Friday Crop Report on a Thursday!

[katoe]

Finished anhydrous today. gone up 550/t since we booked ours in early sept.

[tubs]

Saskfarmer I really appreciate your view of things on this world and you are more right than wrong but I am jealous of all the the fall moisture you guys received. We are still on empty here.

[SASKFARMER]

Thanks, it's been an interesting fall for sure.

Grain sales have slowed down. I did cash out over-delivered Canola from our June delivery that was off the November a plus 46. Now all last year's canola is gone.

It's always good to reward yourself a little.

[SASKFARMER]

One last demo is a new Deere 590 hp deere engine tractor more out later today.

Cold day for demo but sunny.

[Partners]

A long yr.
Started harrowing April 25th.
Done fert today..
1 more day if rock picking then I don't care.lol..

[seldomseen]

Moving lots of dirt with my old BeGe sc****r. It must be sixty years old and still will haul hundreds of yards flawlessly!

[woodland]

Just got a half inch this morning. First moisture this month. The rye will appreciate it to get ready for the big freeze.

The thieves have been busy out enjoying the nice weather too. Stole my uncles van the other week. Drove into the field where my dad and cousin were doing dirt work and tried taking our one ton. They got about 200 feet when it stalled and I guess a big ole versatile barrelling towards ya looks intimidating so they left in their wheels promptly. Good thing the 6.5 GM and 5 speed is kinda persnickety when cold except they took our only set of keys with them. My locksmith FIL has been getting bales off me so I called in a favour.


The bred heifers are enjoying the corn. The kernels are more mature than normal and lots are passing through undigested. We plant a higher and mid range heat unit in each field as a hedge on the weather. It’ll be interesting to see how all the varieties did as I haven’t really looked at the other fields much lately.

Been getting panels organized to vaccinate all the pairs shortly and winterizing water systems. Finished disking for the year but would still like to seed a couple hundred acres of grazing alfalfa before freeze up. Still have half the manure and bales to haul yet too.

Gonna take the day off and do something…….. not sure what though. Long overdue. Just found out yesterday that a neighbour of my brother’s had a motorcycle crash and died while doing a parts run. You never know when your time card is going to get punched for the last time.

I know I haven’t been the most pleasant person in dealing with the stress of keeping the bovines happy this summer to my family but I’m gonna try and change that. Don’t want them to remember me as a grumpy *** even though none of it was their fault in case something unexpected happens.

Hopefully everyone has a great day and the camera says the solar water pump is working which a win in my books🍀

[fjlip]

One last demo is a new Deere 590 hp deere engine tractor more out later today.

Cold day for demo but sunny.

Is that a 13.6L, NON unit injector, common rail, BELT drive water pump, rear gear train? Clean sheet, admitting 10.5, 12.5, 13.5 were all boo boo's? 24 years of BAD design, thanks DD!

[Guest]

geez woodland , i get tired just reading your posts!

[burnt]

Closed the books on 2021 harvest tonight. Corn is in the bin, came off drier than normal for here at 23%. Very very good yield, best ever for our farm.

We put up a dryer bin last fall and everything worked as it should - stirrator, distributor, fan.

Not today. Started the stirrator and walked away. Oops, it didn't start, I discovered a couple of hours later. Rookie mistake - didn't climb the bin and check after hitting the start button.

So there's a belt replacement and pipe wrench job awaits me first thing when daylight returns....

So I tell myself the go-to line when mechanical troubles visit - "We've overcome greater obstacles than this."

[SASKFARMER]

[makar]

Son, you are having to much fun.