How much rain in July ?

[checking]

I use to write these rain events down.

I'll have to consult with the robin that regularly uses the gauge as a perch to leave a deposit in. Oh well, it might just as well be filled with fertilizer, and have an actual use.

It appears that if the combined totals were allocated to two of you, those two would have an average crop!

[TOM4CWB]

27mm, but came in 5 different showers, largest was 15mm, which we were grateful for. Same rain one mile to the right 24mm, one mile to the left 2mm.
Rain Lottery so true this year.

Here is Edmonton rain for the past year.



21.1mm July 2021
26.2mm June 2021

Too wet to seed often in May… with 66mm! What a wild year!

Cheers

[TOM4CWB]

King Jesus had a good sense of humour when he made these little fellas!

Entertainment For a hot August day!





The inky, black ice worms are only about an inch long and are distant cousins to earthworms. Instead of dirt, these worms wiggle through glacial ice eating snow algae, bacteria and anything else that ends up on the snow.

They may spend their entire lives in snow and ice, but ice worms can't survive subfreezing temperatures. Hotaling has conducted thermal testing and says the ice worms can survive comfortably for at least a day or two in temperatures as high as 75 degrees Fahrenheit (around 24 degrees Celsius), and although they thrive at temperatures around 32 degrees Fahrenheit (zero degrees Celsius), they die when temperatures drop below that threshold.

“It's kind of hilarious in a way that this is worm is living in ice and can’t actually survive freezing, but it's also really interesting ecologically because they are living extremely close to their lower thermal limit," Hotaling said.

Ice worms typically emerge in the afternoon and at dusk. The worms have barely been studied so researchers aren't sure why, but Hotaling says they are extremely tolerant of UV rays and thinks they come up to get heat energy from the sun and find food."
https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/its-happening-ice-worms-emerge-in-pacific-northwest-glaciers/988820
Cheers!

[sumdumguy]

TY Tom for an interesting diversion this morning. Gonna check these little critters out.

[Taiga]

How is the grain filling? My oats look like grains of rice. I think the entire fields will be fully yellow in 7 days. Maturity date would have been Aug 15 based on 95 days.

[TOM4CWB]

How is the grain filling? My oats look like grains of rice. I think the entire fields will be fully yellow in 7 days. Maturity date would have been Aug 15 based on 95 days.

It will certainly be interesting with all this heat to see what happens to the Semi Dwarf wheat, which usually has larger kernels. The seeds are yellow in the main crop, tillers still green.

Would not be surprised to see kernels and yield 30% smaller, peas and Canola may well turn out the same if this heat keeps up till Thursday…

That means an automatic drop in yield of 30% in the space of the past week, just like that.

I remember Nexera a decade ago that went 25bu/ac, low bushel weight, and huge green plume in the dust behind the combine. 5- 10miles away they were 40bu/ac plus… with a filling shower that filled and finished the seed with plump kernels.

Wishing a decent Canola crop exists does not make it so, or a 90% pea crop.

Uncharted territory is where we are now… with 25% or less precipitation for the last two months for 70% of western Canada.

Cheers we will need way fewer bins this year!!!
Plus hopefully a fast harvest with much smaller fuel bill!!!
Barley seeded first week of May at Killam…

Can’t be good for malt one would guess…

[GDR]

So you seed growers and others, what is the impact to germ and vigour for drought impacted crops. Is sourcing seed going to be an issue for 2022 beyond just volumes?

[TOM4CWB]

So you seed growers and others, what is the impact to germ and vigour for drought impacted crops. Is sourcing seed going to be an issue for 2022 beyond just volumes?

Time will tell!

Don’t spray everything with Glyphosate and keep your own cereal seed for your own use.

Prudent management of risk.
Cheers

[Taiga]

I don’t think dry down / uneven maturation will be a problem this year.

[sumdumguy]

I don’t think dry down / uneven maturation will be a problem this year.

Dry roasting this week. 👎

[Sodbuster]

Well finally seeing a glimmer of hope, we have rain in the forecast for the next week, would be our first rain since June 12th. Just in time for harvest, hope it’s like previous forecasts and never materialize.

[bucket]

Its time to just finish the year.... the rain can come in october.

[fjlip]

NOAA suggesting rain in next week...

[seldomseen]

NOAA suggesting rain in next week...

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That would be bad timing for sure!
Hopefully it like all the other rain this summer.
2002 is still fresh in my mind!

[Old Cowzilla]

Geez I'm still in the .01 range for pete's sake !!!