Friday Crop Report on a Thursday!

[SASKFARMER3]

You know a area that cant get a break this year on the rain. Oh wait we had nice rain from spring all the way.
We are down to the last 8 quarters and then got 2 tenths on Tuesday. It did dry yesterday a bit but still wet.
Dryer will roll today. Weather is changing.
Harvest 84% as of this morning.

Fall work is taking place all over, Lots ripping fields from one end to the other no just around and across. All over the field. We have 1000 black and 1000 with just bad areas as only have a few days to go. Some fall spraying but yesterday I put ours away. Funny the snow Geese haven't arrived yet.
Lots of Cattle still in summer pastures but a few are starting to move home.
Flax is being burnt, No one has made a wheat field black yet.
Heavy harrow is also taking place.
So hopefully we get three good days or 4 shitty ones and Harvest 2015 is a wrap.
Funny you can be first to start in a area then throw in some family member funeral and showers in wrong spot after one, you get behind. Hey but that's farming your always changing the plan and adjusting.
So have a great week and remember every one is going to get a piece of this crop before you finally get your slice. Ah farming be safe.

[newguy]

Water finally gone from wet years.Went out with combine Sunday to clean up kochia I I left when combining durum.Also put through edges of weeds around drowned out areas.Cat tails that never made seed cleaned up nice too.if anything land looks much better and will catch less snow.Think crop insurance will now consider this land seedable acres for next year now.

[blackpowder]

Our area generally wrapped up over the weekend. Rained monday. After entering second decade of zero till, you see more blackwned fields here too.
Now to put stuff away and manage the tough grain.

[Partners]

Still some crop out there..Some are fert.
We are done and all machinery washed and waxed for the winter nap..
Now to move some grain to buy next yrs. inputs..

[Guest]

95 % done around here , most NH3 has been put on , fall work pretty well done .

[hobbyfrmr]

Done on sunday before the rain. Fall tillage and grain moving etc. Repairs of course. Mixed results, good crops on heavy land very poor crops legumes on sand.
The good news is that the oats and hemp will sell for profit and the legumes were to multiply seed for Plowdown. Thats about it, nothing too exciting, happy to be done. Locals have a little bit of canola left, plenty of anhydrous banding and tillage happening.

[Lex]

How did your hemp yield? Where is your farm?

I have 1000 acres of hemp left to go. Tested 14 this afternoon.

[PrairieDude]

Good luck to all finishing up. Sf3 enjoy your reports. Would you start a capital expenditure weekly report to occupy us through winter. Be interested in seed booked, multi iron flips etc

[hobbyfrmr]

I Have land in RM of Leask and RM of Blaine Lake.
The (organic) hemp yielded gross 660 pounds per acre. Best field went 900 and the less fertile/more weeds was half the yield.
1000 acres, standing or swathed? Thats a lot of hemp! Right on. I like harvesting hemp, but never got it down to 14%. I am always worried that the wind will shell it out and I usually need all that crop/money!

[Lex]

Hemnp is standing. Variety is X-59 and generally does not shell at all.

We have Lexion combines with walkers. What do you use?

[hobbyfrmr]

X59 is definitely best for not shelling.
I have a caseih 1688 special edition "rope maker"!

Its not that bad once its shielded up. I check the front rotor bearing every morning. This year the extra tall x59 stubble was wrapping on the final drives and cleaning fan pulley bit its manageable.
I Would think a conventional combine would work well in hemp. Either way it gets done.

[Klause]

100 acres of oats left. Pissed off at AGCO. 2 tear old adapter 3 welds failed on it. This time had to rip everything apart to reweld. Welds full of holes and Flux.



Wtf 12,000 adapter and they can't weld bolt studs in!!!


Needed to change out the sprocket stud and bearing. Agco parts 788 bucks. Went to peavy mart got all the parts for 28 bucks gotta weld the sprocket together in the am.


Flax got dried kelly harrowed half our fields sprayer in yard getting a wash tomorrow morning then einterized.... every quarter sprayed once or twice this fall. Going to burn sloughs as soon as the oats is done and then start hauling bales.



Soybeans..

Top yield was Restons.


Reston P002 and 23-11 were within 3 bu. P001 moosomins and 23-60 were also close to each other but half the yield of the top ones.



Oh yeah got some barley to clean up that was too wet earlier. Will do that tomorrow... 20 acres.

[fjlip]

After Tuesday, snow and rain, nothing will burn. It's SO HUMID/FROSTY here everyday, nothing burns. Fields are the WETTEST STICKIEST in years. Water/mud like spring run off. 17" rain after mid June was 2 years worth! Losing good soil to salinity all year. El Nenio better unf*ck our excess rain fall or NO crops will survive in 2016!

[freewheat]

And that is saying something, hey, FJ? I mean, this is the wettest at this time of year I have seen, other than the LATE fall of 2009. Which set us up to seed........... 0 acres in 2010.

It is silly.