Comments on Crop Conditions

[charliep]

Looking for comments on crop conditions (include your general region).

Impact of high temperatures/moisture on yield potential.

Likely start of harvest (I assume early this year but looking for comments).

Quality potential (mainly things like proteins - I assume crop stress/earlier harvest could mean higher quality for wheat and higher protein).

Disease and bug issues.

[dalek]

Hey Charlie WAAAY out of your area (Eastern Ontario). Early corn is 8-9' tall and tasselled, potential looks enormous. Soybeans similar. HRWW started coming off today, haven't heard a yield yet but there are a lot of loads coming off so I think it's up. Straw yield also great. Finished our second cut of alfalfa yesterday and we've run out of places to put it, filled the barn, filled the area we usually put baleage, put another 150 or so bales of baleage along the front of the barn where we've never had to put it before and there's already enough regrowth to guarantee a third cut and probably looking at a 4th by Labour Day. We didn't have a bit of hay when we started cutting.

[TOM4CWB]

Charlie;

Was at a UofA plot site Elerslie RD.

They claim the Canola plots had recieved 1.5 inches of rain since seeding. 14 inches can yeild 45bu/ac Canola... a good soil profile holds about 7 inches they said if fully charged. 1 inch of rain is 6-10bu/ac of Canola. Needless to say the plots were not pretty. Half of normal growth.

Wheat is taking it the best. Wtr Wht. if no rain will start harvest first week of August. Early Dormant Seeded Canola will be about the same.

When does it start raining Charlie?

1st or August is latest to help blooming Canola. Would help fill wheat more as well.

Lots of 20bu/ac Canola I have seen... if it doesn't rain next week. It could be less if we don't get cooler weather and rain to fill it out.

Wheat could still give average yeilds with a little rain.

Barley has been hit hard by thrips... could be half a crop there I have heard.

[bduke]

SE Sask(south of Moosomin,east of Weyburn)has become very dry this summer.
Our April seeded canola may yield near average,but our fields seeded May 5-9 are heat blasted and aborting.
Wheat crops are looking normal from the road, but upon inspection most heads are four row.
Early barley fields are starting to ripen and later fields are turning white.
Our inspections have found little disease and few bugs(only a little midge). With no rain in the forcast for the next two weeks ,we expect our harvest to begin the first week of August,weather permitting.

[wedino]

I'm between Weyburn & Estevan & will echo what bduke states. I'll add that flax crops flowered about half of normal time & bolls are quite small. My flax quit flowering & turned brown on top at same time. Yield likely half of normal. I think it too late for rain to help anything other than June seeded crops.

[grassfarmer]

Scarily dry at Rimbey, less than 6 inches moisture since April 1st. Most perma-graze pastures done for the year. Will take oat silage off from a neighbours land this week - before it dries up, just at milk stage. Unfertilised hay land around here doing about .75 ton acre. Some heavy crops on fertilised land.

[crusher]

I'm guessing crops will be a third less than last year northeast of Edmonton, provided we get some moisture and cooler temperatures soon. Some crops are better than that, some are worse. Can probably knock off another ten percent if it stays hot and dry. Maybe Environment Canada was right with their summer weather prediction.

Question is when do you start selling. Canola is close to highs again but beans are tanking. Even with our crop going downhill I doubt it will break through resistance at old highs unless beans start to move up. Any other thoughts?

[Incognito]

Crusher:

Compare the WCE to BO and the MRA and see what canola has been tracking.

Best,

[Yusishen]

Eastern MB...winter wheat harvest well under way, ryegrass and timothy being combined as well. At least 2 weeks ahead of normal. Soil moisture varies from adequate to dry. Some crops looking really good, others didn't get rain when needed and are heat stressed. Looks like mid-August around here based on crop stages rather than July 23.

[rainman]

NE SK is looking better, but canola yields are going to be down significantly from last year. There is a lot of land that is drown out as well as the unseeded land. I'm thinking if I average 25 that will be about it. Wheat looks alright and peas look decent. Not much for barley in this neck of the woods, but what is here is really uneven. Tom4CWB, I was just in edmonton and down the Elerslie road golfing, the golf course even is drying up, hopefully some rain will land in the next few days.

[rosco]

South Flagstaff County
Very variable crops and rain. Seeding time combined with spotty rains are really messing with the stages of fields. No wrecks but some canola and barley got hit by the heat blast last week. 1 inch this weekend is carrying us right now. Crops will be slightly less than average on the whole, I think.