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    Friday Crop Report on a Thursday!

    Well, its that time of year again, the silly season, to work your ass off, for piss all, so the fat cats can take it all and leave you with pennies. Prove me wrong!

    Anyway, the week to harvest has not gone as planned but we are making progress and the HRS is coming off yesterdays moisture was 15. Grade looks good except mildew will drop us a grade. Yes, the CGC won't look at samples because they are in lockdown and someone might lick an envelope or god forbid touch the grain. The ground is frozen solid and you slip-slide around but very little to no snow left. Some are going others are choosing to wait till later. We have so much out yet were going every day.

    Few tried canola and it was dry yesterday but the centre of the swath is still frozen in places to the ground.

    I'm so excited about growing a crop this year it's not even funny. HAHAHHAHA

    This virus and spring harvest are taking its toll on farms in our area. Remember only 5 guys north of the valley are actually done. Most have crop out that has to be harvested.

    Will the farmers change their rotation in our area I highly doubt it. We are wet even if the winter had min snow. I love that map. It will be Canola, Peas, HRS, Barley Oats and Flax.

    The odd guy is getting equipment dragged into the yard but most are finishing up cleaning grain or hauling grain to town.

    Now on the political front. I'm tired of listening to the guy from Up north tell us all how to farm and how special he is on CJME. You guys screwed up with the Feds and didn't get shit done now you're going to Boboo and asking for help.

    If anything, having this much crop out has taught me, not one single farm representative in Saskatchewan gives a rats ass about any farm but their own. Not one Politician cares about the farms in Saskatchewan as a whole. So next time an area gets a drought flood or frost. I know I have a real hard time saying this but I'm almost going to say good for them at least it wasn't me like everyone else. Sad really but that is what we have at every single level. I'm not going to but god we have zero people qualified to handle farm issues. Zero, From Boboo on down. Zero.

    Stalin said it best it's real easy to govern when the population is stupid. Well, Trudeau is having a hay day and some wonder why.

    So for our area, we are definitely two weeks away to three from seeding. No were not behind that is a completely insane comment. May 1 for our area is get things going and that this year is a Friday and for people who believe in old wives tales, you never start on a Friday a big job. Monday the third is go Day.

    Take care and be safe and maybe a farm leader will appear, well Jesus was supposed to come back and some are still waiting. It can happen farmers can wake up and realize it's us against the system.

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      #3
      Oh on the positive side. My oldest is home helping as all his overtime and banked hours he is taking now. My youngest is done school since the COVID 19 hit and he was honor roll so he is done also. We have more spring help than at any time before. New generation farmers are fun to work with.

      Oh some might not like the FCC $500,000 instant loan, You still have to qualify so Boboo did you really do anything thing for farmers.

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        #4
        Still full cover snow here except for a bit along grids. Zero melt in nearly 2 weeks .
        Guys north of here with crop out have even more snow .
        A lot can change in the next two weeks but that remains to be seen . Dug our around the air seeder yesterday, hopefully later next week we can move it , the ole girl needs some attention.
        Horsch Planter will be up to shop next after we finish cleaning seed. Then the ole Deere planter for the cowboys to use .
        Most other smaller projects done , plus added a few more we never usually have time for .

        Getting more phone calls from people looking for work . There are a lot of very good people with no jobs looking to work or even just help out for 3 weeks . We are lucky to have all the kids back

        I just hope the markets hold and the grain keeps moving . Getting more worried now about grain terminals and ocean shipping being disrupted .
        The amount of time , effort and money we all are about to put in is a bit nerve wracking looking ahead ...
        hopefully warmer weather ahead , it’s been a long last two weeks .....

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          #5
          target went yesterday for fall yellow peas at $7

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            #6
            Good prices for peas, Ok not 9 but still fall price $7.25 is a good starting price.

            Yes workers are available all over the place and some have excellent skills and please pay them what they are worth. Our kids and family always get paid for work, nothing is free in this world.

            One thing that does scare me is the same as furrow. WTF if the grain has disruptions with round two next fall and winter. Lots of big bills to pay with no grain movement. That is the scariest thing about plant 2020.

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              #7
              And farmers will take the same tack as the conservatives....while they could of asked for more for their western Canadian farmers during the negotiations on the handouts ...they did nothing....

              So farmers will plant a crop without any assurances of at least breaking even and spending farms equity to do it...

              Imagine if farmers just once got together like the airlines and said tough shit we are not planting until things change.....how long do you think it would take for people to wake the phuck up??????


              Dairy farmers are so wealthy from government handouts they can sewer their production...FFS

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                #8
                Yes and milk is now like northern sask 8.99 a hug because they are dumping milk.

                Ag isn’t even on the radar same as oil.

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                  #9
                  Trudeau is going to now help small business with rents. He want to pay mine would be nice

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                    #10
                    Nice to see some crop coming off down south. No field work gonna happen for a while here.

                    Nice to finally get some melting going on and the hills are returning from their icy blanket. We are at about 60 calves and given the nasty conditions it’s going ....... kinda ok. Always seem to lose a few right off the bat due to crazy stuff but this year is higher than normal. Combined with sliding prices and weather it kinda sucks the fun outta it. Seeing prices $500/head off of what we sold for in January is unsettling to say the least. Hopefully things return to “normal” ............. whatever that is.


                    We brought home a surprise from the field the other day. A bred heifer was running around with retained placenta and I figured she aborted but obviously not. Found him 48 hours after we hauled them home and everything was fine. My boy held him in place for the 12 miles just great.

                    Next week they’re calling for “normal” temps which would be nice as it’s been over three weeks of below average here.🤞

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                      #11
                      If the weather holds we should be down to 15 quarters left by tonight. On the road, early few guards need replacing.

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                        #12
                        Bucket I’ve been saying that for years but the Koolaid has been drank and now the lease payments and half a mil lands gotta be paid for so the drones gotta go back to work and row with the rest of the slaves. Farmers never learn. Too many greedy bastards.

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                          #13
                          700 acres done last week by tonight. Funny this is the longest stretch we had on harvest 2019. Last fall it would of rained two days ago. Dry today and slick.

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                            #14
                            Well we can't harvest here yet....actually just started to rain.

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                              #15
                              Can't drive a quad in the field and started raining.

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