Friday Crop Report on a Thursday week 11

[Dr Tone]

I have crop that should be sprayed but the thoughts of going into a nice smooth flat field and making these double scars every 100 feet across the field makes me a little sick to my stomach.
Next rain those scars will fill with water and if it turns dry they will get hard like cement.
If could only get a few sunny warm days without rain!

In the same position.

[Sodbuster]

Spraying the last of our wheat hasn’t been fun, getting showers almost every day since the 2.6” a week ago. Finished our last wheat field and off to do a few quarters of oats tomorrow.

[jdg364]

We have a JD crop intelligence weather station and we are starting to fall behind on our heat

2024 GDD 494.4
30yr avg 531.2

2024 CHU 433
30 yr avg 502

Started seeding in the last week of April and we’ll be lucky if we do much harvesting in August at all.

[goalieguy847]

Lol harvesting in " august?" Not sure what that even looks like. Where do you farm..texas?

[furrowtickler]

We do lots of times , being on the dry side 9/10 years we get 25% or more done by end of august in this area
SW Sask is over 50% done harvest majority of the time
less rain generally means quicker maturity .
this year obviously the 1/10
How's crops your way goalie?
We ok here , luckier than many areas so far that are far too wet but still dragging on heat units and maturity
easily 10 days behind last year already

[helmsdale]

Watch what you wish for, a wet year wreck is like gonerea,it just keeps giving.

not in any way disagreeing.

*1 Year*. It'd give a guy like me perspective. I've never seen it, and farming here, never will. If this place floods out, someone had better be building an ark because it'd have to be biblical.

[helmsdale]

Lol harvesting in " august?" Not sure what that even looks like. Where do you farm..texas?

Ive gone on peas seeded the 20th of April, in the last few days of July. It's never a good thing. Typical here was to start combining cereals mid August and be done the first week of September.

[13stripe]

We have been done winter wheat in July before with ok yields. It is starting to head now.

[helmsdale]

We have been done winter wheat in July before with ok yields. It is starting to head now.

Neighbor that seeded 90%+ durum this year, and was going the 20th of April has some stuff that is going into shot blade right now. Looks beautiful! Gonna hit a wall here shortly as reserves are minimal, but rain this weekend(if you trust a weatherman) should maintain it for another week or so.

I never did check soil temps much this year, but I suspect that we cooled down the beginning of may as later seeded crops seem to be REALLY dragging their ass!

[furrowtickler]

There was a fair amount of crop seeded in April here and NW to Turtleford area . Looks good till you go far NW then flooded area starts

[SASKFARMER]

On the last section and a half of wheat to spray. Storm coming from Montana. Flooded areas getting bigger but cropaid maybe helping out with less water sitting than other years.

[furrowtickler]

Early seeded canola here looks awesome, but we snuck by frost here for the most part

[sumdumguy]

Flee beetle heaven here.

[Sodbuster]

Oats all sprayed, finished the flax tonight and started cleaning the sprayer for canola. Flea beetles starting to chew so will have to check fields tomorrow to see what plan of action is next.

[blueversi]

And the other issue.
Spraying crops that are turning yellow from water logged soil would be similar to spraying them when they are turning blue from drought.
When they are struggling to grow chem isn’t the best for them.

Yes , just a bit of wheat here that could be sprayed but it’s hurting and yellow. I’ve sprayed on fields that were borderline too wet the past couple years just to get them done and noticed a yield hit so going to hold off and hope the weather straightens out.