Water, or lack of

[Guest]

I can’t believe how much more land drys out without snow cover

[helmsdale]

I can’t believe how much more land drys out without snow cover

We call it *freeze drying* here. You have continual freezing/frost overnight that then gets wicked away during the warm windy daylight hours. We have been "net drying" here the last 1.5 months.

[foragefarmer]

I searched the post I was referencing. It was from October of 21, and he was calling for 8 years of drought. I assume that maybe included 21? So only 5 years left. Just search Macdon It's one of the last posts he made.

The post you use to map the future of your farm on. First marketing, now long range drought forecasting .

Have you ever wondered why he's never been heard from since making that post?

[AlbertaFarmer5]

The post you use to map the future of your farm on. First marketing, now long range drought forecasting .

Have you ever wondered why he's never been heard from since making that post?

He said he was cashing in and retiring.

[helmsdale]

He said he was cashing in and retiring.

I believe he also said he'd had enough of this place? I've no idea why...

[AlbertaFarmer5]

I believe he also said he'd had enough of this place? I've no idea why...

I'm also wracking my brain trying to think of a reason why someone civil, intelligent and mature who wanted to discuss commodity marketing on a commodity marketing forum would have left in frustration.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

With apologies to Helmsdale and everyone else in the same situation. I'm not counting on drought for long term marketing. As we have seen, crop conditions in Western Canada have very little effect on world prices.
I'm desperately hoping for drought "here" since it is far preferable to the alternative.

I'd rather have a hot dry year with the resulting (local) bumper crops across all acres of adequate quality to market at depressed prices, than half drowned out, poor quality frozen crops which hadn't received enough heat units to even mature, regardless of price.

Unfortunately, nature doesn't seem to care what I am hoping for.

[bucket]

Seeing slough bottoms that were not dry in 1988. Guys were out working them up. If those sloughs get seeded in 2024, chances are it won't be worth seeding the rest of the field.

[fjlip]

Everytime we worked dry sloughs....wife said I will be sorry. Happened too often, I quit working up old muskrat land.

[blackpowder]

Have a landlord who started charging rent on the sloughs seeded or not. Dunno if that tells us where in the cycle we are.

[TASFarms]

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[Happytrails]

We don't need moisture until April. Until then I will take all of the great weather that mother nature sees fit to send.