Harvest 2023

[zeefarmer]

Harvest started for us in SW Sask yesterday. Fortunate to have something to combine, even though it's less than a week ago. The heat the last 5 days took a tremendous amount of yield. Alot of 1/2 filled lentil pods that are empty now that were used to fill on the main branch.

In other unrelated news, we have bin space for rent if needed.

[crusher]

Nice to see someone out of the gate. Have you harvested much in July before?

[goalieguy847]

Nice to see someone out of the gate. Have you harvested much in July before?

Yeeghhh that stinks. Sorry zeeman. Dare i ask how yields are compared to insurance avgs?

[BTO780]

Yeeghhh that stinks. Sorry zeeman. Dare i ask how yields are compared to insurance avgs?

Watch how you answer, the boys at CI are watching

[furrowtickler]

Seen several fields being harvested and a few done from Pincher Creek to Swift and north on hiway 4

Unfortunately your right Zeeman , there will be lots of bin space

[jazz]

Every year these guys post a crop disaster and then proceed to replace their entire line of equipment.

I dont know whats real in this industry anymore.

[furrowtickler]

There are many large farms in the same position in the SW that have not had much of a crop in 3-4 years but are flipping new machinery yearly and buying land like crazy continuously.
It is truly intriguing how they are doing it .
, it makes little sense to most of us average farmers

[fcr]

I have a neighbour whose canola might make 25 and right across the road canola is wrote off and they are spraying it out . About 2 weeks seeding difference , both same variety ,etc.. The later stuff turned blue then died out. What a crazy year.

[furrowtickler]

I have a neighbour whose canola might make 25 and right across the road canola is wrote off and they are spraying it out . About 2 weeks seeding difference , both same variety ,etc.. The later stuff turned blue then died out. What a crazy year.

Seen a lot of that in my road trip

[makar]

There are many large farms in the same position in the SW that have not had much of a crop in 3-4 years but are flipping new machinery yearly and buying land like crazy continuously.
It is truly intriguing how they are doing it .
, it makes little sense to most of us average farmers

Flipping to avoid payments.

[zeefarmer]

Nice to see someone out of the gate. Have you harvested much in July before?

This is the third time in the last 16 years we've started in July. The other times we had started seeding in April, so it was at least 90 days from seeding until harvest. This year it's 82 days. We started seeding May 4 this year 😳

[flea beetle]

Flipping to avoid payments.

I can see doing that to the equipment, but land?

[makar]

I dont recall being done by Halloween in a El Nino year, usually good crops but crappy harvest. Guys struggling here to bale minus 1 bale hay crops. One of my best crops ever, but.

[makar]

I can see doing that to the equipment, but land?

Maybe increasing land values create a Ponzi scheme type of deal.

[jazz]

Maybe increasing land values create a Ponzi scheme type of deal.

From a family that went through a decade of drought in the Palliser in the 80s. The first few yrs were business as usual, by the 3rd and through the next 5, our horns were pulled in big time to survive that.

IMO, that area and a large swath bordering it could be entering a new dry spell with a switch back to El Nino. I would be looking to make my farm pretty resilient through such a time instead of swapping iron.