Friday Crop Report on a Thursday!

[jazz]

.......WOW. funny how learn to accept our own farm's capabilities. The Ghetto is all I know and is "home". I often wish we had more productive land. No sense comparing if I want to maintain sanity. It is what it is.

Faba beans run 70? Who would have thunk it.

Far as I am concerned we have an amazing crop coming for only 5 inches of rain.

[malleefarmer]

We have a disease down under called “backyarditis”

Common symptoms not believing reports, my crops below average so everyone’s is or Or in some cases my crops a bumper so everybody’s is.

Crops 300kms away can’t be much different than mine.

Peoples yield monitors are incorrect.

Crop scouts don’t know shit from clay or even vice versa

Believing everything on Internet forums and using it as a marketing tool.

Canadians are much more sane and rational than us aussies so it’s a affliction you’ve possibly never heard off.

[SASKFARMER]

The sad part is the one place just went to there clients and it was social distancing and only one person per field.

Flooded means zero to min crop.

Hail min to zero crop.

Drought 1/2 to less crop.

Heat takes yield every day.

One area is a garden and thats what they look at.

Canada has an average crop from Man to Alberta. Real simple just takes a drive and its really easy to see.

[chuckChuck]

We have a disease down under called “backyarditis”

Common symptoms not believing reports, my crops below average so everyone’s is or Or in some cases my crops a bumper so everybody’s is.

Crops 300kms away can’t be much different than mine.

Peoples yield monitors are incorrect.

Crop scouts don’t know shit from clay or even vice versa

Believing everything on Internet forums and using it as a marketing tool.

Canadians are much more sane and rational than us aussies so it’s a affliction you’ve possibly never heard off.

Excellent points Mallee. It sounds like you are describing several posters right here on Agriville. LOL
I dont know any farmers who have the time to cover 3 prairie provinces and come up with accurate yield estimates. But the mal contents are always suspicious of experts who do. Yes they make mistakes and are sometimes inaccurate. Most of that is assessed in hindsight. But does anyone really think farmers are going to do a better job of estimating yield? Most of us are not sure of our own yields until it is in the bin.

[LEP]

Sask3 if those are your expected yields you haven't had dry conditions. Get down to 10 or 15 bu then see how your summer goes.

[Hamloc]

Certainly no doubt that luck is the greatest determiner of yield. If you go 5 miles south of me a strip of hail went through that took 50-90% of the crops in the storms path. If you go 12 miles south of me 1 rain storm this year dropped 5.5 inches(140 mm) and washed out the crops and many never recovered. Where I am probably 5-10% of seeded crop area has been drowned out but the rest looks very good. Haying was and is a challenge and we managed to get it rolled up but I am a relatively small operator only 140 acres of hay to do. Now we are gearing up for silage, travelling in the field could prove interesting, only time will tell.

[furrowtickler]

Excellent points Mallee. It sounds like you are describing several posters right here on Agriville. LOL
I dont know any farmers who have the time to cover 3 prairie provinces and come up with accurate yield estimates. But the mal contents are always suspicious of experts who do. Yes they make mistakes and are sometimes inaccurate. Most of that is assessed in hindsight. But does anyone really think farmers are going to do a better job of estimating yield? Most of us are not sure of our own yields until it is in the bin.

Some farmers are not , some could care less and some truly do know way more than many “experts” as far as yield estimates
I have met all three , and I can tell you who are the successful ones ......
Then there are some who know but simply go about their business and run their farms quietly and efficiently.
There is no one size fits all , never will be but that’s ok , keeps farming interesting.
The last thing we need is to be told what to do , how to do it and what we should get ..... not in a free country. All that does is suppress ideas and original thought . Kinda like communism.... no place for that in any environment or free society.

[Sheepwheat]

Faba beans run 70? Who would have thunk it.

Far as I am concerned we have an amazing crop coming for only 5 inches of rain.

Fabas and a hundred aren’t out of the realm.

[Sheepwheat]

I still dream about combining in August. Maybe someday? I’d rather have some heat and dryness to push the crop along than fight with it to the bitter end and harvest wet grain in october. Nothing is remotely even close to dessicate stage here. Like not even close.

[woodland]

Certainly no doubt that luck is the greatest determiner of yield. If you go 5 miles south of me a strip of hail went through that took 50-90% of the crops in the storms path. If you go 12 miles south of me 1 rain storm this year dropped 5.5 inches(140 mm) and washed out the crops and many never recovered. Where I am probably 5-10% of seeded crop area has been drowned out but the rest looks very good. Haying was and is a challenge and we managed to get it rolled up but I am a relatively small operator only 140 acres of hay to do. Now we are gearing up for silage, travelling in the field could prove interesting, only time will tell.

Sometimes your the windshield........... sometimes your the bug.