Friday Crop Report on a Thursday!

[Sheepwheat]

Got to a whopping plus seven today. Can skidoo anywhere I wish.

[seldomseen]

Warmest day of the year at +7 but that is still below normal. Same as Sheepwheat can snowmobile anywhere and no chance anyone would ever combine.

[fjlip]

YES this a crazy HUGE difference in snow pack! Total white here and SF# combining dry wheat, WTF? you are truly blessed not to have this COLD white SHIT all over! Thank somebody you are where you are!

[SASKFARMER]

Yes I do give thanks for the great weather.

Did get sticky on the clay late today.

[beaverdam]

SASKFARMER, goodluck and keep at 'er. We finished our direct cut harvest during the last half of Mar while it was still frozen. Guys with swathes had to wait till now to get going, the cold nights this week were a blessing for them as when the frost comes out, we'd be knee deep in mud again, like last fall. Great winds this week too. Bonus is to harvest on frozen ground, saves filling in miles of ruts before planting.

[SASKFARMER]

I agree this week's cold weather is what we were looking for. It did try to rain at 8:30 last night when we quit.

Will go today and that will be five in a row. Something 2019 never gave us at all.

Canola I think the same well take in End of April when ground firms but that will be the crew not the guys seeding.

[bucket]

If someone would have told me my dry 5cwad in the spring would be worth more than a wet 2cwad last August and september ....I could have saved myself a lot of grief worrying and trying to get a wet crop off last fall...

And it sure would be nice to be made whole like the average workers CERB and someone pay me for the 5 bpa I can't get picked up or lost to the weather that is out of my control.

[GDR]

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.o

Really? You think you still are gradeable? That would be good, I'm hoping we can even make feed specs here, have my doubts.

[fjlip]

Really? You think you still are gradeable? That would be good, I'm hoping we can even make feed specs here, have my doubts.

They will find ONE rotten mouldy black kernel, sample account of Corona.....offer $2...or dump in a slough.

The canola seed will have too little oil left in it?

[Goodtime]

They will find ONE rotten mouldy black kernel, sample account of Corona.....offer $2...or dump in a slough.

The canola seed will have too little oil left in it?

I was told yesterday that canola samples taken into Richardson have had very good oil content.

[fjlip]

I was told yesterday that canola samples taken into Richardson have had very good oil content.

Then it will look gray, smell off...

[seldomseen]

I guess i don't understand over winter canola because i have never left any out over winter. I just know my whole farming career i was told canola won't survive the winter and it would be just junk in the spring. A few winter back there was some canola left out in the winter and Bunge at Nipawin said they would not buy it. There was some standing canola north of me last winter and i shelled some in the spring and it was just gray dust! That field would have had frost damage in the fall so that was likely the reason the sample looked so poor.
Now all i see on twitter is spring thrashed black No 1 canola. Different area different time different conditions i guess.

[Sheepwheat]

I have had to leave crop out enough times now to know that you shouldn't expect much, and if you do have gradable product, count your lucky stars, because in my experience, canola winters terribly. Flax gets light like feathers, canola turns grey and dusty. The only crop I left out that worked half ok was fababeans. I assume cereals will be better. They say canary does ok.

First year I left canola out I was told not to worry, it'll be fine. It was fine all right, fine like pepper. Second time it was the same. Third time it was so bad I burnt most of it, there was nothing there.

So if you get a crop through winter in good shape, count your LUCKY stars!

[Guest]

I guess i don't understand over winter canola because i have never left any out over winter. I just know my whole farming career i was told canola won't survive the winter and it would be just junk in the spring. A few winter back there was some canola left out in the winter and Bunge at Nipawin said they would not buy it. There was some standing canola north of me last winter and i shelled some in the spring and it was just gray dust! That field would have had frost damage in the fall so that was likely the reason the sample looked so poor.
Now all i see on twitter is spring thrashed black No 1 canola. Different area different time different conditions i guess.

denis left some out 2 years ago by raspberry hill , got $10.50/bu , hardly lost anything
new varieties maybe ???

[SASKFARMER]

Yea and dry also. So far so it’s good harvest.

Five days in a row that’s better than anything in fall 2019z