Well the shit show continues. This fall sucks.

[farming101]

But Mouse, you are not alone,
In proving foresight may be vain:
The best laid schemes of mice and men
Go often askew,
And leave us nothing but grief and pain,
For promised joy!

Still you are blessed, compared with me!
The present only touches you:
But oh! I backward cast my eye,
On prospects dreary!
And forward, though I cannot see,
I guess and fear

"To a Mouse" - Robert Burns

[beaverdam]

First snow for our area this fall(yes I appreciate how lucky we are). Area likely 98% harvested. Combines ganging up like I've never seen. 3, 5, 8 in a field to get it off, doing beans and canola, most of it standing yet , but not all. Bleached wht and durum left for now, mostly edges and lower areas that were too green 4 or 5 weeks ago, when the bulk of the cereals were taken off. 14 day forecast brutal, and the reason so many combines were helping neighbours out. Normally farmers wouldn't panic like this, unless we were at the end of Oct. We've seen, often enough, Halloween snow stay for the winter, so between that and the terrible forecast, only leaves a 2 week window to wrap up harvest, most here don't want to gamble on that, the way the year has been.

Maunder Minimum could/would last 50 years, image farming in western Canada for 50 years with cold falls like this or worse? You maybe rewarded with good prices, especially if Europe was affected too. But think of the risk, multiple times higher than you have now.

https://www.livescience.com/61716-sun-cooling-global-warming.html https://www.livescience.com/61716-sun-cooling-global-warming.html

Glowbull warmists think their theory will help offset the cooling output of the Sun, yet they still want to take measures to reduce the warming??? WTF !

[farming101]

Depending on your locality this was very unofficially the second coldest September since 1885.
The only one colder? September 1965

[furrowtickler]

Depending on your locality this was very unofficially the second coldest September since 1885.
The only one colder? September 1965

October looks to be the same , or even colder .
Until this jet stream moves we are going to be in for a battle just to get 1/2 done

[Sheepwheat]

Zero bushels harvested on my farm. Overwhelmed with stress. Chest feels tight, can’t do a thing. Not certain what will happen if I don’t get this crop off. Or at least some of it. Not quite enough sheep yet to make a living. Just sick of this crap. No one has done a thing here since sept 6. Amount done here is directly proportional to barley acres on your farm, as not much else has been done.

[macdon02]

16% of Alberta canola in the bin ? ... this time could be different. Odds say we get it all in till we don't.

[Guest]

Shes nailin us good here today 2 “ wet snow already. Had to quit
Managed toget a couple quarters dry canola in the last day and a half, sure is easy when its dry

[GDR]

16% of Alberta canola in the bin ? ... this time could be different. Odds say we get it all in till we don't.

Likely all in the south. Central not one acre canola combined, most still green, even stuff swathed 3 weeks is green swaths and kernels half changed, inside still dark green. If it comes off there is gonna be piles of sample canola.

[ajl]

Zero bushels harvested on my farm. Overwhelmed with stress. Chest feels tight, can’t do a thing. Not certain what will happen if I don’t get this crop off. Or at least some of it. Not quite enough sheep yet to make a living. Just sick of this crap. No one has done a thing here since sept 6. Amount done here is directly proportional to barley acres on your farm, as not much else has been done.

Same boat here. Most harvest around here has been peas. Some wheat has been harvested in area for grain dryers and some barley came off last couple of days. Nothing harvested on my farm. Was swathing wheat in the snow today because figured it would now fare best overwintering that way. Trouble was ran out of high ground so was getting into increased likely hood of sticking swather. Gotta turn steering wheel the correct direction when spinning out of a wet spot with a swather. The kicker is this field hardly had more moisture during the growing season that it has gotten in September. Do have a fair bit of off farm income so not dependent on farm which is good.

[hobbyfrmr]

Zero bushels harvested on my farm. Overwhelmed with stress. Chest feels tight, can’t do a thing. Not certain what will happen if I don’t get this crop off. Or at least some of it. Not quite enough sheep yet to make a living. Just sick of this crap. No one has done a thing here since sept 6. Amount done here is directly proportional to barley acres on your farm, as not much else has been done.

Zero acres harvested here. All standing because geese would eat it all. Most guys with dryers doing what they can in wheat and canola. The labourers meals/bushel harvested ratio is going into the red. They still have to eat and get a monthly salary.

[Guest]

Same boat here. Most harvest around here has been peas. Some wheat has been harvested in area for grain dryers and some barley came off last couple of days. Nothing harvested on my farm. Was swathing wheat in the snow today because figured it would now fare best overwintering that way. Trouble was ran out of high ground so was getting into increased likely hood of sticking swather. Gotta turn steering wheel the correct direction when spinning out of a wet spot with a swather. The kicker is this field hardly had more moisture during the growing season that it has gotten in September. Do have a fair bit of off farm income so not dependent on farm which is good.

what area are you in ajl?

[woodland]

Sheepwheat, AJL, Hobby, and everyone else who doesn’t have any crop off you got lots of company out west. We and lots of neighbors have nothing off and a few guys have only their peas off. My buddy is silaging some green wheat and we’re still swathing our green canola. Fired up the old second swather and got it ready to try and scalp some flattened wheat off the mud that my brother figures is around 30%. The propane outfits are all out of rental tanks and they’re the only ones having an early Christmas from these conditions like they have for three years now.

The cows will carry us through again and I think we’ll be cropping less acres going forward after these crummy years.

Sheepwheat I was stressed right out in 2016 over the same crud we’re going through currently and it sure helps to talk to someone. Even venting to someone with a fictional name (like me) on here helps. My wife was amazing and she pulled me through since it was very bleak that winter. We sc****d by and now things are actually going ok here. Forecast looks and feels like November here and that’s never good for harvesting here.

Here’s hoping the sun and wind show up and stick around for more than a day. 🍀

Be safe....... your family loves you.


A happy moment of the only “harvesting “ we’ve done.

[ajl]

[QUOTE=caseih;390978]what area are you in ajl?

NW of Vegreville AB

[hobbyfrmr]

Sheepwheat, AJL, Hobby, and everyone else who doesn’t have any crop off you got lots of company out west. We and lots of neighbors have nothing off and a few guys have only their peas off. My buddy is silaging some green wheat and we’re still swathing our green canola. Fired up the old second swather and got it ready to try and scalp some flattened wheat off the mud that my brother figures is around 30%. The propane outfits are all out of rental tanks and they’re the only ones having an early Christmas from these conditions like they have for three years now.

The cows will carry us through again and I think we’ll be cropping less acres going forward after these crummy years.

Sheepwheat I was stressed right out in 2016 over the same crud we’re going through currently and it sure helps to talk to someone. Even venting to someone with a fictional name (like me) on here helps. My wife was amazing and she pulled me through since it was very bleak that winter. We sc****d by and now things are actually going ok here. Forecast looks and feels like November here and that’s never good for harvesting here.

Here’s hoping the sun and wind show up and stick around for more than a day. 🍀

Be safe....... your family loves you.


A happy moment of the only “harvesting “ we’ve done.

I am not really stressed out yet. I dont like any of this but all I can default to is the fact we will do it when it gets better. It has happened before, the sun comes out and everybody finishes. Who knows l, maybe being the absurdly late seeding organic guy will pay off. If not then I will be in the same situation as everyone else. Nothing anyone can do about it at this time.

[Horse]

Just got back from westock, 40mi trip lots of combines going and dryers in lots of yards, canola sure making dust, some swathing and combine right behind, no straw to bale to short don't know what moisture is but I think high, wrote my crop off already as it is staying green and not ripening,mabey next yr unless we get some serious heat and that don't seem likely .