Could we be done?

[beaverdam]

farma, just wondering what the width of the easement was?

[Guest]

Well I looked back and maybe would of had the two wheat done that’s it nothing has moved in a week or more heree

we coulda done more if we were young and dumb and full of xxxx, just can't put the hours in anymore can't get enough help
scared of too much tough canola around
always think weather will improve

[saskshafe]

We have harvested basically every day we could since about Aug.20. We are about half done. Every bushel that has come off has needed the help of the dryer to make it dry. Some really close, but this year not close enough. So if a person has harvested when they thought was good, and still has no dry grain, is it their fault, or is the weather system just fkd. I consider ourselves lucky, as if you go ten miles north there starts to be farms that have not taken a bushel off.
I was wondering about the crop insurance bill. If you have unseeded acres, do they not apply that to your bill? I think if you cannot harvest and think you will have a claim, why can’t you apply that payment to your bill. If the claim is because you couldn’t harvest they will have to wait, just like you had to pay your bill five months early with the spring claim, they can wait until it’s finalized.

[farmaholic]

I don't question anyone's harvest progress...just mine. I was thinking out loud(in text). We are small potatoes and if we had done what some others have been doing....we would be long done and probably could have done more!

My hat goes off to the efforts people are making in putting the 2018 crop in the bin...the weather has been BRUTAL in some areas.

You will deserve a reward that won't be forthcoming! Instead... higher fert prices, stupid parts prices, possible collapsing feed grain prices, etc etc etc....

Pat yourselves on the back...who said "if you're doing all you can do that's all you can do"!

[sumdumguy]

We started combining on August 13 and because we had aeration in every bin, we were stopped waiting a few times but pretty much went full-tilt until finishing tough, knda immature Canola September 9. Finito-Benito! Glad we don’t have anymore acres. 🐎 First year ever we had ripe undesiccated lentils in 97 days and straight-cut durum right after. We tend to be impatient and lots of combining was done at 17-20% moisture, all sent to aeration but all our harvesting was tough, now come to think of it. Mother Nature needed a little help, glad there were lots of good aerating days in August. We were shooting for finish by labour day, awe next year.

[sumdumguy]

Now, October will be balmy when Ontario sends their 20 degree weather here and the North will get er in, that’s my prediction.

[farmaholic]

Now, October will be balmy when Ontario sends their 20 degree weather here and the North will get er in, that’s my prediction.

The only hot air we get from Ontario comes from Ottawa....not the crop drying type either!

[makar]

Now, October will be balmy when Ontario sends their 20 degree weather here and the North will get er in, that’s my prediction.

Someone needs to adjust their meds. I need more vodka.

[sumdumguy]

It’s 23 degrees in Toronto last I looked.

[poorboy]

aeration in every bin.

Do you have a big enough power service to run fans on all the bins at the same time? If most of the grain came off at 17-20% the fans need to run a long time on each bin.

I am working myself towards more bins with aeration, but limited in power. Trying to future plan a little.