Friday Crop Report on a Thursday week 16

[Herc]

Judging by the forecast now, early seeded will win this year….. by a landslide. Surprised later canola is even flowering. But it’ll power out in couple days when this relentless heat takes its toll.

Estimates for our farm dropped 25%. May have to adjust further.

[BTO780]

Hail, hail, hail.
Corner to corner, then collect crap insurance.

[cropgrower]

finished baling hay yesterday , 300 bales from 50 acres, on john deere 567 baler roller cracked Wednesday evening ,drive roller over pick up , phoned Dealer ,, just 3,600 $ for new one and it might be here by next tuesday , no roller in manitoba , one at dealer at leader sk and one somewhere in alberta , took out roller and welded it up and finished hay yesterday , not impressed

[SASKFARMER]

Tomorrow our area will start to see the temp rising. What was scary Monday night we dropped to to 5 for 10 min

[SASKFARMER]

Humidity is still 77% at 10 am

[jazz]

That cold May and June fcked the timing on this crop. Usually our canola is coming out of bloom by now, but instead going in to a big heat wave.

Some guys durum headed out last week and its already got a tinge to to.

[helmsdale]

Last night was the first this month that we didn't hit the dew point in the overnight.

Just after the sun went down was the first time you could smell this crop as well... Like freshly cut hay. By mid next week, there wont be much left here. Surface moisture is non-existant, subsoil went into this year depleted.

There's durum up to your elbows that is turning white as heads abort. To think... 2 weeks ago, I was contemplating a bagger! Grain buyers pressuring to lock in bushels saying prices are expected to fall further yet... Yea, ok... You got act of god? How bout send your high priced agrologists/agronomists out and tell me what's a fair number to "pre sell"? I'm weather tight storage poor here at the moment, and capable of storing a 15bu/ac across the board crop. The only one I see putting pressure on that number is peas. And those peas? They were gunning for 50+, but pods that were 6 and 7 peas are now down to 2, 3, or 4 max, with the top pods aborting altogether. Leaf burn and bottom stem burn is prevalent on every crop out there. They're hurting!

Good luck lads and lasses. Get your ducks in a row! At least for now, it looks like depressed prices are going to accompany lackluster bushels.

[SASKFARMER]

Some are texting me that the awns are turning white

[BTO780]

There is alot more than that turning white.

[helmsdale]

Some are texting me that the awns are turning white

yea, there's whole entire heads turning white here.

[blackpowder]

Interested to see what next week's report brings.
Digging a borrow pit inside the high water line on a small slough. Dry for 8'

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Interested to see what next week's report brings.
Digging a borrow pit inside the high water line on a small slough. Dry for 8'

And are you in an area that had excess water this spring?