Friday Crop Report on a Thursday.

[Hamloc]

Harvest will start next week , lots of crop being pre harvested.
We have wheat ready to swath anytime, seed wheat , will wait till after weekend to let low areas fill as much as possible.
Peas , wheat and barley will be coming off in area by next weekend.
Yields will all be down 40-60% from last year in this area .
Good crops west of here along hiway 16 where the June and early July rains went . They will be 2 weeks yet .

Unfortunate to hear it has been so dry that your crops are ready to combine. We just started silaging yesterday. We are putting Paramount soft white wheat in the pit. Considering the extremely dry start very thankful for the crop. We run a 4640 John Deere on our FHX 300 Case cutter. We are cutting a 19’ swath and are in A1 or 2. Takes a bit of power as a tank of fuel won’t run all day. We run a Jiffy 900 tandem wagon, it fills in 10 minutes. So far so good.

As for our other crops. Most of the canola is done flowering. Some later seeded fields still flowering. Barley certainly ripening in the last week. Most wheat fields have 2 crops and many hilltops in the wheat fields are a bright yellow with volunteer canola, a bit of a mess for sure. Cattle pastures are holding. As I said very thankful.

[jazz]

Sad thing is we cant even get a rally into harvest because the entire US corn and soybean belt is going to get a 3 inch drenching so market thinks their crop is saved.

Canola down more than a buck a bushel in a week.

I should be growing corn, a crop that can apparently take 10 weeks of no rain and then rally back for record yeild.

[SASKFARMER]

Grain markets are the biggest joke in the world.

Charts and Rain on drought corn won't give huge yields it's all a joke.

Every year I farm you see how the grain markets reflect **** all and realize its a scam.

How much will get planted in both Russia and Ukraine if you're going to get killed seeding by land mines or planes shooting at you? Plus who is around to seed they would have every young guy in the army.
So BUBBA is driving the tractor.


This week's heat turned a very nice big huge crop into an Average to Below.

You Can't Say F U C K E D yet but it's getting close.

Zero rain equals no Grain.

[Guest]

Combining in the swamp on first of Aug should tell the airheads something
Whoever does Sask rain charts has us as adequate???
3.5” since seeding
Are they that stupid ??????
Wheat crops mature in 85 days ? WTF ?

[SASKFARMER]

This all started in the frost years of 2002 and 2004 I phoned in and all I got from everyone is we have to assess the damage. On August 1most crops weren't even close to making seed let alone, -5 from 9 PM till almost 9 Am. No one went out and checked, then in November or January. We had a bad frost.

It's like an Ostrich.

Zero trips traveled by any one who does crop reports in Sask AG or Feds. They are so out to lunch its not even funny.

[WiltonRanch]

Think we should be in for an average crop for wheat and barley. Oats are a mixed bag and so is canola. We’ve had some rains at critical times and most seeded at the right time have got enough to fill. Thinking my barley will be not too bad and I don’t really know why but it looks decent but short on hills. Canola doesn’t have a bunch of blanks or shitty little pods but heat as of late is tightening up the pods. It will be tough threshing to rub them out. Have all hay up and most greenfeed. Have another day and can focus on getting swathers fixed and combine de-moused. Pastures holding on but purposely turned out late and under stocked in anticipation of a dry year. If harvest is early will probably wean early and send steers to town and sell culls same time. Usually high cattle prices cause people to expand herds but with drought, costs, and aging producers the opposite is happening. Even in one of the most perfect places for mixed farming cattle herds have been dropping off for years. Interesting times.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

This comment was included with today's market quotes from an elevator.
most of the canola crop is still thought to be in relatively good shape, according to reports.

Apparently crops must have really improved since we drove across the prairies in the middle of July. Must have been all the hot dry weather since then that helped so much.

[Guest]

This comment was included with today's market quotes from an elevator.
most of the canola crop is still thought to be in relatively good shape, according to reports.

Apparently crops must have really improved since we drove across the prairies in the middle of July. Must have been all the hot dry weather since then that helped so much.

Yea it’s the best thing there is for flowering/pod filling canola *****

[SASKFARMER]

Honestly most are fu king morons

[TASFarms]

Anyone seeing massive amount of fleabeatles or is just me.

[shtferbrains]

Honestly most are fu king morons

How many of those older JD's have you accumulated?

I have fond memories of a 5020 from my first days starting out.

[furrowtickler]

Anyone seeing massive amount of fleabeatles or is just me.

Not yet in this area

[makar]

Anyone seeing massive amount of fleabeatles or is just me.

I dont look for anything, I prefer to be oblivious.

[ry0972]

Seeing and hearing of LOTS of ripe wheat falling over from sawfly, stem maggot and hoppers.
As bad a 25% on some fields.
Lots of wheat and canola being cut and baled.
Will be as bad or maybe worse yield here than 2021.
Glenside to Lake diefenbaker and across river around Macrorie is very hard hit by the drought and heat.

[SASKFARMER]

I think 22 now not sure we have lots of projects on the go. It’s become a hobby we grew into after my boys inherited my father-in-law’s collection and it’s just grows.