Friday crop report on a Thursday

[Guest]

it's a real gross mess here . worst ever I think ? fields are sopping wet , water everywhere . ground smells rotten . ditches running . rained hard all night .(should put us near 26 " since snow) flamans still excited about a "record crop " coming . we will be lucky if we get this rotten shit cleaned off the field to try another year . one advantage we will have is if and when it ever does dry is that our low spots have no straw , and are black and under water now . we had a real hard time last year with our heavy crops in the low spots that drowned out in the last 2 weeks. a lot of straw was still there this spring . maybe this is a good wake up call tho , we are taking far to much risk for these prices . this can and will happen anywhere . this will finish some here that are heavily leveraged . and how could they not be with each major piece of machinery at $5-700000 per unit . canola at $350-400 inputs ??? time for farmers to wake up .

[Guest]

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Happened last night. Suspecting lightning strike .

you're lucky , sure as f$&k couldn't get a bale to burn here . lol .

[farmaholic]

I've been harping and chirping for a while but when we do that we are perceived as being negative. The risk is brutal and we carry most of it. Cannot complain about way too much rain but the rest of what you're saying rings so true in my ears!

[farmaholic]

bucket.... I would make absolutely sure that smoldering "piece of coal" is completely put out.... if and when things finally dry up it could ignite the grass around it and you could have a wreck on your hands. Break it up so it burns out or dowse it with water till it stops smoking.

[Braveheart]

We have started harvest, beginning with barley. Our barley is AC Synergy. Swathed the first field and got it before rain. Straight combining the rest but tough going. Seed is 15-17 moisture but straw is green and even tough cutting after 8 pm. Yields are high, protein low and it's nice and plump. No fuzz visible at all so hopefully the gods at Anheuser Busch like it.

Canola swathing has begun. Lots of schlerotina so lots of nighttime and wet swathing will be the norm. Timing is a bit of an issue. We're only targeting timing the healthy plants but, the more dead the diseased plants get the tougher swathing is. Around here if you don't have schlerotina, your crop A) was no good to begin with or B) it's not showing up yet, but it will. We will straight cut 200 acres of L140P. It will be interesting to see if stem rotted plants there hang on to the see with shatter resistant pods.

Wheat is all AC Penhold and looks fantastic. All the wheat in this area will yield really high. Some varieties though were stung badly by fusarium.

Soybeans look real good. Watsons are the best on our farm. Restons are a bit drowned. The local RM will have a shit fit this fall when our excavator starts digging their ditches down to where they should be. #jailcan'tbeallbad. @passedaroundlikecurrency

[bucket]

That bale was made over a month ago. The regrowth is over a foot high.


Seems pretty round yet. Heated bales usually go flat.

One reason I don't stack till fall.

[Braveheart]

So for people with wet field but earl harvest, why not consider cover crops instead of tillage. Gearing up tillers and Kelly harrows may not be the best answer. Shorter days don't evaporate as much whereas a growing plant sucks water. Plus you get the added benefit of building organic matter. Cover crops could be exotic mixes or something as simple as planting barley.

[SASKFARMER3]

Got to open up the ground and catch no snow!

[Klause]

So for people with wet field but earl harvest, why not consider cover crops instead of tillage. Gearing up tillers and Kelly harrows may not be the best answer. Shorter days don't evaporate as much whereas a growing plant sucks water. Plus you get the added benefit of building organic matter. Cover crops could be exotic mixes or something as simple as planting barley.

Have the air drill filled already. a blend of tillage raddish, oats, and peas going on at 2 bu/ac on freshly harvested pea fields that'll go into wheat canola next year. Get some moisture out, keep nutrients there, maybe fix some more N. Gonna try it anyway!

Nicest fields to work on now are hay fields... no puddles anywhere in those and enough regrowth on early cut ones we may get a 2nd cut if we have time. Still trying to finish first cut.

[Braveheart]

Sounds like a good mix Klause. We're keeping ours simple. We're going to broadcast tillage radish in the low spots and around approaches (for compaction relief) then seed barley on the whole field.