Ah just like that the season changed. Felt the other morning like late October, not early September.
We did manage to get to 45% done, still grinding away in HRS and should be down to only two sections left if we can get today. Had funny rain showers the whole week. If you were in the path maybe 2/10ths to half an inch. If you lucked out you got 10 hard drops and it moved on. We got 10 hard drops a few times in the last 7 days and it was just enough to get the grain back over the just tough stage again.
Ah, Boy wonder is in Saskatoon pretending to be a leader. It seems to me he is trying to Blame Trump for all his shit for brain parts of the Nafta and actually thinks he can win the next election on getting No Deal with the Americans. The Mexicans and the USA have a deal and Canada was left on the sidelines. WTF is going on or is that part of JTs plan to kill NAFTA blame trump and call an early election based on the negative outcome. It guarantees him a fat severance and that's all he cares about never having to work another day again. Please, people, don't fall for it.
Oh the NDP won an old NDP seat in Red China, really no surprise other than the fact the NDP didn't win it by a landslide. Leader number whatever exits the building. They needed a huge win to show the population they have the best idea. But just like JT, they are just not ready.
Ok, here we go.
HRS. For the most part, a lot of the 2018 HRs wheat crop is in the bin last few fields are getting harvested and these are the larger guys and the guys who bet on growing HRS instead of oats and barley or canola on canola. Yields are similar to higher than last year. It depends on fields but most that had the rain is doing very well. The grade is a Number 1 with protein from 11.9 to 16.7. But if it yielded stupid stupid stupid the protein is at the lower end of the scale. AC Brandon has done an exceptional job but in a very dry year, its height could be a problem. It's short. 10 out 10.
Barley is all off and the Malt game is ongoing. All ours was excepted and the yield was similar to last year. Later is not as good.
Oats is lighter and less yield than last year.
Soy is done since the frost and in total shut down. It missed the August rains and will be below average yield. Some will drop the crop in 2019 and some will add and some will lower acres. Good thing the local Terminal spent a lot of money on a soy treatment plant.
Green feed is getting cut since its about a week since frost the season ended for silage corn as it is white. Pastures are holding and guys are being everything in sight.
Flax a few fields have been straight cut and are off. Yield lower than last year. Clean fields did really good for the year. Organic is full of wild oats and probably the worst yield in years.
Canola harvest is starting with guys Straight cutting but leaving patches as it's not really ready field wide. Swath guys are needing 14 days to get to being dry. Winds have moved very little in swaths yet. Some days the last week were wind speeds of up to 60 km, minor damage. Lots of guys who were Straight cut last year Brought the swather back and still do a portion swath. Good promotion but the reality is its tough to sit on the sidelines on a great harvest day when everyone else is combining. Yield 35 to 62 for our area so far or Average to slightly lower for some. Our last fields of Pod shatter were swath this week. They are used on our farm to help us keep ahead and damage control if we get behind swathing. The last field swath was hail damaged and did have regrowth. The first plants did hold there pods intact with min shatter. On our farm, its buy the swather and maybe if the RR spraying thing in fall does happen to buy a few more swathers. THey won't let you spray liberty or RR canola in fall if we cant spray HRS.
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