Humboldt Flooded

[grrrr]

Age old dilemma. Which is worse, or better. Too wet or too dry. If it is too dry, a rain fixes everything. If it is too wet, and I mean wet like it has been for eight years in some places, then it takes years for things to get back to "normal". Up until now it has been very dry, yet our roads still have soft spots, trains on our rail line still travel very slow over miles of track, and we still have springs in fields that we dare not drive near. How dry for how long does it take to get too wet back to normal?

[SASKFARMER3]

My simple answer is we need three years of drought in Saskatchewan to get our land back to normal. You hit the nail on he head with soft spots on roads and areas in fields you just don't go near. Will be working probably 30 some quarters again this fall. Make it black gives you a chance in our area.
Drought is easy to walk away like v said 0 production check in the mail. Floods you leave vast areas and walk away and get paid nothing in them from crop insurance.
Mud is a dud. If Craik area to Davidson got 4 to 6 large areas will not dry up and back to tow ropes and rubber boots.

[SASKFARMER3]

I guess it is true the NDP really do suck the life out of everything. Enjoy Alberta you wanted them.

[farming101]

Apparently, with this rain, being flooded in pothole country IS the new normal.
There has always been water in low spots here, but now where there might have been a slough with 2-3 or even 4-6 feet of water, now there are sloughs with 10-14 feet of water.
Quarters cut in two or three pieces. Land cut off that can't be accessed.
I like to make this comparison:
With a drought, you get all your work done that's worth doing then have a rest.
With a flood, you don't get any work done that needs doing, then have a rest.
One year with flooding is worse than a one year drought.
Multiple years, back to back, I think I would pick drought as being worse, but it would be close.

[SASKFARMER3]

On the hour drive from the lake to the farm excess rain don't make grain! And hay fields are F$&kes in lots of places with the rain and swaths!

[HFL]

The sad part is that in years past when you had too much rain we at least got some. Now you're still getting to much and we are getting very little, basically nothing. The Worst of both worlds. Is there any place on the praires where conditions are good and have been good all season?

[greybeard]

Up here in NE Sask they have said for generations that a dry year will hurt you but a wet year will kill you.
I think mostly because it cost so much to process those crappy damp bushels of crap into something you can take to market and get screwed on.
Lots of spoilage and waste.
Good for pasture, poor for hay.
Sometimes lots of distressed feed.

[freewheat]

HFL, up to now it has been pretty darn good. We were wishing for a rain later in June, and got it. Borderline dry is always best here. Now we are losing yield to too wet. AGAIN.

[furrowtickler]

Oh but regress back to early June - back to normal - all is awesome ...,, I hate to inform you - there is no more "normal " . Never count a chicken before the egg is hatched - Karma - it has happened to me - but I learned at a much younger age than you s/f