Got wind?

[farming101]

There's wind and then there's WIND. Hope everybody and everything stays anchored.

[SASKFARMER3]

1:22 dead calm Regina.

[newguy]

Swift Current suppose to recorded 120 km. Winds.Anything moving?

[Jagfarms]

Our flax swaths held on in the 70km/h winds but when the wind got up to 103 km/h the swaths blew and are gone except for a few piles in the field
Close to 400 acres gone
We have about 100 acres we did not swath yet

[zeefarmer]

Sorry to hear that Jason.

In Swift Current, trees uprooted. Tin roofs peeling off. Coop had 3 older fertilizer bins that they had replaced fall over onto one of their flat deck trucks and into the local Ford dealership, getting the back end of a couple trucks. Trucks may be part of a "half-off" sale

The bins were anchored to big cement blocks, but had no skids. None of the new bins in their yard that had skids tipped.

[biglentil]

damn flax thats a buggar

[fjlip]

Seen flax and canola disappear in 2012. Fricking hurricane here at the moment.

[sumdumguy]

Scared to look. Flax is still standing, but maybe the roots are up in the air. LOL

[TOM4CWB]

What a nasty year for Flax.

Yielding 1/2 to 1/3 of Canola... won't dry down... bad to swath...

Hope you have crop ins. Jag! That was a really nasty storm! I see micro burst shelled out areas in some Canola swaths.. not enough area to get hail guys out...

[TOM4CWB]

Jag,

I have a 30' Shelborne Stripper header you might want to consider for picking up your blown flax. It is a Shelborne with JD feeder house new style hookup.

We picked up a big batch of flax windrows and chopped them with the combine last fall. Might help to feed the rolled up bunched flax windrows better into combine than a normal pickup header.