Rain does make grain if its normal year and those who got hit and continue to get hit will see that Rain makes mud and crops a Dud!
We lived through this shit for so many years now that I cant even remember the dry years. Oh wait I can we made out like bandits. Good crops good quality and easy to farm. I hit a rut yesterday spraying that cost me 700 just because the boom went up and down and took out a cylinder or two from the bounce. Just one of the hazards of excess rain mud and shit in general.
But the big cost is Economic impact from flat flooded fields that are already saturated with water. These areas will turn yellow in a few days then brown and finally black and dead even if they are headed. Brown patches of canola that looks filled etc. Lentils don't like wet feet and disease will take hold.
Big question will some of these insurance Companies be able to handle the fall out. Yes they insure for such shit but what will premiums be in future years. What cost $100,000 will it be $200,000.00 next year. Sask crop will have you harvest then quality issues will be adjusted. Yes its early but if you have 160 acre quarter and 60 acres is gone you harvest 100 at 50 that's 5000. That's 31.25 crop if your coverage is 36 that's 4.75 x 11 or 52.00 a acre minus your premium you get maybe 40.
Yea its a money maker.
Rain in excess is a killer that takes takes and takes some more.
Drew's forecast is this shit right into harvest. Just cant wait.
I know how lentils will come out of this. Plus peas will get root rot if it continues and then fall over even if they are standing. Mud earth tag at harvest. Durum goes down disease has a breeding ground. Canola if stem damaged has a access point for disease.
But one storm doesn't kill a crop its the future rains that if they follow the same path that will eventually trim the crop and make grades sick.
We lived through this shit for so many years now that I cant even remember the dry years. Oh wait I can we made out like bandits. Good crops good quality and easy to farm. I hit a rut yesterday spraying that cost me 700 just because the boom went up and down and took out a cylinder or two from the bounce. Just one of the hazards of excess rain mud and shit in general.
But the big cost is Economic impact from flat flooded fields that are already saturated with water. These areas will turn yellow in a few days then brown and finally black and dead even if they are headed. Brown patches of canola that looks filled etc. Lentils don't like wet feet and disease will take hold.
Big question will some of these insurance Companies be able to handle the fall out. Yes they insure for such shit but what will premiums be in future years. What cost $100,000 will it be $200,000.00 next year. Sask crop will have you harvest then quality issues will be adjusted. Yes its early but if you have 160 acre quarter and 60 acres is gone you harvest 100 at 50 that's 5000. That's 31.25 crop if your coverage is 36 that's 4.75 x 11 or 52.00 a acre minus your premium you get maybe 40.
Yea its a money maker.
Rain in excess is a killer that takes takes and takes some more.
Drew's forecast is this shit right into harvest. Just cant wait.
I know how lentils will come out of this. Plus peas will get root rot if it continues and then fall over even if they are standing. Mud earth tag at harvest. Durum goes down disease has a breeding ground. Canola if stem damaged has a access point for disease.
But one storm doesn't kill a crop its the future rains that if they follow the same path that will eventually trim the crop and make grades sick.
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