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    Friday Crop Report on a Thursday!

    The harvest moves on in our area. We will hit 83% done tonight. South of the valley it's basically done. Rain this week will add up to 1/3 of an inch or higher. Soil building for 2021 is on its way because the gas tank was empty. Spit or showered yesterday every once and a while but the hurricane dried it fast.

    The further north of town I harvest the better the Yields. Kind of fun now harvesting, but That one extra rain or two made a difference.

    So here we go its an easy report.

    HRS is almost all done and the later stuff they are now calling a two because the showers have taken some colour. With the northern crop better the HRS will turn out to be just a little below average for us. South will still be Below by about 20 to 30%. Yes, its no bumper.

    Barley is all harvested except a few fields, early went malt. Yields are down across the board by about the same as wheat.

    Oats harvest is done and one complaint was lighter oats. Yields down.

    Flax is mostly done and yields are down.

    Peas and lentil harvest was done a long time ago and yields were just about normal for our area on the early stuff.

    Canola is the crop that isn't living up to its end of the expensive bargain. The seed is too costly and when you don't get rain you don't get the big bushels to cover the costs. Yea it made something but the bin buster it isn't. Again south the further I went the worse the yields as you move north the better. So yes Canola will be lower production in 2020. Funny the Crop advisors from Manitoba are saying the same. Just good old Sask cant figure it out.

    Basically I called it an average at best Provincialy wide before harvest. Some small areas had very good results. But big hitter areas for Wheat and Canola were either very little rain or to much rain and flooded out the land.

    2021 We need some more gas for the tank or Zero people will be talking about a bumper in 2021.

    Have a great day I might be done before thanksgiving. Nah mother nature will not allow that.

    #2
    HRS is almost all done and the later stuff they are now calling a two because the showers have taken some colour.

    Interesting ....is that what we are getting from the R&D spending from our checkoffs....

    I know I shouldn't ask this but didn't the older varieties hold their color longer....

    Its not much of a hit from a 1cwrs to a 2cwrs but the question remains.... is that new variety characteristics acceptable?
    Last edited by bucket; Oct 1, 2020, 06:44.

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      #3
      I sent samples away and we have enough so mixing will happen easily. The art of the deal will happen.

      Yes, we can now get wheat to go to 100 but you lose protein first even with enough nutrients. Get 65 and its great.

      Oh supporting Trudeau this week drying grain is a luxury in Canada you know.

      **** YOU OTTAWA.

      Oh and BOBOO is the worst Ag minister Canada has ever had.

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        #4
        No comment about the provincial election.....what the hell, Saskfarmer?

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          #5
          Originally posted by bucket View Post
          HRS is almost all done and the later stuff they are now calling a two because the showers have taken some colour.

          Interesting ....is that what we are getting from the R&D spending from our checkoffs....

          I know I shouldn't ask this but didn't the older varieties hold their color longer....

          Its not much of a hit from a 1cwrs to a 2cwrs but the question remains.... is that new variety characteristics acceptable?
          Someone else can comment , but isnt color not a factor from a 1 to a 2?

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            #6
            Originally posted by bucket View Post
            HRS is almost all done and the later stuff they are now calling a two because the showers have taken some colour.

            Interesting ....is that what we are getting from the R&D spending from our checkoffs....

            I know I shouldn't ask this but didn't the older varieties hold their color longer....

            Its not much of a hit from a 1cwrs to a 2cwrs but the question remains.... is that new variety characteristics acceptable?
            Colour wasn't supposed to be a grading factor anymore, at least that's what I thought they said a while back, but they will use any excuse possible to get that grain cheap. When they sell it and load it on ships the grading is over, its all #1.

            Crooks.

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              #7
              We wrapped up last night. 6 weeks from start to finish. Lots of showers in between but managed to finish in Sept. Canola average, peas wtf happened, and wheat was all-time high.

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                #8
                most done just a few neighbor's who had green canola at frost time.
                Yields varied every mile with the rain showers.
                Yields were good enough considering the rain amount.
                Some not so lucky..
                A few neighbors will have a tuff winter.

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                  #9
                  Oh yea ‘Moe will win but really what do Saskatchewan people have for a opposition. A guy who wants to tax me when I’m dead. I’ll retire in Alberta. Oh wait that’s what people did under a NDP gov they left Saskatchewan.

                  Wake up NDP call a convention before this leader loses his seat like all the others.

                  Unions don’t win elections any more.

                  Plus why can a candidate who might of won.

                  Ryan your a fool.

                  Rant over we’re fogged in thick fog.

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by SASKFARMER View Post
                    Oh yea ‘Moe will win but really what do Saskatchewan people have for a opposition. A guy who wants to tax me when I’m dead. I’ll retire in Alberta. Oh wait that’s what people did under a NDP gov they left Saskatchewan.

                    Wake up NDP call a convention before this leader loses his seat like all the others.

                    Unions don’t win elections any more.

                    Plus why can a candidate who might of won.

                    Ryan your a fool.

                    Rant over we’re fogged in thick fog.
                    Actually he just promised to come after you and many on here with a wealth tax not on your net worth but on your "wealth". It doesn't take much to control 15 million in assets these days on the farm. Think about it thats 150,000 in extra taxes every year. Thank God he hasn't got a hope in hell of ever winning.

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                      #11
                      I can finally make a harvest report from the coldest wettest location on the prairies. Started harvest 2 days ago on CPS wheat. Tried some samples in the low 20% moisture and straw green enough to make silage a few days ago, but changing fast found some in the teens now, and can't wring water out of the straw now.

                      Yield is very good, potential was for more, except heads are short due to all excess rain, later volunteers have much longer heads, especially in the barley.

                      Wheat at this point is more than 80% standing, for the first time in... ever. Barley still mostly standing except one quarter of Synergy, but it looks like the yield will justify picking it up off the ground. Not looking forward to the rest of the barley, huge areas of drownouts from being saturated for 2 months straight.

                      Drowned out areas, and wheel tracks from spring harvest and seeding, which grew almost nothing in June and July, came back in mid summer, I assumed that was useless, but even those areas are now turning, still no killing frost, so might just get something out of that. In hindsight, could have reseeded the drownouts in July and got a crop. The odds were not in favour of that happening, ever...

                      Canola, ranges from almost nothing in the low spots, to wow inbetween. Green tinge slowly going away in the heaviest areas. Lowest areas now in full flower now that the punishing rains have been gone long enough. Will make for a patchwork to harvest around. Expecting well below average if the low areas are included.
                      Even the late seeded, then badly hailed, then the remains attacked by flea beetles, looks like it will make it.

                      Pastures not growing much now, but still lush green grass to last a while. Alfafla not frozen, so can't pasture hay fields yet. Lots of second cut in the area, with good yields, and good weather for it.
                      Edit, I was going to post a picture of cows in tall green grass taken 2 days ago, but out of respect for Farmaholic's blood pressure, I will refrain.
                      Last edited by AlbertaFarmer5; Oct 1, 2020, 09:21.

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                        #12
                        Lots of crop to go in our area I had to take a semi for repairs. Click image for larger version

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                          #13
                          Originally posted by caseih View Post
                          Someone else can comment , but isnt color not a factor from a 1 to a 2?
                          Going to depend what he means by colour.

                          Bleached isn’t a grading factor. They won’t (or shouldn’t) downgrade for that.

                          Piebald is as that reflects low HVK. Seeing it here because the rain drove the protein down.

                          If you look at your beautiful wheat and it’s full of piebald, be prepared for low protein. Now that doesn’t mean all low pro is piebald, but if it’s piebald it’s protein isn’t going to be great.

                          On the plus side, low HVK can only downgrade you from a 1 to a 2. There is no minimum after that.

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                            #14
                            Price difference is pennies.


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                            Rolling after fog lifted

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                              #15
                              Keeps raining here. Just enough to make it a no go. Yesterday non hailed barley was 16, then it rained. Overnight more rain. Forecast:Sunny. Reality: fog just starting to lift at noon, six degrees. Hazy heavy low October clouds.

                              Lots done, lots left in this area. Shoulda swathed my hailed barley when the forecast was for rain, and it didn’t. Lotsa plump green. Not sure what to do at this point? Wait for a hard frost?

                              Game cams up. Lots of elk, seeing lots in person too. They stayed in the right wmz this year. Moose everywhere. Getting all excited to get after em!

                              Lambs a growing, turkeys growing, chickens close, pigs doing good.

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