Friday Crop Report on a Thursday!

[binthere]

Austranada post some pics of your organic crops.

[fjlip]

Were at Nipawin, perfectly emerged crops N of Tisdale, no drought at all! Those farmers are winners this year....

[malleefarmer]

[QUOTE=woodland;415966]The grass has been growing like no tomorrow since the rain thankfully showed up. Some pastures have had pairs out for a month and it’s hard to tell they’ve been there besides the fresh turds. Just waiting on some weather to make bales....... 18 degree highs with cloud and sprinkles every day isn’t very conducive for that.



Is that some sort of brome grass in centre pic? Looks a little like one we have hear

[furrowtickler]

Crops are all over the place here
Canola is similar to what others are seeing all over the province . Some real good , some ok, a lot patchy and ugly . And it’s random, with the only key being establishment . But overall it late and almost 40% is very very late ..
peas obviously not as variable in establishment but the variability is huge in crop health. Root rot is evident in 50% of the fields .
Lentils look very good
My soybeans are behind with lack of heat units and very cool nights the past two weeks .
The Blackbeans were slow but kicking into gear now finally.
Neighbors fava beans look very good and just seem to grow regardless of the weather conditions lol 👍
Cereals in general are the most consistent. But even at that they are all short , everywhere except farther west and into the north parkland / hills up to Meadow . The rains 10 days earlier in June have set them up for a much better crop 👍👍.

Overall we need a rain agin soon and the whole area needs heat units to crank up big time , or 50% of the entire crop here or more will not make a normal September frost . That’s a fact .
The reseeded canola fields are very slow to mature . Most likely will not make it unless we are frost free into October, that can happen, it has before.
Summer and heat units are sliding away fast .

[furrowtickler]

Ohhhh , and if your going into or are at the Stampede..... watch the sky’s

[jazz]

I have everything in my canola from plants thinking about bolting to some just nicely out of the ground. This entire field should be going into bloom right now. The smaller plants look to be on a mission to catch up but that fall frost is a big concern. Cool July ahead which in a normal year would be great but I would rather sacrifice a few bu to heat now than the whole thing to frost in Sept.

[bucket]

I have everything in my canola from plants thinking about bolting to some just nicely out of the ground. This entire field should be going into bloom right now. The smaller plants look to be on a mission to catch up but that fall frost is a big concern. Cool July ahead which in a normal year would be great but I would rather sacrifice a few bu to heat now than the whole thing to frost in Sept.

Frost in September????How about August the way things are shaping up????

[Guest]

Were at Nipawin, perfectly emerged crops N of Tisdale, no drought at all! Those farmers are winners this year....

Not all are great around here
Heres one that needed rain on alfalfa ground
Most look pretty good though

[jazz]

The crop around here is mostly set now. Early cereals headed 6 or 7 row. Later remain to be seen. Lentils look like the winner. Lots of chicks around look drought stressed for the first part of the growing season, now look water stressed. We have had 5 or 6 inches in the past 2.5 weeks. Not sure how these will turn out. These pulses really dislike wet feet and out of all of them lentils seem to be the most tolerant.

Canola is all over the board. Some guys got it going early but it seems like it stressed out a bit. Cabbaged out and now bolting but looks short and even on the thin side. Beetle damage along the headlands. Some uneven patches. Later stuff all over the board.

[highwayman]

Need the heat here is as well which looks to be on its way this coming week. Highs approaching 30 degrees forecast. .5 to 2.7 inches fell again yesterday across the farm in isolated areas not helping lentils and chickpeas. Canola starting to shape up nicely and cereals looking very good. Sprayers going hard with fungicides and some insecticides for seedpod weevils. 16" of snow the end of April then 7 weeks of drought now 10"plus of rain since 3rd week of June. Hope this carbon tax straightens out this extreme weather soon 😂😂

[woodland]

Mallee that is brome grass indeed. It grows native here and works great for hay and pasture. That pasture has been in grass for probably over 40 years and is quack grass, brome, and Timothy. It handles get fed on over winter and abusive grazing at times. We’re switching our pasture slowly over to alfalfa based for higher production but haven’t gotten it all done yet. What do you use for grazing down under?

[malleefarmer]

Mallee that is brome grass indeed. It grows native here and works great for hay and pasture. That pasture has been in grass for probably over 40 years and is quack grass, brome, and Timothy. It handles get fed on over winter and abusive grazing at times. We’re switching our pasture slowly over to alfalfa based for higher production but haven’t gotten it all done yet. What do you use for grazing down under?

Medic Medicago trunculata ryegrass barley grass brome grass and some with lucerne. And vetch is becoming popular.