24 crops and the weather won.

[Klause]

I have a 400 Moridge dryer.... Works well. Sask farmers old unit. Do you wanna use it? Good tires if you want it just come and I'll help you hook on

[sumdumguy]

Propane is cheap to run Klause's dryer, a good week ahead and hopefully no more rain in your neck of the woods. Here's hoping the stars line up for you. You have a lot of people rooting for you.

[ajl]

I am hoping you get the crop. After being squeezed out myself due to some of the same problems I can tell you that most ways of making a living outside government are also fickle. Unless you are well connected, job hunting right now will be various shades of suck. There are far fewer opportunities than it appears and fewer than the silver spooners think there are. If you have outlying quarters consider a sale and rent back but preserve the home base at all costs. (Central bank money printing can't last forever can it) Agristability and crop insurance are your enemies not your friends right now. Agri invest I hope will help.

[Oliver88]

Very kind of Klause to offer his portable grain dryer.
(Propane was about 33 cents/litre a few weeks back.)

[bgmb]

go get klauses dryer propane is dirt cheap.

[bgmb]

go get klauses dryer propane is dirt cheap.

[freewheat]

Well, thanks for the wishes and input guys. Just what I expect from y'all. And to Klause, an extra thank you yet again!

I have at least two guys who will dry for me, so that is covered.

But soaking swaths under snow is more my concern right now. Not sure if it will get good enough to run through or not. Before the rain and snow, it was pretty slow and juicy!!!

I am more concerned actually having combine-able crop, than I am with getting it dried after the fact.

Not much snow on the beans, they should be ok after it melts off. They were ready only three days after the last rain with pretty cool days.

[foragefarmer]

I hate to be blunt but, you have got to get aeration or a dryer on that farm if you intend to succeed as a farmer in the future. The weather is going to sink you if not this year the next one. You've been pushing your luck for far to many years.

I sincerly hope you are able to get your crop off and make a go of it.

Why are you not taking Klaus upon his offer, it makes good sense to me, this way you got it at hand right away, and you could use the neighbors as well?


Riders

All the best to you as well, and I hope the weather smartens up for you as well!!!

[freewheat]

Forage, bluntness is fine and dandy. I know what I need, and I need a lot of money to do it, and I simply have not had good fortune.

If you knew something of my farm history, what I started with, or should I say without, what I have already overcome, and my effort to build a basic farm machinery package, you would "get it" better.

Klause is about 80 miles from here, and I have drying lined up within a mile of the field, at two dryers, so I politely declined.

Finally, I am not concerned about the grain once I combine. That is covered well. I am nervous whether I will get the grain in the first place. Dealing with it after is no big deal at all.

It is hard to judge a situation unless you know the ins and outs of the situation.

Thanks, I am ok with blunt comments.

[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.