Friday Crop Report

[furrowtickler]

Slowly getting stuff up to shop here, yard drying up .
Still snow in fields and around yard , water running in areas , about normal other than all low areas and even big sloughs were dry last fall.
eager to see if tilling project was worth the time , money and effort last fall . Won’t know for a while yet , time will tell

[furrowtickler]

Drone pictures from last summer definitely showed the benefits of deep ripping two falls ago
Can see exactly where the shanks even started in ground …

[TASFarms]

Paramagnetic.[url]http://dykstralabs.com/dr-philip-s-callahan/Thomas[/url] Dykstra

[TASFarms]

Drone pictures from last summer definitely showed the benefits of deep ripping two falls ago
Can see exactly where the shanks even started in ground …

Need to try Nichole Masters technique. 1 cup of molasses and and couple pounds of humic acid/acre. When ripping

[woodland]

Definitely feels like spring here.

Virtually no runoff, the poplar buds and ***** willows are poking out with the odd sprig of grass showing through. Partial fire ban already which seems to be recurring theme.

Ran all the cows and bred heifers home to vaccinate them before calving although a few early calves beat us to the punch. It snowed a few inches today and the steam was rolling off the bred heifers and yearlings like crazy after the four mile hike home. Ended up pulling a calf after the move and my daughter was helping me while everyone was starting to process and that was nice.

Ended finding a couple cows that didn’t pay attention in math class since there was two cows and three calves

Had a friend asking about the economics of cows the other day and it was eye opening to him how many years it can take to turn a calf into cash. Last July is when this crop was “planted” and won’t be sold till January ‘26 which is 2.5 years and kinda crazy when you think about it. I guess we must love it especially after trudging in the corral mud that try’s to suck your boots off all day. A great crew makes it all go as good as it can even if the weather isn’t so good.

Life is great……….. even if the next “slow day” won’t happen till sometime in June.

[SASKFARMER]

No he made way more forage.


See farmers will look for the best employee and keep them come hell or high water but socialists will let them go because they make the ****ups look bad.

did I get the NDP right?

[seedman]

Need to try Nichole Masters technique. 1 cup of molasses and and couple pounds of humic acid/acre. When ripping

Add in fish hydrolysate to that mix. That's what we do now. Apply it at the back of your subsoiler shanks. Amazing results.

[seedman]

Paramagnetic.[url]http://dykstralabs.com/dr-philip-s-callahan/Thomas[/url] Dykstra

Dr. Dykstra is a very interesting guy to listen to. My boys and I heard him speak this year in Edmonton and Winnipeg. Have been using a few of the techniques he references over the past few years. He's definitely on to something. Kind of dovetailing with Hugh Lovel's work.

[TASFarms]

I was in Nisku for that conference. I like Dr.Dykstra’s challenge to prove him wrong. I’ve been looking at what Hugh Lovel was doing.

[SASKFARMER]

Farming and the definition of insanity doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome.

We always try a few new things each year and assess over a three year return if it works or not. We always give any new thing three years.

Looking at something along the lines of a organic Nitrogen. More to follow.

[woodland]

Drone pictures from last summer definitely showed the benefits of deep ripping two falls ago
Can see exactly where the shanks even started in ground …

Hey Furrow
What kind of ground was this and what kind of depth/spacing did you rip? Might make for some interesting plots

Just curious……….

[makar]

Anytime I deep ripped here a monsoon hit and turned the soil to plasterscene.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Hope lake agassiz doesn't fill up I am close to the edge but would still be under by about 60 feet . It would be deeper yet where those cats are working. But that was back when dino's ruled.

Actually, it was only about 10,000 years ago. Just missed the dinosaurs by a mere 66 million years.

[Old Cowzilla]

Whoops I'm bad guess I should have spent more time in history class. Guess my sandbar is not as old as I think it is.

[furrowtickler]

Hey Furrow
What kind of ground was this and what kind of depth/spacing did you rip? Might make for some interesting plots

Just curious……….

It was a 5 shank , 30 inch space
I did a few low areas , small seasonal potholes and a couple compacted headlands
mostly in clay based soil where compaction is an issue
this is another strip I did on a headland…