Friday Crop Report on a Thursday Week 18

[SASKFARMER]

Dry dry hot and dry but humidity is also high.

was the western producer article for a bumper crop the kiss of death for crop 2024. Yes.

Ok here is what I'm seeing canola is taking the heat the worst. Wheat and durum are losing bushels but some will get what crop insurance coverage would have been. Peas 30 could be a good crop. Lentils look better. Oats and barley will be light.

So its better than last years but the bumper is long gone.
Average to below It is here.
Crop report.

Wheat is in filling stage and wont fill 8 row probably 4.

Durum is turning and wont fill head potential.

Flax is done blooming and filling

Canary in our area looks great but it was seeded early and filled well.

Barley is changing and changing fast. In the next week swathing will take place for malt.

Peas are in final stage and a week away from shutting them down.

Lentils are still doing ok.

Canola the early is done flowering for a while looks ok but didn't fill to its potential. Later seeded was helped by a cool weekend but the heat is back and taking yield.

So it will be below average or average Sask crop. The bumper is long gone.

Tell us about your area.

[SASKFARMER]

The trip south and into Alberta shows combines will be used in all areas but I fear the production will be same or similar to crop insurance guarantees.

Our area and most that had good crops in the last 3 years will see a smaller crop this year or similar is they got rain in July.

[BTO780]

There’s nothing to talk about anymore this yr …. She gawn!!!

[goalieguy847]

Crops look.. no clue. Wheat looks anywhere from awesome to meh. Early barley up here has gone white ( never seen that before) but late may seeded stuff should be bumper. Canola i suspect is worse than it looks... some varieties look like they took a real heat blasting and others seem pretty a ok.
Fabas arent good..
So little peas in our area i cant even comment. Went on a motorbike crop tour and covered about 400 kms thru 4 counties... saw 1 field of peas and it was inside the anthony henday right by the river, basically touching houses in edmonton.

Oats look good..

i firmly believe early seeded crops ( pre may 10th) are going to be borderline crop insurance covg levels and later will be better.
Those squirrely guys who dont get started til may long will be the definite winners this yr.
edmonton north to athabasca country....

[SASKFARMER]

Indian head north is a oasis

We won't best them this year for yield.

[blueversi]

Hearing the same all over, heat and no rain for weeks now taking yield but yet markets keep dropping. Definitely good areas with good soil and enough moisture but lots of garbage too. Cereals look good around me for most part except barley, only seen 1 quarter of peas and they looked ok. Canola is all over the map, some fields near me will struggle to do 20, 15 might be more like it on some. 35-40 likely be the top and those fields are few in number.

[SASKFARMER]

Red deer to swift or red deer to Edmonton to battleford and home haven't decided yet.

[blackpowder]

Pretty much as you said Sask.
Just over coverage levels. Today.
A month to go before we find out and no rain coming.

[Hamloc]

New article in Western Producer sums up Centeal Alberta but might still be too optimistic. “Heat takes it’s toll”.

[fcr]

Crops from valley to Moose Jaw look awesome. They have had good rains in tru there , couple fields are flat from the storm last week, looks like a roller went over them.

[Hamloc]

Went to Consort yesterday for parts for my silage cutter. Only good crops were between Veteran and Consort. I have never seen that before.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Canola i suspect is worse than it looks... some varieties look like they took a real heat blasting and others seem pretty a ok.

Is anyone seeing any pattern as to what varieties are handling the heat better than others?
Seeing huge differences right across the road in many places in how the canola handled the heat.
As in hardly missing a pod, lush thick crop versus hardly a viable pod right next to each other. They're probably a lot of other factors I don't know such as seeding date etc.
I have some pioneer Roundup ready varieties next to invigor 343 which was seeded a few days earlier. The 343 is hardly showing any damage from the heat. The Roundup ready varieties have mostly deformed small and missing pods. But a few days made a huge difference this year. Elsewhere I have one of those same pioneer varieties and it hasn't suffered at all from the heat.

Probably would have been a good year to tour the plots.

i firmly believe early seeded crops ( pre may 10th) are going to be borderline crop insurance covg levels and later will be better.
Those squirrely guys who dont get started til may long will be the definite winners this yr.

Complete opposite here. The latest seeded crops are a disaster. And usually it is the other way around.

[WiltonRanch]

Went to Consort yesterday for parts for my silage cutter. Only good crops were between Veteran and Consort. I have never seen that before.

Travelled same route. Unbelievable how good that country is. Usually half dried out this time of year.

[shtferbrains]

Used to market cattle at Veteran.

They warned me never send any large sized bred cows there as there were no bidders.
Real cattle country.

Further to haul but not Nielsen Brothers.

[biglentil]

If I had a penny for everytime I heard mud is a dud. I sure would like to see some of its dudlieness right now.