Originally posted by wiseguy
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Still a few guys pounding seeds in the ground along with us out here. Expectations are very low out here…….. at least for me. I’m beginning to think if it doesn’t rain in the next ten days or two weeks that we might pull the pin on our yearling heifers and get wheels under them. Ironically I just got the last of them out to grass tonight. Found out our steers that left last week are going to somewhere by Montreal. They’ll have seen more of this country than I have which blows my mind.
Grass day is the most wonderful day of the year and definitely part of the “sexy†side of cows. The less “glamorous†running an IV into a scouring calf to save him is what I’m currently doing before finding some grub myself. Still have all the pairs to brand, vaccinate, and move out but that’s next weeks project after hopefully the seeding wraps up. Really looking forward to a break of some sorts after that.
Him and I are bonding over a beer.
Have had a few frosts here too but I think everything is so hardened off that it’s not fizzing it at all. Scratched a bunch of alfalfa under seeding that was planned and will leave the seed in the shed awaiting better weather this fall or next year. Definitely another “fun†year is rapidly unfolding here.
Good luck to everyone trying to wrap up seeding or moving cows outðŸ€Comment
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Enough already , 4th time this week on some stuffComment
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Touched 0-1 deg here in regina this am, but looks pretty short lived.
My canola just getting out of the ground.Comment
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Longer growing season
In whose *** warped mind ??Comment
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Just read Drew's latest prognosticator... FML! It's evident from his constant defences of past prognostications that he's getting some serious blowback from guys in the dry zone.
If the pattern doesn't break in a significant manner until late June, or god forbid JULY, it is going to make a shit situation WORSE!
Regardless of seeding date, this crop will be DONE!!! if it doesnt see something significant in the next 10 days. My worst fear is a failed crop that then sees surplus moisture in July and August! If we do by chance manage to scratch together enough moisture to nurse a pathetic crop to the supposed July "rain train" (I notice his last two prognosticators have not mentioned those words... all that will be left is a thin, measly crop. It will not provide competition to weeds, and best case scenario a dessication of every acre will be necessary. Worst case is a dessication still required and a cool damp august into possibly september which means we all harvest a pathetic crop of garbage quality.
Im grumpy if you couldn't tell, and this sure as hell didn't make things any better. Hopefully weed bales have a value come fall, because that might be all we muster up.Comment
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Considering how he shit the bed this spring with regards to my area, I'm not so sure it's worth the paper i printed it out on.Originally posted by jazz View Post
He provided hope, to guys that are by nature always hoping that things will turn around. There is "hope" for your area as well... Is it worth considering? Possibly. But then one can always hope that things will turn around.
It's always darkest just before the dawn...
There's always light at the end of a tunnel...
Nothing lasts forever...
etc...Comment
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Scouted most everything tonight. So report is as follows.
As far as a soil penetrometer is an indication of soil moisture, it would appear that I have at best 12" of dampish soil, and in some places 0-3. In most fields I would still be incapable of pulling a complete soil core to 12".
Peas are 1-3 nodes, and absolutely polluted with russian thistle. Not entirely sure how to approach this one. Blow basagran early and come back with viper in a week? Blow viper now?
Durum is anywhere from 2 leaf to just poking the surface. Anything seeded before the magical 1/2" rain seems to be doing ok for the time being with minimal weed pressure. The later seeded stuff, post 1/2" is doing ok on heavier dirt, but there is a high degree of seedling mortality on lighter soil. It was seeded into moisture, but soon after germination it appears that the seedbed dried out, and anywhere from 15-30% has died. We'll see how it goes from here, but if rain doesnt show up soon, I see no point in drilling additional durum into those spots.
Mustard, which was seeded last is anywhere from just poking the surface to stranded in dry dirt. Estimate 15-20% is waiting for a rain to germinate. In those places where it's stranded in dry dirt, there is nothing I could have done different... I was already pushing the limit at 2" seeding depth anyway.
Native prairie is cooking in most places except where the meager amount of snow layed, and hayland is likely not going to produce much of anything. Alfalfa is dropping leaves well before flowering already, and just over ones ankle bone.
By and large it's worse than it looks from the road. It was 80*f and 18% humidity here today... Much more of this and It'll be over.Comment
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OMG what a SHIT start to this crop! Frost again?
Only a Climatard/Libtard would want it COLDER!!!!Comment
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