Rained at lake 1 inch plus.

[SASKFARMER3]

Just back from lake and it rained 1 inch plus yesterday and looks cooler this week. Crops are late in NE Sask. Canola just being sprayed with liberty. One field of barley headed at Buchanan. Got to farm and we had 1/2 inch south of Qu appelle valley nothing to Regina.
Funny all travels I have done since Farm Progress show proves one thing. Crops are late, Canola is patchy and thin and moisture is needed in a great number of areas in Saskatchewan.
Lentils look awesome in Moose-jaw area peas good, Some disasters though, No durum Headed up to Friday. Prices are the sh--s considering the crushers are charging huge basis, and Viagra and Cargill teamed up on Oats. Looks like the big dogs learned from the CWB, Screw the farmers their to slow to realize whats happening tell them every excuse to why you cant pay them more for their product most will believe and sell. Seen a lot of guys why have contracts for flax at low end very low end for this year. If the yield is not average they will sell most of their production off combine for low dollars. Lots of guys still take what the local terminal is giving them on pricing. Competition with new Viagra deal means less competition for farmers. Were going to be price takers and Viagra will pay off their debts on farmers backs. Why else is Mayo so happy. These companies have learned and learned fast tell the farmers any thing and they will believe.
Well at least at the lake their is no Weiner roast tax any more and the parks are full of travelers in Saskatchewan. Back up north for another week.

[Barleyman]

Enviorment Canada was calling for anywhere from a trace to 1/4 inch on sunday night, monday morning. What we got was a very heavy rain at 4:am. We ended up with 1.5" by 8:am and another 3/10 in the afternoon. We needed it as our crops are heavy so far this year. There is some patchy, poor canola around, but most looks real good. Barley is very heavy looking crop. Wheat is mostly headed out and lodging in spots on most fields. Oats are looking extremely good.

[Barleyman]

What area Barleyman??

[freewheat]

Close to two inches here. We need heat and lots of it, however, not rain. Oh well, it's not easy saying rain rain go away in early july, even if you don't need any. Glad for those who got rain who actually needed it. May the northeast get some heat units already!!! Some phenomenal crops up here, unfortunately not many are mine... underfertilized my two year chemfallow fields, which were and are saturated. I over-estimated the nitrogen supplying power of wet land...Oh well, things are still quite decent, and money is not everything. I tried my best.

[SASKFARMER3]

what area barley man?

[Barleyman]

We are 60 miles southeast of Brandon along #3 hiway, Killarney area. Our crops are so heavy that it looks like you could walk across all of the cereals right now. We used folicur at 3/4 rate on the wheat, tilt on the rest. Some neighbors are starting proline on canola, it is flowering nice in our immediate area. Anyone that sowed canola deeper than normal had very good germination and avoided the last few frosts in may. Tose fields look really good. Alfalfa was not a bad cut, mixed hay will be good but not great, straight brome is a complete disaster. Just too cold and dry in late april and may.

[SASKFARMER3]

Great to here your in a area that's doing excellent, its to bad that's not most of rest of major canola growing area. Its all about luck 90% of the time. Have a great summer!