Short wheat

[jazz]

Durum taking it on the chin now. early stuff thick and burning and not filling top, later stuff shorter thinner.

Half the yeild of last year.

Lentils only making one kernel per pod.

Some blue leaves starting in canola now.

Everything running on fumes.

[Wheatking]

20 years ago we swathed everything very few st cut headers. Crops were not ripening till Sept. Now almost no swathing. Most combining in Aug. You be the judge of why this has happened.

Honestly that's the opposite of what I've found. Used to be half done combining in August, now we rarely start in Aug. Straight cut 95% of our crops now, used to swath the majority.

[Guest]

In 02 , lots put puckboard in the pickup teeth to make bats again couldn’t buy a bat reel here

[wheatsnowcanola]

Wow puckboard. Fancy. 2002 we went thru a few rolls of duct tape wrapped front and back of pickup teeth. Only damage to tape was if crop was heavier. Didn’t wreck much tape. Lol. 5-7bu/ac wheat.

[agstar77]

Preharvest glyphosate

Last few years no one has used glyphosate pre harvest.

[chuckChuck]

Give farmers lots of cheap glyphosate and an impressive and fast sprayer and several glyphosate resistant crops and of course you get overuse and abuse.

Lots of weeds showing up in heat stressed and water short crops along with plenty of glyphosate resistant volunteers in some fields in some areas.

Two glyphosate resistant weeds, kochia and fox tail are going to be a big pain again in many fields.

[shortbox]

Give farmers lots of cheap glyphosate and an impressive and fast sprayer and several glyphosate resistant crops and of course you get overuse and abuse.

Lots of weeds showing up in heat stressed and water short crops along with plenty of glyphosate resistant volunteers in some fields in some areas.

Two glyphosate resistant weeds, kochia and fox tail are going to be a big pain again in many fields.

Oh no the sky is falling again!

[chuckChuck]

Not at all, just stating the obvious.

Lack of rain and excessive heat seem to be the sky is falling problem this year. And for many farmers it is indeed a very bad year.

[furrowtickler]

20 years ago we swathed everything very few st cut headers. Crops were not ripening till Sept. Now almost no swathing. Most combining in Aug. You be the judge of why this has happened.

Absolutely opposite in most areas of western Canada up until this year
You be the judge of Sept snow

[bucket]

The MacDon FD 100 series FlexD****r headers work unbelievably well in down , lodged and short grain.

They flex with the ground and bounce over rocks amazingly well… and feed great in all conditions! These new reels have much closer spaces between the reel fingers and more bats on the pickup reel so feed everything well. Buddy Wheels mean the cutter bar skims the ground while the header is flexing, no need for lifter fingers! Sure glad we rolled everything at Killam right after seeding as the wheat and Peas will need to be ‘clean shaven’!!!
How amazing! I see we are Not allowed to write D r a p e r …

Cheers

Everyone can't go out and buy a 125000 header for a short crop?????

The first combine I bought in 1997 9500 brand new was 155200 with a pickup header...

I could still be using a combine that was equivalent to that 9500 and be pretty happy. Solid , simple , good value...

The new combines have to much "stuff" on them...