Something is not right.

[bluefargo]

Dutch elm disease ?
Soil sterilant damage(the number one killer of trees) ?

[15444]

Your not nuts. I am seeing the same thing here. Just about a month early here.

[BreadWinner]

Everything is two weeks early this year right from the melt to the heat to the lets not say the F-word.

[grassfarmer]

I've noticed the leaves turning here in the last 3 days too. Didn't know if that was normal or a weather/year anomaly.

[Hopalong]

See the same thing, does not look like spray drift.
Started to swath April seeded canola so maybe poplar leaves turning is just part of early season.
Missed heavy runoff rains, nice to be able to go through dry sloughs.

[boarderbloke]

Trees starting to turn in SESK this time of year IS NORMAL. We're having a dryer fall so far, very little rain here in the last 5 weeks, which IS NORMAL. Rye combined already, winter wheat half combined, peas a third combined, canola a quarter of it swathed. This is all normal.
Everyone is so use to constant rain, that when the weather goes back to normal people are freaking out.
This fall is the first time since 2010(6 years) that our lawn grass has turned a bit brown(never water it). BTW, the wife is sick of having to cut it all year without out a slow down. Green from spring to freeze up. Lawn grass turning brown in the summer or fall here is NORMAL.

[newguy]

I read once that 6 weeks after the longest day nature tells plants to get ready for winter. That is when spraying
.thistles or quack is best because everything is now going down to roots.

[bucket]

In my experience getting 7 inches of rain in the first week of august after 5 tenths from may 1st is not normal.

Usually once the tap shuts off in July it stays that way until late September.

With only a few spot showers or hail storms.

The last 5 years have not been what I would call normal.

Guys desiccated lentils and just as they are ready to combine get hit with 3 inches of rain. It's not normal.

[grassfarmer]

So is it normal for wheat to be ready to combine in SW Manitoba in early August? Not sure what to expect here or whether the generally hot, drier weather of the last month has speeded maturity. It's just about a month ahead of when barley would be ready in our part of Alberta.
Some really good crops of canola just shut down flowering here last week - is that normal compared to the stage the wheat is at?

[Braveheart]

Grassfarmer, yes, all the things you are wondering about are possible here in MB. We can be very early.

I wonder some days though just what "normal" is?

[kato]

Could be winter wheat. Combining generally starts in august here though
And the occasional tree turning now is not out of line either. The slower canola could be reseed ed fields. There was a lot of that going on this year.

[freewheat]

No, there is not really a "normal", though areas have long term trends. Within these trends, there are weird years thrown in here and there.

Our area trends cool and wet, and later than pretty much any area on the prairies, and has for the entire history of settlement. But the last decade have been exceptional years withing the usual trend.

No leaves turning color here though. I assume it may be a moisture stress earlier on issue? What kind of trees? White Poplar, Black poplar, willow, oak, maple?

I hope that this shot of rain is the last, and that harvest won't be the usual fight in this area. But with canola blooming forever, and nothing remotely close, I imagine that it could be the usual harvest fight!

Crops just linger, and linger, and linger when the soil is so wet.

So far, this year for here, has not been very unusual. Talking long term trends. Not a whole lot of dry concerns. The trend is to be way more concerned about too much rain and cool, cloudy weather. It is bang on for here... A ten out of ten.