Friday Crop Report on a Thursday!

[Sheepwheat]

What a wicked cold wind today. Brrrr!

[fjlip]

Who else saw the Stats Can acreage projections?
The biggest changes from 2019 is in Summer fallow acres, way up in 2020.

[Sheepwheat]

I might fallow some wicked oats residue. Flattened with the snow on the fall pasted to the ground, I hate burning. Thinking let the oats volunteer, throw in some hairy vetch, burn it off and seed winter wheat in the fall. I sure wish it was fenced, would be some awesome grazing out there once the oats emerges.

[farmaholic]

Rent the neighbors ProTill, blacken it up by working it three times. Let the sun warm it up(global warming) and seed it to canola. Then punch it through a 60 inch opening on a 25 foot swather, combine at 1.5 mph. And laugh all the way to the bank.

wiseguy sez-so!

[furrowtickler]

i used to get canola in the ground first week of May, but no longer, back to the old school of ways. Now no sooner than May 15, and this year i might push that to May 20. Too damned cold this year, and like others, i dont enjoy seeding twice and spraying for flea beetles 5 times. Later seeded canola crops around here have done better than the early seeded the last few years.

Would have to agree , seen the vast majority of wrecks in this area from before the 10th on average. Probably 90% of the flea beetle issues as well
But that goes hand in hand with frost / slow growing conditions, some areas vastly different
Some have decent luck once in a while but that’ depends a lot on a few certain areas .
Far too much risk involved now in investment for most farms to be rolling the dice.
But as farms get larger it’s the nature of the beast , the dice will always be rolled ... its a high stakes gamble now , real high .

[Sheepwheat]

Remember back in the mid nineties when the rage was early seeded canola, the earlier the better? Remember fall seeded canola? That was when quest came out and it was what? Couple bucks a lb?

They sure proclaimed early canola to be best. And some had some success with fall seeded.

[farmaholic]

I seriously tried fall seeded once, back around the time when we started seeding canola, and we weren't the first around here seeding canola. I didn't see it through the next spring and terminated it.. Had I know what I know now, which is very little, I maybe should have left it and see what it could have done, canola can fill alot of holes but I honestly can't say I remember what kind of plant count I had. Had to seed it at the end of Oct when soil temps were cold cold cold and winter was on the verge of setting in. Now I'm too lazy to try again on 80 acres....don't want to shit around with the drill for that little bit.
Oddly, why do early spring volunteers seem to tolerate a spring frost better than treated early planted canola?

Sounds like an experiment for furrowtickler.

[Sheepwheat]

Yeah they said it was shorter abe branched more. I did leave volunteer one year to harvest. It was too thick, but I had very little into it, and it went about 20. Volunteer is tough for sure.

[furrowtickler]

I seriously tried fall seeded once, back around the time when we started seeding canola, and we weren't the first around here seeding canola. I didn't see it through the next spring and terminated it.. Had I know what I know now, which is very little, I maybe should have left it and see what it could have done, canola can fill alot of holes but I honestly can't say I remember what kind of plant count I had. Had to seed it at the end of Oct when soil temps were cold cold cold and winter was on the verge of setting in. Now I'm too lazy to try again on 80 acres....don't want to shit around with the drill for that little bit.
Oddly, why do early spring volunteers seem to tolerate a spring frost better than treated early planted canola?

Sounds like an experiment for furrowtickler.

Lol I did the same thing back in the late 90’s
Canola came up great in later April .
It was a warm week and it established very well but it had no overnight freezing temps until about the 28th April , it hit a min 8 wiped er out, lesson learned lol.
If it came up and had some light frost every night it may have been fine .
Even tried a temperature release coating . Well it worked , but only because of that early warm spell . Tried early canola for several years and 80% of the time it’s frost / slow growth and flea beetles. So gave up on that as well .
End of the day Mother Nature rules and for us our best canola is always 12-20 May .

[SASKFARMER]

That's hilarious we tried that also back in the 90s.

But the seed was cheap and you could clean your own if I remember. right.

Looked great till one night it got really cold and game over.

[bigzee]

Just reading the DePutter weekly newsletter over coffee, surprising to see summerfallow acres are going to be up 22%? That’s surprising considering price of fert was down, and commodity prices have been going up, except red wheat. Are farmers sick of the high inputs?
Guess that’s a dumb question.
Had a neighbour tell me last winter he was going back to half and half, I don’t think he will.

[furrowtickler]

I think at the time of the report it still looked like mid winter in many areas that had crop out . The expectations were it would not get harvested on time to get a crop in ?

[shtferbrains]

Two nights -6 and-7 forecast here.

Hope it doesn't freeze the new grass and make it turn purple.

Takes about 2 weeks off the grazing before it gets going again.

Hopefully it's hardened off enough as we haven't had many nights it didn't freeze.

One of those years that the weeks just waste away.

[beaverdam]

Just reading the DePutter weekly newsletter over coffee, surprising to see summerfallow acres are going to be up 22%? That’s surprising considering price of fert was down, and commodity prices have been going up, except red wheat. Are farmers sick of the high inputs?
Guess that’s a dumb question.
Had a neighbour tell me last winter he was going back to half and half, I don’t think he will.

Could there be more fallow, because of the cheaper fuel price?

[Sheepwheat]

Regarding summerfallow. Could it possibly be that some farmers are struggling?