Crop tour 2021 just one farmer with his 2 sons who farm.

[jazz]

I think even you will be amazed at how shitty the crops are out west.

Our canola production is centered along the yellowhead hwy and a corridor in central AB. A tour needs to go deeply into those areas to reflect the true numbers.

From personal travel the southern AB corridor looks fairly decimated, but NE sask could have a surprise for us. More spring rains and slightly coolers temps coming into that area now. Most of the northern belt will get a 5 deg reprieve coming up.

[bucket]

Sorry jazz , I should have been more specific...by west on Saskfarmers crop tour I mean west of Moose Jaw

[SASKFARMER]

Wynyard east poor.

Wadena south not great

Wadena to Kelvington good.

Kelvington has some of the nicest barley and canola I have seen. Later full bloom but we have heat coming and one hood thing thick smoke.


Looking at notes from yesterday.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Wynyard east poor.

Wadena south not great

Wadena to Kelvington good.

Kelvington has some of the nicest barley and canola I have seen. Later full bloom but we have heat coming and one hood thing thick smoke.


Looking at notes from yesterday.

I have a request, if you are willing.
Would it be possible to draw your route out on a map or piece of paper and post that.
For those of us who don't know every small town name in all of Saskatchewan.

[Sheepwheat]

Wynyard east poor.

Wadena south not great

Wadena to Kelvington good.

Kelvington has some of the nicest barley and canola I have seen. Later full bloom but we have heat coming and one hood thing thick smoke.


Looking at notes from yesterday.

I’m in that zone. A couple comments. Did you walk much? Did you go off highway? Did you talk to anyone?

Because from the road things can look good enough. And there is great variation from one mile to the next. If you talked to guys in this area, you would hear the comments,

“it’s been going downhill from what it was.
I’m not sure it will fill.
my used to be, Uber cabbaged canola and lush barley is seriously thinning out.
I have some awesome looking crops, and some near write offs.”

There is a canola crop right on the north side of Wadena you would have driven past that looked awesome at pre bolt. It was thick and leafy. After the heat and no rain, it bloomed for a scant two weeks and is sparse. You may not notice unless you got out and walked into it, and especially if you weren’t watching it all year. Same with my barley in the other thread. It was beautiful at beards poking time. Since then it has gone downhill fast.

It’s so bizarre how plants literally shrink.

[sumdumguy]

Storms around Weyburn right now. Bucket, you down there?

[bucket]

Storms around Weyburn right now. Bucket, you down there?

No ...

[sumdumguy]

My mistake, sorry

[SASKFARMER]

I agree and yes you can see the difference in a couple weeks from when I picked up a trailer at wadena to today.

Sweet spot in flats buy the dam towards Nipawin buy star city shocked the shit out of me fields of oats brown and shrinking and canola is shit. Kinistino had a few spots later seeded then on to PA over to shellbrook then south to battleford not nice as you go south but from Borden to Saskatoon it’s ducked.

I’ll draw a map tomorrow. East side sask has a few sweet spots but nothing outstanding like 70 plus oats was nice close to the dam (squaw rapids)







Last photo is lampman by ag in motion

Won’t harvest

[fjlip]

Wynyard east poor.

Wadena south not great

Wadena to Kelvington good.

Kelvington has some of the nicest barley and canola I have seen. Later full bloom but we have heat coming and one hood thing thick smoke.


Looking at notes from yesterday.

I thought so, thanks.