Can anyone tell me what happens when....???

[SASKFARMER]

You can see in the April seeded wheat on the south side of the valley has yellow or lighter areas. Moisture stress on good dirt. They have been missing most showers.

I personally think we need a drink soon as crop will slip backwards fast. Heat needed to push it along.

Face it it’s a shit show year what you get is what you get.

Ag stab works


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Yea I wrote two checks for the farm for over 220000 after the frost years back to them.

It works so great. Puke gag

[Guest]

Full moon Aug 15, then Sept 13...

Sept 15 will be ok here
Aug 15 will see farmers jumping off bridges here

[farmaholic]

Ag stab works


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Yea I wrote two checks for the farm for over 220000 after the frost years back to them.

It works so great. Puke gag

The best assessment of Ag$tab I ever heard was on this site...

Someone called it an "audit" program. Yup pretty much what it is. And a hell of a way for Gov to monitor participating farm's financial needs and health.

SF, first of all why did you drop the "3"? And secondly, after the frost year, your crops and/or margins(from selling the grain) must have been better than what you included on your report.

With all the accrual accounting tracking I can see how they could ask for money back. I had to repay some from the 04 frost event too.

In a way its nothing more than a forensic financial audit.

[sumdumguy]

It was intended to top you up in bad years. I don’t know how else they can do that without prior prod’n and financials to create prior year margin to compare to. ( Just trying to be fair). And I can’t speak to anything after 2011 when it went to Melville as I have not been involved since then.

[farmaholic]

Can't disagree with your "assessment" sumdumguy....unless you re-assessed my 04 claim. Lol 😁

[helmsdale]

Sept 15 will be ok here
Aug 15 will see farmers jumping off bridges here

Aug 15 would be brutal. Highly unlikely I would think? I looked them up thinking if it was in the last week of august we'd have trouble. I'd have peas to maturity, and early durum would likely get branned...

Sept 13 most things I have would make it, but many guys are hoping that the second growth will make the crop. If it gets cooked mid-september, that'll cut production in half or more on those acres.

[jazz]

TSF, first of all why did you drop the "3"?

Maybe he is thinking there wont be a SF4 so no need to keep track anymore.

[shtferbrains]

If I remember Bucket yo said you don't grow Canola but you have some cattle.

In 2002 here the crop was real thin and short and regrew from tillers off the main plant, especially oats.

When harvested the stuff out of the back of the combine made good feed and the cows liked it.

It was pea green. The harvested oats were so light they were only worth about 2 cents a lb, less than hay price. Many quit thrashing them and wanted them baled but too late in the season to dry.

If you need feed you might want to check out where you might rent a bale wrapper in case your area turns out that way.

Make the best of the worst.

[grassfarmer]

Isn't that what crop insurance is for?

I don't use it other than for the corn we grow but I looked at one of our quarters to theoretically grow canola on this year. Probable yield is 38.9bu for this quarter, $value for coverage is $10.89/bu if you take 80% coverage the premium was $5.05/acre giving you $338.88/acre coverage if you have a total loss. Having this kind of protection surely mitigates a lot of the risk, no?

[bucket]

It's great for a single quarter but because the whole farm each commodity. ..it sucks. ...