Friday Crop Report on a Thursday!

[SASKFARMER3]

Grass doesn’t understand the climate in canada.

I like the comment that his farm had a block of ice above it at one time.

But see I don’t understand Scotland and don’t pretend to know it’s climate. Yet our new Canadian knows all about our climate


It’s a tax that’s it and a Trudeau is famous for doing nothing but bankrupt Canada.

[TASFarms]

Its good when you don't know any better!

Way better on fuel that the Cat powered predecessor.
Still a simple combine.
There were afew "new equipment" bugs that needed to be exterminated and the dealership was very responsive. Was really never down for more than half a day and that repair was a fairly major issue.

Anytime a brand new model with major changes hits the market...give it three years before thinking about getting one....I told the previous dealership I was with I didn't want to see one for three years...and I did wait...longer.

Funny how the combine brand MF was once the King in the field in Western Canada....now it is reduced to fringe player. They're not the worst piece of iron in the field but they sure aren't very popular either...i doubt MF(Agco) will ever regain that title. An insurmountable task.

Did you do any canola. I had 9545 out for a couple days. I liked how you could run the rotor 700 + and very little cracked seeds with dry canola

[malleefarmer]

My crop report insured crops the other day thats a start i guess.

Best 1.4 t ha wheat down to 1t ha only one paddock or field i didnt insure write off wont be harvested wont be insured.

Insurance premium based on delivered tonnes can go down by 25% only.

Barley hoping for 1.5t ha down to again 1 t ha.

Canola optomistic maybe 600 to 800 kg per ha oats.

Oats might do 1.5 if there heavy enough to keep in the combine one paddock i doubt will make 700kg super heavy ground.

Lupins maybe 1 to 1.2 tonne to ha.

Pricing might be like the start of a grand prix when harvest kicks in wheat may hit $450 even 60 on farm wheats wheat no protien weights nothing gone as stock feed barley same deal but more the $400 range. Oats smart guys cleaning and selling for seed famer cleaned 1200 per tonne huge shortage.

Oh forgot vetch might do 300 kg again 1500 to 2000 per tonne nobody knows

I prefer average yeilds and average prices over drought yeilds and drought induced prices. Smart guys have locked in wheat at high 300s for next year not me im a dumb****le and will wait

[farmaholic]

Did you do any canola. I had 9545 out for a couple days. I liked how you could run the rotor 700 + and very little cracked seeds with dry canola

Ya we did peas, wheat, canola and flax.

In dry conditions over thrashing and over loading the seives can be a problem. This rotor style seems more aggressive than the old one.

Even flax can be ground too hard...the straw looked very fibrous coming out the back.

Keeping an even distribution of material across the seives is important and what I find most challenging.

Ours doesnt have a fan "choke" like some of the early models(9560), I don't think I would have liked that. We have a hydraulic driven fan that is adjusted hydraulically. Our old one(9895) was a high/low two speed variable speed belt drive adjusted with an electric actuator. Even that was likely better than a fan choke.

[bgmb]

I wonder what warmed the climate to melt those glaciers from the last ice age? What causes them to form in the first place? Sea levels were many meters lower then too.

A carbon tax to stop climate change is insignificant its going to happen just as the glaciers came and went. Humans will have no impact.

[Guest]

Rain last night
Light snow this mornin
Bgmb , they have already admitted that its just a wealth trans scheme not even trying to hide it anymore
They said it has sfa to do with climate change

[fjlip]

Rain last night
Light snow this mornin
Bgmb , they have already admitted that its just a wealth trans scheme not even trying to hide it anymore
They said it has sfa to do with climate change

Sounds like winter is back! We could use 3 more days for fertilizing.

[Hamloc]

Long term thinking is how it'll help, more so future generations than my own.

For all the wild proclamations about how a tax might affect farms I'll tell you now if the cost of all carbon taxed inputs on my farm doubled next year it would cost me considerably less than severe weather events have cost me this year. That's what really threatens the future of agriculture everywhere and it would be reckless not to attempt to tackle it.

I'll let you know in advance I'm not interested in reading an avalanche of anti-science bullshit in response to this ranging from the earth is in fact cooling to it's a scam by Hilary Clinton so you can save your collective breath on my account.

Something to think on though - AF5 was insisting earlier that rising temperatures offered only positive opportunities to agriculture. What a good example of that we had this summer with a severe drought over a large area compounded by smoke from BC forest fires that delayed crop maturity by about a month in some areas. Sometimes there are unanticipated consequences and they can cost us severely.

My neighbor and friend of almost 50 years has been helping us finish harvest the last couple of days(he is done already) and he made a very interesting comment. His mother who I think is 89 has always what he described as a weather diary. He said that this fall has been a mirror image of 1966 which I thought was very interesting. Weather is cyclical and no government intervention will change that. Grassfarmer, I generally find your constant poking of the bear somewhat amusing but weather in western Canada has always been quite variable in nature and it is very rare that it is ideal. While I think every farmer tries to be efficient as possible, this narrative that Trudeau's carbon tax is going to somehow improve world wide climate is absolutely laughable. Could you please name 1 thing that I purchase or use on the farm that will become less expensive! The concept of carbon leakage certainly comes into play here. Once the carbon tax on business reaches a certain point it will simply move to lower taxed areas of the world. If every country that I compete against had a carbon tax it would be a different story, then it comes down to who is the most efficient producer. Plus this arguement that even though in Trudeau's words 8 out of 10 Canadians will be rebated as much or more than they pay in tax there is an incentive to use less fossil fuels, what a bunch of B.S. I was reading an interesting article this morning talking about B.C.'s carbon tax, the most interesting part was that a recent poll had been done and only 45% of B.C. residents were aware B.C. had a carbon tax, after 10 years! Grassfarmer there are times when I can see your point but when it comes to the carbon tax we will have to agree to disagree. Enjoy your day

[SASKFARMER3]

I would love a Liberal to show how taxing farmers to death, will help the environment.

We have done our part with def, new energy efficient practices. And r2000 homes and high efficiency furnaces etc.

Please explain liberals or are you like Ralph, you don’t even believe your own bullshit.

Should get to 95% done tonight

[Guest]

I would love a Liberal to show how taxing farmers to death, will help the environment.

We have done our part with def, new energy efficient practices. And r2000 homes and high efficiency furnaces etc.

Please explain liberals or are you like Ralph, you don’t even believe your own bullshit.

Should get to 95% done tonight

pretty shitty here , you're not getting this?
good luck gettin across the finish line , hope you're not getting this shit

[SASKFARMER3]

It’s 6:14 we should get to a section canola left late tonight.

[seldomseen]

I am cheering for you saskfarmer and hope you get it all.
Always like reading your crop reports and they are more interesting and accurate then the ones from the government. Thanks for taking the time to do them.
When ever has a government done anything better and cheaper than the private sector.
Liberalism = Mental Disorder