Friday Crop Report on a Thursday!

[jazz]

Hopefully this overall pattern changes very soon and the moisture starts coming through Alberta into Western Sask and let’s those drenched areas dry out in the east and Manitoba
If this pattern stays it will be no good for hardly anyone but small fringe areas in between.

The recent Nutrien forecast that you sometimes post had continued flows out of Montana bisecting eastern sask and floating down into southern MB and then a southern US dry blocking pattern setting up into late June Early July that appears to feed some moisture into western canada.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMBgvIjAh24

[Chief]

Helmsdale there is no doubt your area was drier than mine last year. So far since May 1 we have had just over an inch of moisture, so we have enough in the soil to germinate the crop. It certainly has been cool which has conserved what moisture we have. My concern is looking forward there is very little rain in the 2 week forecast. As well the rain that is forecasted is usually 5-7 days out and disappears by the time that day arrives. Unfortunately this year I will have very little hay carryover as I produced half of normal last year. We certainly need rain. Reading the posts and looking at the pictures of the areas that are waterlogged certainly shows how different the conditions are! We seeded through more low areas this year than we have in more than a decade. Here is hoping the conditions improve for everyone!

One quick additional note. Having lived in Alberta my whole life it quite often amazes how little I know about the different areas and towns in my province. As an example I never realized Helmsdale was the name of a town or hamlet in southeast Alberta. I bought a macdon swather at a farm sale about 3 years ago close to this area.

Helmsdale was actually the name of a long since defunct one room school district. The close towns are oyen, cereal and acadia valley.

[Sodbuster]

We had .6” here, hopefully no rain today and some sun ☀️ tomorrow and start Monday afternoon. We’re not far from Wakaw so glad we missed that event but did have our power out for 14 hours. Sitting at the 85% done, forecast for the next week is mostly sunny ☀️ but the highest high is 16C for the week but don’t see the F word. It’s kind of nice to have Sunday mostly off, and get a bit of rest time, been working some long hours. Hopefully everyone’s forecast is good and we can resume seeding in a timely matter and finish this season on a high note, good luck everyone.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

I tried to upload a picture but it failed every time. Just before the long weekend, we had so much hail the ground was white. Chased me out of the field for quite a while.
I can't think of a better time of year to get a hail storm though. Much better than last year's early September hail storm.

[clubber83]

First pic at wakaw is a field of ours on the right. Canola was just poking out of ground. Still hail in the field this morning. Will have to wait a few days to assess. 2.5" of rain came with it. At my yard, 6 miles south of pic was barely 1/2" of rain.

[helmsdale]

Helmsdale was actually the name of a long since defunct one room school district. The close towns are oyen, cereal and acadia valley.

Named after a town in the Scottish highlands.

[furrowtickler]

First pic at wakaw is a field of ours on the right. Canola was just poking out of ground. Still hail in the field this morning. Will have to wait a few days to assess. 2.5" of rain came with it. At my yard, 6 miles south of pic was barely 1/2" of rain.

That really sucks , going to be tough on that canola for sure .
Cereals and peas seems to shake that off
We have some canola struggling a bit after just a 1 inch heavy quick rain in our gumbo areas

[WiltonRanch]

Named after a town in the Scottish highlands.

Something alluring to the sweet and brutal beauty of that country throughout what you mentioned. Something how you go south of Camrose and the climate changes or east far enough of QE2 and same sort of change. The Alberta highway system runs on a nw angle so in order for us in nw Sask to travel to Calgary there isn’t a real direct route that’s quick. Hauling horses to Calgary stampede we’d take routes through that country as we could travel slower and easier for the horses. Seen a lot of that country.

[sumdumguy]

Our seeding in Gumbo Flats is fait a complete, with 15 acres left for the ducks. Now 3/4 of old lake bottom north of 48 and 1000 acres over in the Teddy Bear Hills for fun. Looks like 3/10 inch of rain today and rising. That’ll start that scratched-in Canoly. We heard Wawota got 2 inches last night and still drizzling. We don’t need that, thanx. Good Luck All our AV friends, get er in and go fishing. 👍

[SASKFARMER]

Go fishing oh that's a good idea I need to do it right after seeding is done next Sunday.

6/10 so far today not what I wanted but we will have to take it.

Farming is so easy anyone can do it.