Frost Damage

[kANOLA]

I farmed in nw sask and I seeded pretty well as soon as I could pull my airdrill through my fairly silty soils. Quite a few years I would start around the 20th of April . I started with canola and often times it would only emerge with the first flush of weeds, around the 5th of may.My reseeding rate was below 5%. My canola wasn’t always pretty in June but come harvest time I felt early seeding worked for our farm.It brought anxious times with the type of weather we are experiencing right now but paid off on the long run.

[furrowtickler]

I farmed in nw sask and I seeded pretty well as soon as I could pull my airdrill through my fairly silty soils. Quite a few years I would start around the 20th of April . I started with canola and often times it would only emerge with the first flush of weeds, around the 5th of may.My reseeding rate was below 5%. My canola wasn’t always pretty in June but come harvest time I felt early seeding worked for our farm.It brought anxious times with the type of weather we are experiencing right now but paid off on the long run.

Agree , but did in that time ever experience over 30 hrs of below zero in a 72 hr period in extreme dry conditions?
Just curious is all , because absolutely no one I know has .
No doubt I know exactly what your talking about but that area always was 2-3 c warmer than outlying areas . It was a consistent good call for that area 👍
-2 if far different than -4 or -5 , and that is the difference 90% of the time from your area to others in area . That and straw cover, topography, lake effect, and soil type . A lot of factors into what made that work , only 20 miles away .
Go from your area to Glaslyn ... completely different worlds with 20 min drive .

[furrowtickler]

Not only temp but length of time of below zero can be vastly different within miles

[furrowtickler]

NB airport can be up at 4c and still below zero here by 7 am .... that’s 6 miles away

[redleaf]

Long shadows and bright sunshine just before sunset after a cold cloudy day do not foretell good things.

[kANOLA]

Furrow I totally agree with you ,there are a lot of different factors that come in to play.It did work for us in our location.

[seldomseen]

Its at 0 already tonight and clear so looks like an all night frost tonight!

[furrowtickler]

Long shadows and bright sunshine just before sunset after a cold cloudy day do not foretell good things.

Hopefully limited damage for all in prone areas
We have had to reseed 2 times in the last 30 years . Both times it turned out good . Excellent ground cover, good weed control after , early variety.
Only once we left a badly damaged field that was very questionable that was a wreck ... weeds for 10 years .
The rest of the time , canola turns out just fine with low , even populations and good weed control.
95% of the time it’s best to leave it alone .
We wait up to 2 weeks after the early guys seed canola , but we are frost prone way more than most here , less than some , that also applies to fall , so as others have said here , some of us have to thread a needle at times .
Some don’t understand that, especially those who don’t physically grow canola
Thank goodness the moisture is there now for most to help the decision, 3 days ago it was not
Canola population that was hit 3 times already still ok as of tonight , still 3-4 plants per sq ft .
hopefully still ok by noon tomorrow. Same in a very big area in NW sask and other canola growing zones .
Good luck , every area different .
More riding on this canola crop than ever with current price and highly inflated expenses now and into fall .

One size never fits all , every situation different.

Longer growing seasons are a farce in most of western Canada .... as evident again right now .
Frost free days determine growing seasons not armchair climatologists .

Cleared off here too , hopefully be ok . After this it looks promising for now .
Still long ways to bin regardless yet .

[sumdumguy]

5 degrees in Regina right now. The satellite shows us under some light cloud cover, then a narrow clearing before a substantial front moving in. Hopefully very slight risk for tonight with a north wind. But tomorrow could be another story.

[Guest]

-3 in the swamp
5 years in a row
Just weather right chuck

[SASKFARMER]

Fu king global warming, climate scam the whole bullshit the liberals spread.

[furrowtickler]

Hopefully it’s not cold long enough to do much damage.
I realize cloud cover overnight helps insulate and keep temps more moderate but it seem like a lot of days during the growing season are cloudy not allowing surface temps to warm up as much.
Is it me or do we get less blue bird days than I remember?

was only -1 here but there is more damage already viable than the last three below zero nights combined here. plants finally got moisture and 80% were dark and frozen stiff at 5 am.
hopefully growing point still ok. just needed to get by one more day and it was still ok.