Friday Crop Report on a Thursday!

[shtferbrains]

Did I say it was good? Average is 30 or less. This is a mess.

How does it look?
Will it grade?

[jazz]

Guys are running off 12-15 bu HRS in Montana this week. I would say 30bu is a bumper compared to that.

[agstar77]

Excellent sample. Should be #1. All production went to seed. Starbuck. Lighter soil. With rain should have been 60.

[LWeber]

with huge breasts.

Any sisters?

[SASKFARMER]

6 Billion to Quebec


Sask drought zero

[jdg364]

Kevin Hursh Quote August 5th, Western Producer:

"Crop Insurance is going to be the first line of defense. This may sound insensitive, but producers not enrolled in crop insurance have no one to blame except themselves. The same is true for Agristability. The program has many flaws, but this is the magnitude of disaster where the program will kick in for many producers facing a serious income shortfall"

I agree with most of the above statement.. SCIC will never make you rich but it should cover your variable costs. Agristability is terribly flawed but it did work for our farm when we had a wet disaster in 2016. Do I enjoy paying the premiums for either programs? No but they do help me sleep at night and get to the next year.

There are also other private insurance options, hopefully they have the $$ to back this seasons payouts, that I think more people should of looked at. If you knew your moisture reserve was low and had read some summer forecasts this spring (drew was calling for dry summer) I'd have been booking a phone call with GARS. These farms are big businesses and if they can't cashflow itself during high(er) risk periods then additional insurance is needed so that a guy can try again another year.

Not trying to be insensitive to any producers suffering, but I don't enjoy paying $70k+ a year on SCIC, or hail insurance or agristability anymore than the next guy. I do it because it makes business sense.

[woodland]

Well it’s been another dry week here.

The yellowjackets and grasshoppers are certainly enjoying it. We’re lucky the hoppers are only coming on thick now when there’s not much left for them to eat anyway. Next year will be a total wreck if the dry continues.

The yearlings are pretty much out of grass and should’ve been sold tomorrow but refused to come out of the bush. Once we got a bunch of them on the road they smashed a fence and ran away. Now they’re spread across six different quarters with plenty of bush. I really wasn’t looking forward to selling early but wanted to get them gone to put the pain behind me. Now we’re further behind than before with more work to drag them home somehow. Working and moving cattle this year has been very bizarre and all we can chalk it up to is the heat. Definitely not used to dealing with cows in +25 let alone +30 like most days it seems this year.

Spending more time dealing with water for the cows this year than the previous 5 years combined. The last few years they could stick their noses anywhere and get a drink.

The kids (our best crop) love coming to check cows with me as long as we stop and let them run in the corn. Pretty impressed with the corn and it’s starting to tassel and put on cobs at 3-7 feet tall. Hopefully it can stretch out more but has a lot of drought stress showing.

The barley and canola aren’t much to look at so we won’t discuss those. Off to a field day and AGM with our local forage association this afternoon. It’ll be nice to get away and visit with some likeminded folks. It’s been more stressful and time consuming not making hay (grazing instead) compared to other years …………… not to mention much less profitable. Hopefully everyone can scrounge enough “economical” cow chow to make it through.

Good luck y’all 🍀

[furrowtickler]

I agree with most of the above statement.. SCIC will never make you rich but it should cover your variable costs. Agristability is terribly flawed but it did work for our farm when we had a wet disaster in 2016. Do I enjoy paying the premiums for either programs? No but they do help me sleep at night and get to the next year.

There are also other private insurance options, hopefully they have the $$ to back this seasons payouts, that I think more people should of looked at. If you knew your moisture reserve was low and had read some summer forecasts this spring (drew was calling for dry summer) I'd have been booking a phone call with GARS. These farms are big businesses and if they can't cashflow itself during high(er) risk periods then additional insurance is needed so that a guy can try again another year.

Not trying to be insensitive to any producers suffering, but I don't enjoy paying $70k+ a year on SCIC, or hail insurance or agristability anymore than the next guy. I do it because it makes business sense.

Agree , you still need decent 5 year averages for it to help much ... like others have said , believe it or not several areas have had some very tough years lately .
Those areas need extra help .
Most that had very good 5 year average, they will be fine with current programs like was pointed out
There are big areas that have low coverage after a beating from Mother Nature the past several years with yields..... including us

[the big wheel]

Yep all the programs work for rhe people that
Have had good luck weather wise but do not
Work at all for the rest with more than a few
Years of disasters. The premiums become a disaster
In themselves creating a situation where they
Basically become a lost crop every so many years if you
Want to be business minded about it all.
It punishes people for uncontrolled drought flood
Or hail frost whatever which we ve had all of those
In the last 10 years. Which shouldn’t be the case
It all needs to be changed to not punish your
Farm for uncontrollable events and stay with
You for 10 years.

Private insurance wouldn’t even take some of the neighbours
Pretty much unless you paid numbers that even
The provider said was not a good situation.

Bottom line is as we get the more irregular
Weather that we ve all been told is coming these
Formulas for programs will become even more out
Of touch with reality. No way our canola shouldn’t
Be covered at what the market is today. In Saskatchewan
You have to decide in April lmao honestly fuuk off already

The programs should be focused on keeping farms afloat
Not playing games and creating lotteries for some
And a screwing for others.

Whether it’s Biden or trump they both supported
Their farmers whether it’s truduea or o tool or
Moe none of them want to. That’s the facts.

More direct current and responsive is what we need.

[bucket]

Yep all the programs work for rhe people that
Have had good luck weather wise but do not
Work at all for the rest with more than a few
Years of disasters. The premiums become a disaster
In themselves creating a situation where they
Basically become a lost crop every so many years if you
Want to be business minded about it all.
It punishes people for uncontrolled drought flood
Or hail frost whatever which we ve had all of those
In the last 10 years. Which shouldn’t be the case
It all needs to be changed to not punish your
Farm for uncontrollable events and stay with
You for 10 years.

Private insurance wouldn’t even take some of the neighbours
Pretty much unless you paid numbers that even
The provider said was not a good situation.

Bottom line is as we get the more irregular
Weather that we ve all been told is coming these
Formulas for programs will become even more out
Of touch with reality. No way our canola shouldn’t
Be covered at what the market is today. In Saskatchewan
You have to decide in April lmao honestly fuuk off already

The programs should be focused on keeping farms afloat
Not playing games and creating lotteries for some
And a screwing for others.

Whether it’s Biden or trump they both supported
Their farmers whether it’s truduea or o tool or
Moe none of them want to. That’s the facts.

More direct current and responsive is what we need.

To summarize ...its the law of diminishing returns....every program has been designed that way...keep you holding on long enough to finally say phuck it.

[the big wheel]

To summarize ...its the law of diminishing returns....every program has been designed that way...keep you holding on long enough to finally say phuck it.

If the people who design these programs would
Be paid this way they would never do it.

[SASKFARMER]

I agree big wheel.

What pissed me off In the flood years they said us eastern guys lost those acres and weren’t allowed to be used for ag stab as a major loss now drought on pasture land that never should of been broke gets payments.

Still pisses me off on that ruling.

Unproductive acres that this year are seeded and will yield very well