Traders must be on glue!

[grassfarmer]

Feels like ICE AGE outside, but holy shit F*cking climate change is going to BURN us all up, lying SOB's
SFA is growing at near 10C soil temps.

How warm do you want it? you can plant corn at 10C.

[sofa.king]

You can plant corn at -20 doesn't mean it will grow.

[grassfarmer]

Corn will grow at 10C though so don't see what the complaint is with soil "only" being 10C as the other non C4 crops need less heat.

Looks like there must have been some kind of record set at my old local weather station in AB last night - I'm sure SF3 has experienced it colder though!

[furrowtickler]

This is the lates map showing part of the last rains ...

[farmaholic]

Too bad we couldn't swap conditions to average things out... wishful silly thinking.

[fjlip]

We all think the grass is "greener" SOMEPLACE ELSE. And it may be, but the land is taken and NOT for sale, or EXPENSIVE!

[walterm]

Too bad we couldn't swap conditions to average things out... wishful silly thinking.

AH!!! Like a CRB Canadian Rain Board.

[farmaholic]

AH!!! Like a CRB Canadian Rain Board.

Careful WM, the lynch mob might be dispatched.

[blackpowder]

Lots of canola yet to seed here. Floaters are going flat out. Substandard way to fertilize it. Harrowing into mud.
Its a successful weed but likely no bumper this year. Some will be desperate to make their payments. Rent on wet ground.
30 bu canola still better than feed barley. Greenfeed a fail these days.

[WiltonRanch]

Lots of canola yet to seed here. Floaters are going flat out. Substandard way to fertilize it. Harrowing into mud.
Its a successful weed but likely no bumper this year. Some will be desperate to make their payments. Rent on wet ground.
30 bu canola still better than feed barley. Greenfeed a fail these days.

Not enough livestock around and potentially large hay crop coming to make for a glut of feed. What some want for greenfeed on Kijiji you can't see there being any money in it. Hay prices stay up more so but getting up quality hay is a fight. I don't know about you guys but barley doesn't yield any better than wheat or sometimes canola. You guys that aren't pleased with sub 80 bushel barley I envy you lol

[blackpowder]

The simple reality with feed barley is that at todays prices I cant afford to harvest it no matter yield. My fixed costs higher than that not to mention harvest and storage.

[hobbyfrmr]

The simple reality with feed barley is that at todays prices I cant afford to harvest it no matter yield. My fixed costs higher than that not to mention harvest and storage.

IMO this is why canola has become the darling of western Canada. This is the only crop that will make enough gross income to lay for all the stuff necessary to farm. Canola wheat canola rotation and/or canola winter canola rotations around here. I see this as an act of desperation, not an act of sound farming. If clubroot sets in, it's broom and shovel time for a lot of farms. I understand this is not a problem at this time but the tight canola rotations are getting stupid. Who is to blame? The market that won't pay for cereals or the farmer for not growing cereal grains profitably?