Two days so far in October!

[SASKFARMER3]

Well you might as well call harvest 2016 a snails pace. We have harvested two days in October not counting the first when the wheals fell off on this crop.

Both fields that we did were at 16 Canola and 20. The 16 drys down in one pass very nice over night in the dryer. The 20 has more issues and needs to be done twice. Second time is easy and gets the job done.

Those who think 27 moisture Canola is going to be a cake walk. Think again! Canola can go through the combine at that moisture and get to a bin but aeration at this time of year is useless it just stabilize the grain till you shut the fan off or makes a moisture dome at the top that heats later or is just a fracking night mare.

Those who think just because you see a dryer at a auction that it will do a job on 27 moisture canola think again. It is a slow slow process of bringing the grain down. Then some times you screw up.

A dryer would have to be huge to do it in one pass. Huge.

So as I head out again to farm as sun is coming up you have to wonder if we even have any hope of getting this shit off and if it will make it a week to 10 weeks before it rots any way.

Maybe wind today maybe sun today maybe rain today. Alll forecasts have the 5 to 7 nice and it never materializes.

All forecasts are shit.



Wouldn't a nice sunny day be like a breath of fresh air and actually last longer than 6 hours before the next rain storm hits.

[bucket]

Every 6 hours of sunshine results in a rain.

It's foggy today.

[sumdumguy]

Hoping for freeze-dry effect on those swaths. You are right, first forecast is sunshine all week, then rain almost every day. On looking back, we are lucky we had some good weather to harvest this year. The windows were so small, it could easily have been worse.

[Hamloc]

Sask you have done better than us 0 days of combining here in October and sprinkling and foggy this morning.

[GDR]

Good news, fog and mist here today. Needed a rest after 3 hours this go round. Took till 6pm last night to get standing wheat down to 16.5. Lots of guys going but nothing dry and not very many driers in this neck of the woods. Elevators taking canola at 12.5 if you had an October contract.

[furrowtickler]

Sad to see that forecast change again
Out of 10-14 days of possible sun that was on most forecast , one materialized for part of a day .
Fog here as well , rain / snow showers coming again .
Same pattern since Aug really . Sept was rain every 4-5 days .
October has been the same just cooler so the drying is non existent now .
This harvest season will go down in history.

[GDR]

Had to laugh at one neighbor, kept sampling fields looking for something to do. Filled their whole truck with bits of everything. Least their cows will have something to eat if it don't freeze in a lump.

[BreadWinner]

Jet stream needs to shift back north for a month to give us a chance or we can call this year over. We have 1200ac of oats in the swath and Im hoping the birds come and eat it all. Water covers half the ground and the other half is so saturated it will never hold up the equipment.

[fjlip]

Jet can stay there all winter and next summer! I so miss the dusty days blowing off the grid into our yard! Earth must have wobbled as some doomsayers predicted?

[blackpowder]

I'm binning wheat at 20 and crush plants' elevator taking canola at 15 just book ahead.
Everyone going when can. Not using the 919 much though.

[SASKFARMER]

How Is 15 going to make it further out?

[furrowtickler]

Still areas south and north of here who have not turned a wheel since Sat Oct 1st .
That was the Thunderstorm night , some places 3/4 in rain , snow started Tues 4th and the areas that had the most crop got the most snow . Those areas still white.

[Guest]

Two days so far in October!

you're lucky . no days here !

[SASKFARMER]

20.2 at 1:00 just like the kid from Ottawa just not ready.

[Klause]

I can't rememer, are you one of the lucky ones that finished, caseih?