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    Friday Crop Report on a Thursday!

    Good morning all its been a wet week and lots of hail taking great crops now. Moosejaw to Fort then up to Yorkton Swan. Humboldt and all over with rain in some areas 4 inches.

    Our total for the year is now over 8 inches. We had 3 up till the beginning of August so the remainder is a builder for 2022 because 2021 is a ****ing dud.

    So here is the Crop report.

    Harvest has slowed but for our area, it's 25% done. Looked at old photos from other years in 2019 we still wouldn't start for another two weeks so to be at a quarter done tells the shit show we have.

    HRS. We have done our hailed out wheat and then moved on and did our seed wheat, Starbuck, for 2022. The hailed out will be below half our normal as the hail knocked seeds out of the head. The Alida did hold color better than the Brandon. Starbucks is yielding 10 bushels more than the areas not hailed out of Alida and Brandon. But from what I am seeing our wheat will yield half our normal yield. HALF.

    Durum harvest has started and the same results of spring wheat only thing with the rain now the grade has dropped to a 5 but a 5 still pays very well in a bad year.

    Barley is mostly wrapped up in our area and has lots of green lines behind CASE GLEANER NH CLASS AND DEERE. In our case, we swath then picked up lots of loss at pickup and light seeds out the back that with 5 inches of rain did grow. Stuff that is in the swath is ****ed and stuff standing has new growth coming so hard it's not even funny. Look at your stubble and you will see that a shoot is coming off the root. Yep it will be green before we know it.

    The yield for barley is the same half normal.

    Oats some have been harvested with very poor results for early seeded. The late feed is still green but the rain came a week too late. Stuff in swath is not going to do good at all. The yield looks way over half less.

    Flax is turning or ending or just trying to flower again. No harvesting has taken place.

    Peas are all off or should be and what's not is in rough shape. Yields were half normal.

    Canola is mostly shut down or swath in our area. Lots of guys went back to swathing but mother nature had other ideas with the wind and some swaths did lift. Standing is having a hard time as hail and standing are not a good combination. Whole fields white. Yes, the storm even took out some of the best canola around south of town that is the same as the Indian head stuff. We did take off a semi load of Canola before the last rain event and where it didn't hail it was half our normal yield. This was grown with 3 inches of rain so a little impressed but really not, as it is short thin, and standing because I wouldn't leave in a swath for mother nature to take it. Thick swaths stay in stubble swath on an angle thing don't. So again half normal still better than others and way worse than Indian head. I am sticking with my 12.47 MT crop. Ag Canada better does another satellite yield check and increase it because with the rains the regrowth looks like it might flower on some fields before they are harvested and that way they could fudge the numbers again. Come on peoplekind boots on the groundworks the shit above is just lazy fluff.

    Lentils are all off still not much on yield just normal to below a bit.

    Pastures are greening up and late green feed might actually make a crop.

    Regrowth is sick in fields and could be a problem with a long-drawn-out fall. Can see in some crops that were shut down a month ago and still not harvested greening up with the rain from below.

    So the weather looks good for the next 7 days so far this morning have a safe harvest week and talk to your neighbors it is a stressful time.

    #2
    Alida


    Brandon



    Seeded same day same field

    Starbuck


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      #3
      Weather here was supposed to clear up and be steady by now
      It is now raining every 12 hours , and every new forecast adds a day of rain before the sun returns lol
      Just like winter winter the warm temps always pushed back another day until a month has gone by
      Same as summer , rain always predicted a few days out only to get pushed back continuously

      This year turning into a nightmare for many now .
      Some with no crop and hail might be the lucky ones at the end of the day , just like 2002 . Collect insurance, leave combined in shed , save all the fuel , wear and tear, parts , labour costs , storage cost , transportation costs and depreciation.
      Neither is good but fighting off a poor crop is nearly a worst case scenario possible .
      Last edited by furrowtickler; Sep 2, 2021, 07:11.

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        #4
        Canola starting to flower here now....between the swaths

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          #5
          Can kochia be considered a cover crop?

          With the federal government promoting cover crops ...would it qualify?

          Better yet would they know.?

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            #6
            Originally posted by bucket View Post
            Can kochia be considered a cover crop?

            With the federal government promoting cover crops ...would it qualify?

            Better yet would they know.?
            Interesting that you bring up cover crops. I was watching Welker farms most recent video. They are harvesting their best wheat of the year which is yielding 25 bushels to the acre. It is yielding about double of their other crops because it is on land that was chem fallowed last year. In most years moisture is our limiting factor for yield! It seems to me cover crops will simply exacerbate that problem. Any thoughts?

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              #7
              Barley fields that have been combined here are showing grass green as drought stressed plants are stooling and sending up petite barley heads.

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                #8
                We are about a quarter done.

                Our peas actually yielded above average, Chrome peas and apparently they like dry weather. Interesting to note first pea crop I have grown that didn’t get some hail damage, might have helped.

                Barley, mine isn’t ready yet, yields in the area appear to be coming in about 80% of average. Bushel weights have been 51-54.

                Wheat, almost done our hard red, all Viewfield. Fairly happy with results, about 80% of average. Results in the area yields averaging between 45-60. We have about an hour left in hard red then on to CPS.

                Canola, only 1 field in the area combined, haven’t heard the yield. Expect yields to be similar to barley and wheat at 80%.

                Pastures are turning green but about as short as a golf green. About 3 inches of rain in August.

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                  #9
                  Some canola a bit green here yet, but sounds like someone needs a good old killing frost.

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                    #10
                    Canola that was sprayed 3 wks ago blooming again and guys are spraying again. Hoping mine that was sprayed after first rain event will be ok. Took my standing wht off at 15.5 with 7% sprouts and put on air. Who needs feed barley when I got feed wheat!! winning !!!

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                      #11
                      Originally posted by Hamloc View Post
                      Interesting that you bring up cover crops. I was watching Welker farms most recent video. They are harvesting their best wheat of the year which is yielding 25 bushels to the acre. It is yielding about double of their other crops because it is on land that was chem fallowed last year. In most years moisture is our limiting factor for yield! It seems to me cover crops will simply exacerbate that problem. Any thoughts?
                      Cover crops need moisture to do what they have to do. I have tried tillage radish and noticed where the ground had moisture they did ok...Where I needed them to grow and limited moisture...SFA.

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                        #12
                        We are done. Finished in August. That should be an indication of how good the crops were.....

                        Time to load the sprayer up or I might have a second cut in November....

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                          #13
                          Originally posted by SASKFARMER View Post

                          Barley is mostly wrapped up in our area and has lots of green lines behind CASE GLEANER NH CLASS AND DEERE. In our case, we swath then picked up lots of loss at pickup and light seeds out the back that with 5 inches of rain did grow. Stuff that is in the swath is ****ed and stuff standing has new growth coming so hard it's not even funny. Look at your stubble and you will see that a shoot is coming off the root. Yep it will be green before we know it.
                          So, MF and Versatile for the win?

                          I drove by an early harvested barley field yesterday, tidy row of solid green mat behind the combines. Decent tall crop. Not sure how anyone could afford to throw that much over at these prices. I can't actually confirm that the combines were green though...

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                            #14
                            My crops are maybe 60 percent of normal. The guys that protilled last fall or spring paid a big price this year for that work and last year it was the right thing to do. We are still very dry we had about 20 mm of rain in august. We are about 60 percent done.

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                              #15
                              We are 60% done harvest. All cereals and pulses done. Averaged 40% normal bushel. just canola left, All in swaths. Like others stated canola stubble is flowering again. Absolutely bizarre. 3 inches of rain all growing season and almost 5 inches in the last 3 weeks. Pastures are loving it!

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