Frost watch

[farmaholic]

Shallow ponds have a skim of ice on them.

Cotyledons are still small. Look wet and dark green. Too small a target for Alpine?????? Basically nothing to hit.

Hope the growing point is still alive ....but I'm thinking there will be loses.

[farming101]

The one and only time we should have reseeded it went to -8 and the canola was coming through a straw covered field. Some areas of the field was likely 80% gone. Later in the year wild oats grew up. What a mess.
Canola still in bag this year

[sumdumguy]

In Regina, freezing temps of -3 and 4 only after 5AM while all around freezing at midnight.. That's the effect of city heat, global warming idiots have left the temperature recorders and the city has grown up around them.

[hobbyfrmr]

A few years ago there was a late may killing frost. There was something like 66,000 acres reseeded early june. End result was a huge canola crop. One neighbor left the least damaged canola to recover and reseeded the rest of the farm. The difference was 20 bu/acre more on the reseeded acres. Yields were just shy of 70 bu/acre. The second mouse gets the cheese.

[Jay-mo]

-2 overnight in SW Mb. Canola seed also still in the bag. Ready to roll Monday morning. Been burned too many times the last number of years seeding canola in the first half of May.

[farmaholic]

Catch 22....'

So we forge ahead and seed canola into ground that is ready, ground temp is reasonable and soil moisture is good, no spring rains since the last blast of snow, moisture conditions continue to deteriorate so as I said we forge ahead to take advantage of soil moisture. Even at that, there is still likely some that is laying in dry ground because of the hurricane winds, heat and low humidity.

How do you manage such a situation. In the meantime I still wait for a shot of rain to germinate canola seed stranded in dry dirt! And the stuff that did manage to emerge is frosted!

Farming is a tough way to make a living.

The irony is we wouldn't have enough moisture near the surface to re-establish a canola stand! ****ing retarded!

[Braveheart]

A lot of canola up here. Won't look at it for a few days but am expecting it to be ok. Temps in the shade were -1.3 but a decent wind. Soil also carrying good heat this year. Fingers crossed.

[farmaholic]

.....and please don't tell me the stuff stranded in dry dirt is a blessing because it was saved from the frost. For how long have I been hoping for a shot of rain? So now we may have stuff that is on the verge of emergence, some that is frosted and hopefully recover, and some that is laying their waiting for moisture... ya, a real good scenario!

[fjlip]

.....and please don't tell me the stuff stranded in dry dirt is a blessing because it was saved from the frost. For how long have I been hoping for a shot of rain? So now we may have stuff that is on the verge of emergence, some that is frosted and hopefully recover, and some that is laying their waiting for moisture... ya, a real good scenario!

Are we having FUN YET? And here the fields are not in any condition to be seeded. Lumpy after working, wet sticky MUD. Hellish compacted tracks, ruts!

[Quadtrack]

A dry frost and small canola surrounded by trash...make sure there is seed available.

[Guest]

and another scenario is zero acres seeded and a week of weather needed to do anything at all . crop still out , ruts and water all over hells half acre . could always be worse

[Guest]

A dry frost and small canola surrounded by trash...make sure there is seed available.

that's the only time frost got us is on the one dry year we had