No Harvest for You!

[TOM4CWB]

SF3...; rain at harvest is abnormal in Eastern SK? How much damp or tough grain have you actually harvested this year? ""NO HARVEST FOR You"?!"
SF3 spend some of you excess windfall money and time on drainage like the rest of the world that has rain like your farm!!!

[SASKFARMER3]

V is crying I guess because for first time in 10 years maybe rain quits and dry is dry, I don't know but for the first time we get a crop that is almost back to normal after 10 years. Its a time to be very happy.
I just stated a fact the weekend was not great for harvesting. Rain and rain. Yes its early hell we harvest till November mid if we have to. Yes Tom we have dryers etc To handle the mud. But like a earlier comment what started out as such a sigh of relief that the wet years were maybe heading away has led to it returning again. So yes I have lost some acres due to flooding but whats left is nice for the first time in 10.
Guess what its also gave us 100% water table back and its only September 1st. Crop 2016 is starting to look like it could have a good start. That I am thankful for.
But Bull shit from some that they cant see that when one area had major issues for years wasn't normal and they made leaps and bounds because dry areas finally had moisture. Well when it goes back to normal some of us that have had no fun are happy and Ass holes try to take that away.
Its Canada and excess rain doesn't make a wonderful crop year in year out. Similar drought takes you out.
Good harvest every one as yesterdays first real windy day was a very welcome site. 17.9 at 6 we should be getting close.

[sumdumguy]

I too am wondering, have you explored drainage projects in your area SF3? In the Wascana flats around Lewvan, Riceton, Gray, farmers pay a yearly levy to drain into a large man-made ditch. A lot of that land would be flooded and unseedable many years. It may be an option in your area. The longer you wait, the more expensive it will be.

[jensend]

Was talking to an oilfield construction contractor in western saskatchewan a while back he said fifteen years ago he could just strip topsoil off a lease. now they have to rip it first. That pretty much is when zero till became universal. He said the soil isn't taking the water like it used to. Just saying.

[sumdumguy]

It stands to reason Jensend. That Zero-till story is being written: on one hand, I think that all that straw that covered the ground with total absence of moisture was a saving grace, but when the soil is never turned over, you gotta wonder about the hard layer beneath and water absorption. Not to mention the explosion of chemical use. It's definitely an easier way to farm, but....

[Braveheart]

Zero till is NOT an easier way to farm. It's a different way to farm. Shortcuts lead to failure.

Jensend, your oilfield contractor is sniffing too much H2S. Our zero till fields (since 1988) are so mellow it's hard to compare them to neighborhood hard pan conventional fields.

[jensend]

Braveheart Im sure the top couple of inches is mellow. How about a foot down?

[farmaholic]

Or sprayer trails. Sometimes I will change it up a bit. RTK compaction....lol. I was jokingly going to point out sand really never compacts (its not as bad as you may think here, its a mixed bag of tricks).

We are in a harvest lull. Sprayed some flax today and started on cleaning up the mess weeds and volunteers. First peas have been off for a month now. This will be a methodical timed process. Early stuff is ready but more recent fields need time for the residue to settle (in a "few" spots) and stuff to grow through it. And hopefully a shot of rain to help settle stuff and wash the plants down. A bit of an unnerving observation today, it was kind of hot and windy here today, the bolting and early flowering volunteer canola looked wilted. We need some rain to recharge the soil. Lots of time yet, never lost the next year's crop is September yet, I hope :-)

[Braveheart]

We can take a 10" screwdriver and with little effort push it to the handle.

When we soil test, the people probing can't believe what they pull up.

Heavy rains don't pond on our fields. They do on other fields that are conventionally farmed in the area.

In the wet years, wetter than SF3, we seeded fields beside neighbours stuck to excavator depth.

[fjlip]

Perfect hot dry windy July day here, 20% humidity, wheat lost 4 % down to 13, combines everywhere tonight. Hope it lasts a few weeks.