Friday Crop Report on a Thursday!

[Guest]

Dried up enough to go out on the bike and look in a few fields. Stood on a hill and snapped a pic. Canola on one side wheat on the other.
Everybody knows Rain makes grain!

looks nice seldom , especially with the water you had to deal with this spring !
glad it spared you a wee bit on the last deluge !

[sumdumguy]

fu k man , that is beautiful!

That is a wondrous site, planted with planter?

[woodland]

Sitting at 2 inches this week and that is the biggest rainfall in over 2 years here. Spent most of the last four days with cows in the mud and it was sure nice compared to choking on dust like the last year and a half. The grass grew like crazy although it’s heading out now.


All you guys posting pictures of pretty square flat fields now know where the hills ended up out west😉

Semen tested the bulls Monday and I think most of them passed based on the vets first look at the slides. I know they don’t enjoy it but that’s the price of admission for them to spend the summer with the girls and grass.

Ran away for a day to Jasper and Miette hot springs. It was raining and as kids we’d always go last minute as a stress break. Very enjoyable in the rain knowing the grass is growing probably enough to get us to August now.

The frozen raspberry yogurt from the restaurant next door is fantastic too. Missed going there for two years while it was closed.

Went to visit a close friend tonight who got kicked in the head by a yearling the other day. Got stitches from her lip to below her chin and a concussion. She remembers walking into the crowding pen and dragging herself out afterwards but not how it happened. Be careful everyone since those crazy critters are out there and always scheming on how to get ya.

Now to get on with spraying in between the wind and sprinkles. Definitely not complaining about the moisture here though…….🍀

[SASKFARMER]

No spraying today it’s already almost 30 km

Well I’ll fire my new toy.



Henry.

[seldomseen]

Furrow will prove
Seed in the dust your bins will bust!
I will prove
Seed in the mud and you get a dud!

[SASKFARMER]

And for us seed Late thanks to excess rain you go down the drain.

[makar]

Hammer and a vice grip should get that new Henry down to five rounds in no time. What caliber is it?

[shtferbrains]

What about old 1894's with the fueding tube?

Load it on Sunday and shoot all week.

[SASKFARMER]

357 or 38 special.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

All you guys posting pictures of pretty square flat fields now know where the hills ended up out west😉

I second that. But I think I'd still rather have hills than swamps with occasional areas high enough to farm. At least the hills drain.

I'm still trying to figure out where the big square fields are. I've travelled a lot of the prairies, and look all over on google earth, and it seems to me that the big square uninterupted fields are very few and far between.

My goal is big fields, but square will never happen, diamonds and triangles at best, the glaciers left all the swamps running at an angle to the tidy square property lines and roads around here. And the few quarters that could be complete all have nasty well sites or acreages out of them.

[Guest]

They’re all square here

[makar]

357 or 38 special.

I was thinking of getting one those till ammo went retarded. My dream is to get a Henry lone ranger in .223. When I get time the new toy is a late uncles 1940 win 94 in .32 special.

[makar]

They’re all square here

Thats why I taught my boys to understand miles. They know we are surveyed in miles, farm directions in kliks are meaningless.

[woodland]

Joys of having thieves constantly in the neighbourhood……….

Nothing like getting a call first thing in the morning that a 100 pairs are out roaming in the coal mine beside the open pits and power plant. Turns out thieves cut two exterior fences and gates in this field to get to some transformers. They’re taken and damaged $100’s of thousands dollars the last few weeks apparently. Found a truck stuck in the bottom of a pit with a guy passed out on cocaine with guns and ammo even.

My cousin had them strip all the wiring out of a pump house which is quite common but now they cut the plastic hose a bunch of times just to be ignorant. All we can hope for is they drive off the high wall in the dark to the water filled pits below to help solve the problem.


Really have had enough of the catch and release justice system. Maybe these judges that keep cutting these habitual repeat criminals loose should be required to have them live in their basement for a few months?

***End rant***


Did some catch and release of our own with grandpa and the kids yesterday. Sure has been too long since we did that.

Hopefully everyone had great Father’s Day 🍀

[furrowtickler]

Very good to see you take time off , kids love that and will never forget 👍

We managed to giver on Liberty till 1:30 then take time to go see father in law at LTC then got back on sprayer and finished by 6 pm . Nice to be done weed control for now . Raining light here since 5:30 am . Huge weight off shoulders
Best of luck to all still given er . Spraying season can be stressful with weather no doubt