Friday Crop Report on a Thursday!

[SASKFARMER]

Yea you know the fat lady has left the stage when now they pushed the warming up till the last two weeks of November. That ground will be so cold.

It's over.

[TOM4CWB]

Yea you know the fat lady has left the stage when now they pushed the warming up till the last two weeks of November. That ground will be so cold.

It's over.

It is never over until we give up. I can remember harvesting between Christmas and new years!!!

[Guest]

Has snowed here every day since oct 24
Had -16 two nights
8-10” snow , mud underneath from that first wet snow

[SASKFARMER]

Tom, I am not giving up yet. But a friend phoned me today and said maybe head south for a week get a break and come home and try again. Weather looks shitty for next ten days so maybe ill take his advice. White ground is usually a sign she is over or ill fly to Calgary, visit family and go to Red Deer next week for the show.

[seldomseen]

Just a note for Western people. Chinooks winds never come to the Eastern side of the prairies.

Ounce the snow comes in late October it almost never leaves until next April!

[SASKFARMER]

That is so true, once we get snow and it’s November it usually doesn’t go.

[SASKFARMER]

One guy swathing and combining west of us. Way less snow. Giver

[Goodtime]

Thanks to the bitch mother nature I have started the year end oil changes and equipment storage....next spring it is.

[Hopalong]

Hard to get a handle on how much crop is still out across prairies, own guess would be 10% or less.
Sympathy for those affected but markets seem to have shrugged it off.

[GDR]

Nice half inch of rain here last night, did melt the snow but is pretty greasy out there now. Lots of crop left out here.

[makar]

It is never over until we give up. I can remember harvesting between Christmas and new years!!!

This is nothing like those years, it is not good ripe crops can't go due to wet ground which was mostly dry if you could get it then ground froze and you rolled, what do I know, this is my 50th harvest.

[SASKFARMER]

Well Tom we don’t give up till it’s over but being a realist we start putting shit away. Started with Kelly, harrows, stone picker, sprayer, gravel equipment, cultivator, drills, farm trucks, sc****rs, backhoe,.

Now the swathers, combines and semis and dryer were waiting.

But in three weeks if we get no movement were done for 2019.



Fiits real nice so can thaw sieves.


Ah farming that fat lady is clearing her throat.


Off to red deer. Storm on way Tuesday still snow.

[fjlip]

Farmer priorities...

[TOM4CWB]

Well Tom we don’t give up till it’s over but being a realist we start putting shit away. Started with Kelly, harrows, stone picker, sprayer, gravel equipment, cultivator, drills, farm trucks, sc****rs, backhoe,.

Now the swathers, combines and semis and dryer were waiting.

But in three weeks if we get no movement were done for 2019.

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Fiits real nice so can thaw sieves.


Ah farming that fat lady is clearing her throat.


Off to red deer. Storm on way Tuesday still snow.

Ahhh... start after midnight... IN THE SNOW COVERED ice canola... in SWATHS... BE SURE IT IS below -10c...[-15 better] go till 6am... bring in combines and pull chaffers to thaw them... to be reaDY for next night ice canola. Dry all day to catch back up on ice 22$ canola. It is amazing how much snow will blow out through combine on a cold night! 3 inches on swaths... straight cut is a walk in the park... as it [the snow] mostly ends up on the ground! Skim soybeans off the top of the snow ...

[Sheepwheat]

I was doing standing oats, avoiding snow like the plague, it was minus 14, and I still was getting too much snow in the hopper.

Maybe today will be better.