Friday Crop Report on a Thursday!

[Sheepwheat]

Never smelt it but it would be hard to beat a fresh cut field of alfalfa. Hope to enjoy that scent soon. 🍀

Actually, blooming alfalfa is very similar to blooming faba beans. Started cutting alfalfa today out here. Should be a rain coming now...

[makar]

We have been through that many times but what is really helping is we plant tillage radish on half the garden every every summer and plant that side the following year. Also had a couple tandem loads of sand dumped in there and mixed it in with the clay.

Did the sand thing now infested with chickweed, radish may be interesting, everything I seem to do ends up a earthworm smorg.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Listen to DML on this one. Our customers already think we are trying to kill them, our export customers are looking for any excuse to manipulate the price down, and governments just love to add more regulations.

DON'T GIVE THEM ANY AMMUNITION. It will be used against us.

This is a public forum, anything you post is on the WWW forever, even if you have deleted it. This might be just a landlocked isolated puddle, but we won't get the chance to defend that someone decides to take it out of context.

Same for any off label, first don't do it, second, don't brag about it. Don't even mention preharvest, even though it is on label, our customers truly don't even believe this is being done, or is legal.

And don't shoot the messenger, just because you don't like the message, that is a Chuck tactic, don't lower yourselves to Chuck's level, one Chuck is more than enough on one forum. What dml said needs to be said, no excuse for ridiculing him over it.

[SASKFARMER]

No its time to show what really works on a farm when mother nature gives you shit. The only way to spray is plane or ground. Yes, I went over water its a slough on a flat with 3 inches of water that in a week will be gone no drainage. This is what farmers have to do to feed the people. Anything. Sitting cowardly under a blanket and pretending all is good is a crock of shit.

Its time to fight back.

People by Edmonton out picking canola and putting it in bags on someone's farm or driving through pea fields. This has to stop its time for farmers to fight back before we are no better than Europe where city people can come out have a picnic in your field and you can't do jack shit.

[fjlip]

Often wondered about spraying in the WET rainy areas of the TILED Midwest. Washed into groundwater, down tiles into rivers....all diluted

[Guest]

No its time to show what really works on a farm when mother nature gives you shit. The only way to spray is plane or ground. Yes, I went over water its a slough on a flat with 3 inches of water that in a week will be gone no drainage. This is what farmers have to do to feed the people. Anything. Sitting cowardly under a blanket and pretending all is good is a crock of shit.

Its time to fight back.

People by Edmonton out picking canola and putting it in bags on someone's farm or driving through pea fields. This has to stop its time for farmers to fight back before we are no better than Europe where city people can come out have a picnic in your field and you can't do jack shit.

You're dumber than I thought

[AlbertaFarmer5]

You're dumber than I thought

Prime example of why we shouldn't be posting anything like the above pic, and defence of the practice. We have people such as this with no knowledge of actual farming practices, but an agenda to destroy our industry. I doubt Austranada is the only lurker who ends up on a site like this. He/she now has all the ammunition needed to take the picture out of context and spread it around, then we provided proof of the cavalier attitude some of producers have shown.
Sooner or later we lose the right to apply our own products, or even lose complete use of the products, or have layer upon layer of bureaucracy heaped upon us, plus audits and spot checks with big fines or worse if you can't prove that you didn't do something.

[bucket]

Often wondered about spraying in the WET rainy areas of the TILED Midwest. Washed into groundwater, down tiles into rivers....all diluted

Good question....and what happens when they tile drain for the Qu'appelle South irrigation project and send all the leeched fertilizer into Buffalo Pound....

I doubt too many farmers want the tile drain to cross their land .....so they would have to have an approved drain or exit for the pipes or they put it into the canal....

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Good question....and what happens when they tile drain for the Qu'appelle South irrigation project and send all the leeched fertilizer into Buffalo Pound....

I doubt too many farmers want the tile drain to cross their land .....so they would have to have an approved drain or exit for the pipes or they put it into the canal....

Studies show far lower levels of contaminants in run off from subsurface tiles vs allowinsurface water to drain above grade. Nutrients and chemicals are filtered through the soil on their way to the tile. Less gassing off of nutrients as well due to less saturated soil.

[dmlfarmer]

My post was not an attack on your spraying through a small area of standing water. I am not so naïve as to think this isn't being done. I was simply asking that farmers do not post such pictures of off-label or poor management practices OR WHAT COULD BE CONSTRUED AS SUCH by persons against conventional agriculture.

Preharvest glyphosate is the perfect example. IMHO we will soon lose this product for preharvest weed control because of farmers using it off label as a desiccant. Some farmers have even posted pictures of using it in uneven ripening fields to they can speed harvest. And then they wonder why some buyers are asking if the crop has been preharvested, why importers are testing for glyphosate residues, why chemical companies are spending money to tell farmers not to use it as a dessicant, and why more regulations are continually being added and ultimately cry when we lose the use of such products.

The most effective attacks against animal ag have come from unauthorized pictures and videos taken of illegal or poor practices on isolated farms and all livestock farmers get painted by the same brush. Yet there are crop farmers who willingly take, post and defend such pictures themselves. Unbelieveable!

[Guest]

Prime example of why we shouldn't be posting anything like the above pic, and defence of the practice. We have people such as this with no knowledge of actual farming practices, but an agenda to destroy our industry. I doubt Austranada is the only lurker who ends up on a site like this. He/she now has all the ammunition needed to take the picture out of context and spread it around, then we provided proof of the cavalier attitude some of producers have shown.
Sooner or later we lose the right to apply our own products, or even lose complete use of the products, or have layer upon layer of bureaucracy heaped upon us, plus audits and spot checks with big fines or worse if you can't prove that you didn't do something.

You're dumber than I thought

[SASKFARMER]

I’m finding my later seeded wheat is wringing wet in mornings. Torn if I should spray.

Last year nothing wet like this.

But it’s 2020 so who knows.

[farmaholic]

I’m finding my later seeded wheat is wringing wet in mornings. Torn if I should spray.

Last year nothing wet like this.

But it’s 2020 so who knows.

Where's Hobbyfrmr when you need him?

[SASKFARMER]

Lonely out here wheats not bad

[seldomseen]

I’m finding my later seeded wheat is wringing wet in mornings. Torn if I should spray.

Last year nothing wet like this.

But it’s 2020 so who knows.

Same here. Leafs are clean but always the threat of fuzz. Fuzz doesn't grow when the weather is cold. It just to bad the humidity so high!