Friday Crop Report on a Thursday!

[SASKFARMER3]

Well another week and what a week. The heat ended in our part on mid afternoon Saturday and then it got cold and windy. This week so far only shower here and their but slowed the pea harvest down.
Election is on I like the Idea Brad has for politicians to show their true colours and explain their GMO plan. It effects us farmers the most lets see their hand before we get slapped with it.
So here is the Crop Report.
HRS roundup is going on and actually after 4 days you can see effects clear as day. Lots of Leaf matter still on plants so probably why. Heads are nice and fat and crop on average is thick. Not our best ever but will be up their. Some Fuz on late crops. Few have swath for seed but since we started using roundup as a way to even out the crop have never had a issue with seed out of a cereal. Now pulse is a different story. Spraying fungicide on HRS did probably pay big dividends in our area.
Canola is being swath or just thinking about color change. Lots are in full swath mode. Fields are coming in fast so we are moving along very nice. Round ups did twist and lodge more than the liberty's but all are thick and nice. First fields will be harvested probably next Friday. From what I have seen spraying fungicide in flowering paid no benefit this year in our area.
Barley early is swath but rains on weekend or showers have slowed harvest process. Barley a week to 10 days seeding is now caught up and looks to do very well. Swathing of this will take place Monday after the rain and then hopefully combine in three days to four if heat comes. Its nice big big swaths.
Durum has nice fat heads but still signs of fuz maybe three apps of fungicide will do. I just don't know any more.
Oats is slow and wont have the big big yields like a few years ago. Still nice but not my best its week to 10 away.
Soy is loving the heat and rain but didn't care for the cooler weekend. It is showing signs of nice big pods and probably on way to our best ever.
Flax is one crop that every one is saying we did every thing right like other years but its no crop like in the past. Poor seed or germ or what ever it didn't turn out to be a bin breaker. Its nice but not perfect.
Peas the early are off and did very well, Burning in our area has proven to do very well this year. Its probably this year will be the only year we burn. Late are having issues with Geese and rain showers. You start up and boom a shower gives you a quarter inch and you go home and fix. One thing to note I'm not the only guy to work his pea stubble right after its done harvesting. Seems to be the area thing this year.
Corn is tall and filling and looking good.
One guy has Sorghum its fun to watch grow. Maybe a new crop. Also one note the guys with Faba beans are not having a wonderful time. Even the guy up at the lake that seeded them for years and never had a shitty one has lots of shitty ones this year.
Second cut is happening on hay and its a really nice cut. Pastures are back looking like last year and cattle guys are happy.
So as we move into mid to late may and cant believe how nice it is to actually harvest in August like we use to. Wet is wet we have dryers in our part of the world if the weather gets interesting in fall but for now we are enjoying the nice harvest of 2015.
So be safe its only a fricking crop that no one wants to pay for. Your family at home is way more important than the headache of growing food for companies that don't give a rats ass about you or your farm just the fact they need your grain to make a profit.
Enjoy the harvest, the big wide open sky, the full moon, the stars, wildlife, the family and friends and neighbours that our out their doing what we all love to do growing the best healthiest safest food in the world.
Good farming boys lets giver.

[fjlip]

"Glyphosate is also facing heavier scrutiny after the World Health Organization issued a claim that it is “probably” a carcinogen. Because of that, producers “have to read and follow label instructions,” said Smolik. Like other chemicals, glyphosate enters and remains in the plant at low levels, and early application of the chemical can compound that. “Monsanto’s instruction is that anything over 30 per cent head moisture is going to be retained in the seed,” said Smolik. “If you’re spraying, even though the majority of the crop is 30 per cent or under, those areas that are green are certainly not under 30 per cent."
Probably will be changed in future, Monsanto has NO friends in the 98% group.
Some canola swathing happening, barley combined in Wadena area.

[Oliver88]

Will be interesting to see political parties views on GMO's. Income tax rates, environmental hurdles, carbon taxes, etc.

Good for premier Wall to address this.

[agstar77]

HRSW nearly done, flashs of high yields but just an average crop good quality no Fus. Soy have nearly finished filling, rain Sat would help. Should be mature 15 Sept. Canola being swathed.

[agstar77]

Almost any compound can be a carcinogen or be harmful at a high enough level. Should be more concerned about BPA in packaging. All those anti-gmo earthers drink their BPA treated bottled water.

[Braveheart]

Ryegrass done. Decent yield.

Malt barley off. Nice and dry, low protein, no disease, fingers crossed as sample looks good for the customer. Yields were pretty good. We haven't grown a decent barley variety for years so don't even know good anymore.

Started some CWRS. Straight combining not even close to dry. Our wheat is like Justin Trudeau, just not ready. (I'm going to overuse that one). The pickup reel fell apart last night and parts not here till tomorrow, so we'll take a page from Mulcair's camp and sit and watch everyone get ahead of us. Quality looks good as so far CWRS #1, 14.5% px. Fusarium non existent. No ergot or mildew.

Canola is like me, slow to mature, but like late bloomers, is going to turn out better than first thought. Swathing canola has started. Many in this area are cutting waaaay too green IMO. But, that's free enterprise. Their decision right or wrong.

[farmaholic]

That's quite the crop report Braveheart. They must be Conservative pickup reels, you have alot of trust in them, then they let you down when you need them.

I couldn't resist.

[farmaholic]

Or you can only get 8 years out of them. Then no one wants them.

[farmaholic]

Or you think they were both good and a good deal when you first got them then they end up costing you more in the long run.

[Braveheart]

Hahaha. Farmaholic, you made my day.

No, it's a Crary Finger Air Reel. Made in Fargo, ND. It's more like American politicians like Clintons and The Bushes. They just keep going around until they eventually fall apart.

[checking]

Conservatives and reels. Quite similar, at first, but one moved on. How? Both had a batty ancestral linage.