Friday Crop Report on a Thursday!

[seldomseen]

Actually I can’t remember the year but we had no leaves on trees till June because it was such a cold spring

I think 92 was the cold May with the leaves not coming out till June. If I remember right I think April that year was normal and then a cold NE wind all of May. Big volcano affected both 92 and 93 with 92 cold and dry and 93 cold and wet with endless rain. Both those years were tough years here!
I think this is one of the coldest Aprils I can remember and it looks like run off might not happen until the last week of April or first week of May which would be really late compared the normal for us.

[Sheepwheat]

Actually I can’t remember the year but we had no leaves on trees till June because it was such a cold spring

Yeah that happens here every several years. Was that 1992 or 1993? 1993 we got a significant snow on about May 17th. I had just seeded my first canola crop the day before. AC excel. 50cents a lb for the seed. 3 buck an acre!

1996 we started seeding May 27th but that was because of a foot of snow in early May. Not because spring never started or because April was cold. A relative came from Toronto on around May 14th, and it was extremely cold. Grass was brown, not a stitch of green anywhere. He thought we lived in Siberia. Ha.

I have a lot of pages of records to go through. Give me a bit. All I have to do is look for highs in April over plus seven to eliminate this year as unprecedented..

A friend of mine and I plan to go ice fishing on opening day. Looks like that won’t be a stretch. That’s happened before, but usually you have to take a boat or canoe out to the ice. This year I’m thinking if the forecast stays a guy could probably just drive on!

[Sheepwheat]

I think 92 was the cold May with the leaves not coming out till June. If I remember right I think April that year was normal and then a cold NE wind all of May. Big volcano affected both 92 and 93 with 92 cold and dry and 93 cold and wet with endless rain. Both those years were tough years here!
I think this is one of the coldest Aprils I can remember and it looks like run off might not happen until the last week of April or first week of May which would be really late compared the normal for us.

1992 we had an august frost. Wheat weighed about 50 lbs. elevator agent called it mini wheat. 93 was the year when swathing, everyone left half mile ruts, end to end. Snowed eight inches in September. It was around 20 the day before. I remember waking up and it was unusually bright outside. Looked out my window and it was a sad sight. Crop was FLAT TO THE GROUND. The next year was a mouse infestation from hell, I presume, because they bred all winter under he flat crop areas. Nothing remotely close to dry.