Friday Crop Report on a Thursday!

[woodland]

No seeding here as there’s still drifts on the hillsides from the snow that keeps coming every day. Just finished changing spikes on the 19’ chisel plow as the 875 versy won’t be dragging the 40’ any time soon in these conditions. Gotta start making it black to warm up and dry out the ground with the crummy forecast if we’re ever going to get going especially for the corn. The only warm thing around here was a bin of #3 canola that started taking off but turned it and all is well.



On the cow side the calving is going great. Been averaging a calf an hour for almost two weeks and hit 336 or 55% today and these calves have been real troopers considering the weather. We got a shed and pens for the first calvers but next to nothing for the cows and need something for next year. Tonight they’re calling for two more inches of snow and 60 kph wind tomorrow......... currently light rain. Yippee



A heifer doing a top notch job of earning her meal ticket for another year.

[woodland]

SF3 your shiny new harrows are probably worth more than all our seeding and tillage lineup including the tractors pulling our scrap iron around. Tried finding some new trips and shanks for our Morris cultivator and the factory rep laughed and said I need a salesman instead of a parts man. Good thing I have two so the little one is becoming a parts machine now.

Good luck everyone 🍀

[farmaholic]

Been averaging a calf an hour for almost two weeks and hit 336 or 55%

Whoa! Wow! 600+ total to calve out, yikes.

[furrowtickler]

Hats off to you woodland .... that’s a lot of cows and calves 👍👍, good luck.
Weather here has been garbage as well, 4 mini blizzards in 4 days. Keep saying “it looks to warm up in a few days” ... been like that for a week . Hopefully next week is better. The next few days still cold with -5 for overnights.
It’s going to be one of those years where you blink and it’s the 10-12th of May.
Welcomed moisture for sure here, but hopefully this cold miserable weather breaks soon .. lol
Had 3 weeks of great weather in April, so this cold push into May not unexpected I guess.

[jazz]

Cheer up everyone

[SASKFARMER]

Woodland's a Demo. Yea it arrived the other day. Very heavy build outfit. But very expensive so probably with the shit show in Grain we will buy new teeth and use our old paid for one.

I'm kind of doing things different I had three salesmen in the yard yesterday all three looking for sales. its a lot tougher now to sell and the deals are starting to show up.

Grain carts were looking at has a discount of 40000 then a 7000 off and if we take an auger 5000 off. Now I almost should keep our 4 years old paid for cart and have two.

I never believe when everyone is running one way go with the crowd I usually go the other way.

The ground is cold and stuff seeded on way to Regina two weeks is fat seed and nothing else.

5 more days cool weather. and snow showers.

good luck with the Calving.

[SASKFARMER]

Watching a guy load canola into the drill and seeding today at -5 this morning. Wow

[SASKFARMER]

How is that crop doing seeded April 10 th

[sumdumguy]

An unexpected rain shower shut us down last night but no big deal because we woke up to minus 8 this morning. Even the gophers are hiding.

[woodland]

SF3 I’m just pestering you. Honestly I’m glad whenever someone buys something new as it means there’s one more used piece floating around that I can have a shot at one day. Lots of people out here are jealous of neighbors with shiny new equipment but I’m glad for them. A lot of our old iron gets chopped up and repurposed or ends up at General Scrap in the city.

My advice is to make a package deal and buy it all......... it’s only money after all😉

[SASKFARMER]

Demo machine with 135 ft boom only thing I don’t like is sprayer tank size. Have plasma can make bigger

[SASKFARMER]

Finally all bugs worked out on drill 2were going on peas drill one tomorrow on wheat.

And it rains!

[iceman]

What ? You can treat without a 60k storm? Someone tell the Agromist

Ice

[bucket]

Food colouring can be just as effective some years...

A forty foot auger with the right amount will work its about mixing...

[woodland]

Whoa! Wow! 600+ total to calve out, yikes.

It usually goes good except when the crummy weather hits. Got 3/10” of rain with strong wind at 1*c overnight and the fresh ones become a calfsickle pretty quick without a trip to the sauna (hot box) regardless of how good the cow is. I get to run the show from 7 pm till 5am when my brother shows up. With the weather issues we’ve had growing grain for three years now I think we’ll breed a bunch more heifers and grow just enough feed grain and straw for us.

A couple of neighbors are kinda having a contest to see who gets to a thousand cows first and apparently the rumours are we’re in the contest now too. I don’t care what anyone else does but it’ll be interesting to see what happens.

Hoping for sunshine now the moisture is good enough to push some seeds in the ground and grow some grass. Two weeks ago spring was looking ahead of schedule and now we’ll be glad just to get done.



Gotta go the teenagers are wanting their Uber eats already. 😎