Friday Crop Report on a Thursday!

[Partners]

What's up with canola crash today?

[woodland]

Got a new toy for Christmas. My brother practiced up with the ultrasound and ran through all the cows in two days. It’s really nice to be able to go on a nice day instead of gambling a month ahead with booking a vet. Three years it’ll pay for itself and then you don’t mind doing a $300/hr job. Besides my daughter is excited that she won’t need to buy one when she becomes a vet. Still in grade three though………….😉

Loaded out all the open heifers today and filled four liners in an hour. It went great with pretty mellow critters. They are hopefully settled in near Brooks for the next few months. It was busy enough that I never even got a picture.

Now just to figure out what to do with the open cows………… kinda was hoping the price would come back some more but that appears to be a pipe dream? One order buyer apparently swears we’ll see $4 calves this fall. A year ago I was a lot more optimistic than now but who knows? Maybe if corn goes to $3 then cows could get some time in the spotlight…………. We all gotta dream so might as well go big😎

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Does the ultrasound come with training? Or is it very self explanatory? I suppose if you have watched a vet do it in the past it would be intuitive. I wouldn't even know what I was looking at.

[Landdownunder]

Does the ultrasound come with training? Or is it very self explanatory? I suppose if you have watched a vet do it in the past it would be intuitive. I wouldn't even know what I was looking at.

My missus has a horse stud about 40 hay burners

She does all her own scanning cheap and nasty think $3000 paid it off in no time. Probe screen she gonna have a go at sheep in two months time

[Old Cowzilla]

$4 calves Woodland !! I will have to buy my banker a bottle before I tell him that one before loan renewal !

[shtferbrains]

Yesterday -31 in morning.
Today -2 wth wind 40 gusting to 60.

Looks more seasonal for the forcast.

[farming101]

-30's next week? Seasonal.....not

[shtferbrains]

The bears are in the wheat this morning.

[blackjack]

Congrats woodland on the ultrasound purchase we’ve had one around for almost a decade one of the best investments the ranch has ever done. My son and daughter taught themselves off the disk the ultrasound company sent with the hardware AB5 and off course the experience of doing.

[woodland]

Does the ultrasound come with training? Or is it very self explanatory? I suppose if you have watched a vet do it in the past it would be intuitive. I wouldn't even know what I was looking at.

YouTube has almost everything on it.😉 Finding the breds is ten times easier than an open. On our cows since they’re further along mostly you see the placenta buttons on breds or an empty uterus on the opens. We’ve had ultrasounding done here for probably ten years but usually everyone is too busy to watch the monitor. Only thing we should have done different is start with cows where the majority are bred as compared to our heifers where under half were since a bunch of them didn’t run with bulls. Next year will be a lot easier.

Gotta shake things up occasionally 🍀

[Guest]

Well ,,we have snow !