Friday Crop Report on a Thursday!

[Sheepwheat]

Today at the farm we were still cooler than most it’s weird.

We were 29 with 60 plus humidity.

[helmsdale]

We were 29 with 60 plus humidity.

103.3°f (39.6°c), 19% humidity, and 30mph(50km) winds. It was impressively oppressive!

Trying to work outside in this shit, and I made it till 3pm before I couldn't do it anymore.

Sure glad I haven't contracted any new crop yet... Theres going to be some very expensive buyouts coming up

[SASKFARMER]

Grain markets are set up to protect the grain companies. Doing an 8 dollar pea contract or 9 and buying it out in the fall for 10 isn't fun.

I got hailed out once on all our peas and the market went up because of dry conditions elsewhere. No one wanted to fill 8 peas so I had to pay up. Not fun.

16 Canola back to 24 won't be fun.

7 wheat to 9 won't be fun.

Will be costly for some. But that's how the system goes.

[furrowtickler]

We were 29 with 60 plus humidity.

You are in an extremely lucky small area

[twocentsworth]

[QUOTE=SASKFARMER;500084]H A P P Y C A N A D A D A Y!


Every country has a past but it's the future that we create. So let's learn from our mistakes and celebrate our great country Canada. Happy Canada Day!

If only everyone had the sensibility as yourself. Your posts are ones I always make sure to read.
Weekly crop reports an asset to this site. Now if we could just get Farmaholic's inputs back on here.

[Sheepwheat]

You are in an extremely lucky small area

We suffer through the wet years with zero crop or single digit yields of wet grain that needs drying, crops left out for winter, broken combines and tractors from pulling them out one too many times. Denitrification, leaching, soli basically dies for a few years after multiple years of saturation. Gets a weird swampy, anaerobic odor to it, it’s disgusting; while everyone else gets a great crop. Everyone gets their turn I suppose. We still need a rain, but the high humidity and lower temps tells me that it’s not nearly so critical as most places. Like this morning it is 90%. Absolutely soaking wet. It’s not comfortable. Sweating as I type and it’s only 18 degrees. And no wind, makes it just dreadful. Theoretically supposed to be 34 today. We shall see. No forecast high has been hit yet. Will be a basement day for sure.

I will give you an example of what even I found crazy and strange. I seeded new hay a couple weeks ago. We got six tenths of rain on that field on Saturday night. Yesterday morning there were still small areas where the soil had not yet greyed off. Moisture to the surface. I literally got out of the truck to touch the soil because I thought, “no way”! After five days of relatively warm weather. That speaks volumes. Needless to say that alfalfa is well germed and looking pretty good so far.

And yes, the area is extremely small as I’ve said before. You literally could drive through this area and not get through an average country song, and leave us behind.

We shall see. If we get through the next couple days, showers are forecast and much cooler temps are in store.

[furrowtickler]

Let me refrase....
you are in an extremely lucky small area this year 👍

[chuckChuck]

This map tells part of the story of this years crop prospects.

[Sheepwheat]

Let me refrase....
you are in an extremely lucky small area this year 👍

lol. Ain’t out of the woods yet, big crops need piles of water.

[SASKFARMER]

Nice map chuck yes that area looks ok but canola and anything above 28 C doesn't make seeds. Have a great day. Normal hot dry summer nothing new we had it in the 80s the 60s and 30s .

Were in another cycle not one i like but were in one.