Last Friday Crop Report of the Year! Winter is coming!

[SASKFARMER3]

I would say the above caption says it all its here. So cool last night ground is going to start freezing and winter is here. Just like that the Calendar changes from October to Nov and just like always winter is here.

Ah its not climate change Justin Gore or Leo its normal you morons.

So a Carbon Tax is coming and were going to pay and pay and pay.

Funny in a country where the Economy is starting to fail and the feds have corrupt ministers running departments they want to drive the last wedge into the economy and create a useless tax to finally kill it.

Great plan from a Great Liberal gov. Just can't wait.



We can discuss politics till were blue in the face but a $200.00 dollar fine to a finance minister is a Joke.

Final Crop Report..


Winter is here and yesterday we began the final stages of Million dollar Tetris. Some times you forget how you get it in the sheds but it goes, piece by piece.

Our snow coverage was min yesterday so it still allowed one last day to stone pick the landscaped area and the ground used for the new road plus a levelling of a old yard from one end to the other.

Most have said thats it for fall work for 2017 but still a few doing bush work for fence lines or actually cleaning up areas.



Only thing i wanted to do before it was called is dig a extra addition to the Burrow pit. Got it started on Saturday but other things came up and don't think this Saturday will finish. Oh well if it snows a bit the pit will fill with water and supply will be good for summer 2018.

Soil tests are done and some surprises but still Nitrogen lower down. Not as bad of use as one would expect.

Grain is being hauled and land deals are on going. Looked at a new RM map for one of the ones we have land in I would say 1/3 is now Foreign owned. Yea New Canadians Wink Wink. Oh well its a sign of the times.

Thats it till spring have a great winter.

[sumdumguy]

Thank you SF3, have a great winter. You can start writing vacation reports.😜

[Guest]

still ditching here , sure is working good . probably today will end it . gonna be a long winter when it starts this early !

[Oliver88]

Thanks for all the weekly reports, it's always interesting to see how other regions are doing. 👍🏻

[seldomseen]

Cleaning up scrub piles here. Push them out then pick the wood then the rocks then all the barbered wire that got pushed in to the piles. Its not to bad of job when its cold.

[Hopalong]

Also cleaning up scrub piles with rocks and barb wire.
Usually able to find pot hole or lowspot to bury them with dozer.
Satisfying work.

[danny W1M]

Yeah SF3, thanks for always starting the crop report thread, like others mentioned is good to here what's really happening to other areas, not the fake news from S Friesen.
Ya, I want to hear about your winter travels, and anyone else that gets away to warm areas in the winter, whether it's a farming/recreation trip or just recreation/vacationing trip.
Goodluck in Cabo.

[SASKFARMER3]

Yea Cabo is always a good time for Christmas and new year. Nothing like a palm tree with a star on it.

First off to Calgary and Reddeer next week for the farm show and visit with family.

Then Vegas bet everything on black.

Ha ha

But Filling the sheds with equipment today and putting cult harrows and roller plus other stuff in field by yard.

Maybe some more bush pushing before it all ends on Tuesday.

Fun doing the crop report even if others challenge a tenth inch in a windy drought year is rain.

[farmaholic]

Cleaning up scrub piles here. Push them out then pick the wood then the rocks then all the barbered wire that got pushed in to the piles. Its not to bad of job when its cold.

Your description equals....track hoe.

[farmaholic]

Early last January we had a mulcher come in and grind up our carragana hedge rows along our nearly half mile long private driveway. A little too much snow and I ended up with some carragana "stubble" in places. The hedges were smashed into pretty small pieces and with the hot dry summer the material dried very well...we burned it after the crop came off and got an amazing burn. Got another mulcher in to grind the stumps and a bit below the ground surface...it will be seeded next spring...NO BRUSH PILES to deal with but not all the roots are gone...carragana doesn't have a root system like a poplar...just alot of skinny snake roots that will break up easily. Expensive but well worth it.

[SASKFARMER3]

Agree but the cat and fresh pushed bush smell is like cocaine to some of us! Ha ha

Tetris is complete and I think we need another shed.

No a new heated shop 80 x 100 20 ft high.

Dream 2020

[seldomseen]

Your description equals....track hoe.

For sure a track hoe would fit in here nice but lots of money to buy so just using the old fashioned method. Push the piles out with a dozer then throw all the wood in a pile to burn and pick the rocks with a front end loader. I don't really need another engine to change oil in.

[seldomseen]

Agree but the cat and fresh pushed bush smell is like cocaine to some of us! Ha ha

Tetris is complete and I think we need another shed.

No a new heated shop 80 x 100 20 ft high.

Dream 2020

Nothing smells better than a cat that has been working in spruce.

[farmaholic]

For sure a track hoe would fit in here nice but lots of money to buy so just using the old fashioned method. Push the piles out with a dozer then throw all the wood in a pile to burn and pick the rocks with a front end loader. I don't really need another engine to change oil in.

That process sounds all too familiar. ..been there done that! Your a hard working man seldomseen...take care.

[Guest]

Nothing smells better than a cat that has been working in spruce.

I could think of a few things , lol. but you're right , it does smell good , even better in the springtime!