Friday Crop Report on a Thursday!

[sumdumguy]

If that satellite doesn’t poop out, it’ll be loooong time. We managed to take off a couple hundred acres of durum. Close to 20%. Seeded First week of May 120 days.

[fjlip]

How strange every time we try combine it's two- three warm days from testing DRY! Been that way 75% of my career. Run through dryer but would have been dry in 3 days! Keep chasing the drill and you NEVER get dry!

[Hamloc]

Well a few things have changed over the last while. First started combining peas today. Used reglone to speed up the process. A little over 2 weeks behind last year. Last year we had just under 4 inches of rain on our peas and yielded 62 bushels and a bale and a half per acre. This year we have had almost 11 inches of rain and in the little bit we have done yield appears to be about 10 bushels less per acre but almost 2 bales per acre of straw, go figure.

Lots of barley in the area being swathed and some combined, haven't heard what the yields are but barley looks good. We swathed one little field for seed but looks like it will all be sprouted before we can combine it, fml. Those who can successfully swath cereals must live in a different climate than I.

Pre harvest has begun on wheat but lots of fields still to green. I have done one field but will be waiting a bit before doing any more.

Canola, swathing has begun here and there, some too early imo. Mine looks to be 1 1/2 to 2 weeks away from being ready to swath. Last year we straight cut it all, pod shatter was good but the rest suffered a bit of wind damage. This year it is all invigor pod shatter and interested to see how swathing works. Weather for the next week looks wet, pretty standard for September. Enjoy the week.

[furrowtickler]

Well a few things have changed over the last while. First started combining peas today. Used reglone to speed up the process. A little over 2 weeks behind last year. Last year we had just under 4 inches of rain on our peas and yielded 62 bushels and a bale and a half per acre. This year we have had almost 11 inches of rain and in the little bit we have done yield appears to be about 10 bushels less per acre but almost 2 bales per acre of straw, go figure.

Lots of barley in the area being swathed and some combined, haven't heard what the yields are but barley looks good. We swathed one little field for seed but looks like it will all be sprouted before we can combine it, fml. Those who can successfully swath cereals must live in a different climate than I.

Pre harvest has begun on wheat but lots of fields still to green. I have done one field but will be waiting a bit before doing any more.

Canola, swathing has begun here and there, some too early imo. Mine looks to be 1 1/2 to 2 weeks away from being ready to swath. Last year we straight cut it all, pod shatter was good but the rest suffered a bit of wind damage. This year it is all invigor pod shatter and interested to see how swathing works. Weather for the next week looks wet, pretty standard for September. Enjoy the week.

Pea yields in general were down here this year as well from were they should be
Some 20-40% less .

[SASKFARMER]

Peas in our area are all yielding better than last year on fields that never had peas before or 8-year rule. You can see the difference in the four-year rotation compared to the 8-year rotation.
In four-year rotation fields, areas flooded back four years ago are yielding very well compared to the rest of the field.

I am sold, on the 8-year rule something is going on to cause this difference.

shows up in long term pea growers fields.

[furrowtickler]

Peas in our area are all yielding better than last year on fields that never had peas before or 8-year rule. You can see the difference in the four-year rotation compared to the 8-year rotation.
In four-year rotation fields, areas flooded back four years ago are yielding very well compared to the rest of the field.

I am sold, on the 8-year rule something is going on to cause this difference.

shows up in long term pea growers fields.

Same here, even 6 years shows .

[SASKFARMER]

In our area, there are two of us that have been growing peas for a long time. We noticed it first. Others are now starting to see something is up. Yes, maybe higher moisture areas have something to do with it. But it is a real yield robber.

The 8-year rule works.

I have a line in one field form four to 8-year rule. Difference is night and day.

[SASKFARMER]

Finally Cargill is open on a Sunday in harvest.

Maybe jim will figure it out.

I’m tired of paying for a hospital with someone else’s name on it. Double price for parts.

Trudeau propane gas gas carbon tax on it.

[fjlip]

Wheat 120 days since seeding, still green, soft kernels, hopefully keeps standing!



Lots of barley combined. Majority of canola still to swath, some sprayed but weeks away from combine. JUST TOO COLD all summer, vote for Lieberals if you want it COLDER!

[SASKFARMER]

Sand ridge coming off today should make a 2 seeded May 7 and then first rain mid June. The rest should be better

[fjlip]

No green? What moisture test?

[sumdumguy]

Lentils done and a bit of durum, everything else a week away.

Waking up to no rain - there’s hope for a lot of acres to go. A few of us remember long Indian Summers way past halloween. 👍