Time for another rain thread....

[farmaholic]

Where abouts

[sawfly1]

Pretty well everyday , we get a shot, some excess moisture problems showing up.
Seen some pretty sick lentils, most peas are great but others the low spots are getting yellow
And shorter.
I have some super light land with water leaching all the nutrients out . Water and salt coming out of the ground and drowning out pretty big patches. On Decent land ,Wheat and Canola look great.
There has to be worse around ,we are at about 6 total including the first 3, west and south of Unity had 4-5-6 in the first shot.

[woodland]

I chuckle to myself, doesn't seem to matter from what direction rain comes at us. It seems to Peter out before it gets here or slips past or splits. Is there such a thing as a high pressure pocket, not ridge. But it must be pretty small because there's usually rain around us.

Will be looking for a top up soon.

How are the too wet areas doing?

I’m holding your high pressure pocket responsible for not letting my low pressure rain every day or two clouds move on.

Maybe you gotta spice up your rain dance efforts................

Still playing in the mud here.

[Guest]

1/2" in town today

[FarmJunkie]

Sorry for delay Farma. Mb/Sask border east of Pelly

[seldomseen]

I just find our quality of life is less with this never ending rain! Mosquitoes on you all the time, always wet feet, pooled up water sits in the sun and starts to stink,humility that make you drag your feet when its 20 degrees and always behind in your work! Always enjoyed the few dry hot summers i have experienced.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

I just find our quality of life is less with this never ending rain! Mosquitoes on you all the time, always wet feet, pooled up water sits in the sun and starts to stink,humility that make you drag your feet when its 20 degrees and always behind in your work! Always enjoyed the few dry hot summers i have experienced.

That is not one of he typical side effects of humility.
I notice that I have the same problems whenever the humidity is high, and no one has ever accused me of possessing humility.

[SASKFARMER]

We had a few brew up and not much then as I went to get the last three queartes adjusted for hail it comes down hard for a few minutes. 2/10 and were good. The dry area on top of the valley missed it again. Funny how storms continue the same path.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Out of the last 83 days, the official EC record indicates that there have been 3 without rain, and on one of those days, we had over an inch. So I think I qualify to answer the question of how the wet areas are doing.

And after travelling from here (far west of Red Deer) to NE Alberta ( North of St. Paul), we have it good compared to some areas. I assume I went close to AJL's neighborhood? We saw what looked like still unharvested crops ( still some of that in our area too), fields were it was hard to tell if it was seeded, or volunteers, canola fields with half completely drowned out, and the rest varying degrees of drowned out. standing water, ruts etc. Then pockets of decent. Wheat was better, other crops all over the map. Crops looked good around Red Deer, then got progressively worse going north, with the worst being NE of Edmonton. Came home straight south of St Paul into what I would consider drier areas east of Camrose etc, where excess rain is rarely a problem, but there were drownouts all over. Went west as far as Camrose, then south on 21, then west again through Lacombe and kept going west towards home.

I haven't been farther south than Olds, and nothing east of there, but the water damage from here and south is very bad. A few people have commented that the water table seems to be higher than anyone can remember, causing drownouts where no one can remember. Some years they can recover, this year the rain has been so continuous that they have just given up.

If my travels are any indication, I would say the moisture situation probably isn't a market mover. I think the drier areas, in spite of some drownouts are going to be enough above average to make up for the wetter areas that are nearly a write off. And in the traditionally wet areas such as ours, this isn't unexpected.

As for my own, the wheat looks as best it ever has, very little drownouts. Canola is probably the worst I've ever grown, from compaction, excess water, compaction, too much straw, compaction, flea beetles, compaction, hail, seeded late and in some of it in the rain, and did I mention compaction. Barley is really uneven with every combine track (spring thresh) being pitiful short and yellow, but for such a wet year, it is better than expected, probably better than the canola, and usually it is the other way around, where the canola will recover once it dries out, but the barley never does. Hay looks very good, but impossible to dry, so haven't even started.

On a postive note, the few Faba beans I have seen look phenomenal.

[jazz]

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