Friday report on Friday

[furrowtickler]

Sounds like we finally grabbed moe than a tenth or two at home - hearing 4/10 to 1/2 in not a bin buster but may help fill the last of er .
Will be driving through Kerobert later today - should be interesting .
I guess peas are turning at home.
Should see peas being harvested today between Maple Creek and Leader . A few feilds were getting close when we came down last Sat.
I agree with some other guys on here about lentils , the crop is poor in spots but man is there ever a lot of acres and some good to very good . Production will be more than I thought if this is the driest area that I drove through.

[sumdumguy]

The trick will be getting lentils in the bin this year because they are short and now a huge healthy flush of weeds won't help. The bottom red pods are turning and actually are rattling, so they aren't far off, they are 90 days tomorrow. They look like 1000 lb crop due to the fact they didn't get even a shower for 80 days of their life. French are loving the heat and showers, but still podding. The forecast is showing a showery week on the way. Time will tell. Stay safe! keep noses in the dirt!

[furrowtickler]

Agreed on the short crop - won't be fun if rains kick in now . Peas that are close will get quality issues if there is heavier rains next week.

[Braveheart]

36mm that came fast with wind. There are a lot of flat cereal crops in this area. I think we got off lucky though.

[ado089]

Had 50% hail on half the farm Wednesday, the better half of course. Lots of lush lentil crops in the area are now going to be pretty vulnerable to white mold now that it drizzled every second day for a week. The canopy is too thick to do anything about it though. Some peas in the area have been sprayed. I'm going to hold off a few days now since only the greener areas didn't get smacked by hail. Knocked a lot of kernels off the barley too.

[SASKFARMER3]

Monday rain event will be ugly if drew is correct! Short crop and lentils plus mud is a dud! Lodging and flooding our way! 3/10 last night

[TOM4CWB]

Hope you can send your extra rain this way! Or later crops would be happy with a couple more inches of rain!!!

This cool wet weather has slowed down the early crops... 22c days and 9c nights are perfect filling weather... the peas have some pods with 9 kernels... I hope they don't pop the zippers... are they ever crammed into the pods...

Later Canola now getting over waist high... podded nice... 50 percent bloom. This should fill the wheat very nicely... the flax is finally filling in and blooming nicely!

[farmaholic]

Did some scouting today. Peas will be sprayed REAL soon...NO disease, no fusarium heads in the short wheat, no sclerotinia even in the low spots but **** is some of the canola pathetic. Sickening, shouldn't have looked. Denial like the Ex-Ostrich farming Federal Ag Minister.
Did notice a flush of weeds that would have emerged from shallowly buried seeds, finally got enough rain to germinate those that got thrown up into the ridge between the furrows!!! There will probably be more weeds germinated from the last couple of recent meaningful rains than there were previous to herbicide application time.

Never started but can't wait to be finished, what does that tell you?

[TOM4CWB]

"Never started but can't wait to be finished, what does that tell you?"

Like any true fellow optimist; You are a farmer brooding over their crops!

[vvalk]

Tom you seem to be very optimistic about your crops. If it was as dry as you say these rains will help but will not make a great crop. Canola may look good bloomin again but when you go for a stroll through it without difficulty the crop just isn't there. Might pay the bills. The traders just don't realize this

[bucket]

Vvalk

The cwb tour says 12.5 mmt canola. I just can't see it happening.

Not sure of their route but they must have stayed out of the worst area.

[vvalk]

I believe 12.5. I think industry is thinking more like 14. 12.5 should give us $13 canola yet we are heading back to $10-$10.50