Well 22.8 and wouldnt go through at 1:30 yesterday!

[SASKFARMER3]

Well its starting to look a lot like Christmas in every way. Shit I hate winter. Its the only season in Canada that really sucks.
But our window on harvest 15 is close to closing solid. The snow and rain last week total of 1.3 inches did really screw us for this year.
Today looks good but did it really dry. Yesterdays hard frost did nothing because it was such a wet frost.
We need wind and sun and both are in short supply.
could get the combines to thrash but bridged in tank and couldn't get out. Now that was at close to noon yesterday.
Should go through and that's all we need to get to the finish.
160 acres and counting.
Free I hope your having better luck to the north. Its not over till its over.

[farmaholic]

Unfortunately, 4 very important ingredients are missing:

1, Higher Temperatures
2, Lower Humidity
3, Windier Conditions
4, More Time.

I don't think it could be much worse.

[Partners]

In 1983 we were shingling the roof of our curling rink on Nov.17th..Everyone was in the T shirts because it was HOT..Remember because my daughter was born that day..So you never know..

[Oliver88]

Only have to go back to 2009 to see a November with lots of opportunity to combine.

NE Sask had a lot of acres come off that year in November.

[SASKFARMER3]

We have wind now and clear sky plus 5 straw tough grain 19.8

[farmaholic]

Waiting isn't an option, if it goes through the combine, take it. Unfortunately one year we did that at the end of Oct when it looked like harvest was over and others took their flax off awfully close to dry not long after. We weren't used to harvesting so late in the season at that time. As I've said before, I wanted to be wrong taking it tough than being wrong thinking I would get it dry and it would have to spend the winter under the snow.

The ground is beginning to freeze now, so at least the fields that are too soft will be navigable.

Good luck guys!

[Hopalong]

Had good harvest weather and got crop off in good time.
Hope for others sake there is another two weeks of good weather.
Worst fear is a foot of wet snow on winter wheat that has not hardened off.
Volunteer barley is still grass green in places.

[riders2010]

How long would aeration keep canola you can't test from heating? Drying is going to be slow. Have to wait til fields freeze up maybe it would freeZe dry some.

[SASKFARMER3]

120 acres to go f$&king Mother Nature you miserable bitch! I

[hedgehog]

sometimes we cut wheat at 30% if its desperate.

[Guest]

riders , with air , it will easily keep till you dry it , or you can just freeze it . without air at these temps , at least a week , probably 2 . aireation and -40 work well together also ,dries good

[Guest]

we had canola so tough that water ran out bottom of hopper bin in in the morning one year, dries good

[freewheat]

Yeah when it can go through the combine, it will go. So far, it won't go.

Forecast at least looks dryer for now.

Riders, in 2009, I took ALL my canola at 14, starting this very day that year. Most had not done a thing until the 8th of November. Some canola we dried right away, the one bin on rented land with air, landlord blew air all winter, only on the cold days. Checked frequently. Sold it in June, on a hot day it was very cold in the bin. And IT WAS DRY.

2004. Combined a fair amount in November. I remember doing oats on the 11th. It can happen

Temperature is far more important than actual moisture content. I am far more scared about my 8% canola combined at 20 degrees, than I am with my last canola which tested 13, combined at near zero degrees.

We shall see. The big lady has been up on stage in this area about 6 times. She has returned backstage the same number of times.

The two week forecast says she may well sit there for a while.

I hope very much so.

[riders2010]

Thanks people doing the higher spots where I can go was stuck earlier.

Wind is helping too bad wasn t windy earlier.

Can't test it but she s getting air as it's dumped.

Awful feeling crop in the field and you can't move.
I ll gladly take getting stuck or whatever a few times.

[SASKFARMER3]

Were now down to two machines as one has had a issue with sieve meeting a chopper.
60 acres and she is all over. Hopefully no fog or rain today. Tomorrow looks awful.
Grain cart has a one mile trip to grid and back as no way to get to field because of the mud. Ah farming in East sask.