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

[farmaholic]

I am posting a bunch of pictures, please try to contain your cheap shots until I'm done. It will take several posts to get them all posted.

Thanks in advance, and hopefully this thread shows people that there aren't only good crops out there. These pictures were all taken within a five mile line, north to south with our farm being in the middle of it. There are some "decent" crops around but...

Stay tuned.

[farmaholic]

FLAX







Same spot as in an earlier thread but better quality pictures. Thank God it's not all this bad. This is our worst spot,,,, easier to farm through it than around it with today's size and speed of equipment.



Here's a better spot. Different field.

These are ours.

[farmaholic]

Canola

[farmaholic]

Wheat....basically a little taller than knee height





The above pic is about as bad a spot as there is in the field.

My Neighbor's two stage "malt" barley...

[farmaholic]

Peas





Not too bad for what they went through

[farmaholic]

Random shit.... not ours:
Dry Wascana Creek pasture.

Tough looking canola.

Re-seeded flax

[farmaholic]

One of our fields beside one of our neighbor's....they really ****ed this up, it didn't have to be this bad.

[farmaholic]

......and finally, the brownest patch of grass in our yard....




Surely if I would have sprayed our crops they would have been better!!! No wonder I can't get ahead, I'm not a good farmer because my sprayer is in the cool machine shed!!!!!!

This sure didn't feel good to post some of these pictures, but is shows how lean the crops are around here. I am sure there are worse and I think it would be a good idea to post them as well.

Lentils don't look bad in the area but how will they fill and the guys better have real good header height control with auto tilt and a very responsive flex header because when they shrink in size when they dry down from maturity and desiccation.... boy they going to be shorter than they already are.

Take care folks.

I'm done posting pictures.

[SASKFARMER3]

Wow you weren't kidding it's dry. I would park the sprayer also.

[farmaholic]

Remember we don't all farm in the "Garden of Edens" of Western Canada. Drought like conditions can be particularly cruel in some areas, just like too wet was for others. I would never wish the weather extremes on anyone. We are all looking for a different weather prescription for our own needs... impossible. But let's not be insensitive to those who suffer either extreme.

[seldomseen]

Thanks for the tour of your area Farma. It looks dry for sure and parking the sprayer was likely a good move. My crops are not looking that great after a very wet spring now very hot and dry. The ground is so hard roots can't go down!
I guess I should figure out how to pics on here.

[sumdumguy]

The feeling of helplessness as weather tortures our crops to death, it's a feeling like no other. We complain but others have had their challenges too. Crops south of 33 highway to US border really took a kicking from heat and high winds every day. ðŸ˜

[farmaholic]

If you want contrast, this same land last year yielded 60 bu/ac wheat, durum, canola and peas, and almost 40 bu/ac flax.

It can do it if there is adequate moisture and groceries applied. But you can buy all the groceries you want, if the free stuff from the sky doesn't fall it just doesn't matter.

[tweety]

So dry!

That Wasacana creek picture, why did it not rain in the pasture but outside the fence it did?

[helmsdale]

Wheat on land that's been tortured most of its life...




Heads dropping top kernels after failing to fully extend out of the sheath...