There is an area Around Kindersly to Eston that was very dry last year and very wet this year . Would be interesting to hear the comparison.
But a dry year is not a drought.
2000-2003 was dryer than the 30's in some areas of western Sask.
you were better off to have nothing and get a bit of insurance than to have just less than 1/3 crop and get nothing from insurance - or very little.
Seen wheat sparse , spindly and just a bit taller than a beer can. A lot was less than 5 bus.
Zero till, half till , max till - in some areas it did not matter.
The guys who had nothing and crop insurance wrote it off were better off . They got full insurance and most never even had to take the combine out of the shed. It was not fun for those with crop yields just above the minimum write off.
Then 2004 hit and that finished a lot of guys on crop Insurance.
There is a pocket south Battleford now that has seen every rain in the past 5 years , actually a new lake has formed.
I am sure their view would be much different than others in this area on a dry / wet debate . Either way , extremes can test your grit as a farmer. And there still is no effective program for either IMO.
Some out west of here made out like Bandits in 2001 from GRIP. They had a very good 2000 then virtually had zero in '01. Cashed out big time with very little work. Anyone caught in between got fuked. So there the beginning of that drought was not so bad to handle for some and near disaster for others.
But a dry year is not a drought.
2000-2003 was dryer than the 30's in some areas of western Sask.
you were better off to have nothing and get a bit of insurance than to have just less than 1/3 crop and get nothing from insurance - or very little.
Seen wheat sparse , spindly and just a bit taller than a beer can. A lot was less than 5 bus.
Zero till, half till , max till - in some areas it did not matter.
The guys who had nothing and crop insurance wrote it off were better off . They got full insurance and most never even had to take the combine out of the shed. It was not fun for those with crop yields just above the minimum write off.
Then 2004 hit and that finished a lot of guys on crop Insurance.
There is a pocket south Battleford now that has seen every rain in the past 5 years , actually a new lake has formed.
I am sure their view would be much different than others in this area on a dry / wet debate . Either way , extremes can test your grit as a farmer. And there still is no effective program for either IMO.
Some out west of here made out like Bandits in 2001 from GRIP. They had a very good 2000 then virtually had zero in '01. Cashed out big time with very little work. Anyone caught in between got fuked. So there the beginning of that drought was not so bad to handle for some and near disaster for others.
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