The "good" the bad and the UGLY!!!

[farmaholic]

Me? South East of Regina....about 50 kms.

[farmaholic]

LEP, we here were lucky during the too wet years, and I know too dry isn't good for my farm because of soil type and topography. And even this year we may be doing better than some guys did when it was too wet. I think of guys like freesheep where it was too wet to turn a wheel or people who lost huge acres to standing water. But things tend to average out and this year will bring our average down. It is what it is!

[Ache4Acres]

I see your crap and raise you more crap crops

Dry as fart around regina. Large cracks now letting the deep moisture escape. High wind and 35 today really was the icing on the cake

Here's my beans - pic representative of whole field


Here's my canola - looks crappy from road then your jaw hits the floor when you walk in



Canola plants wilting badly...I am not sure they can take this next week of heat

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Here is my ugliest pictures. This nearly bald area is the most productive soil on the farm, never fails, until now. Latest scourge is slugs, they are killing entire plants, seeing lots of large plants dead with no leaves left. Not quite sure how to explain why the problems are worst in this spot? Was harvested this spring a few days before direct seeding, was a massive barley crop, lots of residue, flat on the ground since July of last year which would have been perfect for the slugs. Seeded too deep ( wouldn't have been too deep except a 2" downpour collapsed the furrows and buried the seeds much deeper). Low plant population was then attacked by flea beetles, sprayed them twice, but they still took any plant that grew, only a few survived long enough to be eaten by slugs. And they are still covered in flea beetles. A good hailstorm today didn't help matters.

Most of my canola has some bald/thin spots from the wet and the beetles, but this is largest and the most depressing.

Still wet around here, trying to hay and making ruts, barley still has many yellow patches. No terrible amounts of rain, just never has dried out since being so wet last fall.

[helmsdale]

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$20 canola aught to make that profitable...

[AlbertaFarmer5]

$20 canola aught to make that profitable...

I didn't have the text up yet to explain. As bad as that looks, if the slugs and the beetles and the wet would leave it alone, there is almost enough plants to make a crop, most are so eaten you can't see them until you crawl around.

Ironic, for the last two springs/early summers it wouldn't rain at all out here, now while you guys are burning up, we're back to normal drownings.

[mbratrud]

Feel you pain here at Weyburn Farma. Some crops hanging on, but today was a disaster with heat and wind. Canola came out of bloom Lentils shut down, cereals starting to show dry spots that are burning up in the fields. Harvest will be starting here before the end of July. No significant rain in the forecast most guys are coming to the realization it is what it is. Sounds like a lot of contract cancelations in the area from Canola to some pulses and Malt Barley.

[mbratrud]

our weather station showing 2.7 inches total since April 15.

[Ache4Acres]

[ATTACH]1884[/ATTACH] our weather station showing 2.7 inches total since April 15.

We are 3.5" showing on farmersedge weather station but lots of that was just fractions of a mm

[sawfly1]

had an inch last week. it was a stay of execution on the canola , some got 2 , some got 0,
still a lot of really nice decent wheat around. at some point it will need a rain.

a big canola crop is gone, and even 40 is wishful thinking now.
all coming out of flower real quick. lentils peas too

on the lightest land , the worst of the worst 1%, getting some zeros already.

Pics would look like SF3 s. so we are pretty lucky in the scheme of things