Rain rain go away come back to haunt us another day.
I hate to say it but with creeks now starting to run from springs and rain. Water sitting in fields and swaths that you have to harvest around its time to wish for a drought to return for 2016 and maybe the three years after. Yes our yields for our area are very nice but rain does not make grain. Rain in excess creates wrecked roads plus pushes salt to the surface and wrecks good producing land.
For those who live in dryer areas you could never understand what damage rain can do. But quit complaining is what I will here so all our area can do is hope for a dry winter so maybe we can have a chance in 2016.
Here we go on the crop report. For our area the last two harvest days were a great Thursday and Friday till just after noon on Friday and then it hit. We had a half on Friday and then another 7 tenths over the weekend. But this rain was more like a mist slow soaker the kind in a dry year you dream about. Fields were really wet Monday as I tried to do some tillage with the Kelly. Yes in Mud it will work. Tuesday dried down nice but Wednesday thunder chased us out side of the shop and it hit shortly after. Hard pounding rain not that long but what ever drying took place was gone. So basically we did get to 63% done this week but I would call the week a write off.
October is a rough month that can give us a First nation summer or first or final chance for harvesting for the year.
Lots did get close to finishing on Friday.
Hrs most is off and in the bin. Some guys have some very tough grain some have all dry as a bone grain. Yields over all are around normal. Not flood normal but what our area use to get normal.
Barley is all off and binned.
Oats is crop still out or ready to go as soon as we can roll. Later oats looks good time will tell.
Canola is rotting nice in the swaths and when those with crop out get going it will be wrapped up quick. Its like shit through a goose now.
Some funny yield results with some varieties that promise the world coming in a lot lower than some others. Over all Canola yields are back to normal or a little higher over all.
Flax is having a hard time getting dried down to harvest as that is a crop that is still out in a lot of fields.
Yields if its clean are good if dirty not so good.
Pastures are good and bales are getting hauled.
Fall spraying is under way on days over 10 c for probably another week. Second fall tillage app will happen on our pea fields as very nice growth will be worked under. Fall tillage is happening on a lot more fields in our area as those who had burnt or were black from tillage or pea stubble had very good yields.
Weather looks wait it changed like it might crap out now on Sunday. FM.
Every one who is done enjoy your thanks giving as I have always said in this country we should be having it at the same time as the Americans.
Enjoy your bird its been years since we were done by Monday.
Now on the equipment, chem, fert, seed, etc etc front all are gearing up to come see us farmers and convince us again to help them get ahead by buying product that in some cases promises 10 bushel better crop costs 5 bus for product but in the end only gives us 1 to 3 more yield. So really unless its a perfect year your just feeding the beast.
Enjoy your turkey and most of all remember the ones at home need you way more than rushing to get the crop off that no one wants to pay a fair dollar for.
Happy Thanksgiving from My family to yours.
I hate to say it but with creeks now starting to run from springs and rain. Water sitting in fields and swaths that you have to harvest around its time to wish for a drought to return for 2016 and maybe the three years after. Yes our yields for our area are very nice but rain does not make grain. Rain in excess creates wrecked roads plus pushes salt to the surface and wrecks good producing land.
For those who live in dryer areas you could never understand what damage rain can do. But quit complaining is what I will here so all our area can do is hope for a dry winter so maybe we can have a chance in 2016.
Here we go on the crop report. For our area the last two harvest days were a great Thursday and Friday till just after noon on Friday and then it hit. We had a half on Friday and then another 7 tenths over the weekend. But this rain was more like a mist slow soaker the kind in a dry year you dream about. Fields were really wet Monday as I tried to do some tillage with the Kelly. Yes in Mud it will work. Tuesday dried down nice but Wednesday thunder chased us out side of the shop and it hit shortly after. Hard pounding rain not that long but what ever drying took place was gone. So basically we did get to 63% done this week but I would call the week a write off.
October is a rough month that can give us a First nation summer or first or final chance for harvesting for the year.
Lots did get close to finishing on Friday.
Hrs most is off and in the bin. Some guys have some very tough grain some have all dry as a bone grain. Yields over all are around normal. Not flood normal but what our area use to get normal.
Barley is all off and binned.
Oats is crop still out or ready to go as soon as we can roll. Later oats looks good time will tell.
Canola is rotting nice in the swaths and when those with crop out get going it will be wrapped up quick. Its like shit through a goose now.
Some funny yield results with some varieties that promise the world coming in a lot lower than some others. Over all Canola yields are back to normal or a little higher over all.
Flax is having a hard time getting dried down to harvest as that is a crop that is still out in a lot of fields.
Yields if its clean are good if dirty not so good.
Pastures are good and bales are getting hauled.
Fall spraying is under way on days over 10 c for probably another week. Second fall tillage app will happen on our pea fields as very nice growth will be worked under. Fall tillage is happening on a lot more fields in our area as those who had burnt or were black from tillage or pea stubble had very good yields.
Weather looks wait it changed like it might crap out now on Sunday. FM.
Every one who is done enjoy your thanks giving as I have always said in this country we should be having it at the same time as the Americans.
Enjoy your bird its been years since we were done by Monday.
Now on the equipment, chem, fert, seed, etc etc front all are gearing up to come see us farmers and convince us again to help them get ahead by buying product that in some cases promises 10 bushel better crop costs 5 bus for product but in the end only gives us 1 to 3 more yield. So really unless its a perfect year your just feeding the beast.
Enjoy your turkey and most of all remember the ones at home need you way more than rushing to get the crop off that no one wants to pay a fair dollar for.
Happy Thanksgiving from My family to yours.
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