Drought situation - Sask

[furrowtickler]

-5 in Meadow Lake this morning.

[checking]

About 1 3/4 inch in extreme SE corner Sask. A little frost on rooftops this morning; but promises of -2C tomorrow.

[wedino]

.8" at Midale, no frost, -2C forecast for tomorrow morning. Rain came in the nick of time, lots of uneven crops now.

[d-45]

2 inch rain at Kenosee Lake, May be to wet to golf today.

[Hopperbin]

Ended up with minus 3 in the morning.
So far forcast of low of 3 tonight.
Canola was up 5 dollars last I looked.

[vvalk]

West of Lethbridge. just over 3". seems to be widespread from Med Hat to Pincher creek to Calgary. Some places received 5" to 7"

[Hopperbin]

Peas, wheat and barley seemed to take the frost as they grew today. Not sure on the Canola yet. They are calling for low of 3 here but it is already 5.

[Hopperbin]

OH dear it dropped to 0 in only 2 hours.
This could be a bad one.

[Wheatking]

Canola got smoked last night, only -1.3 here but some of it got it bad, hopefully it makes it through, hard to tell yet.

I am sitting here watching the temp instead of sleeping and it was down to 1.8 degrees at 11 and now at midnight it has warmed up over the last 15 min to 4.2. Maybe now I will get a better nights sleep.

[SASKFARMER3]

Last spring canola in our area had 5 frosts after it came up. Each time a few died out in hollows and odd hill. But the experts said don't worry. Fall came and Canola was poor in hollows and hill tops but sides were excellent yield, that's what the mapping showed. So conclusion yes it does damage. One neighbor is seeding over five pounds this year just for that reason. That's top hybrid varieties and he has the high yield in our area every year.

[furrowtickler]

We always seed at 4.8-5.3 lbs with top hi-breds. Frost - dry seed rows - wireworms - cutworms all contribute to seedling mortality. The only shabby canola stands in our area this year will be from the pinchers - less than 4lb/ac guys. I see it every year. And btw, by far the first to complain about seedling establishment,pinchers. Some seeding outfits can produce excelent stands at 3.5 - 4 lbs/ac, but a combination of the above factors will cause stand/yeild loss very quickly. In our area there is always something that takes out plant populations.
I agree with S/F the stongest yeilds almost always come from feilds seeded at 5 - 5.5 lbs/ac.

[SASKFARMER3]

Frost from last night in Areas around Rosetown -7 at airport. Should clean up a lot of canola.
That's Cold. We were at -1.
Cold Cold.
Last year the guys at 3 lbs didn't do well. Five frost cleared up that cutting back. Better to throw in some from bin and then add three lbs than risk three lbs. In a wet year any thing works for seeding but a dry cold year and you need to hit on all cylinders.