Friday Crop Report on a Thursday. Week 21

[checking]

Your (Plenty Loot Ain't Near Enough), so (Bring Out Another Thousand) smackers.
How many times can a manager order in a plane during the year to spray a half section of canola, and still make it pay? Lost count of its passes, but that pilot must have had every northward turn dialed in over my farmyard.

[sumdumguy]

A lot of young inexperienced pilots with minimum hours pay the ultimate price. Being a commercial spray plane pilot is much different than requirements for farmer’s only pilot.

[Dr Tone]

Flying farmer is what transport canada calls it. 25 mile radius from your home qtr is all you’re allowed to be spraying.

They are not allowed to bill if spraying for other farmers in that radius.

[furrowtickler]

Not fun yesterday for some

[furrowtickler]

It’s never ever a record crop until it in the bin ….. just remember that all you “experts”

[furrowtickler]

I would bet that last night alone in “good crop area” a hundred thousand acres were lost alone in NW Sask
let alone SE Sask gauging by radar

[furrowtickler]

I know single 8000 ac farms 100 % write off in one single area by Hafford
he has neighbours too , fyi , same
and that’s only one out out 4 hail storms in NW Sask alone

[furrowtickler]

For grain buyers if you think for those with crop left are going to sell at these absurd low prices if they don’t have too , your going to be very very lonely at your desk wondering why we are not giving our crops away .
just a little heads up if You think the trucks will just show up in you driveway at these absurd low prices .

[furrowtickler]

My question is to industry people , would you show up for 1/4 the pay of what your wage is ??? Cause that is what most net incomes will be or less to a loss
food for thought as we see others all around us go on strike constantly for more benefits, more time off , more sick leave, more parent leave , more this more that ….. never once ever lost money at their job but cry like babies that they can’t match inflation …… wow

[BTO780]

We will be told again and again, these prices are at historical highs, the crop is big. The list goes on and on.

Parts to keep going are out of control. Went and bought a little cylinder for JD HD745 it controls the float pressure …. $750 ABSURD!!

This industry is so far GONE!

[SASKFARMER]

Its 10 Am and the Fog Smog Smoke show is full on Cant see end of driveway. So much for spraying everything is wet and zero wind.

[fjlip]

100% humidity, most mornings, next week similar....Maybe September drier

[sumdumguy]

Fog thick as pea soup

[sumdumguy]

Its a no-go day again.

[helmsdale]

Pea harvest is slowly progressing here... short days. tough grinding for what's there.

Currently cleaning every morning what I bring home during the day on account of grasshopper guts. Trailers will have to be scrubbed when I'm done as they are an oily disgusting mess. There's no way I could safely bin this shit even with air. Best yield was one field just short of 25, worst is the one Im on now that's somewhere between 10 and 15. Alot of places you're processing material with nothing coming into the tank.