Friday Crop Report on a Thursday!

[woodland]

Your rock picker operators are even younger than my rock picker operators. So I had to never considered trying to motivate them with a bottle of rum after a hard day's work. If it's working for your kids, then I will try that for now on.

I think ice cream is more appealing and appropriate for my picker apprentices…………..😉

This was from last year as we didn’t get around to picking any this year.


The littlest one was a swamper in the tractor. 🍀

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Enjoy the weather and thanksgiving weekend...




From this mornings drive

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It’s fairly obvious that even in tough times there are a few that still enjoy doing what we do even though we agree / disagree once in a while politically.
I have had a few good conversations with forage lately, we may disagree politically but at least can still carry a conversation on common topics . A few just simply can’t get past themselves ever here

[woodland]

Finished combining our “crapola” at midnight and that’s it for harvest ‘21😎

Now to finish drying it since it’s mushy and like 25%+ moisture. Starts heating in a day. Taking two passes through the dryer.

Now to get on with picking bales, disking, landscaping, getting the moo moos ready for corn, seeding some grass, and cleaning up/putting away our equipment. I know one neighbour is still going but otherwise I don’t know of anyone else out this way.

Definitely another fun crazy year. 🍀

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Finished combining our “crapola” at midnight and that’s it for harvest ‘21😎

Now to finish drying it since it’s mushy and like 25%+ moisture. Starts heating in a day. Taking two passes through the dryer.

Now to get on with picking bales, disking, landscaping, getting the moo moos ready for corn, seeding some grass, and cleaning up/putting away our equipment. I know one neighbour is still going but otherwise I don’t know of anyone else out this way.

Definitely another fun crazy year. 🍀

Congratulations on second place.
We quit combining canola when we couldn't find anything under 15% moisture. Still a few hundred acres left. With a decent forecast, standing crop, and expensive nat gas and electricity, I figure I will let mother nature freeze dry it down some more.

[woodland]

Congratulations on second place.
We quit combining canola when we couldn't find anything under 15% moisture. Still a few hundred acres left. With a decent forecast, standing crop, and expensive nat gas and electricity, I figure I will let mother nature freeze dry it down some more.

These last quarters didn’t come up till late June.

This was from July 12 and we were pretty sure it wouldn’t make it. The fact it ran in the teens for yield was surprising. Sample canola is worth $17 to the feed mill which is fine with me. Gas is way cheaper to me than leaving a crop out over winter. Currently raining lightly here while welding up cracks in the old feed truck.

We stop when the combine can no longer physically eat it. Sometimes it feels like your riding the space shuttle from all the rumbling and grumbling going on behind ya. 😎

Good luck AF5. Hopefully your weather window stays open. Far from ready for the big freeze here🍀

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These last quarters didn’t come up till late June.

This was from July 12 and we were pretty sure it wouldn’t make it. The fact it ran in the teens for yield was surprising. Sample canola is worth $17 to the feed mill which is fine with me. Gas is way cheaper to me than leaving a crop out over winter. Currently raining lightly here while welding up cracks in the old feed truck.

We stop when the combine can no longer physically eat it. Sometimes it feels like your riding the space shuttle from all the rumbling and grumbling going on behind ya. 😎

Good luck AF5. Hopefully your weather window stays open. Far from ready for the big freeze here🍀

Glad you got er done , reminds me of a few years ago
Was a struggle to get it off as well . Never fun but glad when done

[AlbertaFarmer5]

I've lost track of how many consecutive years we have combined any time it would go through the machine, and kept trying any way possible long after it wouldn't go through. Then dealing with the equipment damage, and all the hassles and baby sitting involved with having every bin full of wet grain.

So this year, being the first half of October, and being almost done, I'll give it a chance. Have combined canola with snow on the ground every year lately, so if it comes to that, will do so again, but at least it might be frozen drier, and the stalks not green enough to silage by then. Probably try again tomorrow. Under 13 is close enough.

The crazy part, is that this isn't second growth, or late germination, these last quarters were seeded in decent time, up in record time, and quit flowering when they should. And had no rain for most of the summer.

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I've lost track of how many consecutive years we have combined any time it would go through the machine, and kept trying any way possible long after it wouldn't go through. Then dealing with the equipment damage, and all the hassles and baby sitting involved with having every bin full of wet grain.

So this year, being the first half of October, and being almost done, I'll give it a chance. Have combined canola with snow on the ground every year lately, so if it comes to that, will do so again, but at least it might be frozen drier, and the stalks not green enough to silage by then. Probably try again tomorrow. Under 13 is close enough.

The crazy part, is that this isn't second growth, or late germination, these last quarters were seeded in decent time, up in record time, and quit flowering when they should. And had no rain for most of the summer.

Good luck , very strange year .
Hopefully you get er done without too much headache

[woodland]

AF5 wanted me to post this for him.

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AF5 wanted me to post this for him.

Wow 😳

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Picture was taken on Thursday. Canola straw was so green it wrapped around the rotor on the lexion.
Perhaps full season canola varieties aren't the best idea in the coldest place on the prairies. P501, L241 and L345 still remaining. 44H44, L234 and Canterra 2600 and quite a bit of the L241 already combined, and close to dry. P501 was drastically later than the L241 seeded at the same time. But appears to be yielding accordingly better as well.

I just can't figure out where it found the water to hold on.