Fricking Rain! Early this morning!

[Klause]

Free do yiu have lots standing ? We will prob finish tomorrow ours and a friends. We can have a claas and or an 8570 out there next week all it would cost ya is fuel. Just say the word.

[freewheat]

Klause. I will let you know. I appreciate the offer very much! I have a buddy who is supposed to bring his pair he hopes as well. I have 300 of swathed canola, and 300 of standing faba beans and 120 of "standing" (do not get me started on STUPID champion barley. If you want to straight cut barley, DO NOT grow Champion, it breaks off like no other) barley.

Good news is I took a few acres of the faba beans, and they combine like a dream. LIKE A DREAM! lol I am not worried about them at all, they are and will stand fine through whatever comes, and they can be combined at a good pace. But I gotta get this canola. It is pretty valuable in spite of the heavy hail it took.

The barley? Well if it is like the last quarter I took, if I don't get it, it aint gunna kill me. Half the heads are plastered into the ground. It is a pathetic variety. It goes from just swathable, and then when it is about 25% moisture, it starts to fall over and snap off. I think I will go back to copeland. I should not have done this crappy variety again, I just thought it must be conditions of one year. But it is EVERY year. If you swath early, fine, but we are not a very strong swath area.

That said, I am going to swath it next week in case it does have to winter out.

[TOM4CWB]

Freewheat,

The fabas should be dry and ready first.

We have had problems with them shelling after they get ripe for a while... be careful you don't lose a bunch on the ground... if they are hard to the chew... they are likely ready... just like Justin was on the 19th!!!

[seabass]

Tom is bang on freewheat. If u leave the fabas too long the pods can crack open and hit the ground. Do them as soon as u can.

[Mmanitoba]

Enjoy reading posts. But boy oh boy is Saskfarmer a mother goose. Ka ka.

[freewheat]

My fabas are barely mature, and there is no dryness even at the peak daytime high. I am at the point though, that a rain on swathed canola could be fatal. On the fabas, they would be ready after a rain pretty quick. I have no doubt fabas could and do shell. But I gotta prioritize right now.

From what I hear, wet/dry cycle cause the shelling mostly, no? I have not seen a single pod anywhere close to being brittle enough to shell.

[biglentil]

geeze guys its almost Nov wrap it up already

[TOM4CWB]

Freewheat,

No desiccation then?

We ALWAYS kill the fabas off by Sept 10 here... but you could have a longer growing season? WOW hard to believe they are not ready yet... planted when?

[farmaholic]

You mean to say Mother Nature hasn't applied enough "Octobercide" to desiccate those fababeans? I can understand if they just won't dry down because of constant pissy rains and high humidity, but they must be dead by now....?

I bet there will be aome decent days in the beginning of November. Just hope Tuesday's rain doesn't materialize for you guys, but I'll take your allotment.

[Jay-mo]

One thing I learned about fabas this year.
If your harvesting fabas and you get some rain, quit.
We were doin fabas, going through silky smooth. Get a light shower, within a minute both machines are stopped with plugged feeders. The stalks go from turning into dust when they hit the feeder to turning into baler twine. The stalks started wrapping around the top shaft of the feeder chain and jumped a cog.
A couple days later it was dry and ripped off the rest of the field without a problem.

[freewheat]

They were not even close to dessicate at Sept 10th, and we still have not had a frost that has been hard yet. Nothing colder than minus 2 ish so far.

But then, this is an area where I have 150 day barley not combined yet.

Remember, we get red river valley moisture, with Iqaluit heat units! lol

It is hard to explain to those who do not experience this high moisture. Also, the soil is unbelievably wet. It is very hard to get crops to mature when the soil is soaking wet, and it is harder to get them to dry out enough to harvest.

Today, the canola was testing 14, and I was going UNDER A MILE AN HOUR, because it is so wet. Easy to see if you are here, hard to understand if you have no experience with falls wetter than spring. My buddy came for a ride today and we observed water running in the field, like it is spring.

[seabass]

U need a drier. I would be insane waiting.