Friday Crop Report on a Thursday!

[Goodtime]

Around here a BTO , one of the largest in Saskatchewan, is silaging their canola.

I can't remember what area are you from?

[bucket]

I can't remember what area are you from?

Put it this way, just for fun, I can see some of the largest closet socialists from parts of my farm, on the south side of the river.

For more hints there were 3 large wind mills put up very close to the silaging effort going on.

The farm they bought or rented was listed for just shy of 40 million for 20,000 acres that was grass last year.

[seldomseen]

I keep hearing that this July has been the hottest ever! On CBC radio this morning likely the hottest in a thousand years!
We must be just a small area that is stuck in a pocket of cold air that never moves.
July for me has been cold and a quick scan of a leaf cutter nest confirms that I am not just imagining that it’s cooler than normal.

[wheatking16]

I noticed in a lot of areas there was a 10-ft strip along the road ditch which was far better than the rest of the fields. Is that because the topsoil that came off the roads got spread that far back in the day when the roads were first built? And that extra bit of topsoil held enough extra water this year?

In my part of the world, the best soil from the adjacent summerfallow collected around the perimeter of the fields.
Combine that with snow drifting off the road and and the highest quality and highest yield would be on the outside round.

It has been a few years since fallow but the best soil ended up on those edges.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

In my part of the world, the best soil from the adjacent summerfallow collected around the perimeter of the fields.
Combine that with snow drifting off the road and and the highest quality and highest yeild would be on the outside round.

It has been a few years since fallow but the best soil ended up on those edges.

That makes sense also. I think this might have been close to your area too. Saw a farm sign with the same last name as yours not too far away.

[Goodtime]

I keep hearing that this July has been the hottest ever! On CBC radio this morning likely the hottest in a thousand years!
We must be just a small area that is stuck in a pocket of cold air that never moves.
July for me has been cold and a quick scan of a leaf cutter nest confirms that I am not just imagining that it’s cooler than normal.

I have to agree, my area has been on the cool side as well....definitely saved our crops from burning up for now.

[fcr]

With $500+ in crop insurance and another couple hundred? from silage this might be a better option for most.Our canola wont gross 500 an acre but we will have the harvest costs.

[SASKFARMER]

CBC is full of shit again. On the east side it’s been a cool summer for sure. **** I wore a toque on a week ago.

Market knows **** all soy up at close and canola down .38 cents.

**** one rain in dry areas will only make it look nice till the heat hits and burns it up. The we areas let’s do math they had 55 last year and it’s 60 this year so 5 vs a total loss in some areas of 0

Five won’t increase **** all in supply as drought area is growing now slowing.

But the market knows.

[helmsdale]

In my part of the world, the best soil from the adjacent summerfallow collected around the perimeter of the fields.
Combine that with snow drifting off the road and and the highest quality and highest yeild would be on the outside round.

It has been a few years since fallow but the best soil ended up on those edges.

Also... If the wind didn't push it to the outsides of the fields, then that evil swear word DIS**R certainly did. Guy's here seeded with them, then did at least the first, and sometimes second pass of summerfallow with them. Farm some real estate that has since been turned into 1/4 and 1/2 section fields, where you have to still seed out deadfurrow's and dis**r ridges with a 5000 air drill because it'll either bury it or skip out. I * out the letters because this retarded hell-site has decided that something as farming orientated as "Dr a per" header is considered a foul!

Crop wise, the heat will finish the job here, but will certainly make alot of weeds jump by leaps and bounds now. Im hooking up one of those damned dis**r's to roll about 30% of one "Kustard" field under. Germination didn't happen until July, and activating rains for both Edge, and Authority didn't happen. An absolute mess...

Ballparks to make the rest of you guys feel better about your crops:
Peas: 5 to 9bu/ac with the hope that I can actually get whats there. The crop is so shittered, that it failed to pod in significant portions, so who knows?
Mustard: hoping for 4.
Canola: It will be a struggle for anything to make it out of single digits.
CWAD: 2-10 on stubble, a whopping 15 perhaps on chemfallow

Pasture: greening up! a saving grace for those tragically short on feed. Only crops I have that could be salvaged for feed I NEED for seed!

Now... Back to "Living the Dream!"

[furrowtickler]

Wheat harvest in eastern Washington..




Wheat in that area was very good , looked nice and even .
From the start , good crops SW of Battleford to Wilkie … again . Average at best to Unity .
Very poor South of Unity to Medicine Hat , extremely dry in eastern Alberta 😵*💫irrigation row is always a different world , south of Taber to Coutts actually decent , dry through Shelby Montana, Welker Farms area , not bad North of Great Falls .
Best part of drive was around Missoula , beautiful area .
Had lunch today at Moses Lake , that area very much like Lethbridge irrigation district. Anything there under pivot is awesome. Massive corn and potatoe crops . Very hot through central Washington state 35-39 c

[jazz]

[wheatking16]

That makes sense also. I think this might have been close to your area too. Saw a farm sign with the same last name as yours not too far away.

That would be my parent's place.

[shtferbrains]

The Palouse is a nice drive for a tourist/farmer in that lull before harvest.

It's always 85+ for harvest weather even late in the evening.

Don't miss the barge loading terminals down on the river.

Enjoy your trip Furrow.

[Sodbuster]

Having our annual pig roast this weekend, have a super heavyweight this year tipping the scales at 350lbs and a lamb we're also cooking.
Had it buried this morning at 6am, sure hope it's cooked by supper.
Ground was dry all the way down to 5' and very hard digging this year.

[Grahamp]

Hi Sodbuster
Could you go step by step how you do a pig roast. Always wanted to do one but don’t really know how. How many people would that 350 lb pig feed. Do you cut it up you just let people kind of rip of chunks?