Worldwide Weather

[malleefarmer]

Reading in a few places that I regard highly not climate deniers or believers just analytical meteorologists there thinking we are moving into a slight cooling period now.

Not sure how it affects us all nothing about increases or decreased rainfall just a cooler period which may last a decade or more.

[Hopalong]

Biggest weather production risks in my farming years on Canada prairies have been drought and early fall frosts. Excess moisture has increased costs and taken land out of production but not reduced yields very much.
Unusual to hear it, but some climate change believers say we would be big gainers from warmer and wetter years and opposite to much of rest of world which would lose productivity.
Can understand concern from rest of world but Canada politicians might end up backing off support for U.S. and European environmentalists.
How far do we go helping rest of world if it costs us more?

[malleefarmer]

at my spot on the planet we have had increased rainfall since 2000 but will elaborate.

We plant in april may with rains that fall in those months basically and our season goes to oct/nov when harvest starts.
Peak rain is in june july aug tapering off in sept oct.

But since 2000 those wet months have been dry to almost record dry but our summer and early autumn dec jan feb march usually dry bone dry have become very wet pushing our totals up.

So weve been getting more but maybe not useful except guys who have summer rainfall pastures Lucerne and veldt grass

[grassfarmer]

Biggest weather production risks in my farming years on Canada prairies have been drought and early fall frosts. Excess moisture has increased costs and taken land out of production but not reduced yields very much.

I agree with that Hopalong - only problem is with increasing temperatures the risk of drought increases. I don't think we can assume that warmer will be accompanied by increased rainfall.

[seabass]

Cooler to 2051

[SASKFARMER3]

What have i been saying for years. Bring the droughts on. please we need to play catch up on east side and get our farms back. Sorry west sask.

[furrowtickler]

Catch up ?
Tell that to the thousands of farms who were basically flooded out and lost huge amounts of crop this year in western Sask. And about to get even wetter this week .

[FarmerSmuck]

Iam very very concerned for next year already. We will freeze up saturated. And sloughs full if we get a large snowfall we are in big trouble.

[fjlip]

By the sounds of it every farm on the prairies is saturated/drowned out/ in sorry shape already for 2017. So where shall we find optimism, positive ideas to be ag vocates? I am at a total loss to see any thing to get excited about for next year! How is your farm, or should I ask Thursday?

[farming101]

The farm will have to look after itself. I'm gonna patch around the chimney tomorrow. Hate when it rains inside.

[farmaholic]

Sometimes it feels like I farm on a different planet.

We pretty much seeded wall to wall this spring. Last fall we reclaimed a bunch of slough bottoms and were able to seed right through them this spring. Some spots were barely seedable-but we did, they never drowned out this summer, and produced grain albeit maybe not as good as the ground around them. This fall the ground is "wetter" relative to last fall so with any meaningful amount of snow I can't see us getting in those spots spring of 17.

Even during the last wet spell we never lost alot of acres but you didn't have to go too far east of here and it was a different story. While other Producers were filling out too wet to seed forms we got most of ours....ya we may have lost a few acres but I don't even recall filling out the form and if we did get a payment it was too small to make an impression on my memory.

If a lot of you don't do well in a wet cycle... we seem to do not too bad, the topography and soil texture probably is a big help(remember we do have a bit of a mixed bag of tricks here so some of our dirt does collect water). But if some of you guys do better in a dry bias and we are part of that.... we will be sucking hind tit and having trouble finding it!

So what does 2017 hold for us? Back to the slum of the Ghetto? Who knows, time will tell.

But the crop of 2016 was the best my dear old Dad has ever seen on this farm. All the stars lined up.

[farming101]

Good job Farma! The grain buyers should be beating a path to your door!
Actually compared to the last few years our crop turned out darn good too.
Got plenty of soil moisture now but not as wet as last fall which froze up with puddles lying all over. That is going to change in the next few hours.