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This last week you could sum up in one word! Useless! Rain spit shower downpour fog humidity regrowth and finally sun.
Virtually no harvest took place and fields have more water. It's sick actually. Listened to the radio at noon one day about a vet doing a paper on farm people's stress and how they deal with it or don't. Plus farmer burn out. Hm maybe getting close to that one. 2016 is going down in the books as greatest seeding in 15 years then may long the wheels fell off the cart and you skidded to the ditch right up to snow fall.
Some laugh it can't be that bad, then a guy shows up for geese and duck claim on peas and goes holy shit I never thought it was that wet here as we walk mud soaked fields. Yes Ducks and geese in the thousands.
So here we go first official week in August. Rain guadge got hit with the Louisville slugger Wednesday I think but basically 2 inches this week again. Good thing companies give them out free.
HRS is changing and filling and a week away from roundup to kill the crop for harvest. Fuzz showed up and looks to take about 5% to 10% of the crops potential yield. Non sprayed fields up to 30% to .50%. Lodging and twisting of the crop and flooding are also showing up yellow areas with no yield.
Durum is like lentils drop the mike walk off stage. Experiment ends piss poor yield potential and disease plus grade issues.
Peas are all desiccated in area one or two swath but rain damage is starting to show. Mud peas and now Geese. Yield is dropping with each rain event.
Lentils are 5 to 12.
Flax that recovered now is a twisted tangled lodged mess. Looks like 2012. Not sure of out come but harvest will be real challenge.
Barley that had so much potential now has regrowth coming and yes lodged tangled mess.
Canola the retarded sister is about on average two ft tall now as strong winds and rain lowered the crop to the ground. Scathing challenges ahead along with swathers getting stuck. Strait cutting will be the shits as ground won't dry under canopy to keep combines up. Yield I still think will be lower than last year across the whole province as it looks like Trudeau Canola lots of stock but nothing in the head. Smaller pods lots of blanks. Time will tell but I don't think it's a bin buster. Looks average at best.
Soy is loving the rain to some but still maybe to much as plants don't look like other years.
Corn still going strong with cobs present.
Pastures a 10 but hay operations having issues.
Winter wheat harvest started and then came to a halt as rain moved in this week. Yields not known.
So optimism a few weeks or months back is now turning to how the heck are we going to get this one in the bin. Dryers are cleaned out plus air bins ready. High humidity is a issue. Dual up everything plus get the Kelly harrow and older deep tillage cultivator ready to work fields after combines leave. Gravel yards plus new tow straps and get pull tractors ready.
Drews forcast isnt looking great for rest of August and days are getting cooler and shorter. Philips with enviroment Canada on Monday was last day of rain and now summer begins. I think it's time for him to retire.
So yes it's a stressful time of year but no crop is more important than the ones at home that the grain companies will just take in the end. Be safe and have a great week.
Tell others what's going on in each and every agrivillers area, great good bad or ugly they need better info. The crops getting smaller each week not bigger. Also companies selling shit here is a note to sales staff or the ones creating commercials. Telling a farmer to buy now because the crop is huge and you might not get later is almost like a kick in the nuts. Just saying we vote or buy with our feet.
This last week you could sum up in one word! Useless! Rain spit shower downpour fog humidity regrowth and finally sun.
Virtually no harvest took place and fields have more water. It's sick actually. Listened to the radio at noon one day about a vet doing a paper on farm people's stress and how they deal with it or don't. Plus farmer burn out. Hm maybe getting close to that one. 2016 is going down in the books as greatest seeding in 15 years then may long the wheels fell off the cart and you skidded to the ditch right up to snow fall.
Some laugh it can't be that bad, then a guy shows up for geese and duck claim on peas and goes holy shit I never thought it was that wet here as we walk mud soaked fields. Yes Ducks and geese in the thousands.
So here we go first official week in August. Rain guadge got hit with the Louisville slugger Wednesday I think but basically 2 inches this week again. Good thing companies give them out free.
HRS is changing and filling and a week away from roundup to kill the crop for harvest. Fuzz showed up and looks to take about 5% to 10% of the crops potential yield. Non sprayed fields up to 30% to .50%. Lodging and twisting of the crop and flooding are also showing up yellow areas with no yield.
Durum is like lentils drop the mike walk off stage. Experiment ends piss poor yield potential and disease plus grade issues.
Peas are all desiccated in area one or two swath but rain damage is starting to show. Mud peas and now Geese. Yield is dropping with each rain event.
Lentils are 5 to 12.
Flax that recovered now is a twisted tangled lodged mess. Looks like 2012. Not sure of out come but harvest will be real challenge.
Barley that had so much potential now has regrowth coming and yes lodged tangled mess.
Canola the retarded sister is about on average two ft tall now as strong winds and rain lowered the crop to the ground. Scathing challenges ahead along with swathers getting stuck. Strait cutting will be the shits as ground won't dry under canopy to keep combines up. Yield I still think will be lower than last year across the whole province as it looks like Trudeau Canola lots of stock but nothing in the head. Smaller pods lots of blanks. Time will tell but I don't think it's a bin buster. Looks average at best.
Soy is loving the rain to some but still maybe to much as plants don't look like other years.
Corn still going strong with cobs present.
Pastures a 10 but hay operations having issues.
Winter wheat harvest started and then came to a halt as rain moved in this week. Yields not known.
So optimism a few weeks or months back is now turning to how the heck are we going to get this one in the bin. Dryers are cleaned out plus air bins ready. High humidity is a issue. Dual up everything plus get the Kelly harrow and older deep tillage cultivator ready to work fields after combines leave. Gravel yards plus new tow straps and get pull tractors ready.
Drews forcast isnt looking great for rest of August and days are getting cooler and shorter. Philips with enviroment Canada on Monday was last day of rain and now summer begins. I think it's time for him to retire.
So yes it's a stressful time of year but no crop is more important than the ones at home that the grain companies will just take in the end. Be safe and have a great week.
Tell others what's going on in each and every agrivillers area, great good bad or ugly they need better info. The crops getting smaller each week not bigger. Also companies selling shit here is a note to sales staff or the ones creating commercials. Telling a farmer to buy now because the crop is huge and you might not get later is almost like a kick in the nuts. Just saying we vote or buy with our feet.
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