Cinderella

[Old Cowzilla]

No Cinderella crops here just the ugly stepsisters thanks to hail and drowned out stuff.

[WiltonRanch]

Canola looks strange here as well. But darn it’s been a fight as long as I remember to get it to emerge even and have it flower and bush out properly. Doesn’t matter if you plant it at 3 4 5 or 10 pounds with whatever weapon you attack it with it can be a challenge. Some years you throw it over your shoulder and it works, other years the most expensive drills and it still looks poor. Fly into it in the fall and your jaw drops at what that shitty looking stand did or be completely disappointed at what that beautiful stand produced. Varieties are so much better than when I started and you just don’t know how it all ends till you hit the pit. Was east of biggar to a sale and canola crops in those hills just didn’t come up. That’s one thing. Around here hills have got good emergence and now starting to flower and it looks scant. Still though enough plants and good opportunity to branch and pod more.

[Herc]

Don't grow Canola in the Palliser Triangle.

Did i say that,

Yes, I did.

Canola average in Rm kinderlsey vs rm of abernathy since 1970 is……a whopping 2.4 bpa. Maybe palliser can grow canola…..

[sumdumguy]

Do you count the drowned-out stuff. Both Canola and Lentils are suffocating on the Wascana Flats, that’s for sure, and every cloud dumps another inch or two. The spray planes can see the damage and it’s spreading out, big time. Now the disease is another issue. She’ll be a job getting this crop in the pit.

[SmallTimeOperator]

If canola flowers aborting and heat not the issue, look very very close for bugs. We have grasshoppers, so small that can’t be seen that we have sprayed for already. Grasshoppers will be all the talk in a few weeks in this area. And there are very small mites that eat flower parts, they are right in the flower. And they go unnoticed. Of course flea beetles. And aphids I started noticing the last few days. If not bugs then it’s fertility. And with the price of fert this past year, everyone I have talked to has cut back, or left out the phos or tried something to lessen the cost. Last ten years I have not found a canola variety that I am happy with. All too slow to germ and get going. Slow to get to bolt. Or won’t cabbage out. Or won’t stop cabbaging and keep cabbaging forever. And varieties keep getting longer and longer maturity. We have dodged train wrecks before, 2019 being the most recent when canola was very late. So cross your fingers. One cold night in August would be the defining moment.

[jensend]

If canola flowers aborting and heat not the issue, look very very close for bugs. We have grasshoppers, so small that can’t be seen that we have sprayed for already. Grasshoppers will be all the talk in a few weeks in this area. And there are very small mites that eat flower parts, they are right in the flower. And they go unnoticed. Of course flea beetles. And aphids I started noticing the last few days. If not bugs then it’s fertility. And with the price of fert this past year, everyone I have talked to has cut back, or left out the phos or tried something to lessen the cost. Last ten years I have not found a canola variety that I am happy with. All too slow to germ and get going. Slow to get to bolt. Or won’t cabbage out. Or won’t stop cabbaging and keep cabbaging forever. And varieties keep getting longer and longer maturity. We have dodged train wrecks before, 2019 being the most recent when canola was very late. So cross your fingers. One cold night in August would be the defining moment.

STO what is your general area that you expect grasshoppers to become significant? I am seeing many tiny ones the last three days north of Q. valley. One canola field nearby looks wilted and leaves tipping away from sun. I agree bugs could be an issue especially after heat and drought last year. Crop dusters and chem reps telling me grasshoppers really bad in pockets so far.

[jazz]

I see the cabbage issue on a few fields. Seem to cabbage a long time now trying to bolt. Looks like soybean or potatos out there.

Have seen other crops rush to bolt. Barely cabbages out and now bolting.

I have already sprayed for beetles twice. Sure don’t want to have to go back in for hoppers.

We aren’t that late around here. Should get most fields bolting this month maybe some in early August.

[WiltonRanch]

I waited and put my canola in around May long but early seeded stuff here is in full flower and fantastic. I am amazed cause early stuff is usually attacked. Biggest pestilence here are gophers. Can’t get strychnine and acres getting lost.

[furrowtickler]

I waited and put my canola in around May long but early seeded stuff here is in full flower and fantastic. I am amazed cause early stuff is usually attacked. Biggest pestilence here are gophers. Can’t get strychnine and acres getting lost.

Early canola here looks very good as well in general if it was looked after
Overall
1/3 very good
1/3 ave
1/3 poor

50% is still 10-14 days late

[WiltonRanch]

This is my earliest seeded. Couple weeks ago you couldn’t see for thistles.

[Sheepwheat]

In this general area, and I am talking a big area, canola is 100% excellent, and 100% late. I’ve never driven 600km and seen zero poor crops in my life. Until this year. I think some areas maybe need a shot of rain more than others, and it could in theory go backwards if it doesn’t rain one more time, but this general east central to northeast region has a really, really big crop on the way. Even on my trip to Saskatoon, the crops almost all looked good. Might need a rain further west closer to the city, but solid crops all the way.

But we need a frost free september. None is blooming yet. At least close to home. Furthest along is just poking first flower. Most is bolting. In mid July.

[Partners]

Crops all look great.
Just ignore the calendar.

[WiltonRanch]

Crops all look great.
Just ignore the calendar.

I’d say we’re on schedule and heat is pushing things along now. Even square baled around yard which usually do the last but it cured fast and was the right stuff to put in a square for the horses. Baler older than me and my sons age combined and misses odd string. Great teacher of patience for my red headed child. It was like that when I was his age. He’s 10 and a perfectionist so when things don’t go just so he’s pissed. Even got up early to make us breakfast but had pan too hot and burned everything which he cleaned up and threw out never to mention to wife and I. She figured he tried for an hour before he said screw it. He’s one of a kind and out cutting hay now.

[TOM4CWB]

I’d say we’re on schedule and heat is pushing things along now. Even square baled around yard which usually do the last but it cured fast and was the right stuff to put in a square for the horses. Baler older than me and my sons age combined and misses odd string. Great teacher of patience for my red headed child. It was like that when I was his age. He’s 10 and a perfectionist so when things don’t go just so he’s pissed. Even got up early to make us breakfast but had pan too hot and burned everything which he cleaned up and threw out never to mention to wife and I. She figured he tried for an hour before he said screw it. He’s one of a kind and out cutting hay now.

Looking good if the hail stays away!

[WiltonRanch]

Looking good if the hail stays away!

For sure. I’d say we’re further ahead and on time like we should be. There’s no excuse to be behind if everything falls in place here. Outside of a few times we get just enough moisture and lots of heat in the summer to make decent grades and okay yields.