Hail / heavy rains

[sumdumguy]

Holy Crow, that is el destructo! The fields must be lodged too with wind like that. We don’t need that, fingers crossed and toes too.

[Sheepwheat]

Green crops lodged. Less green crops stayed up pretty fair.

Went out to check my cut hay. It’s not in swaths it is rolled up in twisted masses around the field. Scattered who knows where. So that will be fun. Goodbye fifty or so bales worth I guess. Glad I have an ancient, slow cutting haybine, so that I only had maybe 15 acres cut on that field. Lol

Get this. Seven bales rolled off the field into a slough. Eight bales were tipped on their side. Six by five bales. Some were rolled 200 yards. Only one got to the water where it is in the cattails ready for next years duck nesting I guess.

Now imagine being in that field at dusk having bales roll by you.

[Sheepwheat]

The wind was at least forty miles wide, maybe sixty from what I can tell. Worlds widest plow wind?

Other thing about lodging. If there wasn’t much rain with the wind, it didn’t flatten crops bad at all. Here it was not raining much with the wind, the rain came at the tail end of the wind. If the hay swaths would have been wet, they would not have blow to smithereens like they did.

[furrowtickler]

The wind was at least forty miles wide, maybe sixty from what I can tell. Worlds widest plow wind?

Other thing about lodging. If there wasn’t much rain with the wind, it didn’t flatten crops bad at all. Here it was not raining much with the wind, the rain came at the tail end of the wind. If the hay swaths would have been wet, they would not have blow to smithereens like they did.

The big plow winds in the mid west US last year were very wide, 100 plus miles
But still that’s a big hit to a big area
Tough time of year for that to happen

[Ab7]

Now the traders know all the bins are empty

[fjlip]

Now the traders know all the bins are empty

3 aren't.. all solidly bolted to concrete...

still SFA to the natural forces of the atmosphere/Climate!

We are insignificant and will NEVER EVER change that with TAXES!

[Boldtfarms]

We are half hour north of Saskatoon on highway 12. My brothers yard got close to three inches yesterday with some hail. My yard 4 miles south got close to an inch.

[sumdumguy]

The radar looked vicious for Regina area last night. Luckily no tornado, rain between 2/10 and 1/2 inch.

[hedgehog]

Green crops lodged. Less green crops stayed up pretty fair.

Went out to check my cut hay. It’s not in swaths it is rolled up in twisted masses around the field. Scattered who knows where. So that will be fun. Goodbye fifty or so bales worth I guess. Glad I have an ancient, slow cutting haybine, so that I only had maybe 15 acres cut on that field. Lol

Get this. Seven bales rolled off the field into a slough. Eight bales were tipped on their side. Six by five bales. Some were rolled 200 yards. Only one got to the water where it is in the cattails ready for next years duck nesting I guess.

Now imagine being in that field at dusk having bales roll by you.

We lost a dozen sheep some years ago who were sheltering behind round bales which blew over

[sumdumguy]

Francis got hit hard last night. Some hail said to be baseball size demolished several thousand acre fields, buildings severely damaged.

[LEP]

We lost a dozen sheep some years ago who were sheltering behind round bales which blew over

Always my first thought after a bad hail storm is how the animals were impacted.

When I was about 13 years old we were haying with nothing but bale stooks to hide behind. I ended up with several bruises on my back from loonie sized hail. Can't imagine being out in a storm with bigger hail.