Weather/Crop Update

[charliep]

Just looking for an update on weather and crop conditions. Let us know your general location.

Edmonton area - Rains today. Will be a cold/wet night at the Edmonton Folk Festival (will see weather first hand).

Calgary area - Comment from my brother is that wet weather is welcome to plump up kernels but a little late for major impact yields. Ignoring all the sloughs for the moment, will move crops back to more average yields.

[silverback]

Frost tonight?

[cottonpicken]

South east sask,pulled in to straight cut some oats just to see how far from being ready they were and much to my surprise they were ready!

85 bushels an acre with 33 pound weight.So lots of swearing going on.Makes me wonder what even later oats will be like.

I jacked the fan speed up and gained a few extra pounds.

Does anyone else have any ideas for combine adjustments to bring the weight up?Close up the seives more?

There is a few shores going through this morning.

[Fransisco]

We had rain this morning in south central Manitoba and they are forecasting more for this afternoon and tonight.

Canola's almost all on the ground not ready for combining yet. Was thinking of starting to swath the oats maybe tomorrow but doubt if things will be dry enough.

What's a 'shore'?

[mb_rancher]

SW corner of Manitoba. Crop is pretty much all burned in now. Recieved 2 tenths of rain on Monday but it is too late to help the crop. Started combining barley yesterday. Should do 60 bushels per acre but is only weighing 44 LBS.

[northfarmer]

CP, wind up is the answer, or clean/gravity table and sell the light stuff as feed...you figure out the economics....

Peace is getting spotty showers, it was cool last night but no frost to my knowledge, mositure conditions are adequate to finish crop, peas and early barley are close to getting the spray, winter wheat is either sprayed or will be ready for the combine soon.....we re still 7 to ten days behind normal for up here and would like heat and frost free into sept to finish crops off...yields will be average to above average for cereals, average for canola unless we have a weather wreck....

[SASKFARMER3]

Early Durum is light and not yielding that good. Swathing Canola its an Average Crop Ha if you like Averages. Peas are good, Spring wheat is OK, Oats early light late looks better. Barley late but looks good.

[dalek]

Ontario, no meaningful rain in weeks. Started buying water for the cattle Monday, 4000 gallons at a time every two days to keep up. Barley came off yesterday at 6% moisture, never seen anything nearly that low before. What was planted on time in the spring averaged 24 bushels, two fields planted 10 days later averaged 85 bushels. Wheat (SRWW) came off last weekend, 42 bushels, about 2/3 average, and at 8-9% with 53-55lb bushel weights.

[silverback]

Light frost east of Calgary overnight. Some crops still fairly green.

[parsley]

Worked on computer until midnight. Lots of lightening in SE Sask. Crashed my computer. Poured for awhile.

Parsley

[Barleyman]

Some canola swathed, 5030-looks good should run 37-40. Quite a bit of deformed plants from a bug-virus. Cutting wheat, combined some today [11th] it had 17%protein and ran just under 50. Our best wheat is still to come we will see 55 to 60 on the rest. It is warburton and is fixed priced at 6.32. Oats look like 125 we'll see soon. 3 more quaters of 5030 canola to cut and they get heavier as we go. Some sold for sept. at 8.25, deliver off the combine as we will be short of bin space

[Barleyman]

Barleyman thats awesome. Where abouts are you??

[Barleyman]

Sorry, south central manitoba along the border.

[kamichel]

Swathing heat damaged yellow peas. Rating 6, used to be 10. Rating could change up or down when combining. More likely down.