How big is this rain to you....

[grefer]

Dick all here. Clouds stuck at Biggar and disappearing. We are in a dry bubble which cant get a break. Looks and sounds like Bucket in a similar situation. I saw wheat in our area 8 inches tall and in the shot blade. I cant believe how screwed the canola crops are. Those insanely priced drills cant do f all either if its dry it seems. Who would have thought. This isnt a small area. I was and hour northeast of here last night up into the Hepburn area. Terrible canola crops and other crops are less than half of normal I would say all the way there. Depressing drive actually.

[bucket]

Tomorrow the drought will be considered over....I wonder if that means climate change is done as well..?????..


You can't say droughts are caused by climate change and when they end suspiciously there will be another excuse to tax the shit out of us....

[helmsdale]

As far as oilseeds are concerned...

Would anyone plug a crop in on the 20th of June and expect much?

If a bunch germinates now, is there anyway it contributes to good quality quantity in any way? If anything, it might bring up quantity produced, but drags overall quality of the crop down? Im thinking a #1 just got harder to achieve for many.

[fjlip]

Dick all here. Clouds stuck at Biggar and disappearing. We are in a dry bubble which cant get a break. Looks and sounds like Bucket in a similar situation. I saw wheat in our area 8 inches tall and in the shot blade. I cant believe how screwed the canola crops are. Those insanely priced drills cant do f all either if its dry it seems. Who would have thought. This isnt a small area. I was and hour northeast of here last night up into the Hepburn area. Terrible canola crops and other crops are less than half of normal I would say all the way there. Depressing drive actually.

See the same Kelvington area today, canola hardly visible from the highway, a MONTH late if germs now. All kinds of drills and NONE are magic. $5000 airseeder crop just as good?

[Guest]

As far as oilseeds are concerned...

Would anyone plug a crop in on the 20th of June and expect much?

If a bunch germinates now, is there anyway it contributes to good quality quantity in any way? If anything, it might bring up quantity produced, but drags overall quality of the crop down? Im thinking a #1 just got harder to achieve for many.

We seeded L230 june 19/2016
Year after the flood
Ground was hot and moist
Came up in 5 days , never looked back
Was a really good crop

[Guest]

Dick all here. Clouds stuck at Biggar and disappearing. We are in a dry bubble which cant get a break. Looks and sounds like Bucket in a similar situation. I saw wheat in our area 8 inches tall and in the shot blade. I cant believe how screwed the canola crops are. Those insanely priced drills cant do f all either if its dry it seems. Who would have thought. This isnt a small area. I was and hour northeast of here last night up into the Hepburn area. Terrible canola crops and other crops are less than half of normal I would say all the way there. Depressing drive actually.

Oh , but there will be a glut of canola

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Not complaining, since we were wet to start with, and if we were to get the 4"+ inches that were forecast, it would not have been good, but hardly any rain today, even though the forecast was for heavy rain all day, and we were under a rainfall warning all day. Was sunny nearly all day, a few dark clouds rolled through, showered hard first thing this morning, even though the radar showed nothing, not sure how they got tht so wrong. Could have sprayed all day, if not for listening to the forecast. Still forecast for rain all night and into tomorrow.

[furrowtickler]

Not complaining, since we were wet to start with, and if we were to get the 4"+ inches that were forecast, it would not have been good, but hardly any rain today, even though the forecast was for heavy rain all day, and we were under a rainfall warning all day. Was sunny nearly all day, a few dark clouds rolled through, showered hard first thing this morning, even though the radar showed nothing, not sure how they got tht so wrong. Could have sprayed all day, if not for listening to the forecast. Still forecast for rain all night and into tomorrow.

The vast majority of the rain got stuck in the band south of here and refused to move anywhere .
Very weird

[farmaholic]

WHAT DID THE



GET?????,

Sorry SF3 I just couldn't help myself.
I think this should be your new Avatar

[bucket]

The rain gauge I stuck out before it finally started raining says 9/10 tenths this morning....so it should germinate some 2500 acres sitting in dry dirt ....Its like I just finished seeding a couple days ago...been 2 weeks...

Bit of a relief......

[Guest]

Well enjoy , we got sfa here again and the wind is howling

[farming101]

.116 of an inch. It's starting to pile up now. Just under one half inch since May 1 in 5 separate rain events