Friday Crop Report on a Thursday.

[malleefarmer]

Hopefully the sun wins in the tug o’ war with the clouds. Although the dark side seems to be wining in more ways than one. The thieves struck again here on Sunday night. Smashed a window and the ignition on our ‘95 F150 then took it to the reserve and took out the rest of the windows. They cleaned out about 5-8 grand of tools and even took the toolbox too. Left the tidy tank in it though.


Left in a hurry too. Kinda getting tired of this too.

Is rural theft a big issue there? Sounds like it at times.
Fark we go out leave house unlocked, fuel Unlocked, keys in ignition you name it no drama here.
Closer to indigenous areas problem is like yours, seems ingrained into them really dunno why.

[furrowtickler]

Just heading out to check for hail damage
Storm just went east of here .

[furrowtickler]

Got hit here this evening. Not good.

Sad to see , that jagged hail does a lot of damage .
That canola will most likely try to re flower , never good this time of year .

[furrowtickler]

It came in just after dark but my son got this picture just before it hit us ......


Spooky wall cloud , tons of lightning
Just rain at farm the odd small stone

[SASKFARMER]

I was going to say that hail looks really jagged and will cut anything it hits. Regina storm seemed more like thunder and lightning and rain eventually. Got to the valley and just quit. Could have used one last good rain before the heat. Zero at the farm.

[the big wheel]

Got hit here this evening. Not good.

What area is that if you don’t mind?

[Blaithin]

What area is that if you don’t mind?

Three Hills, Trochu area.

North, North East of Wimborne. Hard to see in the fog this morning but looks like it followed the highway for a few miles.

[jazz]

We had a quick hitter inch of rain here last night in Regina with some pretty good winds but I didnt see any hail.

Anyway, lentils wont like that too much especially that fast but wheat and canola will love it.

The folks in the NW cant seem to catch a break, looks like a write off.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/weather/topstories/many-crops-in-distress-leduc-county-declares-state-of-agricultural-disaster/ar-BB176DmB?ocid=spartan-ntp-feeds 'Many crops in distress:' Leduc County declares state of agricultural disaster

[woodland]

Is rural theft a big issue there? Sounds like it at times.
Fark we go out leave house unlocked, fuel Unlocked, keys in ignition you name it no drama here.
Closer to indigenous areas problem is like yours, seems ingrained into them really dunno why.

Five years ago we were the same as you with not locking a thing. I don’t know how many batteries, how much fuel, tools, two pickups, and a quad they’ve taken in the last five years or so. My brother had his house broken into as well. Being out in the bush at the edge of two RCMP detachments has its drawbacks.

The biggest problem is our catch and release justice system. Usually the cops and us locals occasionally know who’s doing it but nothing happens. I’m not racist and we’ve had white trash caught out here too.

[Hamloc]

Three Hills, Trochu area.

North, North East of Wimborne. Hard to see in the fog this morning but looks like it followed the highway for a few miles.

I was watching that on radar last night, had some purple in it, certainly sad to see Blaithin. I hope it didn’t get too many of your fields.

[woodland]

Got hit here this evening. Not good.

Hail sucks especially when you don’t have coverage for it. 15 years ago I helped some friends cut 1500 acres after golf ball sized hail took 4 bale an acre greenfeed and turned it into a bale an acre of nice straw. Only had moisture deficiency insurance on it so the ironic part was the hail counted as moisture against his insurance.

[Blaithin]

I read the tutorial yesterday so I can actually understand the WMI radar. It wasn’t looking good on that.



But visually it wasn’t any worse than every other storm that’s gone by. Was quite dull looking actually. Fat heifer was sure running 5 minutes after this photo though. She didn’t listen when I said head to shelter 😆