Its raining again...!!!

[TOM4CWB]

Furrowtickler,

Our Canola is really enjoying this change in the weather! You can really see this in the flax! Golden and yellow together!!!

[sumdumguy]

It is truly amazing how Canola reacted to a little bit of moisture. Guess it was just sitting there waiting for the clouds to open up. We don't really have much experience with the Cinderella crop, always grew lentils and a Canary. Think it's better to cut her down early - grass green? Full moon August 29, if that means anything.

[TOM4CWB]

SDG,

If you can actually predict the weather...???

I am truly amazed how the straight cut guys get through Canola/frost so well with quality!

[ado089]

It will be good for my plow down/cover crop peas planted last week. Who knows maby another flush of millet will come and I can combine it for screenings at $200/mt. Could be my cash crop this year. Haha. Still holding at 4% done harvest.

[Partners]

Started swathing canola yesterday, then got another 1/2 inch down pour..Fog this morning..We are at 12 inches of rain for the yr...so far...

[fjlip]

That's 3 years worth! no wonder it's WET!

[SASKFARMER3]

Grass again your not the sharpest knife in the drawer! In our part of the world with normal snow fall that would produce a very nice crop.

[freewheat]

My best crop ever was 2003. We had about 3 inches all summer.

[grassfarmer]

Still sharper than you SF3. If you like it dry try moving to Coronation or Oyen, some of the real dry areas of Alberta. Guess that wouldn't work though because they still get in that 8.5 to 10 inch summer precipitation - way too much water - your crops would drown!

[freewheat]

An inch of Rain at Oyen does not go near so far as an inch of Rain in Canora, for several reasons.

Oyen and places like that in the brown soil zone areas:

A) Have very low organic matter and therefore the soil hangs onto moisture way less efficiently.

B) Have relentless, moisture sucking winds that Eastern Saskatchewan simply does not get.

C) Gets FAR less snow than eastern Sask. My area gets about 40% of its "Normal" 20 inches of yearly precipitation as snowfall. More snow and much longer winters because of it, add a massively different dynamic to the climate.

D) I see few sloughs and potholes that hold water year long at Oyen. In Eastern Sask, they are everywhere. The water table is higher, there is evaporation always happening, and most nights are foggy here, so long as it is calm.

E) Oyen is much warmer, with much more sunshine than the cool, often cloudy conditions of Eastern Sask.

F) Oyen is MUCH less humid than eastern Sask. There are no trees at Oyen, so little transpiration is happening, along with all the other factors that make it far less humid. IE the wind.

So as you can see, precipitation alone if it were equal, is not going to mean the same things at Oyen vs. Canora.

An example is that Melfort only gets maybe an extra inch of rainfall than Swift Current on average. But the conditions are such that the moisture use efficiency is so much better up at Melfort, due to its overall climate.

Just pointing out that we here in the wet zone, would be great with a 4 or 5 inch summer rainfall, where other areas would probably love our 14 inches...