Canola 60 bushel swath!!!

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Weird year here. Canola in the hills outyielded the level ground. Barley similar as well. Neighbour figures that downpour we got earlier on flooded it out some.

Around here, we would call that normal, not weird. The most valuable asset around here is a hill. Even last year with no rain all summer, in most cases the hills still did better than the lower ground. It only seems to take one rain event to cut potential of the lower ground.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Not my fault if the bin lids are open in the rain. Wink wink…..

I tried leaving the tarps open on the truck boxes full of over dry canola in the rain once. All the moisture went right to the bottom made up wet mess stuck to the boxes and I don't think I gained any moisture in the rest of it. But it's not technically adding water though correct?

[woodland]

The good ………maybe 40bu?


The bad……….maybe 20bu?


The ugly………maybe 10bu?


No worries of looking like a 60bu swath here. I’ll be happy with half of normal assuming we don’t get anymore hail. Thank goodness for crop insurance again this year. It looked like a disaster at seeding and mid June looked pretty good after a few rains. After getting roasted and burned for the last two months it’s not pretty.

Oh well it should run through the combine quick at least. Always a positive amongst the poo that gets thrown your way occasionally 🍀

[TOM4CWB]

I tried leaving the tarps open on the truck boxes full of over dry canola in the rain once. All the moisture went right to the bottom made up wet mess stuck to the boxes and I don't think I gained any moisture in the rest of it. But it's not technically adding water though correct?

Morris posted this on Agriweek…


The crop will likely shrink some more.:: nice to have a few showers now… bring the moisture up to more reasonable levels…

Happy Canola harvesting!

[furrowtickler]

Pretty easy answer
Zero subsoil and lack of rain at a critical time for too long for 70% of the canola growing area demolished yield potential

Peas absolutely no different

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Morris posted this on Agriweek…


The crop will likely shrink some more.:: nice to have a few showers now… bring the moisture up to more reasonable levels…

Happy Canola harvesting!

So which is fake news, this article, or Larry's confidence in the technology?
I would have expected the opposite. Following a drought year, our crops generally seem to do much better than expected for the conditions.
Here, the culprits are fairly easy too figure out. Over a month of sitting in saturated soils with cold conditions and rain every day and flea Beatles. Followed abruptly by much above average heat, and almost no more rain for the rest of the season. But I thought most other areas had better conditions.

[furrowtickler]

Wind blown swaths and pod drop / shatter also taking bushels every single day now
All of it so dry and brittle it’s crazy actually

[furrowtickler]

Will be surprising if the final total is above 18 imo

[crusher]

First field managed to pull off a 60. L340PC, sprayed for flea beetles, sprayed for sclerotinia on very good land. Yields will keep dropping from there.

[furrowtickler]

Just finished one at 34 bpa , right beside one we did that was 50