Friday Crop Report on a Thursday!

[sawfly1]

Canola seed salesman lady came to look at canola today, that forced me to walk into the crop.
The best fields 2 weeks ago are now the poorest. Thinner the better and latter the better now.
Not enough moisture down there for everybody. 2.7 inches this year. She mentioned some
Yield numbers , Ha Ha , spindly knee high canola with 6 pods coming out of flower . Will not have a 4 or a 3 as the first number in the yield, lucky to be a 2 And that is with a rain in a week.

[makar]

Best land good bto canola pods inch long, fat lady getting dressed.

[beaverdam]

Drove past some early planted canola fields today,,, they didn't beat the heat!
Bloomed two weeks, the second week which was 32-38'C
It'll be lucky to make 15.
If it doesn't cool down or rain,,, the later planted will make even less.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

A while ago I mentioned a volunteer canola plant that is growing in the yard. Lots of water by the eave of a building. Plant looks great and healthy. Started flowering not long before the big heat hit. I checked the main stem, and so far out of the first 35 potential pods, 33 are blank, from there up it improves quite a lot, and the secondary branches are doing better. Must have been formed after the heat let up. Never been short of water or nutrients.

Canola in the fields ( my own at least), was just bolting towards the end of the heat, so I haven't checked what effect it had yet.

[SASKFARMER]

Well, we got skunked again on rain today. Nothing at all. Built-up west and south of valley from us it was moving North east then stopped and moved back west.

[furrowtickler]

Canola seed salesman lady came to look at canola today, that forced me to walk into the crop.
The best fields 2 weeks ago are now the poorest. Thinner the better and latter the better now.
Not enough moisture down there for everybody. 2.7 inches this year. She mentioned some
Yield numbers , Ha Ha , spindly knee high canola with 6 pods coming out of flower . Will not have a 4 or a 3 as the first number in the yield, lucky to be a 2 And that is with a rain in a week.

Unfortunately you will be very correct

[Old Cowzilla]

Didn't look at canola today had to repair tire on mixing wagon picked up a deer horn in pasture. Day before put a stone through the back window with discbine. Hay crop isn't thick enough to stop the covers from flipping forward. Saving money on twine this year but spending a little more on glass

[beaverdam]

Missed the rain here too.
Usually in our area, cells from SW to NE, or sometimes just straight east,,, changed up on us tonight and decided to move from NW to SE, very different.

[biglentil]

1 cwad finally $10 unfortunately the bins are rattlin in the wind and the durum is starting to go backwards.

[woodland]

Ma Nature is definitely doing her part in destroying the “supply” part of the equation here.

Average looking barley for us.

A foot or so tall and half is dying like the left and our not so ugly stuff on the right has beards just coming out. Sure glad I didn’t presell any as now I will probably be buying just for our own use this winter.



Well our late seeded canola finally germinated and looks great until you realize it’s July and not early June. I wonder what stage it’ll be when it’s time card gets punched one day………

Hauled some cows onto a quarter of grass we haven’t touched yet and they better eat it before it dies and the hoppers get it. They really showed up with the heat now. Probably got grass till the end of the month unless the taps turn on.



Darn four picture rule……..

[woodland]

The only thing enjoying the heat has been the corn but it’s nearing its limit as well. It was wilting, turning blue, and rolling it’s leaves like onion stalks last week. Looks better after a half inch the other day and a couple cooler days.


Sure glad we upped the acres of corn as it seems to be the only thing that’s doing somewhat ok in these nasty conditions. At least the critters are all doing good considering the heat. My cousin lost two water wells in two weeks. Not sure if it’s from the drought or the coal mine but it sure messes things up in hurry.

The breeding heifers were happy the other night when I moved them to fresh grass and dropped off the bulls. Not sure if I’m certified insane to be breeding so many in these conditions but I’ll know for sure next year. Guess we like it since it sure ain’t being done for the money this year.

Definitely glad for crop insurance since it’ll hopefully allow us to play again next year………………….🍀

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Definitely glad for crop insurance since it’ll hopefully allow us to play again next year………………….🍀

Are you able to insure the corn for grazing too? Did you have the crystal ball polished up well enough to insure the hay and pasture too?