Friday Crop Report on a Thursday!

[Quadtrack]

Good report SF3. You are bang on that useless drama teacher is trying to ruin our country. I think Gerald Butts whispers this communist crap in his ear every day. Stealing wealth from century old farms with a 93 percent tax? What is wrong with lifers like Ralph Goodale who sucked the public tit his whole career then says f u to farmers and small business while riding off with his pension. Disgrace.

Harvest half done in our area. Average yields with excellent quality on the high quality land. Low yields to not worth harvesting on light crap land that cows should be on anyway. Some are finding green in canola not sure if early swathing or variety or what. Our 5440 is excellent.

And to the industry that thinks new varieties are so superior they can grow a big crop with no rain-bullshit. This crop was grown on field capacity soil moisture this spring. That is now zero and without fall and spring significant rain, there is no crop next year. Review 2001 and 2002 production history.

Happy combining everyone!

[furrowtickler]

Like the post Quad , your bang on the whole thread there 👍

[sumdumguy]

Good report.

You are right it's sure easier to harvest when you can drive trucks on all fields vs muddy conditions.
The roads are firming up as well, another benefit.

Barley that has come off here is 96-97% plump, protein 10-12%. Good quality, no disease or chitted.

Canola that was mudded in is a low yield, green going out quick and very dry.

HRS Wheat is getting close to harvesting.

We were just talking about the rock-hard cracked fields that we are experiencing this year. Last year, we couldn't fill the semis on the roads, this year we can drive anywhere we want with the big trucks and not leave a depression anywhere. It is amazing that anything survived the blast furnace, day after day.

We couldn't have ordered better harvesting weather, for that we are thankful. Now bring on one of those swirling clouds from Texas and soak her down. SF3 hurry up because we've got the order in for a drenching. 😁 The rain will go down those six inch cracks like nothing.

[Robertbarlage]

I agree need rain so bad canola so dry it's terrible!

[grassfarmer]

A cattle farmer cuttin down the Canadian cattle industry. Wow a real kind of special person aren't you here is your sign wear it proud. Your a fool the man is sticking up for your industry agains a company playing on city folks who believe every thing on Facebook.

I just don't get it how a cattle man can't see Canadian beef is awsome.

Just can't believe how ridiculous that is a cattle guy hating a guy sticking up for his industry.

A and W is marketing bullshit and people in the cities are falling for it but reality is A and W won't pay Canadians for our quality beef. It's all about the bottom line

Wow!

You really haven't a clue how things work SF3. A&W wanted a product to meet their customers demand and they couldn't source it purely in Canada - still can't because no-one is set up to supply it, that's the reality of the "Canadian industry". A&W don't buy cattle by the way, over 95% of Canadian beef gets bought and processed by 2 foreign companies - Cargill and JBS. A&W at least are a Canadian company.
As for all the Canadian beef being awesome - as Mallee said "hard to find a decent steak". Yep.

[Goodtime]

You really haven't a clue how things work SF3. A&W wanted a product to meet their customers demand and they couldn't source it purely in Canada - still can't because no-one is set up to supply it, that's the reality of the "Canadian industry". A&W don't buy cattle by the way, over 95% of Canadian beef gets bought and processed by 2 foreign companies - Cargill and JBS. A&W at least are a Canadian company.
As for all the Canadian beef being awesome - as Mallee said "hard to find a decent steak". Yep.

Meet their customer's demand....that is hilarious....people that stuff their asses in places like A&W don't have a clue about eating healthy. This is A&W marketing bull shit.

[bucket]

Why talk about the GTH when Brad wall can argue about a 6 dollar hamburger.....it's a diversionary tactic....

He doesn't want to talk about real issues....

Ffs 3500 acres of grazing went poof the other day.....how about a comment on those grass fed cattle...

[Partners]

No greens in our 7444.only down 13 days..testing 5.5 moisture.
Better than 14 or higher moisture.
Fields are a cement block.tandem hardly makes a mark.

[WiltonRanch]

Been really wet here this season but it's warmed up and dried down great. On hrs now. Early variety Splendor hrs. Still cutting canola on last field. Interesting to see what yields best. Nexerra seeded first got crusted and looked like crap but cutting now and looks like it might be the best this year. Time will tell. Not a big farmer by any stretch but like the game this year. Oats still standing going to let wild ones shell and tame ones whiten up. This year everything is 2 weeks behind but the heat is a stay of execution. Some big guys have lots of canola to knock down and wheat just sprayed. If heat and good weather stays things should be good. Worried if hurricane hits Florida and pushes north we'll be in for a monsoon and not get back on it till October. Till then hope to get wheat done and maybe some early cut canola. It's been good here this year and I count my blessings even though I don't swing from the pew. I've had more bad than good years. You guys in the drought areas we had a decade of that and feel for you especially cattlemen. My feed supply has a year extra built in and I'm not sad to sell off anything if that doesn't suffice. My only regret this year being we were so late we didn't try fava beans. Need a legume for rotation and they could fit the bill cause you don't have to shave the ground in rocky country. Maybe be like Mallee and do a legume fallow graze. I like that idea.

[farmaholic]

low yields to not worth harvesting on light crap land that cows should be on anyway.

That ****ing dirt ain't growing grass right now either! Sometimes annual cropping can net more than poorly managed pasture (right grassfarmer)

Last year we did very well across the farm....even the poorer dirt.

[grassfarmer]

Would be hard not to net more than poorly managed pasture. Crop land poorly managed as pasture plenty will only be doing 30 cow days per acre so $30 gross. No crop insurance bail out if you get flooded out or droughted out on pasture either.

[redleaf]

Around this area guys that have been trying RR. Canola and checking for losses are pulling out if the field and leaving it. Next to impossible to get losses down to acceptable levels. Yield reports on early fields have been good

[farmaholic]

Around this area guys that have been trying RR. Canola and checking for losses are pulling out if the field and leaving it. Next to impossible to get losses down to acceptable levels. Yield reports on early fields have been good

.....and then hurrican force winds come up between weather systems changing and woops....scattered swaths....can't they slow down? The combine will probably separate everything if its given a chance without the seives overlaoded....won't be running at "capacity" though!

...or are the swaths too heavy and tight to move?

[redleaf]

Well farmaholic I guess that could happen or it could dump two feet of snow day after tomorrow too. I've seen all those things and more but I've never seen canola with concave set for wheat and rotor there too and still putting full pods in tank and out the back end I tried everything I could think of as far as setting the combine ( even slowing down) and still poor results. I'm seeing pods split end wise with the membrane hanging loose and still seeds in both halves of the pods. And by the way before someone accuses me of being incapable of setting a combine ( that may be true)I would like to say I am not alone. Looking for ideas and have talked to neighbors and relatives with different coloured combines and all say the same.

[redleaf]

In the meantime cereals will be harvested ready or not and have some thoughts of what I will try next time.