Well the shit show continues. This fall sucks.

[wd9]

Drew said have patience, that was last wk.

Amazing anyone even listens to the "dart throw lands on sunny weather" guy. 3 days is still the absolute max for forecasting to be slightly above 50 50 odds for precip, 5 days for temp.

[BreadWinner]

David Phillips just said we can expect above normal temp from middle of Oct till the Middle of Nov, does he realize he has been wrong %100 of the time. This will not be good!!!!!!
Just great now we will have to way till mid November to combine.

[fjlip]

Oh come on you DENIERS! Grass and Chuck personally know 99% of scientists that are absolutely accurate to the tenth of a world temp 50 years from now, 30 days is no brainer for a forecast. Hell they can do that in their sleep! We can all do that...forecast, DARK tonight.
Just checked radar forecast, appears the snow chances all week are south of #16 , Melfort, Nipawin none forecast.
But harvest most progressed were snow fall might happen....

[seldomseen]

Don't give up hope yet guys. Winter usually starts around Halloween here in NE Sask. In 2009 it snowed 6 inch's on Halloween night and all the canola in this area was still in the field. Snow on Halloween never goes away here so everyone thought that was the end. Then the sun came out the snow melted and all the canola came off most of it had to be dried but one guy I know waited long enough and got his dry about the end of November.

[farmaholic]

Wd9...

You make a good point and I don't put alot of stock in long term forecasts...ANYONE'S. Drew's daily(three day forecast newsletter) is pretty good...no one can know exactly the direction a system will track or how much precipitation it will drop where. I do think short term forecasting accuracy has improved but still isn't an exact science.

I find the longer the forecasting period the more it seems to change.

Sun activity, ocean temperature, trends, seasonal normalities, atmoshpheric conditions, jet streams, inland conditions. Anyone care to put all that information together, analyze it and make a "prediction"?

Whether you are in dire need of rain at critical times or in need of drying conditions at other critical times...forecasts give us "hope" for what we want or frustration that what we need likely isn't on the near horizon....the long term extends that "glimpse" of what might be on the horizon.

We all need to make plans....but in farming, and regarding the weather...you just can't plan the outcome.

I hope everyone is provided the opportunity they need to harvest the efforts put into their crops...

Be ready and work safe when those opportunities present themselves. Take advantage of any reasonable opportunity to get the crop off the field, at least the grain can be dealt with later when the window of Harvest 2018 finally closes. Like someone else posted a while ago...this has turned into a salvage operation.

Good thing no two years are exactly alike.

Take care.

[Guest]

Chickpeas still soft and chewy, when the hell are they going to cure? Might be the 1st and last year I grow em. Then again might have to change my handle to Nolentil at these bloody prices. Who else wants in on the class action to get our checkoff dollars back for pulses? Im thinking 5 or 10 years retroactive.

yes me , it's time these guys realize it's our money they're giving away
I asked him on the phone if it's ever been challenged in court , he said no
no way that's legal what. they're doing . ? taking money and no chance to get it back ?
asked him why they don't arrange a boatload of peas to austrailia ? surely the **** it can't cost $6.50/bu ($238/mt) to get them there

[SASKFARMER3]

Second snow of the year what’s the old story three and it’s winter.



Some fields not bad for snow

Oh well it still sucks shit.

The pea thing I believe it’s a shit show and our reps suck and a crooks taking money for nothing and doing nothing

It will all work it self out in a few years when they have a poor crop attitude

Useless fools

[bigzee]

With the Crap Insurance payment deadline looming maybe we should be getting a hold of our MLAs and having a discussion. With so much crop out and likely to be feed what’s going to happen if we can’t make our payment?
If we can’t get what’s remaining they will be waiting till it’s taken off then adjusting and issuing a payment. They will sit on our money for months until there’s a settlement.

[bucket]

With the Crap Insurance payment deadline looming maybe we should be getting a hold of our MLAs and having a discussion. With so much crop out and likely to be feed what’s going to happen if we can’t make our payment?
If we can’t get what’s remaining they will be waiting till it’s taken off then adjusting and issuing a payment. They will sit on our money for months until there’s a settlement.

They should be looking for ways to get livestock guys short of feed some of this shit crop that works for all concerned.....

Better than selling the herd off...

And better than combining garbage...

I don't know what it would take but it's a starting point....

[SASKFARMER3]

I'm torn but I think I would go for the snow to go because Trudeau every time he opens his mouth he loses a vote.

[grassfarmer]

They should be looking for ways to get livestock guys short of feed some of this shit crop that works for all concerned.....

Better than selling the herd off...

And better than combining garbage...

I don't know what it would take but it's a starting point....

Need the weather to make it into cattle feed too. Not conducive to that at the moment either. Seems to me most people in this area are comfortable with their feed supplies for now. I think next spring it will be a different story as the pastures will have been set back a month by the abuse inflicted on them this year.

[bucket]

Need the weather to make it into cattle feed too. Not conducive to that at the moment either. Seems to me most people in this area are comfortable with their feed supplies for now. I think next spring it will be a different story as the pastures will have been set back a month by the abuse inflicted on them this year.

Realizing the weather doesn't permit baling but if it turns there should be an effort put into the idea....from government, crop insurance and cattle producers. ..

Maybe..????

[GDR]

Realizing the weather doesn't permit baling but if it turns there should be an effort put into the idea....from government, crop insurance and cattle producers. ..

Maybe..????

For sure it's an idea, could work some salvage value through crop insurance that would work for all parties involved. Cheaper to move the cows to the feed than the feed to the cows just need someone to manage them and the fact that many fences have been removed over the years makes it harder too.

Couple years ago one neighbour sold a field of ripe swathed barley to another for feed. It had been down in a crappy fall like this for 6 weeks and was growing badly. I thought for sure they wouldn't eat much of it and leave one hell of a mess in the spring but I was wrong, cleaned it up good and field was reseeded no problems with trash next spring.

[GDR]

About 4" heavy wet snow here, but boy is it getting wet out, can hardly walk across the corral, more like spring storm. Went to Airdrie today, more snow there and Calgary is really getting wacked. Still coming down hard but supposed to stop overnight.

[helmsdale]

2nd heavy snowfall warning of the harvest season. FML.

Best I've been able to take is 19% wheat in the last 2.5 weeks.

Forecast is plugging flurries into this weekend again... book it...