Cool week ahead .

[Klause]

-4 and colder here this week. There's gonna be some wrecks canola stays in bag till 17th of may then go hard

[Guest]

more often then not it freezes around here last week in May . how do you beat that ? straw management is the key . canola will take a lot of frost if ground is fairly black

[WiltonRanch]

Lots of canola gets froze out around here. Some say it can take 6 degrees of frost if it's been hardened in ie. cold soil, previous cold during germination. If temps have been warm and it pops then gets even -1 it'll get whacked opposed to something with cold experience. Black soil I've seen with my own experience will help but really if it isn't hardened up it'll die like flies from Raid.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

-5 for tomorrow night here. Frost almost every night this week. and a lot of people seeded in April.

[furrowtickler]

A -4 with lots of dew - not bad , -4 with no dew or recent rain - very bad .

[SASKFARMER3]

Monday high of 7 for us cool no very cold. That's the high.

[Guest]

wasn't there guys on here seeding in mid March ? or had niegbours that were ? that stuff must be headed out now ?

[biglentil]

put just a smiggen of heat in the sprayer keep em cozy n warm

[freewheat]

Where are we at with the moon phase?

[newguy]

Too cold...too wet..too windy..too dry..too hot..dam..too late..no spring is ever perfect.

[furrowtickler]

Back around May 1 st did anyone predict , Drew or anyone else, predict 4-5 very cold nights from May 10 th to the 14 th ?
All I heard in the chatter was above normal .
If this cold was better predicted 10 days ago would guys have risked seeding canola earlier ?
That's the issue here , one can have all the high tech seeding outfits , throw all the groceries to er to the square foot - but what's it worth with the inaccuracies of 10 to 14 day weather forecasts ?
Inputs , especially canola seed , are very expensive, time is priceless and moisture now limited for reseed ..

[furrowtickler]

Not much different than last year , if it was known that it was going to freeze hard on the 18th , most canola would not have gone in till after the 15th.
Before I get butchered here , I know there is no perfect seeding date for canola and each area can be widely different , just pointing out that better forecasting could save a lot of grief and frustrated farmers. To me it's worth more than all the fancy tech available to us