Weather and Poor Harvest Conditions

[parsley]

I'm sorry too, Burbert, as your posting lacks any semblance of reason.

Unfortunate.

Parsley

[craig]

Back to topic
widespread rain tonight and talk of minus 4 for wednesday night. Should put an end to better grades of wheat. Most farmers got their first day of combining in on canola before the rain. This has been a grain dryer year with almost all the cereals we have taken off at between 15 to 17 % moisture. Central Alberta. High humdity still hampering hours of combining as it's usually noon before we can start.

[SASKFARMER3]

Just in the house filled all trucks and combines and its turning ugly out side. Wind gusts. Most just got going on Monday so wow two whole days. Hopefully we will escape the weather tomorrow and Thursday.

[kamichel]

Managed to get 375 acres of Canola off the last couple days. Quit at 4 am and stars were still shining yet rain drops falling from the sky. So should be raining by morning when the clouds roll in.

[northfarmer]

from the Peace.....our winter wheat if finally off....dry and #2.....got rained out moving to peas......there a number of pea fields, some barley, and now finally some #2 cwrs wheat coming off in the area...showers yesterday held off the combines, no frost here yet, some places got a touch in the past weeks, mildew is grading factor on wheat that is taking it to poor 2's and 3's.....yields reports are above average.....gree canola going down, calendar is calling the hots now, not color change ....hey burbert, wilagro....go fishin or find a coffee shop to commiserate with your socialist ilk, visit here but lurk, your Bull&^%$ gives me heartburn!!!!

best of luck to all the real producers out there!!!!

[wilagro]

northfarmer: Thanks, I really need to take marching orders from a "real" farmer. Yessiree.

I have done my share of "real" farming, picked rocks and roots, combined in the snow and endured all that mother nature had to throw at me for many, many years. I have fed cattle when it was -54 F. and ran vehicles when I could hardly turn the steering wheel. I still suffer from the effects of frozen knees and feet from when I was a kid yet but we looked after our livestock.

So please, don't tell me what to do or not to do. Remember the old Indian saying..."Don't judge a man until you have walked in his mukluks" or something to that effect.

[furrowtickler]

Willy, there is no doubt that you have a wealth of experience from your day, but as Shrek says - "Change is good donkey!"

[Burbert]

wilagro, I think that stress for the duds on this forum is great. After all they've decided to enslave themselves framing, don't want any help, grow the most and the best quality grain, have all the answers and are best of friends with grain companies, r/r's, and PC politicos. Think about it for a split second, how can they fail. After all, the greedy and corrupt shall inherit the earth, or steal it in the end. Only the meek stand in their way! Framing is indeed a challenge at times, but that is the fun isn't it??????????????

[charliep]

Framing. Didn't know we had have carpenters/house builders on this site.

[cottonpicken]

"Muckaluck"-funniest word ever.

Sometimes i say it just to make myself laugh.

[TOM4CWB]

Wilagro,

"we looked after our livestock."

ANd the Pro Bono CWB feed grain policy,

THe pool policy to make sure the price inside the "designated area" is always lower than in the rest of Canada,

Best insurance your livestock will have the least cost feed.

Did you ever have "Brain Freeze" Willyagro?

It is kind of a feeling you get after reading the CWB and Canada Grain Act for 10 hours straight!

[wilagro]

Tom: I can understand the "brain-freeze" that you suffer from. IF you are so gosh-darned clever and educated, WHY aren't you running the CWB? You have an answer for every shortcoming or "perceived" shortcoming that has ever come down the "pike".

Doesn't the CWB listen to you anymore? Have they closed the communication channels to you. What is the problem? One would think that they would welcome your analyses and act on your suggestions if they are valid.

Perhaps you need a nice long vacation...perhaps Australia or New Zealand would be nice. Probably been a year or so since you were there. Might clear those cobwebs out of the old noggin...

[northfarmer]

tell us about your harvest conditions, did you get your crop off, do you have any crop to take off????...if not you should shut your yap Burbert, Wilagro....I did not start this you did...listen to the crap you started to spew earlier in this thread and do not have the stomach to take shots back...it is pathetic...

[kamichel]

Never got out of the house today. But there was wind and wet. Scared to mention what the standing wheat and oats are going to look like. A day ago some oats were looking flat with the odd twisted up stook. 20 miles south where they got their crop in earlier because the spring was dryer and less snow melt the farmers are much happier. Here and north things are entirely different. But at least what is off the yield was generally good and good quality.

[TOM4CWB]

Wilagro,

It is clear the CWB listens to your type Wilagro, scared, fearful, negative, the cup is half empty, everyone is out to rip me off Wilagro.

That you need to rag on folks who are having a difficult time... speaks volumes about your character!

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A belief that a responsible government must be fiscally prudent and should be limited to those responsibilities which cannot be discharged reasonably by the individual or others;

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*A belief that the purpose of Canada as a nation state and its government, guided by reflective and prudent leadership, is to create a climate wherein individual initiative is rewarded, excellence is pursued, security and privacy of the individual is provided and prosperity is guaranteed by a free competitive market economy;

*A belief that the quality of the environment is a vital part of our heritage to be protected by each generation for the next;

*A belief that Canada should accept its obligations among the nations of the world;

*A belief that good and responsible government is attentive to the people it represents and has representatives who at all times conduct themselves in an ethical manner and display integrity, honesty and concern for the best interest of all;

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This works for me Wilagro... what about you?