Early harvest weather

[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.