Friday Crop Report on a Thursday!

[bigzee]

Finished yesterday morning, since then we've had 8.5 tenths. When we started conditions were good then the winds and heat came and lots of dust, and when we finished had to use the wipers. Only in Sk!! Going to the lake for the wk end for some RnR.

[wmoebis]

Maybe grain companies should be encouraged (one way or other) to have storage so they must accept delivery of contracts. They can build bins, use bags or pile on ground like farmers do when we have big crop coming or our bins are full.

Instead of giving them 3 months to take delivery and leaving it up to farmers to negotiate penalty, Mr Ritz should have told them they had to take delivery and honor contracts.

[farmaholic]

Okay, First stuff(all coarse grains and peas) seeded before the .78 inch of rain on about May 10th is well on it's way. The flax and canola seeded after the rain was put into decent moisture but the hot dry windy days really took it's toll. I caved in and looked at the damn shit a couple of days ago and emergence was "OK" probably with afew spots where it got in a little shallow and in dry dirt or too deep and still trying to come up(drill is damn good but not perfect). This rain is another blessing for our farm. Nearly 7 tenths so far and a real soaker. When it dries up we are going to have to get on the sprayer quite soon after, the early stuff's staging is getting close.

Now after all that whining, complaining, fretting and hand wringing.... things are almost perfect. Seeded through almost everything and had a couple of nice rains to get things going. Now if I COULD only stop complaining, aye aye Captain, things are good. But I'll find something... LOL

[farmaholic]

...neutered chihuahuas!!!!!

[bucket]

Isn't Ritz working for a grainco or railway yet?

Harper is leaving ... won't finish the term of office as an MP because there are better things to do.

I suspect more to follow. Pick up their marbles and go home ...

[stonepicker]

The 2015 harvest was the second largest in history, in the first 9 months of the crop year canadian co's have made record exports and as of mar. 31grain and oilseed stocks are the lowest in years and in some cases the lowest ever. " statscan " Looks to me that grain has moved well this year.

[bucket]

Something isn't adding up because the railways haven't been moving anywhere close to a million tonnes a week for a very long time.

[wmoebis]

Have a look around, Cars sitting empty in storage all over the place. Some been there for month or more now.

[farmaholic]

They just filled the siding beside our town with grain cars too. There used to be pipe hauling cars there before.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Finally recieved our first precipitation since winter, ~2" last week/weekend, now back to the pattern of forecasting rain, but nothing falls. Forecast for 0C again on Saturday. All volunteer cereals and canola froze off dead a while ago, early seeded looked very unhappy for a while, but seem to have survived. Most are long since done, some twice already. I'm still seeding barley, now into much better conditions.