Friday Crop Report on a Thursday!

[GDR]

Most of us just got started harvest in the last week out here. Almost 10% done on our farm. Rained every day so far. Looks like my dream of combining dry grain will be put on hold again.
Yesterday at 8 degrees, we got a big hail storm. Inches of hail in some places. Barley looks bad, wheat took it much better, green standing canola faired OK, swathed, or standing ripe canola very bad. Thought that was impossible in the middle of Sept at these cold temperatures, apparently not. Big storm too. And the worst of it is on what we call the flat, which the old timers said it never hails on. That seemed to be true until I started farming down there, 3 quarters, and by far the worst damage. Same last year, and almost every year since 2017 when we first started farming it.

Very frustrating when you get that close, especially when sounds like you had decent crops.

[Hamloc]

Most of us just got started harvest in the last week out here. Almost 10% done on our farm. Rained every day so far. Looks like my dream of combining dry grain will be put on hold again.
Yesterday at 8 degrees, we got a big hail storm. Inches of hail in some places. Barley looks bad, wheat took it much better, green standing canola faired OK, swathed, or standing ripe canola very bad. Thought that was impossible in the middle of Sept at these cold temperatures, apparently not. Big storm too. And the worst of it is on what we call the flat, which the old timers said it never hails on. That seemed to be true until I started farming down there, 3 quarters, and by far the worst damage. Same last year, and almost every year since 2017 when we first started farming it.

That is really unfortunate when your that close. We had a storm come through yesterday afternoon about 4:30, came from the west. Was your storm mid afternoon? We had some sleet mixed with the rain and some wind that blew around the canola swaths a bit. There was hail over towards Red Deer.

[Hamloc]

We decided to go with the 45 ft Flex.

I quickly looked over the PAMI test of the X9 vs the Claas 8800. At first I couldn’t understand why the 8800 was used until I got to the specifications and I saw the X9 had 603 hp and the Claas 610 hp. Anyway according to PAMI the X9 was harvesting just over 40 acres per hour of Viewfield wheat yielding 102 bushels per acre. Did you find in the real world you could harvest that many acres per hour? Doing the math with a 50 foot header you would be travelling over 6.5 mph, that would take some fairly ideal conditions.

[SASKFARMER]

That the smaller X9 1000 the 1100 is better than Class.

We’re going 45 from our 40 fts we now have.

The s790s will be replaced with the X9 it’s like the cts and 9600 you just move with the system.

Yes the 50 ft header is awesome can cut very well 6.5 mph is moving.

5 mph is our speed

[sumdumguy]

We are going to 36 foot headers because our cuts were too big this year. 😂 (being sarcastic).

[jazz]

A 50ft header in lentils? No thanks, I will make an extra round.

Yields are in.

Red lentils 25bu
Durum 40bu
Canola 40 bu.

Guys who seeded early were the winners here. Everyone put durum in first so there are probably a couple guys that did 45-50. I put canola in first so my gains are there. We used L233 and were able to get seed early last yr before it got discontinued.

[SASKFARMER]

Early seeded 252

[SASKFARMER]

Wind is gusting to over 50 averaging 36 starting to fluff swaths

[SASKFARMER]

Finished the last swath fields last hour was dealing with blown swaths but we’re done now on to last half of the canola crop that’s standing liberty canola.

Deere can make a nice job with MADD Convaves.



Plus 2 minor frost so still good to spray the last section we haven’t touched yet with round up now that it is harvested.

Soil tests start next week one guy I have on Twitter has 89 lbs available N in the soil in a extreme drought area.

Fu k them on fertilizer and say screw you and the increases.

Fu king crooks.

[SASKFARMER]

A big boy