Thursday Crop Report on a Friday

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Woodland and AF5, are you guys possibly posting from Ireland? The shades of green in woodland's posts might make one think so. Besides the "luck".....you guys seem to get all the rain.

I should post a picture of a patsure close to home base..... Scary in comparison.

Well, don't use the word Luck, and the word Rain in the same sentence around here this year ( or most years), you are likely to get an earful.

[SASKFARMER]

Nice comments Richard.

What do you bring to the table?

I’m waiting

[GDR]

Well, don't use the word Luck, and the word Rain in the same sentence around here this year ( or most years), you are likely to get an earful.

I hear you but I'm sure hoping for some rain tonight. Forcast low of 0C. I have no crops frost free, there are some in the area getting close but not very many.

We actually turned quite dry in August, haying still wasn't fun because of the humidity and really light showers but the grass and all the shallow rooted crops have suffered the last couple weeks.

[sumdumguy]

Let it rain! All lentils and durum #1 DRY. 31 Gedrees here today again and a blistering SE wind that blew my toupee away. Now calling my friend Jean Chretien to see if he has a spare. 😂 No insults for Jean. Just kidding.

[Guest]

I post from Scotland. Green like June here. Alfalfa and pasture is lush as can be, better than it was in June. And I am WAY closer to you farma, than they are. If there was still time, I would do a second cut and it would yield much better than the first. I am actually concerned that the alfalfa smothers over winter because the regrow is so crazy.

The two albertans are almost exactly like us for climate by what I see them post on here. It helps, because it makes me not feel so alone. The closest posters on here that I know of are. Twenty five, thirty miles away in a straight line, and they are in a different climate zone by about nine.

It is truly bizarre, our little, personal, literally a few square miles here in Scotland. Inch of rain on Thursday night again.

At least they’ve got each other! Lol

Seldomseen and i are about 15 miles apart
Cant believe the difference in climate!

[seldomseen]

Seldomseen and i are about 15 miles apart
Cant believe the difference in climate!

Yes it is different but just think when you step a few steps north across the river how different it is. Sometimes it’s like stepping onto a different planet!

[Sheepwheat]

Where I am, there is simply no physical reason to be a microclimate, it just is the way it is. There is a bit of an elevation change, but not enough to be significant in my view, and if that was the case, our little zone would be much bigger than it is. It’s simply bizarre. Might be more trees an bigger blocks of woods to an extent, but there’s more Bush north and east towards porcupine forest.

I dunno.

[woodland]

Finished first cut today! It’s not even September so that’s a win in my books (yes we’ve done first cut into late September on bad years).

Ironically the last field cut turned out the nicest. Even with being mature lowland grass /slough grass mix it’ll probably be the calving time feed if I don’t decide to sell it. Half even had no rain on it which was the only bales like that. Have to wait till it dries up or freezes to pick the bales though.

Now to start thinking about swathing some barley............. that’ll get the rain gods all fired up again for sure😎

[woodland]

Man o man I wish our part of the country (sw Sask. Maple Creek area) was that green!!!!! If I posted a picture of our pastures you guys would fall off your chair! Glad it is green somewhere.

Just got our pasture moisture deficiency calculation for May and June rainfall and we’re right at 150% of normal. The heat was really lagging until three weeks ago and now it has pushed things along to just behind normal instead of “crazy low”.

After the drought of 2001-5 here I vowed never to complain about rain. The timing of it though sure can make you go crazy though.

How’s the feed situation down that way Galaxie? Mountains of mediocre feed here.