Well well well looks like we got close to a wreck last night but dodged a bullet. It got down to 5 Celcius at 5:18 AM and now starting to climb back up. Clear sky.
Boys some of you new farmers who weren't around in 2002 it froze that year about 5 days earlier and farmers had to deal with the reality of piss all for crops and what was there were feed wheat light shit, white canola light shit and ugly barley and shitty peas. Basically, it was a shit show. Crap insurance measured all your grain and made up a grade factor that they paid later. It was one of the worst years of my farming history. Oh but then the shit show continued in 2003 it didn't rain much, sort of like this year. Oh wait then it got worse it froze again in 2004 and this time harder and a week later. Total shit show. It was a huge area that got hit even down into the USA. Frost is the end of a year with nothing you can do but watch as you hit the train head-on. Dark days in Ag and Ag stab paid and then I paid it back.
Ag more than ever. This year we have a Federal Gov. and Advisory groups who don't get farming and have done nothing on the Shit show file with China, Italy, India or just about all our trading partners. Most farms have lost up to $2.00 a bushel on Canola since its high. We would have made out like bandits with the shit show the USA and China are into with our Canola but no we have to get it in the nuts thanks to Trudeau and his band of fools.
TRUDEAUMUSTGO
Here is the Crop report because its Thursday and the feel-good provincial report will be out that all is good and harvest is underway. Reality why is harvest underway it's because of the crop isn't that good in these places.
I got home on Sunday night from Florida and Monday Sask Day I took a road trip up to the lake. Regina to MooseMountains then north up to Yorkton, then over to Roblin yes it's Manitoba and up to Kamsack then over to Canora and down to the lake. Over to Ituna and home.
It's easy to explain what I saw. One nice and across the road it's like WTF then oh not bad and wow, then really nice whats that guys secrets and no that can't be worse than the others, YEs it can.
Showers, first rain, hail, lighter ground, seeded too deep, too shallow, sprayed late, didn't spray, expensive drill, old hoe drill and its good, or just about anything this year made you a winner or a loser a mile apart.
No rain in the last two weeks is advancing the crop. And causing yield loss.
HRS is in the hard/soft dough stage and if it would have frozen last night we would have had Canada feed. Heavy probably but still they would have graded hard. Watch they will find frozen kernels in this year's sample because they heard it got close in August. Ours isn't as thick as last year but will give it a good run for its money. Leaf disease is helping it move along and last weeks extreme temps and low moisture or no rain in two weeks have moved this crop along fairly fast. Sandridge is changing. Will spray it out next week I'm thinking and then any grain bags we do will be put there. Still, an 8 dressed up as a 9. No one is swathing or desiccating yet in our area. South of the valley will begin next week.
Sandridge
Taken Monday.
Barley is filling nice and has good size heads. Rain could still plump up the kernel as it won't be swath for 10 days. Its a nice crop don't know if it can hit last years but it's nice. 9. Some guys south of valley will be going next week in barley. lots will. But rain might upset the malt cart. Could be up to 2 in places this weekend.
Peas have some aphid problems but it is only on the last pods that came after the rain two weeks ago. Little guys on top that won't produce anything before the bottom pop. So were not spraying let them eat its one pod or two. Mostly one. Ours are better than last year but not as good as years ago. The Smaller seed will be the order of the day because of the hot temps last week. It did do damage. Rain if heavy might push peas flat time will tell next week. So for us its an 8 on peas better than last years shit show but not our best. Dirty fields are showing up I have cleavers in one corner about 40 acres that is bad. Rest is clean, others have wild oats end to end now.
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Boys some of you new farmers who weren't around in 2002 it froze that year about 5 days earlier and farmers had to deal with the reality of piss all for crops and what was there were feed wheat light shit, white canola light shit and ugly barley and shitty peas. Basically, it was a shit show. Crap insurance measured all your grain and made up a grade factor that they paid later. It was one of the worst years of my farming history. Oh but then the shit show continued in 2003 it didn't rain much, sort of like this year. Oh wait then it got worse it froze again in 2004 and this time harder and a week later. Total shit show. It was a huge area that got hit even down into the USA. Frost is the end of a year with nothing you can do but watch as you hit the train head-on. Dark days in Ag and Ag stab paid and then I paid it back.
Ag more than ever. This year we have a Federal Gov. and Advisory groups who don't get farming and have done nothing on the Shit show file with China, Italy, India or just about all our trading partners. Most farms have lost up to $2.00 a bushel on Canola since its high. We would have made out like bandits with the shit show the USA and China are into with our Canola but no we have to get it in the nuts thanks to Trudeau and his band of fools.
TRUDEAUMUSTGO
Here is the Crop report because its Thursday and the feel-good provincial report will be out that all is good and harvest is underway. Reality why is harvest underway it's because of the crop isn't that good in these places.
I got home on Sunday night from Florida and Monday Sask Day I took a road trip up to the lake. Regina to MooseMountains then north up to Yorkton, then over to Roblin yes it's Manitoba and up to Kamsack then over to Canora and down to the lake. Over to Ituna and home.
It's easy to explain what I saw. One nice and across the road it's like WTF then oh not bad and wow, then really nice whats that guys secrets and no that can't be worse than the others, YEs it can.
Showers, first rain, hail, lighter ground, seeded too deep, too shallow, sprayed late, didn't spray, expensive drill, old hoe drill and its good, or just about anything this year made you a winner or a loser a mile apart.
No rain in the last two weeks is advancing the crop. And causing yield loss.
HRS is in the hard/soft dough stage and if it would have frozen last night we would have had Canada feed. Heavy probably but still they would have graded hard. Watch they will find frozen kernels in this year's sample because they heard it got close in August. Ours isn't as thick as last year but will give it a good run for its money. Leaf disease is helping it move along and last weeks extreme temps and low moisture or no rain in two weeks have moved this crop along fairly fast. Sandridge is changing. Will spray it out next week I'm thinking and then any grain bags we do will be put there. Still, an 8 dressed up as a 9. No one is swathing or desiccating yet in our area. South of the valley will begin next week.
Sandridge
Taken Monday.
Barley is filling nice and has good size heads. Rain could still plump up the kernel as it won't be swath for 10 days. Its a nice crop don't know if it can hit last years but it's nice. 9. Some guys south of valley will be going next week in barley. lots will. But rain might upset the malt cart. Could be up to 2 in places this weekend.
Peas have some aphid problems but it is only on the last pods that came after the rain two weeks ago. Little guys on top that won't produce anything before the bottom pop. So were not spraying let them eat its one pod or two. Mostly one. Ours are better than last year but not as good as years ago. The Smaller seed will be the order of the day because of the hot temps last week. It did do damage. Rain if heavy might push peas flat time will tell next week. So for us its an 8 on peas better than last years shit show but not our best. Dirty fields are showing up I have cleavers in one corner about 40 acres that is bad. Rest is clean, others have wild oats end to end now.
Continued!
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