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

[SASKFARMER]

Rain from now on is a builder for 2022 and could make seeds that aren’t pepper but more flowers and won’t happen.

After Assinaboia

[SASKFARMER]

[SASKFARMER]

Wife says she wants to visit and explore so off to Manitoba Saturday number one to Winnipeg then north to lake Winnipeg Gimli and Hecla over to riding mountain dauphin then over to Yorkton and home

[furrowtickler]

Going to be a lot of empty grain bins and elevators this winter.
By far the biggest worry for many will be half filled grain contracts. That will be by far the biggest financial hit that no one is talking about much yet at all.
Over the past decade farmers have been almost forced to do more and more forward contracts .
Input buying has been pushed earlier and earlier to a point of 10 months in advance. This has pushed farms to contract more grain than what used to be done to cover more and more earlier bills .
Then to top it off if you wanted to move any grain from September to December you literally had to have contracts to move anything or the elevators “had no room”
This has created a perfect storm in 2021 that will be more devastating that the drought itself.
It started in this area 12-15 years ago with the big land grab . Those farms were getting all the space at the elevators tied up for at least the first three months from harvest on. The only way to haul anything was to have at least some contracts . Bills need to be paid and and n farm storage was always a concern in decent years .
Not everyone “had” to , but the majority did some forward contracts this year to take advantage of higher than average fall pricing .
Some went big on high volume crops ... it’s going to be a wreck for those .
But even at 20-25% in whatever crop , which is generally safe 95% of the time .. it will be an issue in some areas . Buy outs are massive this year .
That 25% of average is now in most cases probably close to 100% of what’s there .
I know some well over 50% of average contracted .... with virtually no crop or will be well below 20% average yields .
With futures still moving up , this is a train wreck in the making that will dwarf the drought talk after harvest .
This is why very very little crop will be cut for feed
Nearly Every acre will have to be harvested to remotely fill contracts ...... at much lower prices than the current market .

[sumdumguy]

Better not get an electric car, you might never get home. 😂 Sure a wonderful sight this morning to see on Environment Canada, “Heat Warning Ended” a ENE wind and showers on the horizon. The crop has taken a beating all over. Thanx for doing that and reporting back. Good to get an honest perspective. The crop sprayers have interesting pictures from 15 feet up and we get those every few days. I gotta post some interesting posts of a durum field here that was seeded with a Quad Trac last spring. You would not believe the brown trac pattern this year(16 months later) . Guess gumbo compacts something fierce.

Last night we went out around Regina and saw later Canola that could benefit from a rain and bottom pods are filling, but a low field on gumbo with 6 inches of rain. We need a 2 inch shot of kool-aid to fill those pods.

We are heading out on the Lentil Canary Loop on Thursday. That’ll take us to Rosetown, Kyle, down Bigzee’s way, Assiniboia, (no stop in Plentywood this year), then across to Estevan, back through Stoughton, back home via Riceton-Grey.

[rumrocks]

Thanks for posting all the photos and yield estimates SF, I also did a shorter field trip and there will be a surprisingly high number of fields that won't see a wheel track till next spring.

[Herc]

All you had to say was Wiener water soup for us peasants on the west side of the province....

[furrowtickler]

All you had to say was Wiener water soup for us peasants on the west side of the province....

Scary thing is , it runs north all the way to Meadow Lake through Stwalburg and NE to Blane Lake to Humbolt to Melfort and east yet

The area is massive that is in big trouble

[SASKFARMER]

It’s huge area that has issues and like I said I was hopeful to find a nice loaf bread field of canola so thick it was sickening. Nothing at all maybe Manitoba but sask has odd nice but nothing unbelievable.

Cool day today thundering here no rain dry thunder I guess


Best peas

[SASKFARMER]

Barley