Friday Crop Report on a Thursday!

[SASKFARMER]

Well, what a fun week. The calender changed months and we go from Heat and bake oven to almost freezing the other night and yesterday we got almost as much rain in one moring afternoon than we did all month of August. Oh well, it's building the gas tank for 2021.

We got to 25% done by Tuesday night before the first showers started to hit. Some are higher than that but now are sitting as caught up and crop just isn't ready.


Ok the HRS is almost all sprayed or will be swath. Some very early results were almost 50% lower yield than normal. It seems the guys who got out first into wheat didn't get the first rain event in time and the head size was already determined. It seems that 5 to 7 days later seeding this year in wheat paid off. Later seeded will be only maybe 10% to 20% less than the last few years. Yes less and again if your shooting for 50 and you get 70 you got a bumper if your shooting for 90 and got 45 its a crash. Fun with numbers.

Grading number 1. Protein is anywhere from 11.9 to 15.9. Harvest has come to a stop on some farms as the wheat isn't ready just yet. few more days.

Oats some has been harvested but most is standing. Yield will be down and lighter with dry conditions in late July till now.

Barley is almost all harvested a few later seeded fields are left. These will be a lower yield this year due to heat in late July/August. The crop sure isn't the same as last few years and will be about 25% lower in yield.

Flax some has been sprayed and not ready yet.

Durum is being swath or taken but not much in our area.

Pea harvest is all but done with yields lower than last few years but still not that bad considering.

Lentils are all but done yields are all over the place but most farms don't grow in our area.

Canola is being swath and some damage did happen to N/S swaths in the wind the other day. We swath on an angle of 115 Deg. Seems to do better but outside rows did get blown a bit. Swath looks not bad but pods are way smaller and seeds are smaller. So yield will be down. Yea heat in August isn't a canola crops friend.

Rest of fields are sprayed and drying down. Looks like all will be ready at the same time.

Early yields are down about 50% due to the heat and dry conditions.

Frost didn't happen yet but it did get to plus 3 the other night at 3 am then clouds came over and back up in 15 min.

Pastures are not having a great year. Bales are getting picked up and straw is now in demand. Our guy is short about 100 bales on a 320-acre field than usual.

So what will September bring? I'm thinking the transition has started into fall and for us, unfortunately, will mean more rain events. Nice windy then rain. Time will tell but for now, were stopped at 25%.

Stay safe and let's get this one in the bin before the snow flys.


Oh believe it or not the Ducks did damage the other day to some Barley in our area. One slough in miles and them little buggers found it. But the geese and ducks segregate and took different rows.

[SASKFARMER]

This came up real fast

[furrowtickler]

Rained / showered 4-5 times yesterday
Barley was close to dry Tuesday.
Cereals already in trouble for down grading
West and south of here there will be light frost damage , crops in general are behind In most areas.
Crops north are still greenish
The heat helped but still most areas here were too far behind from lack of heat units for the first 2/3 of growing season .
There is a big pocket NW of here where the canola in not good at all . Thin , short , laying over and fears of a lot being less than 20 bpa.
No one seems to have an answer, or they are not talking about it .
Scouts are confirming it’s not clubroot, but do say that one RM has the poorest canola in Northern Sask and no one seems to know why
It’s all varieties. There was an early hail storm in that area at bolting but did not cause significant damage .
Blackleg is present in certain varieties.
I wish Saskschafe was still with us , he would give a far better idea of that area .
There is no one else on here from that area , or at least no one active that would have a clue as to what’s going on .
There are a few fields / varieties in this area the same . Short , thin , spindly won’t make 20 bpa.
Other fields right beside will be average to above if not hailed . In some cases it’s the same variety, one field good , the other very poor .... same weather , same everything . It’s strange.

For the most part crops here are good except the hailed areas, some will still be ok to some already bailed up and gone .

Ohhh , and it’s back to rain every 3-4 days , so it’s wait to dry , rush to combine for 12 hrs once dryish before next rain ..... this pattern better change . It will be a wreck if it dont .

[bigzee]

The biggest thing farmers this way are concerned with is combine fires. Everyday you hear of two or three going up in smoke. Lentil straw seems to be the main culprit. We are blowing ours off every three to four hrs, there is so much static and is very dry.
Attended one the other day that was almost out of control. It was feet away from getting in the yard. There were likely 25 water trucks to fight it.
Everyone has been playing Russian roulette combining in these 70k winds. We quit yesterday not taking chances.
Everyone out there take care and be cautious.

[Hamloc]

Certainly agree with Furrow, here in central Alberta we are getting rain showers every 3-4 days.
Had 4 neighbours combining some barley in the last few days. 2 were running it through the dryer, one was straight cutting barley that was pre harvested and it was dry. Hoping to try mine tomorrow if we can get by without a shower tonight.

Peas are being harvested in the area, a couple of the local Hutterite colonies were combining peas in the last 5 days. Mine will hopefully be ready next week, standing about 5 inches tall so going to be lots of fun lol.

Wheat is slowly ripening. Pre harvesting has begun in earnest in the last week, although still some wheat with a very greenish tinge. I have only pre harvested 10% of my wheat, that will be today’s project, hopefully can get a few quarters done. Cold is forecast for Monday night, keeping my fingers crossed.

Lots of canola being swathed now. Canola looks good and is turning quickly. Canola and wheat in our area look very good but a frost would do major damage.

Cattle pastures still doing good in our area. Good luck to all in the next week.

[bucket]

For such a monster crop predicted it sure would be nice to know why a 40000 tonne elevator sits plugged for over a week....

[bigzee]

Have been hearing 90 booshel durum north of MJ.

[Sheepwheat]

A few barley fields combined around here. One field of peas done. Canola getting swathed. Wheat a ways yet. Rain every few days is tiring, even if it’s typical. No real fear of combine fires here. Crops are pretty tremendous outside my hail zone. Bumpers.

Was a really good growing season aside from hail, and a few relatively small drown out spots. Sure could have used more heat though as usual to push things along. For our area, this is pretty early as in crops are more advanced than usual which is bizarre considering the lack of heat. When Regina was 36, we were 24.

There are going to be some real big yield numbers out of this area barring frost or more hail.

Pastures and hay land is lush and thick and green like June. Hay yields were tremendous, if we had the season length for a second cut, they would have been smashing as the regrowth was bigger than the first cut growth. Lake levels and slough levels rose over the summer, which is too bad, as long ago land lost to flooding that looked like I could regain, is still lost. Cormorants still swim where I once seeded crops in places.

Monday frost would be pretty hard on wheat and canola for sure. Guys are cutting canola quite green.

[Partners]

Bly done.
Yield excellent with synergy.
All accepted for malt.
Canola down 2 weeks on sat so when it dries up that will be next to go.
Wht was 21.7 before rain so it will be last again this yr..
Dry yr so every day mattered this spring.
Late canola almost no pods..
Oh well let's hope we can get it off before it gets real cold.
2.5 here last night.

[Sheepwheat]

Bly done.
Yield excellent with synergy.
All accepted for malt.
Canola down 2 weeks on sat so when it dries up that will be next to go.
Wht was 21.7 before rain so it will be last again this yr..
Dry yr so every day mattered this spring.
Late canola almost no pods..
Oh well let's hope we can get it off before it gets real cold.
2.5 here last night.

30 miles. Night and day. Late canola, barley, oats, noticeably better over here in Scotland.

[jazz]

Lentils are off and ran about 30, thats down from 35 last yr. I used no fungicide this yr so some yeild likely left on the table.

Some durum off now too, running 65ish. Dont know how that happened, last yr was 55 and we only got 5 inches of rain this yr. A lot of moisture drained from the soil bank. But seeded into lentil stubble and I used some top dress hormone so that might have made a difference.

Canola seems all over the map. Some very good early stuff, some got a touch of heat blast and some got a month of it.

[SASKFARMER]

Sprayed the last of our spring wheat It should be drying down by Monday night enough to escape the killing frost. All other crops are past frost damage. Yes I said spray because in northern areas this is the difference between a feed wheat and a number two or better. Even fields.

Total rain was a 1/2 in.