Ag Canada trims Canola production. Read for a good laugh.

[Old Cowzilla]

I'm calling the Duke boys to get some market advice dammit !

[Blaithin]

[furrowtickler]

Certainly a huge area of poor crop but there are also some pretty good growing areas that have average crops and in small pockets above average.

From some “Average” areas


Big plants .... still flowering......

3 viable pods . Area that had some rain

A field full of canola like this would look ok from hiway

[crusher]

Highway 2 corridor from Calgary to Edmonton doesn't look horrible. 110k/h view.

[furrowtickler]

Then there is this happening...


When you actually start looking closer
A result of extreme drought stress causing a hormone imbalance . Not sure how widespread yet . But it’s showing up in early seeded canola in areas

Those sprouted seeds will dry up and be zero

[furrowtickler]

There are some crop experts at Ag Canada ..... and Neil that need to be taught some lessons on agronomy and how plants react in hot drought conditions....

[Robertbarlage]

Red pepper by mid August

[TOM4CWB]

Red pepper by mid August

Ag Csnada will blame farmers for not answering Stats Canada surveys so they were forced to use 10 year average production numbers,,????
Cheers!
I did 5 hours of survey in east central Alberta… no rain in July for some… if we had 2 inches of rain in the next week, perhaps 60% of normal… but we must get a general rain with good coverage soon…

But Ag Canada is likely using average rain from now on!!!

Cheers

[TOM4CWB]

[QUOTE=TOM4CWB;502290]Ag Csnada will blame farmers for not answering Stats Canada surveys so they were forced to use 10 year average production numbers,,????
Cheers!
I did 5 hours of survey in east central Alberta… no rain in July for some… if we had 2 inches of rain in the next week, perhaps 60% of normal… but we must get a general rain with good coverage soon…

But Ag Canada is likely using average rain from now on!!!

Some of our Viewfield CWRS Wheat… looks like less than 50% of normal… without rain soon… Canola will be less, like above we need good pod fill to get 50%




The Canola field came back in bloom…


This was the field a week ago…


Cheers
PS very wild storm hitting Edmonton now…

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Good to see that Ag Canada is in regular communication with Alberta Ag, and Sask Ag:



Sask canola is 72% lower in the good excellent category than it was in the middle of June, and Ag Canada only drops their estimate by 5.8% over the same time period?

And that data is almost 10 days old, how much worse are the numbers by now?

[dmlfarmer]

Ag Csnada will blame farmers for not answering Stats Canada surveys so they were forced to use 10 year average production numbers,,????
Cheers!
I did 5 hours of survey in east central Alberta… no rain in July for some… if we had 2 inches of rain in the next week, perhaps 60% of normal… but we must get a general rain with good coverage soon…

But Ag Canada is likely using average rain from now on!!!

Cheers

I had the same thought Tom about the impact of fictional information provided by farmers to stats Canada. It is funny how farmers are so upset about wild ag Canada estimates but have no problem lying about seeded acres and carryover to stats Canada. For all the conspirators out there, if the government really wanted to screw some farmers all they would have to do is to base any drought relief program out the stats Canada information every farmer provided this spring Then they would not have to worry about some farmers not being in crop insurance or agristability as all farmers get the crop survey. Nor would they have to worry about inaccurate information as it comes straight from the farmers and given their criticism of ag Canada data, surely the information straight from the farmers would be true.

[furrowtickler]

Good to see that Ag Canada is in regular communication with Alberta Ag, and Sask Ag:



Sask canola is 72% lower in the good excellent category than it was in the middle of June, and Ag Canada only drops their estimate by 5.8% over the same time period?

And that data is almost 10 days old, how much worse are the numbers by now?

Probably 1% per day lower ?