Drought situation - Sask

[furrowtickler]

Look at the latest maps, there is a masive area setting up for a major drought in Sask. This constant 60k wind has sucked all available moisture from the seed rows here. From heavy snow to drought conditions in three weeks with no rain in the forcast now for ten more days. But remember why land is cheaper in Sask? Anything we seeded from the 8th to the 16th is established but everthing seeded after is in dry dirt. And oh yeah, frost expected Monday morning. But hey bumper crop expected by the experts. Have a good Sunday.

[cottonpicken]

Thankya Jeezuss!

Were getting a nice rain.

[LWeber]

http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/radar/index_e.html?id=XBE

[checking]

Watch the markets crash on Monday. "Beneficial rains" will be repeated over and over. The rains (an inch or so) along the US border (at least) are very timely as anyone who wanted to seed into moisture had to go deeper than was optimum to get plants to surface after germination.
In Southern SE Sask subsoil moisture isn't a very thick layer; and is usually non-existant under grass stands. Similar rains will be welcomed every weekend through July; and moisture is general; I predict there will be more dollars invested in the crops than the crops will be worth.

[SASKFARMER3]

Well its total was 1/4 inch north of the Quappelle valley. Nice Cold rain. I still have some to seed on our own plus 1200 custom seeding. Priced out a new bourgault parrelel link with 550 cart 75ft full run monitor anhydrous coulters plus hitch dualls etc. Holy crap $393,000.00 Cash should be $294,000.00 but cash price on loaded 9630 is $256,000.00 funny need one to pull other.
Other funny thing is could buy the 5 custom quarters for less than $300000.00 I think the land will win out.
Nice shower anyway. Need a break

[checking]

Watch the markets crash on Monday. "Beneficial rains" will be repeated over and over. The rains (an inch or so) along the US border (at least) are very timely as anyone who wanted to seed into moisture had to go deeper than was optimum to get plants to surface after germination.
In Southern SE Sask subsoil moisture isn't a very thick layer; and is usually non-existant under grass stands. Similar rains will be welcomed every weekend through July; and if the moisture is general; I predict there will be more dollars invested in the crops than the crops will be worth.

[cottonpicken]

Your not very good at math are you checking.
Get your calculator out and start punching in todays prices with an average crop.
If your eyes dont light up,you simply screwed up your decimal point.
Simply move it to the right a couple of spaces.

Yes,mother nature can take it away from us,but i'll take her odds.

As far as the markets-they cant take it away.
There are a million reasons why so im not going to start.
The paradigm has changed.
A new mind set is needed.

Hope everyone else catches a rain.

[checking]

Because we don't know enough about other people's farm business; or their actual situations; we all come jump to conclusions that are far from the actual cases.
For instance; a person may have pencilled in a firm contracted price that generates a healthy profit. If you miss this rain and the next one; and the drought continues (for the large area of Southern prairies and places such as the Dakotas; then it would be wise to have also pencilled in a risk factor of having to buy back production that could potentially be worth more than what now seems like a very good price to forward contract production.

I'm willing to wait to be proven wrong that the new paradime won't teach us all some new lessons in how to try to break even over the long run.

[just_wondering]

3/10ths on my farm nice to see though more would help, cold tonight though what would a late season frost do?
We are planning on enecting the act of god clause on our contracted mustard acres and seeding red lentils to dry to get much more than gemination on the mustard.

[Hopperbin]

Only 1 tenth here so far but our black soils are holding good moisture below.
Just let the dog pee outside and the thermomitor reads minus 1.

[furrowtickler]

holding at plus 4 here so far. Just a trace of rain scince the snow.

[SASKFARMER3]

Drove from Kamsack to Moose jaw yesterday. It looks like it was a nice sprinkle, not a major rain event, some areas received good sprinkle, but again not a major rain event. We ended up with 1/4 inch total.

[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.