Friday Crop Report on a Thursday!

[jazz]

I have been arguing on Twitter with a crop expert ( gets paid to advise you how to farm) how the potential of this crop is dropping every day and it’s time to quit giving it the groceries and go fishing..

Get those micros on now and the plant will be invulnerable to drought, frost and trade wars.

[blueversi]

It might not matter in the long run because if we don't get a drink here in the next couple weeks all bets are off. Some fields were blowing here last night. I wanted to talk to the neighbor who protilled all his land last fall and ask how that worked out.

Spent so many years dealing and preparing for the excess moisture in my part of the swamp, this year definitely a mistake to have done fall tillage. Hard to know what to do as in the wet years wouldn't have been able to seed without doing something with the straw in the fall.

[helmsdale]

It might not matter in the long run because if we don't get a drink here in the next couple weeks all bets are off. Some fields were blowing here last night. I wanted to talk to the neighbor who protilled all his land last fall and ask how that worked out.

If you have one of those neighbors, the best bet is to set up a bunch of snow fence and buy an earth mover...

[SASKFARMER]

Well you just never know how your day will go. Going to haul a bag of wheat to town get out early and gave dad a leash to take city dog for a walk. Mom tags along also the big farm dog. All are Happy and playing kind of fun to watch. Big dog backs up and knocks mom over. Well she will head for surgery In Regina real soon. Broken ankle and all. Some days your the bug some the window.

[farmaholic]

I started in the mid eighties, I never knew any better. I've had good times since then.

It's the young, high testosterone(male AND female), aggressive, highly leveraged farmers who never knew tough times might have trouble adapting.

Land prices weren't making sense before(lately)...wait!

[jazz]

I wonder how many farmin decision were based on dads driving a quadtrac and growing 50bu canola?

If you go back to the 80s that would have been crop done June 15, cut for feed and hauling water to the cattle in the pasture and hope the seismic comes through a few more times. One yr we collected chaff out of the back of the combine and fed it all winter.

[SASKFARMER]

That seismic check was sure nice they crossed our land in lots of places almost all quarters.

The 80s we were able to grow crops and the worst year was 1988 the drought got to within 5 miles of the yard to the east and about town to the south. It wasn't fun let me tell you.

The USA was in full support and the companies said to us farmers it doesn't matter what Canada/USA does this is the price of the seed fert chem equipment etc. It was survival of the fittest.

Banks told you to sell the crop and the famous line from all banks.

You can't live on Equity.