Crop tour 2023

[SASKFARMER]

Day one Regina to Canora.

Crops could use a drink to hit max potential but this area was very good last year so for extra yield this is a good crop but similar to 2022.


Balcarres to Canora has up and down spots with some areas having issue.

It’s a rain lotto this year so miss one or get one in five miles can be the difference from night and day.

Hit a great shower last night north of Yorkton. Looks like it hit a big area from Goodspirit to Kamsack. Water in fields in spots.

This will help big time for this area.

Could rain tonight again.

That will help with heat.

Good and Bad crops it all depends on rain and timing of seeding early or late one rain makes a difference.

Day two

Canora to Preceville to kelvington up to nipiwan melfort PA over to battleford and down to south of Saskatoon.

Remember did Regina to Saskatoon twice and it needs a rain but Damage was done barley turning canola finished flowering and wheat hanging on. They had showers but next weeks heat will not be nice.

[BTO780]

The crooks put the prices up of old crop trying to steal every kernel they can. Sorry boys you aren’t getting mine. The state of this crop is pretty obvious.

Only touring I make is from home to the lake.
Most are not begging for rain rather a hail storm.

[furrowtickler]

The crooks put the prices up of old crop trying to steal every kernel they can. Sorry boys you aren’t getting mine. The state of this crop is pretty obvious.

Only touring I make is from home to the lake.
Most are not begging for rain rather a hail storm.

Agree time for begging for rain was gone weeks ago in many areas
A few small areas benefited a bit from last weeks rain’s depending on many factors

[SASKFARMER]

Decent rain last night to Greenwater park.

Crops excellent Canora north.

Lodged wheat canary seed.

Precville dryer

Kelvington dryer than usual but ok

[sumdumguy]

Saskfarmer, do you get out and count the pods on those lentils?

Sumdumguy is missing his Lentil/Canary tour this year due to medical complications beyond control.

[bucket]

Saskfarmer, do you get out and count the pods on those lentils?

Sumdumguy is missing his Lentil/Canary tour this year due to medical complications beyond control.

Why are there no government agency in Saskatchewan using a team of people from industry to to a crop tour like they do in the states?

And publish those results at the end of the day or next day for the area they are surveying.

It seems that would be part of an open market , a critical part that would help both producers and grain companies to help with logistics.

[SASKFARMER]

Carrot river is good but not like a normal crop. Good nipawin all way over to Cochin south of it to battleford and then drops off as go towards Saskatoon. Barley getting swath south of Saskatoon, fell through the stubble.

[SASKFARMER]

The Sw has huge yield loss and its in Canola and Durum. Lentils look not bad but short peas made something not much.

Why grow canola is one question.

Crop insurance and new are so no long term yield is second 10 years 6 great 4 toast good coverage.

One of the better by elrose then they drop off fast

canola crop

[zeefarmer]

Trust me, the reason alot of canola is grown in the Palliser Triangle is for chem rotation and because of aphanomyces problems in pulses. I'd way rather be growing 20 bus lentils than 20 bus canola, but rotation says I can't

[furrowtickler]

Will have to say Canola does work and does have a decent ROI at least 7/10 years unless right in the heart of the Sandhills of the triangle .
This year is much like 2021 , an abnormally large drought area that expanded the “palliser triangle” by 3 x .
That’s two out of the 10 , and yes a few areas are now on year 4 .
But again canola in general does work in most of the drought area effected .

[BTO780]

If I had a guarantee min of $12 durum, with 60 bu that’s all I would grow. Headers never need to touch the ground. Growing lentils may sound cheap to grow till the combines go in for inspection.

[zeefarmer]

If I had a guarantee min of $12 durum, with 60 bu that’s all I would grow. Headers never need to touch the ground. Growing lentils may sound cheap to grow till the combines go in for inspection.

We didn't grow lentils in 21 (trying to lengthen rotation from 4-5 years) or 22 (fert carryover). Our combines and headers looked like they had hardly been used vs years when we seeded 20-25% lentils

[Herc]

Ignorance is bliss. $800 guarantee on canola. $475 on wheat. Pick which you’d grow on the west side….

[SASKFARMER]

[SASKFARMER]

It’s a big area and the next three days are going to cook it some more. One troubling thing is seeing signs of some drying from moose jaw to Regina. Windy down south today.

Canola is the one crop in big trouble.

Durum is number two but some will be produced.

Barley is taking it on the chin.

Lentils faired well for the most part and in some areas the only green thing around.

Peas seeded early died or are but did make some seed before dying.

Flax I seen one half just sticks no plant at all.

Get one rain it looks better, drive a mile on each side and if it missed it’s easy to see the difference.

Sloughs seeded or water runs have something
.

Take a drive it’s worth doing. I’m tired it’s been a long three days but home and tomorrow off to Ontario.

Bucket it was fun to touch base after all these years.

Missed heading down to Stewart valley looking at tractors.

In a nutshell the heat will take grain away. The rain events if you get will make a crop of what’s there. Big yields maybe a bit higher but mathematically it’s a lower crop due to the size.

Word of advice for Sask ag get out and look.

Showers were spotty this year.