Rain

[TOM4CWB]

DML,

One of my many risk management responsibilities is to monitor the storms that occur over our farm for hail. This affects my commodity hedge program umongst many other management responsibilities. Since our grain farm is spread out over 120 miles, tracking the storms is important for rain/crop and hail insurance which we have on theses thousands of acres of grain crops worth millions of $ of insurance coverage. Planning our truck dispatching hauling grain also involves weather tracking and storm monitoring for road safety of our grain trucks and workers on Alberta roads.

I talked to my brother [whom we farm with] part f our family farm; to monitor storms daily, and yesterday commented how annoyed I was that we had been told by CBC that until Dec 6 no storm tracking. My brother is a pilot and A NavCanada Meteorologist keeps his horse at our Sherwood Park farm, who has explained that the Carvel Dopler radar should have been done being modified by the end of Sept. Nav Canada is responsible for aircraft weather forcasting for flight plans. Obviously this is of LIFE AND DEATH to pilots especially for pilots of small aircraft which far too many DIE each year, in case you missed the news reports that report the storms and aircraft crashes that are normally the cause of small aircraft fatal crashes.

So obviously since this IS life and DEATH to my family and friends, No, No, No... I am not being overdramatic. My cousin lost his farm manager a couple of years ago from just such an aircraft fatal crash incident.

For spraying, harvest planning, moisture tracking of precipitation over our grain land; I need to know what is going on to plan our farm work without going to each one of our dozens of fields each day and physically checking for rainfall and for hail damage from storms, which until recently I have been able to monitor on my computer.

Think. Please. knowing what is going on with the weather on our many farms [in the Edm region] is our responsibility legally; for our millions of $'s of insurance policies just for our farm. It does matter. Have a safe prosperous harvest!

Cheers

BTW, it is raining AGAIN!!!

Should help cure out the Canola!

Amazing to see all the wheat and barley harvested over the past week, only Canola left around here now to harvest!!!!

Cheers

[Guest]

The NE ex swamp is pretty well wrapped up

[TOM4CWB]

The NE ex swamp is pretty well wrapped up

Plenty of green growth [mostly volunteer Canola just starting to bloom] coming in many fields now; Winter cereals being planted much more than usual now soil moisture is better... some very nice looking winter wheat has emerged on 2021 pea fields...

Kansas is dry so talk of La Nina causing drought on winter wheat... WASDE had little effect... China reports they have plenty of Soybeans in store... Biden seems to want to kill biofuels... EV by 2030... which will not work effectively for Trains, ships, aircraft, big transport long haul trucks.. Need NH3 fuel source for Ships and trains if 0 carbon fuels are to be practical...

Cheers