Friday Crop Report on a Thursday!

[seldomseen]

I went Hwy 13 to Hardisty then south to Coronation, to Castor and back up 36 to Hwy 13.

Average looks like 40% of normal yields my guess. Preharvest on wheat has started. One pea field done… most 1’ or shorter.

Nasty hail through Alliance with 100% fields that smelled like fresh cut hay.

80% of crops not up to knees.
Cheers

God Bless Alberta and their highways!
Saskatchewan needs to improve our goat trails we call roads! To many years wasted with non productive socialist government bureaucracy’s.

[bucket]

God Bless Alberta and their highways!
Saskatchewan needs to improve our goat trails we call roads! To many years wasted with non productive socialist government bureaucracy’s.

Well just to be clear we still have a socialistic government in Saskatchewan.

They are investing in stuff that will not make a economic return for the province...ever.

If it was a profitable project why can't people pay for it themselves, pay taxes and improve infrastructure.

Nope instead after 30 years of 100000 acres of government funded irrigation they are still subsidized 40 bucks an acre.

And the worst part is the cattleman's associations support it while getting zero benefit...and they are hurting bad and can't get at least the equivalent support.

Pretty stupid hey.

[furrowtickler]

We went on a bit of a road trip also this weekend.
Starting north of Tisdale through Saskatoon and then west as far as Meota. Then angled south west all the way to Calgary.
Small pockets of the best canola looked like it might make 30 and that was around Meota and southwest of Battleford towards Unity. Huge areas with canola that is blasted in both Saskatchewan and Alberta might range from 0-15 with some of the worst in the Saskatoon area. No pastures looked decent and really no green grass anywhere.

One thing that did stand out on this trip is how clean and neat all the fields looked. I hardly saw any wild oats or thistle in any fields anywhere. A little kochia around Saskatoon in the worst drought areas.
Fertility looked really good in all areas also. The crop is short from lack of rain but nothing looked deficient from lack of fertilizer.
From what I saw farmers did an excellent job on a very difficult year.

Very very accurate 👍

[shtferbrains]

We went on a bit of a road trip also this weekend.
Starting north of Tisdale through Saskatoon and then west as far as Meota. Then angled south west all the way to Calgary.
Small pockets of the best canola looked like it might make 30 and that was around Meota and southwest of Battleford towards Unity. Huge areas with canola that is blasted in both Saskatchewan and Alberta might range from 0-15 with some of the worst in the Saskatoon area. No pastures looked decent and really no green grass anywhere.

One thing that did stand out on this trip is how clean and neat all the fields looked. I hardly saw any wild oats or thistle in any fields anywhere. A little kochia around Saskatoon in the worst drought areas.
Fertility looked really good in all areas also. The crop is short from lack of rain but nothing looked deficient from lack of fertilizer.
From what I saw farmers did an excellent job on a very difficult year.

What do you think of the Alfalfa/leafcutters for this year?
Alfalfa fields look blue and rumored $70 gal for bees.
Bees like the heat?

[GDR]

What do you think of the Alfalfa/leafcutters for this year?
Alfalfa fields look blue and rumored $70 gal for bees.
Bees like the heat?

Would it not be better to make hay than go for seed production on a year like this?

[shtferbrains]

Seed alfalfa can be a windfall if everything lines up and the bugs don't steal it.

[seldomseen]

What do you think of the Alfalfa/leafcutters for this year?
Alfalfa fields look blue and rumored $70 gal for bees.
Bees like the heat?

Everything looked really good this year for a big seed crop but plant bugs and lygus bugs are taking the shine off. Some fields I have sprayed 3 times and the bugs are still going strong!

[TOM4CWB]

Very very accurate 👍

What is so striking Furrowtickler is;

Ag Canada must have, or should have known that their estimated Canola production # of 19mmt …

When was (what date) was this Canola yield supposed to have been calculated?

Cheers

[Herc]

Two more weeks of heat and no rain, not even the Lexicons will save the pepper....

[the big wheel]

We went on a bit of a road trip also this weekend.
Starting north of Tisdale through Saskatoon and then west as far as Meota. Then angled south west all the way to Calgary.
Small pockets of the best canola looked like it might make 30 and that was around Meota and southwest of Battleford towards Unity. Huge areas with canola that is blasted in both Saskatchewan and Alberta might range from 0-15 with some of the worst in the Saskatoon area. No pastures looked decent and really no green grass anywhere.

One thing that did stand out on this trip is how clean and neat all the fields looked. I hardly saw any wild oats or thistle in any fields anywhere. A little kochia around Saskatoon in the worst drought areas.
Fertility looked really good in all areas also. The crop is short from lack of rain but nothing looked deficient from lack of fertilizer.
From what I saw farmers did an excellent job on a very difficult year.

Nutrien and farm credit will have the courts and lawyers
Working overtime getting all that equity into cash.

[Guest]

Would it not be better to make hay than go for seed production on a year like this?

Lots here will make 1500-2000$ seed production
Plus maybe $200 bee sales if prices hold
Never saw anything like it

[TOM4CWB]

Lots here will make 1500-2000$ seed production
Plus maybe $200 bee sales if prices hold
Never saw anything like it

I understand DDGs can be bought at $325/t from ADM. 40% px and same energy as barley. Then the cattle can scrounge for slough grass and straw… with 8lb/day for maintenance.
Cheers