Friday Crop Report on a Thursday!

[farmaholic]

3/4 inch in ten minutes or less again. Feel for the folks who swathed all their barley...

Showers going by here today, missed us. It's harvest I don't need rain now. Just want to get this crop off that I'm greatful to have considering how critical things were before the first good rain arrived. And a poorer crop than last year at that.
Perspective..... glad I don't have to give any up to rent, that would be a game changer

[makar]

Last time I combined in August was 1973, 14 on a super 92.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Seldomseen. I think I may have been through your neck of the woods afew times in the past on our way to Jan Lake. I thought it would be kinda neat to grain farm where evergreens grow. Yes or no?

On the positive side, evergreens are less of an invasive weed than poplar trees are. Spread slower.
On the negative side, spruce trees indicate acidic soil, probably too wet.
They provide excellent hiding spots for the deer and moose who eat and trample the crops close by, also good hiding spots for the cougars who eat calves.
They suck up the moisture and nutrients from a wide radius and nearly kill the crop, although not quite as bad as poplars.
They create 100% shade on the north side, and less so on the east and west side, guaranteeing nothing grows, and the ground never dries.

I think it would be neat to grain farm where no trees grow, slowly achieving that goal without moving.

[woodland]

On the positive side, evergreens are less of an invasive weed than poplar trees are. Spread slower.
On the negative side, spruce trees indicate acidic soil, probably too wet.
They provide excellent hiding spots for the deer and moose who eat and trample the crops close by, also good hiding spots for the cougars who eat calves.
They suck up the moisture and nutrients from a wide radius and nearly kill the crop, although not quite as bad as poplars.
They create 100% shade on the north side, and less so on the east and west side, guaranteeing nothing grows, and the ground never dries.

I think it would be neat to grain farm where no trees grow, slowly achieving that goal without moving.

Amen to that brother 😉

The pines here are where the really nasty ground is. Spruce is good ground unless it’s the swamp variety then you got other issues going on. Poplars ............. that’s why they make yellow iron.

[helmsdale]

Started knockin off wheat then she pours !

What a kick in the nutz !

Wheat probally won't make 90 like sf3s !

I need to get one of those 120' D****r headers to put on the front of my itty bitty 1660 so I can run it through a low spot to get a feel for a 90bu crop!

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Amen to that brother 😉

The pines here are where the really nasty ground is. Spruce is good ground unless it’s the swamp variety then you got other issues going on. Poplars ............. that’s why they make yellow iron.

There are a grand total of 2 naturally occurring pine trees on this entire farm. Go a couple miles south of here, and it is all sand and pine trees, I'll keep the spruce rather than deal with sand.

The yellow iron seems to be the only solution to poplars, but the application cost sure is expensive per acre.

[helmsdale]

I need to get one of those 120' D****r headers to put on the front of my itty bitty 1660 so I can run it through a low spot to get a feel for a 90bu crop!

Honest to God... even agriville is telling me to stick with my auger header!

I'll guess the most vulgar word of all, Discer, still isnt blocked.

[woodland]

Neighbor combined some barley that was supposed to be malt. Anybody know a market for 42 lb barley?

When the snow flies “lite” calves will upgrade it nicely. Anything not pretty gets “marketed” through them here.

[woodland]

There are a grand total of 2 naturally occurring pine trees on this entire farm. Go a couple miles south of here, and it is all sand and pine trees, I'll keep the spruce rather than deal with sand.

The yellow iron seems to be the only solution to poplars, but the application cost sure is expensive per acre.

At least that application is “organic”. No chemical resistance issues to worry about. Same with the breaking disc that follows. After about 4 years it starts resembling a “field” ................... kinda

[farmaholic]

Heavy fog socked in this morning. It will be a late start now, yesterday's rains slipped past but we're paying for it this morning.

[SASKFARMER]

Few in the canola industry are starting to wake up and realize the crop is dropping in yield. Top pods are small or gone.

But what do I know I just farm.

Richard what do you know?

[6V53]

I wouldn't turn my back if I got out of the combine. Who knows whats lurking in that treeline.

Changing a sickle section while the bull moose you just woke up is standing a 100 yards away watching you is bad enough.

[SASKFARMER]

Sitting stuck on opening Round in a Beaver trench. They sit and laugh at you then wait till night and take your canola swaths. Dekalbs new liberty variety isn’t that bad this year. Not like last years shit show liberty variety.

[Richard5]

Few in the canola industry are starting to wake up and realize the crop is dropping in yield. Top pods are small or gone.

But what do I know I just farm.

Richard what do you know?

I agree with many of the things you state.

Trudeau was not a good choice for Canada but obviously enough Liberal’s chose him for the leader of their party. I feel Conservatives would have won last time if Sheer wouldn’t have stooped so low in trying to undercut everyone else. Trump is doing to same now. Why can’t they just actual mature and responsible.

As far as crops, no its not there like many in the media state. We can’t change that because it spreads like a wildfire. The younger generation are also quick to post and brag their yield monitor and grain cart yields on whatever medium they can instal an app on their phone. Too me, yield monitors, grain cart scales are just joys. What matters is net weight and grade next summer when hauled in.

Everyone takes what they can from farmers but we are only hurting ourselves by constantly entertaining it with new equipment, driving up land prices and rent. Always the desire for more. I think we all could do more output with a less acres and have more time for family (as you often state). But this would not be fun at the crop production show or ag in motion.

My accountant always says their benchmarking project consistently shows farm 1800-3000 are much more consistently profitable than large acres. On the flip side he tells me 2 10,000+ acre farms very close together had financial stmt earnings of under 300,000 and the other 1.6 million in 2019. Its all management and some don’t have the talent. Its the same in every business besides farming. This will always be the same in the future.

You will probably ignore everything i said except the following. You highlight a number of issues that i don’t have a solution for other than i can still show a profit and provide a good living because i adapt as much as i can to what is thrown at me. It just never ceases to amaze me how much you come across as a constant complainer and then show off all the things you have and do. Life cannot have been that bad for you to get to where you appear to be.

[farming101]

Sitting stuck on opening Round in a Beaver trench. They sit and laugh at you then wait till night and take your canola swaths. Dekalbs new liberty variety isn’t that bad this year. Not like last years shit show liberty variety.

The beavers here don't wait till it's swathed. Rip it out of the ground. Pile of canola in the slough. I don't know.....then they fell a great big tree out into the crop and don't do anything with it