Early harvest weather

[furrowtickler]

Very good conditions for early harvest , although probably too dry in areas started .
some lentils started just east of NB
we should be about a week to 10 days on lentils , peas then wheat
no canola swathed yet but some early fields changing very quickly now
I still thinking canola yields will not make 35 ave vrs the 42 stats Can estimates

[LEP]

Some are going hard on lentils here. We will be dessicating starting Monday or Tuesday night.

I booked chemical to preharvest the canola. But may be able to skip that on most fields.

[Hamloc]

LEP all Liberty Link? Your pre-harvest treatment of choice? Unfortunately due to the weed spectrum on my canola land this year I have all RR canola. Never have seen good results from heat so going to swath. Am I wrong?

[furrowtickler]

LEP all Liberty Link? Your pre-harvest treatment of choice? Unfortunately due to the weed spectrum on my canola land this year I have all RR canola. Never have seen good results from heat so going to swath. Am I wrong?

Not at all , only other viable option is liberty on RR canola , but need lots of water to be effective

[blueversi]

Very good conditions for early harvest , although probably too dry in areas started .
some lentils started just east of NB
we should be about a week to 10 days on lentils , peas then wheat
no canola swathed yet but some early fields changing very quickly now
I still thinking canola yields will not make 35 ave vrs the 42 stats Can estimates

There’s a few canola fields around me that might be lucky to hit double digits.

[furrowtickler]

There’s a few canola fields around me that might be lucky to hit double digits.

Been there the past 3 out 4 years , not fun

[Ronski]

What would you guys estimate this as?

[furrowtickler]

In 2021 that was 3/4 of our canola
5-12 bus ac .
had big areas less than 5

[LEP]

LEP all Liberty Link? Your pre-harvest treatment of choice? Unfortunately due to the weed spectrum on my canola land this year I have all RR canola. Never have seen good results from heat so going to swath. Am I wrong?

Yes. We use heat with minimum 10 gallons of water. The crop is still slow coming in, but definitely evens it up. I have been able to combine dry on sprayed fields and then gone to unsprayed and seen a 1.5 % jump in moisture.

[1ABFRMR]

what would you guys estimate this as?

5 bushels or even lower

[ColevilleH2S]

LEP all Liberty Link? Your pre-harvest treatment of choice? Unfortunately due to the weed spectrum on my canola land this year I have all RR canola. Never have seen good results from heat so going to swath. Am I wrong?

Don't forget about Reglone. I used it on some acres last year, and was impressed at how well it went through the combine. Faster and more consistent than Heat.
The downside is more dollars and more water.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

What would you guys estimate this as?

Is that a local picture from the Red Deer lacombe area? Or did someone send you that? Is that representative?

[Ronski]

Is that a local picture from the Red Deer lacombe area? Or did someone send you that? Is that representative?

It is very sandy ground between highway 2 and 2A north of Blackfalds. About 70 % of the quarter is like that the rest is just kind of shitty. No subsoil going in this spring, it looked great and was coming into full bloom when the heat hit. Completely ran out of gas about the 10th of July and has been downhill since.

[helmsdale]

Im struggling with peas here at the moment. Stand is phenomenal, and under better conditions, should have been yielding somewhere in the mid to high 40s if not even low 50s. Theres nothing here but fluff. D r aper header is struggling to keep the garbage on the canvases and feed it up the throat as it just bounces around. Luckily at least there hasnt been much wind the last few days as I've seen it blow stuff like this right off the header. Tried hooking onto the flex auger that usually gets hooked onto the other combine and the auger fingers just cant seem to bring the fluff in at the speed that you need to keep the combine even 70% loaded.

Oddly enough, hills and mid ground are probably yielding the best, with the low ground being up to my chest almost with next to nothing coming into the tank. The pods are there, in the low spots, but they never filled. Looks like the best field will do 20-22, but its all downhill from there. I expect we'll be in the low double digits on the last few fields.

Neighbors that I've heard from are anywhere from mid single digits, to mid 20s with a few that caught lottery showers managing into the 40s. those are rare. Most in the teens and low 20s.

[LEP]

Im struggling with peas here at the moment. Stand is phenomenal, and under better conditions, should have been yielding somewhere in the mid to high 40s if not even low 50s. Theres nothing here but fluff. D r aper header is struggling to keep the garbage on the canvases and feed it up the throat as it just bounces around. Luckily at least there hasnt been much wind the last few days as I've seen it blow stuff like this right off the header. Tried hooking onto the flex auger that usually gets hooked onto the other combine and the auger fingers just cant seem to bring the fluff in at the speed that you need to keep the combine even 70% loaded.

Oddly enough, hills and mid ground are probably yielding the best, with the low ground being up to my chest almost with next to nothing coming into the tank. The pods are there, in the low spots, but they never filled. Looks like the best field will do 20-22, but its all downhill from there. I expect we'll be in the low double digits on the last few fields.

Neighbors that I've heard from are anywhere from mid single digits, to mid 20s with a few that caught lottery showers managing into the 40s. those are rare. Most in the teens and low 20s.

I believe most crops will reflect the shower lottery. Even within fields.

No subsoil moisture does that.