Friday Crop Report on a Thursday week 16

[blackpowder]

I went back and measured cause I'm good at exaggerating lol and my eyes are bad.
Clay was dampish for 5' then sweaty.
Don't believe it has had standing water since last spring, permanent slough. It's a cycle.
No and yes. We mudded it in but really only had 4 inches in May with no real drying after runoff. Just north, they had more rain on worse dirt.
Properly established crops hanging in. Wheat flowering, canola peaking, peas done. We'll see.

[FarmJunkie]

I went back and measured cause I'm good at exaggerating lol and my eyes are bad.
Clay was dampish for 5' then sweaty.
Don't believe it has had standing water since last spring, permanent slough. It's a cycle.
No and yes. We mudded it in but really only had 4 inches in May with no real drying after runoff. Just north, they had more rain on worse dirt.
Properly established crops hanging in. Wheat flowering, canola peaking, peas done. We'll see.

Over the last 4 years we are close to 40 inches short of our yearly average. This year is getting closer to average but still below. Just gives a person some perspective of how much we will have to catch up to fill the tank again. When that happens we aren’t gonna like the results that year or years. But it will come eventually and we will most likely be on the other end of the pendulum fighting mud and yellow crops or dead crops. I’m always careful what I ask for because I’ve seen the results.

[furrowtickler]

Corn is the only thing doing well here now
early canola finishing out , will be decent, later canola taking beating with a lot of abnormal stunted pods . Surprisingly few blanks .
The very late canola just blooming now will not be much without rain in the next 24-48 hrs
we still have decent soil moisture but crops just can’t keep up .
we were in excellent shape , now hopefully get maybe average if we get a rain soon . If not it will continue to slide like many others

[furrowtickler]

We made it a month longer than last year before things went south.
we definitely got the sun and warmer temps to push maturity, just needed to be 5 degrees less , especially overnights .

[biglentil]

Anyone else noticing the fungicide turned the durum white.

[furrowtickler]

Anyone else noticing the fungicide turned the durum white.

All fungicide will scorch crop in certain conditions and lack of soil moisture. Been there
add a touch of foliar to mitigate, or when forecast shows this coming , park sprayer

[WiltonRanch]

Smoke set in thick now. Went to cold lake air show but planes didn’t fly because of smoke. Might save our bacon some. Assessing hail damage today about a week after. Funny how spotty and choosy that shit can be. Bloody lucky we ended up with a couple inches of moisture or more 7 days ago. Wheat is flowering and the barley looks lush. Canola though just sucks. Even the better looking fields are no screaming hell when you walk in. Moisture probably adequate if the heat tames down. Got most of the hay baled and hauled to the yard. Just an average yield but high quality. I need to get away and not look at the crops for a week or more. Kinda driving me nuts.

[makar]

Anyone else noticing the fungicide turned the durum white.

Neighbors have oats turning ugly fast.

[sumdumguy]

The smoke moves in and saves the day, hopefully this year it does same.

[foragefarmer]

That's what I hope for at the start of every growing season.

[Crestliner]

If you have had good rain this spring and the land holds moisture not too bad, between that and the smoke, yields always turn out better than we expect. The key is to keep the expectations low...forget the cover of the canola and Chem company's magazine being everybody's normal crop....just not true and highly unrealistic.

[jazz]

Smoke forecasted to lift out of here by Wednesday, so a little help I guess. Not looking great long term though. 2 weeks of this.