Friday Crop Report on a Thursday.

[SASKFARMER]

Good morning. It is raining, it is pouring, and the old man is snoring.

So far, East Regina has had over 1 inch, and its tracking NE to Yorktonl total this week for our farm is 1 inch over the whole farm up to 6 a.m. today.



This is a builder rain for 2024 and will fill and plump up the seeds there. It stops the decline in yield for our area. It will push the crop to maturity faster. It's also exhibition week in Saskatoon, so it's perfect timing for rain.

Trudeau took his daughter to Oppenheimer to explain the movie to him; he took his son to Barbie to show us he is grasping at straws to float the good ship liberal that's sinking daily.

Crop report.

Peas and lentils. Most have started to spray down the crop, and only a few later-seeded fields are waiting. We will begin to Reglone Friday night on our peas. First, combine rolled-in early peas and are ok with the results. Early rains hurt yield for the home run crop and disease.



Flax is turning out to have handled the dry July, and it looks not that bad. The organic guy has the cleanest field I have ever seen and is thick.

Barley is a week away from watching on our farm. Across the valley, one field was tried straight, but it looked like they quit a few more days. Yield will be okay, but not like last year.



Hrs and Durum are in the filling stage to just about time to shut them down. Next week will get busy in our area. Fields of wheat getting harvested by Kamsack. It will be a good crop, but I'm not sure it will beat 2022 for yield. They are filling nice.





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[SASKFARMER]

Canola is the crop that will now fill the pods with better seeds, but the extra yield will not happen with this rain. Damage was done on later seeded fields. But it's a builder rain for 2024. Most areas planted early or later just finished flowering and are at least mid-September away from shutting down. Yield will be good, but I don't think it will average as good as 22 across the farm. Province-wide, it's a 30.1 average yield or less. One grain company is telling farmers it's a 37, and they should be locked up and charged for lying to their customers.





Pastures are having a tough time on lighter land; others are hanging on. Hayfields might get a second cut, and some have already.

Late Greenfeed and millet will love the rain and give excellent results.

Yes, we have cracks forming down south.






The girls are finally home. I can't wait to try them.




Have a great week, and stay safe its only a crop they will work overtime to take from you.

[Freightshaker]

Tape off or tin and large hose clamp portions of the first and second hole on the return. It overloads the left side way too much. Kill the combine you will see what I’m talking about. Hope you put mad concaves in there. Make sure they set the sieve and chaffer correctly. And make sure you don’t open the chaffer all the way open if you have the flat tooth (hp chaffer) or it has a tendency to catch and leave louvers wide open. I see no dust fans on them. That might be a mistake depending on the year. Make sure they have all the software up to date. And combine for an hour or so and give it a good once over. Bolts loose, hoses loose, hoses rubbing, you name it. Very poor quality control on 2022 combines.

[BTO780]

We had 3 monster rains the last three mornings, I call them “deck wetters”.

There will be lots of guys finished by Sep long wk end. In fact, one guy will be done in 10 days.

Good average to slightly above average crop coming, WTF is going on?????

When there are 40 RMs who have declared disaster areas and probably more should, who are the brainless people saying this crop will be just “fine”
Just like the Riders QB. 🤣🤣
May as well add a touch of humour on not so much of a “fine” year.

[Hamloc]

We got our silaging finished in the last week. Went surprisingly well. Overall averaged about 10 tonne per acre. First time putting up Soft White Wheat for silage. Stood well, swathed nice, takes a bit of horsepower to chop. Out yielded the barley we did by about a tonne per acre. The barley we did was a semi dwarf, Sirish.

Sprayed some more hoppers this week on my one pasture. Pasture was certainly hurting, needed rain, fortunately we got about a half inch over the last 3 days.

Earliest seeded barley is about a week away from pre-harvest. Canola I would think 2-3 weeks from swathing. Wheat not much will happen there before the end of August. It will be interesting to see what will happen on the wheat. Many fields have large areas of volunteer canola which grew after the rain started, not sure how that will be dried down as much of it is RR canola. Peas, only one field in my immediate area, about a week away from pre-harvest.

Guys are cutting there second cut hay, doesn’t look too bad. Ours will be ready to be cut in a few days.

[SASKFARMER]

One inch across the board this is a building for 2024 rain and it will push the crop to the end now.

[Goodtime]

Tape off or tin and large hose clamp portions of the first and second hole on the return. It overloads the left side way too much. Kill the combine you will see what I’m talking about. Hope you put mad concaves in there. Make sure they set the sieve and chaffer correctly. And make sure you don’t open the chaffer all the way open if you have the flat tooth (hp chaffer) or it has a tendency to catch and leave louvers wide open. I see no dust fans on them. That might be a mistake depending on the year. Make sure they have all the software up to date. And combine for an hour or so and give it a good once over. Bolts loose, hoses loose, hoses rubbing, you name it. Very poor quality control on 2022 combines.

Is it true a robot in the JD factory wasn't welding hot enough on a bunch of new X9s and now some dealers are scrambling to repair/reweld?

[SASKFARMER]

Deere had the fuel tanks subbed out to another company they got behind and missed pressure testing the tanks and shipped them out. Tanks leaked. Fixed problem and company not supplying tanks anymore. You don't **** with mother deere.

[fjlip]

Number one issue is TOO many were sold and rushed I presume. Not enough tech's out here, servicing will be a nightmare. Hurry up and WAIT.

All customers at Kelvington clinic changing out concaves too, Sunnybrook their choices.

[Freightshaker]

Is it true a robot in the JD factory wasn't welding hot enough on a bunch of new X9s and now some dealers are scrambling to repair/reweld?

Yes frames are being rewelded on a bunch of 2023’s.

[SASKFARMER]

Just listened to Sask Ag they are so happy farmers are harvesting fast. Dah they have nothing to harvest of course it's fast.

Harvest pressure is on boys and girls. Like that has any truth to it.

**** are new grain carts expensive.

[helmsdale]

Just listened to Sask Ag they are so happy farmers are harvesting fast. Dah they have nothing to harvest of course it's fast.

Harvest here will be anything but fast. Rained the first -> second week of July here. I fully expect to have combines rolling in October chasing late stools.

Working on peas right now that are 30-40% grass green in appearance from the road. Absolute shitshow as all the green plants refuse to die on their own, but also refuse to set seed. They keep flowering and aborting. If there was actually some bushels there I'd dessicate, but... 4-14bu/ac doesnt justify hiring a high clearance. It doesn't justify firing up my own even if I had it! Running 2-3% splits, and 12-13% Mx with a few green pods and a whole pile of weed seeds and grasshoppers... Leave a truck overnight and the stench of dead and rotting hoppers will damned near make you vomit when you dump into the air bin.

Cereals are turning, and anything that isn't sawfly resistant is going to be a nightmare. THEY were BUSY this year! Late rain was enough to germinate seeds still sitting in dry ground. Some fields as low as 5% which will get pushed through, but I personally have some pushing 75% second growth. I'll pick and choose and then if frost stays away maybe harvest late? Or perhaps just blow it out end of september and hope for snow catch... Even those with 95% germination are getting greener by the day as kochia, and Russian Thistle are getting out of control. Glypho would control the R. thistle, but Kochia would need a dose of diquat. Again... Is a pass of diquat worth it on 10-15bu/ac durum/barley/wheat? Perhaps swath it? And how does one pick up a 10-15bu/ac crop when there isn't enough height or mass to make a swath?

Oilseeds: just doing our part to try and make the guys with a crop a few dollars... Its dismal!

New Ag Canada drought map still has us at D3 on account of the lottery showers we won in July. That said, all those showers did was bring us hail damage, weeds, and 2nd growth. #winning. Those to the south and north were finally put into D4 category.

Alot of crop getting rolled for feed. Hell, some of the cow guys are wrapping the weeds that germinated in July!

It's friggin bleak out here, but... Combines will roll on crop that in any other area would be considered an apocalyptic failure! Back to "Livin the Dream"...

[SASKFARMER]

Yes 50 have problems with a robot weld. Hung over I guess.

[SASKFARMER]

Another system on its way tonight in the West.now it will start raining

[BTO780]

Just listened to Sask Ag they are so happy farmers are harvesting fast. Dah they have nothing to harvest of course it's fast.

Harvest pressure is on boys and girls. Like that has any truth to it.

**** are new grain carts expensive.

And combines aren’t??