Friday Crop Report on a Thursday!

[the big wheel]

I am 25% done. Have no dryer, so have to be careful. Oats has been testing under 16 last few days. Last night it was down to 13.3. Hard to believe with snow on the ground. Standing is king, provided it is not too flat. Lots of swathed will not get done. Short short days, hope not much precipitation fri-sat. Oats is pretty poor by my historic yield standard. Half to two thirds normal yield. Lots of drowned out spots and areas from the mid June rain, and then the areas where one more rain, even a half inch, would have made the crop much better. Ironic as can be. Things will be tight if we get this crop but that is nothing new. One more year of living within my means. One more year of no capital additions. Other than fence! 😂

Our area is probably close to the 80% done. Everyone around me has dryers, and have been combining like crazy, no matter what it tests it seems. Also smaller average farms with oversized machinery than most areas. Lots of guys have under 1000 acres per monster combine.

My son has started running the combine. Our farm finally has two generations, or two people in the same family working together on it. First time since prior to 1974, when my grandpa died. Don’t think he helped my dad for quite a while before then. Been a long time coming. Kind of emotional. For the first time, I have been able to have the combine running, while changing bins. Was up on a bin, topping it off, and could hear my boy a mile away, combining away. Small efficiencies to most, something most do not even think about, but when you aren’t used to it, it is golden! Baby steps towards being almost a normally run farm...

Next week looks like the best weather coming since August. Here’s hoping for a chance to finish.

Fwiw hang in there some forecasts are for a good week or so end of next week as long as we escape a big snowfall this weekend.
Read your post then took a pause to
Look around at what should be valued!!!

Reminds me of younger days learning to combine out on open seat while dad watched and guided me to learn.
Miss those days was a lot simpler times or so it seemed.

[SASKFARMER3]

Yes they were fun and also stressful. But less money tied up in farm.

Heavy white frost but a north wind.

[fjlip]

And so does the whole value chain, leave us crumbs, just enough to keep repeating the cycle. We are the host for many leeches. Will never change...

[farmaholic]

Fertilizer has to be the biggest **** job this fall.

25% higher than what I paid last fall. Sure hope the commodities I produce can enjoy the same increase!

[SASKFARMER3]

Just off the phone with parasites on canola.

Yea they love farmers.

Pain is what they love.

Shit price.

But buy more you fool for next year.

[quadtrac]

Yay!!! An Alberta clipper on the way.

[helmsdale]

Yay!!! An Alberta clipper on the way.

Wind warning for 90kph gusts through most of ab. Might flip those canola swaths so the underside can dry at least...

[quadtrac]

Wind warning for 90kph gusts through most of ab. Might flip those canola swaths so the underside can dry at least...

True lol. Gotta find a positive way of looking at things. Maybe it’ll blow them all away so we don’t have to look at them anymore.

[sumdumguy]

Driving down to Indiana and am in Peoria Illinois tonight. We hit solid winter south of Bismarck, treacherous highways and many cars and semis in the snow-filled ditches. Came out of that further south. Just want to say almost all corn and soybeans are still in the field. If that corn yields 200 Bus/acre, there will be a lot of corn still to be harvested.

[SASKFARMER3]

Read Sask Ag and foods report and what a nice written crock of shit.

Yep, it's just the NW corner that means really nothing most of all of Saskatchewan is done.

That's the glossy version.

Were at 78% just behind the five-year average.

You fool some have just started.


We should get to 60% today. The dryer hasn't stopped in three weeks.

Snow deep down in the USA.

[fjlip]

Still another RECORD crop, just small area, prices go down at harvest. And next week +19 in Regina! Summer coming back, we try TOO HARD, and the market is betting on everyone getting done. Nobody gives a shit how hard it might be, even in ND soybeans.

[SASKFARMER3]

Doing my part to warm Sask.


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