Friday Crop Report on a Thursday!

[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.

[bucket]

Empty cars parked, lower movement and lower carryout doesn't equate to a large 2015 crop.

Unless manipulated.

Tinfoil please.

[Lex]

We finished seeding oats yesterday afternoon. My rain gage was leaking so I don't know how much rain for sure. It's a good soaker and maybe a third of an inch so far.

I got scared by the forecast for hot and dry and took a big chance seeding canola first. We got most of it in before the May 10th rain and then sweated bullets through the frost nights. It only got down to minus 1 and very little canola was up anyway. So it's all up now and looking like its off to a great start.

All we have left to plant now is the hemp which has never been planted before June before. We plan to get it in before the end of the month if we get a break in the weather.

The wind has been a bit of a problem and the hemp ground has not yet had it burn off.

In crop spraying on the canola will start as soon as the weather breaks.

Farming is a game of "musical chairs". Someone has to do poorly in order for the rest of us to profit. So right now it appears to be Argentina's turn. Canola prices up nearly a dollar in the last month. And of course the strong pea and lentil prices have everything to do with the monsoons in India.

As others have said it looks like we are on track to another great crop. But as Argentina and India would show the weather is a crap shoot. And no matter how good it looks now, if the tap shuts off for the month of July things can turn around in a hurry.

[farmaholic]

Agreed Lex... No chicken counting before they're hatched.

Perils:

Hail
Tap shuts off
Insects
Disease
Frost
Harvest Problems

[farming101]

LOL Farma!

You do have some R & R booked soon right?

[sumdumguy]

Talk about hatching chickens, I had an incubater full of Americanas, not one hatched - all duds, thank God it rained.

[SASKFARMER3]

Took a not planned trip to Ridgeway today. Wow is the land getting wet again south of Regina. One big rain and acres will be gone. Water sitting in spots. Still ok but as we hit the rainy month of June watch out. She isn't over till its in the pit sold and you deposit the check and it clears.
Most wheat about same stage as ours and one nice section of winter wheat that is full head and flowering. Nice.
Peas and lentils and Canola just poking out.

[stonepicker]

It appears some on here don't know math, exports are higher this year, on a record pace from last years record and the year before that. It appears the only ones that have trouble moving grain are the ones who chronically complain that they're getting ripped off. If i was a terminal manager i wouldn't want your grain either, life is too short.There is money to be made.

[furrowtickler]

Everything in a week as of today - everything up , peas ready to spray early next week . We are in good shape here
The last of the seeding in full panic mode today as we could get anouther 1-2 in in the next 5 days
75% of my guys corn will be in by tomorrow if the planters and cowboys don't have a fight lol
Might take the day off tomorrow to go help a customer who lost his father yesterday get some spraying done . They have crop ready to go .
Checked cal lender - other than Mother's Day morning and the half day Monday its been full bore 16 hr days since April 15th

[ado089]

Near Perdue crop planted late April first week of may is up a going with almost an inch and a half last week but there will be some late germination probe sinks in 2 feet. Cando had 8/10" over two shots and needed it as it was planted in the heat and wind some mustard and lentils died off at the surface but are trying again a third just germinated with the rain despite being planted very deep. Probe goes down about 16". West of battleford we got close to 3" hard and fast filling in the furrows so it's got some digging to do before breaks ground. I hope to seed my organic acres this weekend once the weed flush after this rain.

[dak7]

Near Perdue crop planted late April first week of may is up a going with almost an inch and a half last week but there will be some late germination probe sinks in 2 feet. Cando had 8/10" over two shots and needed it as it was planted in the heat and wind some mustard and lentils died off at the surface but are trying again a third just germinated with the rain despite being planted very deep. Probe goes down about 16". West of battleford we got close to 3" hard and fast filling in the furrows so it's got some digging to do before breaks ground. I hope to seed my organic acres this weekend once the weed flush after this rain.

Crops in and we are fine for moisture right now.