Dry Bubble in East half of Sk

[Guest]

Block still in place and holding. WTF is causing this?

Maybe someone on here begging for drought for 10 or 15 years ??

[helmsdale]

We have been in that bubble the last few days calling for 2+" of moisture. GFS, GDPS, NAM, and now RDPS models have us right on the fringe where it starts to taper out quickly, but still in the 2" area... It's been tantalizingly close all day, but all its mustered so far is a couple spits on the north window. I've done most everything i can to encourage it, by working down and spraying out sloughs full of cattails thinking they'll be seedable next year. Perhaps i need to roll back the tarps on the trucks, pull the covers off the piles, and open up all the bin tops?

[Guest]

Well done FJ , youve fed a lot of unappreciative people a lot of grub !!
We are on the last quarter today except for 450 ac red clover and alfalfa . What a beautiful fall and a great crop ! Sure helps with the beating we took last year . Strange , this was one of the latest springs and the worst seeding job ever and yet it transpired into one of the best crops ever . Nice when it finally comes together

[SASKFARMER3]

I wanted my 4 inches this fall then shit all till spring this would of helped that total but it is going to miss. Harvest continues.
These suckers went deep for water

[SASKFARMER3]

Your right every single neighbour started going to church and we all prayed for the rain to end. Finally it did “Unanswered Prayers!”
Took 15 years.

[seldomseen]

And FJ I just hope you can secure the fruits of 50 years of work and stress and risk before some greedy Liberal slime ball from the other side of the country grabs it.

[SASKFARMER3]

They call Germans square heads but this is funny

[fjlip]

Well done FJ , youve fed a lot of unappreciative people a lot of grub !!
We are on the last quarter today except for 450 ac red clover and alfalfa . What a beautiful fall and a great crop ! Sure helps with the beating we took last year . Strange , this was one of the latest springs and the worst seeding job ever and yet it transpired into one of the best crops ever . Nice when it finally comes together

Totally agree Caseih, in May i was near giving up, and ONE inch of rain would have KILLED this area.
But the result was a record crop. Still no killing frost and never used the dryer. Just need a price bump in next 6 months.

[fjlip]

And FJ I just hope you can secure the fruits of 50 years of work and stress and risk before some greedy Liberal slime ball from the other side of the country grabs it.

Right, I curse the SOB's every day, yes I know that is not healthy....

[fjlip]

Congratulations FJ 50 harvests is a big accomplishment. Will any of the next generation take over in the future?

Neither sons are the aggressive type, hot to farm as I was 50 years ago. Looks like the family farm will end , only 86 years, many century farms near us.
At 1200 owned acres this apparently is NOT viable anyway. There is none to buy or rent as any that can be is snapped up by 5000-20,0000 acre neighbors.
Yes, I was reminiscing on the VHF radio with sons while they harvested, about swathing, combining or hauling grain with a tractor and hopper box at 14.
And how the price of wheat WAS $4 in 1974, same as 43 years later.

[fjlip]

Congratulations fj that is a milestone and not an easy one.

Seen every possible situation, disaster to windfall. Many times wonder why we bothered to keep trying to beat weather, markets and the industry. Lucky and dumb at times, but wife says correctly, it is all an average, our whole lives in fact, on average, GOOD. Hell OAS cheque starts next month...

[SASKFARMER3]

Congrats again.

Funny even a 100 year corp farm in our area is calling it quits.

Maybe its like every thing, when your young your bullet proof and invincible then as you get older and worn down its ok and stay the course then when your retired its relax worry about medical problems and Burying old friends and family.

10 more years till we get the 100 year farm.

Grandfather started at Hodgeville, then Lipton, then Battleford north and finally here. So yea if he would of stopped somewhere sooner we would of been a 100 year farm.

Nail the Big farmers up in Foam when you finally do call it a day.

[checking]

Wet bubble in the other East half of Sk. Fully recharged subsoil. I did not believe there could be that much energy in the collision and pile up that forced the Saturday storm to build back to the west into this area. Started with one little build up chimney to the east, and boom with the pour and hail.

OAS starts next month, claw back shortly thereafter will take care of that!, but an L for crops should be a wrap. Keep the land. Lots of interests skip a generation. Just entice the grand kids with the carrot.

[blueversi]

There was no dry bubble in this part of northeast sask. Inch and a half in September plus a day heavy fog and most always high humidity. It's tough farming surrounded by bush.

[Partners]

I enjoyed the dry bubble.just reclaimed the 129 acres that we could not seed this spring because of mud..now the shit is raining again..will gladly share with those who need it.