Friday Crop Report on a Thursday!

[bigzee]

Had 3.5 tenths Sat morning so no combining all wk end. Had 160 lentils to finish out of 2000, sure would have been nice to finish them. Oh well could always be worse. Hopefully this rain event somehow dissipates throughout the week.
If not, there’s going to be a lot of feed quality in the system.

[Sheepwheat]

No green? What moisture test?

They live in a different world down there on the open plains. It’s dry you see.

[blackpowder]

Looks like October before any chance here.

[Marusko]

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.

12.6" of rain here since May 1, 14" if you include a pre-seeding April rain that originally I was thankful for, but it pushed seeding back and now look where we are. Preharvest completed in the wheat, squeezed it in before this rain. Peas flat on the ground, maybe half is done in the area but of ours, some is almost harvestable if we could get some nice drying days, and some still not ready for dessicating yet. A guy I know 30mi away said their peas are running 12bu/ac, they farm heavy clay though. I'm expecting 30-40. Lots of 2nd growth in barley around here.

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.

L234PC? We planted some this year, it is leaning hard compared to our L241C. The L234PC is supposed to have "strong" standability, but Invigor rates standability on a scale from "Strong" to "Very Strong" lol. It's not flat on the ground though. Most of our canola that we'll swath was swathed last week. Of the PC variety, we'll swath some and straight cut some, see what the difference is. First year trying straight cut canola.

Rain/showers predicted at the end of the 7-day forecast. We'll be lucky to finish peas and a bit of wheat in Sep.