil temps were very high.

[ColevilleH2S]

I remember riding back to the farm trying to get home before a mile high cloud of soil swept though infront of a storm. The entire western sky was a rolling black wall of dirt. The memory is burned into my mind forever.

[bucket]

I bet the current conditions would get a little more attention if that was happening today.

They could report the positive changes in agriculture that prevent those dust clouds from happening today.

[JDGreen]

Bucket it is dry here. Only 20mm total in 5 different rain events. Driest spring ever, in fact can't remember it ever this dry and bleak mid June. Crops are hanging in fairly well and a good rain within 10 days would make for some very good lentil, durim and canola crops. Peas are teetering on being done as they will start flowering at 8" tall and very little moisture available. Have had a couple areas receive a couple timely 1/2" showers and crops are quite nice. If no rain in next two weeks it will be grim for sure

[Cattleman]

It is interesting to think back. I remember we had flax where nothing came up except in the tractor tracks. Rain finally came after the June heatwave.

For us though 2002 was by far our worst year ever. Had some pasture that didn't even turn green until September. Combine didn't move that year. We had finally given up and we're going to make green feed with our oats. Went out the next day and nothing left as grasshoppers had stripped everything.

[sawfly]

went down to just east of rosetown to buy a ih belt pickup.
the guy was narrowing the hole on a 28 ft. PT swather to about 2 ft.
he had another 28 with a carry over and was going to double swath on top of the narrow one.
it was worse down there.
rains did come in late june here .
we got from 15 to 30.
i never want to see land blow like that again.

02 was the worst ever here.
complete write off.
tried to combine my new Carnival peas grown for seed.
yeilded 2 bushel of grass hoppers and
1 bushell of peas.
dumped it in the slough

[bucket]

I gave only had 3mm of rain on half the farm so far since may 1st.

Crops are patchy and I am not sure a rain will help.

[cottonpicken]

Here is a dumb question,how far does sub soil moisture get you in those condition,different answer for different zones though.