Friday Crop Report! on Thursday!

[furrowtickler]

Seeding in April can be a wreck in my area 30% of the time as well , but seeding after the 28th of May can be far worse 80% of the time . Every area has a prime seeding window of 12-15 days and that can change year to year as too what 12-15 days lol

[Oliver88]

SF3 - Is it the Dupont 3155C that is your best RR canola?
I did consider that at one time but ended up going with DeKalb 74-44, 73-45 and Nexera 1012

From what I see this Dupont variety is looking good wherever I see it.

Also I believe the CWB is releasing the results of their fairly extensive prairie province crop tour.

[Braveheart]

What a week. Haying is done. Whew! Tonnage was not bad. We'll see later about quality. It was fairly mature, but we baled 80% of it with no rain.

Soybeans just look amazing. They're loaded with flowers and pods forming. We tried some Radiate, a hormone treatment on them. I'm hoping it will boost yield. Or, they'll just turn into Caitlin Jenner

Canola looks fantastic. It's a little uneven in maturity thanks to Jack Frost, at least on some fields. But we're still happy we left most of them and didn't reseed. The field we did reseed is really catching up. We tried 40 acres of Radiate on the canola and when you dig up plants, the "Radiated" plot has literally twice the roots of on treated. We'll see if that brings on more yield.

Wheat also looks fantastic. I've noticed some neighbours fields (Harvest variety) are showing a lot of fusarium damage eg. dead heads and parts of heads. We have one field of Cardale showing wheat stem maggot, but not much yet.

Barley is really turning and seems nicely filled. It's a nice crop and we're hoping for some good harvest weather as it's malt.

Annual ryegrass likely ready to swath next week. It's a nice stand, and passed inspection, but is quite weedy this year.

[Braveheart]

Bad storms moving through MB right now. I hope we have a crop to report on next week.

[Mmanitoba]

Is it true that Saskfarmer gets paid directly from this site to write the weekly reports for Agriville ?

[SASKFARMER3]

Ha ha ha ha oh stop my guts hurting!
No I hated the useless crop reports that came from Sask ag and food etc. every thing is ok nothing to see bull shit!
So I created the Friday crop report on Thursday!
Have a great night it's time for a Corona!
Note
A truck load of hrs makes makes 42000 loafs of bread that sell for $84,000 and a farmer gets $5,200. Great system!

[dubsy]

Mb getting pounded tonight... 2 to 3 inches in. Places and still pouring

[fjlip]

SF3 it's those numbers that piss the French Farmers off, us just play dead.

[sumdumguy]

Now the rains are coming daily. Wish it was June. But not complaining......yet.

[TASFarms]

Does the canola that you sprayed Radiate on have more and bigger pods or less blanks

[freewheat]

Up to now, I have stuck pretty close to home. Went to Humboldt today, then south to watrous, back over to wynyard, then back up home east of Wadena.

Not a real big trip, but here are my observations. Left here, where crops are really pretty good. Wadena definitely lacked some of the rain we got and it shows as you head west. Lots of moisture stressed dips in the crops. And I was waiting for the big crops at Humboldt, but honestly I never felt they were really that great??? Klause, how big is the garden spot, and where is it exactly, cuz I never saw it. Average ish IMO. South of Humboldt things slowly get worse. I did notice LOTS of fields with LOTS of wild oats. Maybe conditions, maybe resistance issues, but I was surprised. Wheat with wild oats, oats with wild oats, barley with wild oats. Crossed the 16 and things got pretty ugly, until just a bit east of Watrous, where suddenly there was some pretty darn nice wheat crops again.

Never got much of a look at the Lanigan to wynyard region, it was getting dark by then.

My main observation, is that if Humboldt is the garden spot, Western Canada is in big trouble.

Highway travel is not very hands on. If I had been alone, I would have jumped out several times to double check the highway speed observations.

IE south of Humboldt there is a schwack of what look like faba beans on the east side of the highway. But they are so dirty, one can not be sure. It did seem like 4 quarters straight. But there was so many weeds, it was hard to be sure what the crop was. I would have stopped a few places there to check my eyesight. Curious, cuz I grew some too.

Between spotty shower fortune, and soil type fortune, there is a real mixed bag in this small drive. The wheat right at Watrous was excellent. Some wheat though you could hunt gophers in. Never really saw a very good canola crop. A couple soy fields did look good.

Was just a nice day for a drive...

[Braveheart]

TASFarms, the Radiate canola appears to be a bushier plant with more pods. The plants are also slightly taller. Extra root growth is somewhat deeper, but, VERY much more growth laterally.

Cost was $7/acre. If hormones work it would be nice to have something non chemical to boost yield. The only downside would be A&W likely wouldn't use hormone treated oil in their fryer.

Too early to call AgriTrend and JD. We'll see if all the above puts more bushels in the tank.