Ah, harvest here we come.
For most farmers, this is like the graduation from high school. Some can't wait to get out and move on to new and better things (Sell farm and move on). Some will take time to reflect and then start something new after summer ( Decide after harvest if you want to do it again or sell out). Start a job right after the last day of School (Plan for the 2019 crop). Take time to bid everyone goodbye and marry your high school sweetheart and stay in the area (Well there is always next year country, let's do it again).
Yes, we work long hard hours to get to this place. Some will be rewarded nicely for there efforts and others won't. Mother nature still holds the cards in Canadian Agriculture. I know I piss some off but the last July and the first two weeks of August are typical Western Canada Summers. Sorry for bringing that up but check with your folks or remember when you were younger and how we went weeks with high temps then all of a sudden it was fall and let's get the harvest done.
All year and last year I have said were back to normal weather and yea this is the normal western Canadian weather.
We adapt and move on. Just like the flood years that massive amounts of land went under water. They are slowly coming back. Next year I feel we will almost be back to full quarters or where we were before the floods for land. These areas produce and it will be nice to have them back. Hell swathing and just going one mile up and back is really fun, but sometimes you get to brave and sink the swather as some sloughs or flats still only days ago dried up.
Well on the political side looks like we have a new Holliday in Canada. Wow, anything to buy votes for the liberals. I agree the First nations should have National Aboriginal day to Celebrate the culture of the first Canadians. But why Bring up Residential Schools etc. Ah but Trudeau will shed a tear and Hopefully the first nations will see that this is a Big Fool trying to buy votes. Time will tell but to me, it looks like the Liberals are working really fast on a snap election that they will call days after the Marijuana is made Legal.
Watch its coming. All I have to say is Lets Hope the people of this country aren't that stupid to give this fool a life pension and a second term.
Ok here is the Crop Report.
The sad part is what I called a few weeks ago is coming to be. Yields are down. The gas tank was empty last year and we only stopped and put in 50 Bucks so we have been pushing a dead vehicle for last few weeks.
I'll call it now.
If you grew a crop last year of say 70 wheat this year will be 59.5
Canola if it was 62 it will be 52.7
Oats 135 will be 100.
Barley if last year was 100 its 85 this year.
Peas 60 plus will be 40.
Yield will be down Provincial wide and all the Crop experts should be fired for there bull shit reporting and useless information. Heat and wind and no rain don't make a Bumper you fools. Look at the above picture and take Trudeau out and put in your Crop advisor.
Ok, now the fun stuff. No rain this last week and guess what its time to pray for nice hot dry sunny windy fall and get this shit show on the road.
HRS is shutting down only a few green patches and Wow early yields of 25 bus on lighter land with 16 plus protein are an ouch. Saskatoon early harvest report from a friend was 30 with 17.3 protein. Desiccation will start today on our farm as the crop is in the ground over 100 days and its ready. Time to even out the crop. Some are swathing this year and hope to harvest next week. Watch the Elevators won't want high protein. No market like last years no protein had no market but they moved every bushel. It's a Joke. Disease looks like it was a waste to spray fungicide on HRS in 2018.
Barley the early stuff in our area looks good, it's no 2017 but it will still be plump and nice if it doesn't get a rain. But the feed is $4.75 so F#$K the Chinese with fake malt and the Malt companies you screwed up this market with your games.
Peas are coming off all over the place no big-time yields like some other years but a constant seems to be 40 from everyone from the BTO to the little guys. Again yields are down wondered why experts. Push product for massive production and still mother nature runs the show. Funny $ 100-acre rent with a 40-bushel crop at 6 leaves 140 for paying the bills me thinks there will be a lot of Red Numbers on spreadsheets this winter.
Oats is the one crop I have not seen anywhere that looks decent. Hell, a guy posted on Facebook on a farm page that he was happy with 100 oats this is the same guy last year posting 160 so Yea oats suck. Some will have better Barley than there oats crop.
Flax is turning yield will be down from last few years but still made not bad of a crop.
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