Friday Crop Report on a Thursday!

[furrowtickler]

Thus is an important rain on Monday. If it fails to materialize, I think some of mine will be let grow for cattle feed. Spray it in the fall for next year.

Gophers hoppers drought , not sure why I didn't see this coming.

Lots of signs last year.
Kicking my ass for trying harder this year. I knew better.

Being optimistic can really hurt when reality hits .

Yup , we are in same pattern here too so far and need this rain . Without it not looking good . We still have a chance here but time will tell . Critical next 3-4 days in most of western Sask . Unfortunately too late for some real dry areas south

[helmsdale]

Thus is an important rain on Monday. If it fails to materialize, I think some of mine will be let grow for cattle feed. Spray it in the fall for next year.

Gophers hoppers drought , not sure why I didn't see this coming.

Lots of signs last year.
Kicking my ass for trying harder this year. I knew better.

Being optimistic can really hurt when reality hits .

Agreed. If I had the time I could drop 1500 rounds of .22 a week easy right now. Usually shoot a couple hundred every time i go looking for beetles, or check on crop staging and weeds. They are utterly insane!

There are a few pre-seed weed control problems that I'll be putting into the memory bank for years forward. For example, if last years crop was polluted with russian thistle and it's going into peas, you had better put authority down. My god, what a mess of thistle. Viper will hopefully knock them back at least somewhat, but there'll be another flush when the good lord decides we're finally due for a rain.

If the rain event for monday-wednesday does not materialize, then all the fertilizer this year will be a waste. It'll simply gas off in dry, smoking hot dirt. How does one play that differently though? My sprayer is taxed as it is, and with only a 1000US gal tank it'd be one hell of a lot of filling to stream on all the required nutrients if it decided to rain.

When it comes to optimism biting one in the backside, it could be argued that without optimism there wouldn't be a single farmer left in the palliser triangle. Why bother? But here we are... Hoping, Praying, and some years suffering, while at other times collecting a handsome bounty. The trick I suppose is not to price yourself into receivership during the bad times, so that you can still be left standing to collect in the good.

[red rider]

[QUOTE=Sheepwheat;541884]I don’t think you’re as close to me as you assume, because 90% of the area at least, is not green. “A few miles” makes a big difference. I am about 25 miles in a straight line from partners beautiful canola.

I know exactly where you are and exactly where partners is and yes it is a few miles.

[Sheepwheat]

[QUOTE=red rider;541926]

I don’t think you’re as close to me as you assume, because 90% of the area at least, is not green. “A few miles” makes a big difference. I am about 25 miles in a straight line from partners beautiful canola.

I know exactly where you are and exactly where partners is and yes it is a few miles.

Ok. So I left the house and went to foam lake this morning. I was wrong. It is 95% not green out there all the way to foam lake. I don’t know how you could possibly say it’s green here?

So if you know exactly where I am, you would know that there was about 5% seeded in May, therefore 5% green.

As Tom says, cheers. 😀

[checking]

[QUOTE=Sheepwheat;541928]

Ok. So I left the house and went to foam lake this morning. I was wrong. It is 95% not green out there all the way to foam lake. I don’t know how you could possibly say it’s green here?

So if you know exactly where I am, you would know that there was about 5% seeded in May, therefore 5% green.

As Tom says, cheers. 😀

One explanation is that quite a few males are colour blind.

A second explanation is too much beer. It can only be rented before it becomes a pissing match. Have to support the malt side

Beers to you guys.

[Old Cowzilla]

Sure wish I could give you guys short of water some of ours. Guys still mudding in canola ,corn, beans and oats . Lots of black and green (weedy ) fields with standing water all over the place. Beans just poking out of ground that we seeded on the 27 th . Fall rye crops sprayed out and remudded with canola in this area. Cattle guys still can't take cattle to some community pastures cause there under water and are buying feed ouch!

[Sodbuster]

Beautiful morning for spraying, not much wind yet hopefull get all my wheat done here by this afternoon before it rains. I hope everybody gets the right amount of rain, for us 1 inch will be lots that will pretty much saturate us anymore then that we'll just fill with water.

[furrowtickler]

Managed to save our first canola from 3 frosts in 4 nights and a beetle attack …..


Thinned out but should still be ok if it rains .
This is the thinnest out of the first 900 ac . The rest is on its way depending on the next 72 hours

[Sheepwheat]

[QUOTE=checking;541952]

One explanation is that quite a few males are colour blind.

A second explanation is too much beer. It can only be rented before it becomes a pissing match. Have to support the malt side

Beers to you guys.

Knew it! I always have struggled with my browns and greens. My bad.

[SASKFARMER]

Lots to seed from Ituna to Yorkton to Melville and back.

[Sheepwheat]

Lots to seed from Ituna to Yorkton to Melville and back.

Yeah have friends at Melville who STARTED about five days ago. Yikes.

[Partners]

Where did all the dandelions come from?
Every road ditch is yellow..so are some fields..