SE Sask storms

[AlbertaFarmer5]

FLIP you know that's what's going to happen.

ill predict this next heatwave will break down after the damage is done then it will start raining and be wet and soggy all fall till freeze up.

You just described our 2016. Almost no rain all spring or summer. I had one field of canola that didn't even germinate till mid July. When it finally started raining in later August, and hailing, it never quit. Standing water, saturated fields, areas of crop dying in August from being underwater. Stuck combines, trucks etc. Very short wet harvest window, finished in the spring.

And in spite of almost no rain again in the spring and summer of 17, it was so wet that there were areas of higher ground that didn't dry enough to be passable until into late July. Especially under the hail then rain then snow flattened crops.

[beaverdam]

Once it turns to wet, could rain all harvest...or snow in Sept.

I wouldn't take that to the bank though.

If we are cycling back to "hot drought" like the 80's, this could just be the start of a multi year dry spell.

I started farming in late 70's, and have seen dry hang on and on.

The worst might not have even started yet, remember fighting grasshoppers and blowing dirt???

Down grading due to insect excrement in some crop types.

[beaverdam]

Got some hard rain today, pea to marble size !