frost damage

[amun]

North East SK is showing major frost damage in canola. Seed sales are brisk Crop insurance are run off their feet.Wheat& barley leaf burn, but will survive.

[SASKFARMER3]

Lots of Calls to Crop insurance for Grenfell area that's what moosomin office said. One guy by us is reseeding 2000 acres out of 5000. Their is damage but not sure it warrants reseeding yet. Damage on 500 out of 3000 so far but rain over the weekend should help and some heat.

[skhadenuf]

Frost isn't the only thing, flea beatles have totally destroyed a few neighbors fields in the area and are working on others. Not sure the reason but some fields not touched. Liberty canolas seem to be hit worse.

[Wheatking]

Went out looking again today and found
two fields that where at least 75% wiped
out for the frost, it was kind of a
shock as they are on a hill and usually
fairly safe from the frost. Everything
else looks a little worse than last
week, maybe 15-35% damage now where last
week I though it was all about 10%.

As for flea beatles the I see little
damage in our stuff so far. The guys
who seem to be having a problem in our
area like to put in one bag of boughten
seed with one brown bag.

[Koldkanuck]

Crops in N.E.Sask. starting to show damage. Canola being reseeded. Leaf burn on wheat and barley. Flea beetle damage mainly on Liberty Link canola, but that's because of the poor seed treatment they use. Round up ready canola treated with Helix seems to be holding out so far, but most farmers are going to add Sevin to their roundup. Crops are at a standstill with the cool weather. Will need no frost until at least mid Sept. for a lot of crops to survive.

[furrowtickler]

Heavy frost in the north west over the weekend finished alot of canola in the Cutknife - wilkie - Scott - Unity - Cando - Biggar - Halford - Alticane - Mayfair - Spiritwood - Meadowlake and Glaslyn areas. What it not been writen off is 75% Damaged and trying to regrow.
We put pin flags out on Fri/Sat in this area on canola plants that were hit hard(just a slight lime green left) and some that were toast. This works well b/c you look at the exact same plant to see whats going on. Yesterday we had regrowth on 80% of those plants, we are leaving the rest of ours unless it freezes tomorow again. We are left with about 15 - 20 m2. Half of that are o.k. half will need a miricle.
Any feild with 50% or less trash cover is showing less than 20% damage.

[sewen]

How does your crop insurance work in Saskatchewan, here in Alberta if we reseed now they would give you your premium back and you are on your own with the reseeded crop (no coverage). I don't think we would be able to reseed if we wanted to it's too dry.

Not sure if my Canola going to come back or not, it hit hard on Saturday with close to freezing temps every night since. Never heard the furnace run so much in June.

[sawfly]

scott sask. pretty bad here. yesterday am lookeked like 20% kill.
by last night looked like 80%.
guys with black feilds seemed to fare better.

[LWeber]

sawfly: is it Miller time yet?

[sawfly]

i think so

[fjlip]

This might be the reason. http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/01apr_deepsolarminimum.htm
http://www.spaceweather.com/glossary/spotlessdays.htm

[RickyBobby]

sewen
How I interpret how reseeds work in AB Crop Insurance is a little different. It covers the crop insured and the crop reseed if you have elected that crop prior to April 30. If you elected only Canola and Wheat and now want to reseed to Barley there would be no coverage for the reseeded crop. One Option allows you to change coverage levels for each crop;you need to elect all possible crops you may end up seeding. The other Option allows the same coverage level on whatever is seeded. So as long as you elected the crop you plan to reseed to you will have coverage for reseeded crop and you will get $50 per acre for reseeding a canola crop $30 for Wheat/Bly I believe .

[sewen]

I understand that it is past their reccommended seeding deadlines for each crop therfore no coverage if you reseed now. I was told at this time of year you would get your premium back on the original crop and no coverage on the reseeded one. Or you can wait until June 21st to put in a claim but they will not write it off until July 15.

[sewen]

The recommended seeding deadline are June 5 for Barley and May 31st for Wheat, Canola, Oats etc.

[RickyBobby]

My understanding is if I want to reseed Barley into my frozen Canola ground and I had Barley as an elected crop I will have my Barley coverage to cover a production shortfall . I would have to seed Barley prior to June 20th and because it is past June 5th there would be a grade loss factor applied potentially if it is light etc. Not sure anyone with decent Canola coverage would choose to reseed to barley at this time (Livestock feed need maybe). In my situation math tells me to take my 80% and call it a day assuming my canola will be 100% writeoff .