Friday crop report on Thursday.

[sk_wheatking]

Why on earth do you guys keep engaging with this austranada. It's what he is looking for and you all line up for it. You cant have a conversation with these types of people. I would imagine he is some phoney sitting around laughing. Look at his end of glyphosate topic. It will never die because someone keeps replying back and it's his opening to keep it alive by responding with more of his garbage.
Funny how these extremists never have to have facts to back up their bullshit, but they expect it from you.

[SASKFARMER]

Sort of like a liberal they want you to tell all the facts but they do nothing or the new green generation.

Yes he is a fool every single farmer can see that.

Pm me was a good one.

I know one thing the big organic farm at melville is not going to survive and my organic neighbours did good two years now guess what grass and thistles come back and choke out your crops.

We needed roundup and funny how the safest chemical in the world they want to ban.


Starve is all I say.

[seldomseen]

I don't like summer fallow but sometimes its just necessary. The field in the picture has been in alfalfa for seed production for the last 14 years. Last fall i sprayed it with glyfos but with the frosts that we had i got a very poor kill. I planned on seeding it this spring so i sprayed it again but glyfos won't do much to alfalfa in the spring and then it was dry so changed plans and never seeded it. I will work that field until the middle of August then let it regrow till early Sept. and then spray it. That should clean up all the perennial weeds. Then likely work it late in the fall to clean up any winter annual weeds that will come up

[blackpowder]

It was a very nice picture.
Flat square field, not a slough in sight, black dirt. Bush where it belongs.

[blackpowder]

Obviously, engaging with fanatics not a winning strategy.
But I suppose neither is letting them get louder and stronger unopposed.

[sk_wheatking]

Obviously, engaging with fanatics not a winning strategy.
But I suppose neither is letting them get louder and stronger unopposed.

Yeah, but why keep supplying the wood for the fire. When extremist groups have no one to engage with they turn on each other and eat their own. Just think democratic debates.

[blackpowder]

In this case perhaps, there's a lot of people listening to them. Constant affirmation creating fact.
Think Beer Hall Putsch ??

[farmaholic]

In this case perhaps, there's a lot of people listening to them. Constant affirmation creating fact.
Think Beer Hall Putsch ??

Then came Mein Kampf.

Then they got to write, or tried to re-write, the rule book then we all know what happened after that.

When drones follow fanatics......

[AlbertaFarmer5]

It's a no win situation.
If we engage, it gives them unwarranted legitimacy and encourages them.

If we ignore them as the uninformed useful idiots that they are, then it becomes a one sided debate with the Trolls and useful idiots framing the message to suit their own agendas. This unopposed propaganda gives the impressionable, undecided or even open minded public the false impression that farmers themselves don't, won't or can't refute the information that it must be true.

I'm of the opinion that the best way to deal with them might be to encourage them to continually become ever more preposterously extremist in their beliefs, projections, and policies. With a little push and a big boost to their egos, they will quickly cross the line of any rational person, and go full AOC destroying any credibility they or their organization or cause ever had.

AOC of course stands for Alexandria Occasional Cortex who has been a poster child for how effective this strategy works. One can only assume that her advisors are all paid by the republican party. She is the best gift the Democrats could heve ever given Trump.

[woodland]

Back to the crop report.........

It’ll be a while before bales get hauled outta this field.



Supposed to hit +30 today but the fog didn’t lift till noon and now it’s cloudy and still have a jacket on. Only got that warm for two days this year ......... once in April and July.

Oh sun where art thou?

[grassfarmer]

Back to the crop report.........

It’ll be a while before bales get hauled outta this field.

Supposed to hit +30 today but the fog didn’t lift till noon and now it’s cloudy and still have a jacket on. Only got that warm for two days this year ......... once in April and July.

Oh sun where art thou?

It came here - will hit 30C this afternoon - with humidex "feels like" 36C ..ugh.
Had a reminder of "west of the 5th" weather the other day when it cooled off a lot one morning. Cows were sitting about contentedly versus the norm here of being bunched up, too hot and eaten by bugs all day through July/August.
Different areas - different issues. The optimum temperature for corn is 30C so at least it's happy here. Went from below knee high to 7' in places in the last month.

[malleefarmer]

It came here - will hit 30C this afternoon - with humidex "feels like" 36C ..ugh.
Had a reminder of "west of the 5th" weather the other day when it cooled off a lot one morning. Cows were sitting about contentedly versus the norm here of being bunched up, too hot and eaten by bugs all day through July/August.
Different areas - different issues. The optimum temperature for corn is 30C so at least it's happy here. Went from below knee high to 7' in places in the last month.

softy we enjoy those cool temps in summer