WTF its White and its a good sise area this morning!

[SASKFARMER3]

Well what's the old saying white on May 1st your? What is the saying I cant figure it out, Oh wait its your f*$ked!
Ground is cold, snow all over the place and its may 1st. We need two weeks to dry this all up with very warm temps.
Dah farming on the prairies priceless.

[SASKFARMER3]

-10 tonight for regina yea like today is a melting day!
best chance for warm up now has us at late Saturday and finally sunday is up to 19 with first night temp above 0.

[cottonpicken]

I was wrong,more like an inch of moisture.

[seabass]

Sounds like it should work out ok. You have
always been saying your optimum seeding dates
are the middle of may for a good crop. Here's
hoping the forecast will be good and things will
be just fine.

[SASKFARMER3]

sea bass the problem is sub moisture from last year and year before. Mud is mud. We are now week off prime seeding May long here we come!!!!!!!!!!

[sumdumguy]

Does anyone remember April 30, 1966?

We were in Grade 10 and in those days you
ended the hockey season with a broomball
tournament, when there was about a half inch of
water on the natural ice. Well, that day we were
in a BB tournament in Odessa. While we were
sloshing around, It snowed about 3 feet - very
wet snow. There was absolutely no moving.
Streets in town honestly had about 3 feet of
snow.That night we spent the night, along with
about a dozen other 16 year olds on the floor of
someone's grandpa's attic. All the telephone lines
were down for a week or so, 33 highway closed.

[SASKFARMER3]

1966 it froze didn't it?

[ado089]

Getting snow again at the end of April
or May is one thing. Still having snow
and frozen ground is a whole other
problem.

[hobbyfrmr]

The Mayans know more than we do! Look at the
bright side. Crop insurance $100.00/ acre for too
wet planting. That's good money just to sit in your
cabins all summer and tell the employees when
to spray chemfallow.

[bucket]

If you have bare ground, it isn't warming up. The ground is probably getting colder today.

[SASKFARMER3]

Yes Hobby for once your right it was a good decision to add the extra to my insurance for unseeded. loose 5% of acres then it pays so 500 no check rest have some.
Sad part if I don't seed their will be no need for employees this summer layoffs will begin.

[SASKFARMER3]

Bucket your correct the temps for tonight is min 10 that's not going to warm up.

[LWeber]

Saskatchewan all wheat yields
bushels per acre - 1967 would be the crop year for 66/67 after that wicked storm in the spring

1964 18.1
1965 21.6
1966 27.7
1967 17.2
1968 19.6
1969 27.0
1970 26.2

[bucket]

And that's probably based on black dirt that would have some heat radiated into it.

[hobbyfrmr]

The 1967 yeild is lower for sure. This was before fertilizer and conservitive herbicide use. We have come a long way and yeilds will be higher. Harvest may go into November,not the best case scenario, but not the end of the world either.