Mini Crop Tour....

[newguy]

I drive a 100km strip every couple days so you watch the crops change. Shitty fields of canola have plants bolting and plants just coming up in rows. Wheat looks good from road but if you stop take a piss and walk in its not last years crop especially if seeded early and it was waiting for rain its yield is determined. Some barley looks like a 10 and some a 5. Peas some so thin i don't know if it was poor seed but a plant every foot some nice.

So far none are blooming for the Monday after farm progress show. Yes by Friday a few spots in fields will be blooming and then some just coming out of the ground. Best field beside us is seeded with a flexicoil 5000 yes what we use to seed with. Some other fields are starting to fill in and are looking better.

Its a average to below average crop coming thats it thats all she wrote no making a diamond out of lump of coal. Its a cubits zarkonian.

best canola around here as also seeded with an older flexicoil probably a 5000 not positive

[SASKFARMER3]

I almost wish i still had ours. Except for when the bearings went in the packers

[farming101]

Great machine for level stone free ground.
Glad ours is gone.

[farmaholic]

The Flexicoil 5000 are a good drill but I wouldn't trade it for what I have today. Although what I have today will become a maintenance nightmare as it ages in comparison to the 5000.

[farming101]

Wheat - I agree on the diminishing prospects for good weather to boost yield potential going forward. Some would still benefit but not the majority. Especially when you include the American crop.
MW futures $7.25 here we come? Don't see why not. I have no idea. When a move like this happens a lot of chart indicators are useless. Price action for the week above $6.64U would validate higher yet.

[furrowtickler]

I would think your right 101
Also in my extended crop tour yesterday maybe 20% of the crop I seen was "on time " the other 80 % is on the late side . The cool weather last week slowed crop growth a lot .
The crop here in the NW has a very long way to go.
The 20 % that is near normal maturity is now running out of gas though. Very dry conditions are prevalent from here to the south east to Stoon now, with just a few pockets receiving much rain at all in June

[crusher]

Still seeding with a 5000. Seeding tool had very little to do with crop establishment around here. Most wheat looks very good. Canola: 10% good, 50% ugly, 40 okay but late. That's about all that's grown around here. Odd pea field too wet, barley likely drowning out because it went on the wet crappy ground.

[sumdumguy]

Crop tour around Regina mixed reviews too. Several growth stages will make very interesting harvest watch. Canola fields are starting to cabbage but huge blank areas are not going to produce. Fields of Canaryseed on lentil stubbles look like they blew and are poor and very late to the party. Cereals are same as Manitoba. Early durum has few stools and the heading process will be short and thin. Peas look ok from the road only. Mustard fields pretty much same as Canola. We don't need much more combine capacity nor bin space this year. Much damage was done with early drought, hurricane hot winds, flee beatles and cutworm. Another little soaker and some heat would encourage young seedlings to catch up. Here's hoping!

Hats go off to the farmers who perservered, reseeded, sprayed at night. Hope it pays off with record prices to compensate.

[sumdumguy]

Seeding equipment and cropping practices made a huge differencs around here. Much experimenting yielding good data.

[furrowtickler]

This explains my crop tour yesterday....