Cold ..

[checking]

For all the overnight freezing, including this morning, I was surprised that the spring wheat has popped up around here. It looks really good.

The grass in the hay fields have not suffered, and the alfalfa leaves are okay, but the buds are fairly chalk hardened, and showing little flexibility. That may be a problem should this ice age not end.

[grassfarmer]

We do something like that with legume seed furrow - broadcast in the fall so it's ready to go in the spring and it works well enough.
When you guys are saying it's too cold to seed are you really saying the soil is too cold or are you saying it's really just to early in the calendar year due to frost risk of a germinated crop? If the soil is cold enough presumably it wouldn't germinate at all in which case it can sit and wait until it is warm enough. How long can canola, wheat or peas sit ungerminated in cold soil before they take hurt?

[Rareearth]

That’s interesting furrow.

I’ll continue to weigh the options and situation, with soil temp, weather forecasts, and calendar.

We have a short growing season where it’s much easier to look at the current situation and determine what the risks are. The intangible or I should say unknown is when we receive the first killing frost in the fall. We are well overdue now for a early frost event.

Question of the day,
“ if you could seed your whole farm on one day, what date would that be?” All things considered.

Central sask May 5 here

[bucket]

For all the overnight freezing, including this morning, I was surprised that the spring wheat has popped up around here. It looks really good.

The grass in the hay fields have not suffered, and the alfalfa leaves are okay, but the buds are fairly chalk hardened, and showing little flexibility. That may be a problem should this ice age not end.

My new grass looks like shit and the foxtail and dandelions are pissing me off....

lots of hurt on the stands

[sumdumguy]

That’s interesting furrow.

I’ll continue to weigh the options and situation, with soil temp, weather forecasts, and calendar.

We have a short growing season where it’s much easier to look at the current situation and determine what the risks are. The intangible or I should say unknown is when we receive the first killing frost in the fall. We are well overdue now for a early frost event.

Question of the day,
“ if you could seed your whole farm on one day, what date would that be?” All things considered.

Central sask May 5 here

Usually May 5, but today minus 9 at 6 AM kinda murky.

[helmsdale]

Local hero had a couple thousand acres of canola in and up... will see how it fared in a few days I guess.

[Rareearth]

I hear you.

It is May 5 , so long as seed is in the ground by the end of May.

Can’t wait for it to warm up, it would really dry out fast and leave stranded ungerminated seed. Or just as bad late May frost. Pick the poison, some one is always right, and their not right all the time either.

Calendar says go, weather forecaster might get tomorrow’s weather right.

[jimmy]

That’s interesting furrow.

I’ll continue to weigh the options and situation, with soil temp, weather forecasts, and calendar.

We have a short growing season where it’s much easier to look at the current situation and determine what the risks are. The intangible or I should say unknown is when we receive the first killing frost in the fall. We are well overdue now for a early frost event.

Question of the day,
“ if you could seed your whole farm on one day, what date would that be?” All things considered.

Central sask May 5 here

May 5 th sw also

[farming101]

May 5, 2019 lowest daily high since April 6.
Don't think we cracked 4C today.
37 year record for this date.

I think...

[Rareearth]

Holly, Sask farmer should be recommending all flavours straight up out of the bottle.

It’s a dry cold🙂