Permit Book Acres

[bduke]

The continuing drought in the South East corner of Sask. is blatantly exposing the lighter and marginal soils.

Much of this land was broken to add cultivated acres to the CWB permit books, especially in the 1960's and 1970's. The delivery quota in 1970 was, I think, a total of 3 bushels per cultivated acre.

While some of the really weak areas have been seeded to permanent forage, we...IMHO...still have a ways to go.

What is being noticed in other regions of the Prairies?

I'm curious....Bill

[just_wondering]

Just back from a week long tour visiting family in the north east, part of Saskatchewan some observations
Saskatoon too Wakaw marginal on Canola cereals look late
Wakaw- Nipawin Wow!!!
Crops are very advanced and look great almost done flowering and setting huge pods
the most noticeable thing is huge Canola acres almost every second feild and the complete lack of diversity, almost no Flax, peas, just lots of signs for canloa of all varieties.
I found were Ag Canada got all those Canola acres.

[Burbert]

Alberta, crops widely varied, some good, some poor. Extreme weather, ie hot with really wild rain showers and hail storms, good and bad, helping crops head out but hail pounding them into the ground in some places. A long way before its in bins yet, who knows what will happen?

[sidvicious02]

In general Manitoba conditions are quite good. Some small isolated areas that had been dry - SW MB (well until this morning anyway) but for the most part adequate moisture right across. Cereals look very good throughout the province and would expect results to be above average yields. Canola is going to be hit & miss with a lot of fields getting hit by the early frost, some reseeded fields look good but late. Fields not reseeded look much better of late with the cooler weather, but suspect they may be hiding some nasty surprises. Think if we were to hit even average in Manitoba on canola we'd be doing well. Soybeans could get ugly though, solid-seeded are very very late and will need some major heat to finish before a frost.