24 crops and the weather won.

[farming101]

Freewheat, I hope you get another run at it.

[hobbyfrmr]

I recall a stretch of November combining after sn October snow. Canola went through best at -5 and colder. Combined from 11 pm to 6 am binned for a very short time and then straight to the dryer.
I think frozen, standing faba beans will thresh nicely.

Just a thought, the money you spent on canola inputs, could be spent on sheep if that matches your skill set. Plant more hay and have your revenue leave the farm on four legs.

[RTK]

Freewheat - I hope you get the weather you need to get the crop off. Think you have looked after the drying side of things; now you need Mother Nature to give you the days to get it done. I think you need to take a couple evening off if you can not combine and get some rest. I have a lending background and worked through some pretty tough years and some pretty tough files. Get your numbers together - simple balance sheet and projected income and expense statement and have a honest conversation with your lender. I am sure there is a solution a good lender and an honest farmer can find - I worked with a lot of guys and together we found solutions. I learned they learned and everyone of them today we stop and visit each other on the street.

[ado089]

Farming is a cruel mistress. Me and a buddy both started farming about the same time and we both pretty much started out with nothing. He's having an auction in the spring and if next year isn't half as decent mine will be next. Keep your chin up things can turn around fast in this game. in 2005, I think, I was coming home from Calgary for Christmas and there was combines rolling most of the way back to the border. They got er done. Good luck.

[tmyrfield]

late harvest a few years ago i stuck and inverter on my combine and decorated it with christmas lights, traffic slowed down to look, we finished that year then helped a neighbour. putting on the lights was a diversion and many people commented on it.

[bgmb]

Have combined canola mid november for a neighbour before 12 percent moisture. it got dry a few days later.

[fjlip]

Think it was 1998, NO snow on Christmas day! could have been in fields except soil was FROZEN! That was El Nenio, it's here again, so any thing can happen, drought all winter...

[bucket]

Freewheat

Have you ever thought of moving?

Maybe sell out and get to where skill set would reward you.

You are hard working resilient inventive to finish the job every year.

There are places that you would prosper with your skills.

Just asking but you seem to be spinning the wheels and I see a guy that would be a great add-on to any community if you didn't have the rain cloud over your head.

Maybe that's a sign.

[countryguy]

Unless you have taken a holistic management course this is going to sound off the wall. Everybody has some sort of unfair advantage over someone else. Problems can often be turned into opportunities with a little different mindset. Look around Freewheat. Determine your unfair advantage and things will really look up from there. I speak from experience. Good luck!!

[WiltonRanch]

Free I hope all goes well. I can't fathom that kind of wet situation. If it goes for shit in my neck of the woods it's usually too dry. It's neat you're diversifying but it takes time I know. Whether it's a flock or a herd you just don't get into it big in a hurry unless there is a huge structural change in your operation or you borrow a bunch and who wants to borrow themselves rich.

[hedgehog]

On the subject of dryers, i built a 25,000 sq ft grain store with drying system when i took on the farm in 93.
my landlord is evicting me without paying me a penny for it.

[hobbyfrmr]

I built a bin yard on my Dads quarter when I started as well. I was so proud because I paid for the power and dirt work and bins. It was well designed for btrain traffic and hoppers and aeration. That fall we were loading semis from one side and combining into the other side and I was pretty happy. My Dad showed up and all he said was "you never should have built this site, what will happen to you if I sell this quarter to the neighbours?"
That was his indirect way of explaining property ownership.