Friday Crop Report. One word to describe the harvest of 2012." DISAPPOINTMENT"

[SASKFARMER3]

"Disappointment"
It seems you can give a patient All the
drugs and yet the fricking thing dies.
Well 2012 will go down in our area where
almost all farmers loaded up on every
thing and threw it all at a crop. Mother
nature had other plans and got us back
just as hard as we threw it at her.
Tired of all the excuses coming from my
Agrologist.
Well their is always 2012, Can you say a
loss of hundreds of thousands of
dollars.
Oh well to those who have a decent crop
way to go you beat the devil. Good
going.

Well all the winter wheat is in the pit
and seeding is under way in our area. We
missed every major rain so maybe the
times are changing.
Peas are all done and every one is
totally disappointed with the yield.
Early Canola is being started to harvest
but combines are sitting now due to high percentage of green seeds. Yields are
any where from 15 to 32. Yea I said 15.
Aster Yellow and pod blast on mudded in
seed, its a shit show, oh yea then the Hurricane last weekend that did a good
number on swaths. Canola acreage will
be down next year, local rep is trying
to get guys to switch to healthy oil
system from Cargill and even a two
dollar carrot isn't working.
Barley, Early yields are not good seems
barley doesn't like water either.
Lighter and 49 to 58.
Durum seen the first field being
harvested and by the look of the trucks
in the field being loaded its not a
great yield-er also.
Hrs like I mentoned earlier is all over
the map. Fusarium and Ergot and aster
yellow etc. Grading 3 to 2. No ones on
early fields. Yields 20 to 35, Straw 60
plus. Blank heads standing strait up.
Oats looks good so far no one harvesting
.
Few fields of flax desicated.
Basically harvest is just starting in
our area but one word says it all
Disappointment.

[gustgd]

Well it was bound to happen eventually.
Saskfarmer3 is right.

Spent last couple days combining canola. 25.
Swath for 40. Fertilized for 50. Hearing much the
same story from neighbours in Davidson area.
Early crops were ok, not as good as I had thought
but ok maybe a bit above average. Still haven't
harvested spring cereals, but they look good.
Time will tell.
Agree with SF3 theme is disappointment.

[SASKFARMER3]

Lots of guys heads are hanging really low.
Get it done and call it a year. Odd field
here and their for some reason is better.
Odd field here and their is a match.
Funny the truckers and cart operators will
have a very easy fall.

[grrrr]

Can't have above average every year.

[boarderbloke]

Shockingly Disappointing!
Doing HRS straight, and feeling the pit of my stomach in my throat all day watching the yield monitor read 28,29,30,31 in a stand that should be running 50-55! I was prepared to see a yield of 45, even 40, but 29, 30 has my gut in knots. May get another 2-3 bus because of bus weight, but that will be it. Getting it off with a nice deep red colour and hoping the grade stands up atleast. I'm truely shocked and very disappointed.

[SASKFARMER3]

Might be the only time in History, that
the stats canada farm survey I submitted
might be high.

[freewheat]

You guys have me nervous let me tell you.
Still two weeks from combining here,
started swathing canola yesterday. Stopped
a lot to check seeds and pods, and it
honestly seems ok. Did wheat seed counts
and it too seems ok. The crop never was
great, at least that field, but it seems
it is what it is. But you sure have me
sick to my stomach... Sorry about the poor
showing. What a heartbreaker...

[T.N.T.]

You got that right,this crop is sure a big dissapointment!! Pea's ran 25 seed was very small,been doing early barley the last couple of days running around 40 and bushel weights are high 30's.There wasn't a single thing we didn't spray for or could have done to save these crops,like SF3 says mother nature won and we are stuck paying the bills.

[bucket]

Lower your expectations. I lowered mine
when we were getting stuck in the
spring. Now I am pleasantly happy. And I
didn't chase the crop to keep it
healthy. It is what it is. Bit I can
farm another year. All is well.

[freewheat]

Hey bucket, right on! I lowered my
expectations when i had to float on a
third of my canola seed. And neither did i
ever have a crop that was worth throwing
money at all year. Thankfully I suppose...

Going out to swath 20 bushel floated on
canola...

[SASKFARMER3]

You two are funny! Aster yellow in canola and
wheat you tell till its starting to fill or done
flowering, then you realize it was all for nothing.
Funny thing on the sask crop crap report McLean
was talking how sclerotina is hurting canola, so he
is telling every idiot you lost yield because you
should have sprayed instead of you have a
disease that their is nothing you can do. Yes their
is sclerotina out their but the big yield robber is
aster yellow and leaf hopper. That's a crop report
not were at 20 percent done, if their is shit all their
you giver to get the damn thing done and on to
next year. I set my expectations way lower back in
July. One note lots phoning terminal looking to get
out of contracts, hm must be a big crop.

[Hopperbin]

Well when things go from bad to worse and worse to what ever is after that. The thing that gets me through is someone out there had and has more problems than myself so it works to cheer me up anyways. Thumbs up as this is farming.,

[SASKFARMER3]

Yea hopper your right, quit at 5 today and headed
north with my boys and a nephew. What a
awesome night on the lake. I'll deal with the shitty
canola tomorrow. Cheers the beer are going down
real nice.

[wd9]

Be thankful you can at least get what is
there! Haven't even got the combine out of
the shed to take a sample once yet.

Been eagerly waiting to use the new
stripper header but rain every two days
makes it impossible.

[GreenValley]

Bird eye already know ahead of what
canola yield would be. Perfect tools for
traders.


Satellites see canola yields slip on
heat, disease
StatsCan satellite data point to 33.7-
bu./ac. canola

Aug 27, 2012 6:49 PM - 5 comments TEXT
SIZE  By: Rod Nickel
WINNIPEG | REUTERS
Crops, Machinery, Weather
A slew of midsummer crop threats
including heat, hail and bugs trimmed
the potential of Canada's record-large
2012/13 canola crop, preventing farmers
from fully cashing in on high prices,
industry analysts say.

On Monday, Statistics Canada lowered its
unofficial canola crop yield estimate
based on an experimental program that
analyzes low-resolution satellite data.

The Crop Condition Assessment Program
pegged the average Western Canada canola
yield at 33.7 bushels per acre,
producing 15.8 million tonnes, compared
to its previous estimates of a yield of
34.2 bushels per acre and production of
16.1 million tonnes.

In Saskatchewan, the biggest canola-
growing province, yield reports range
wildly from a dismal 15 bushels per acre
to more than 50, said Grant McLean, a
provincial cropping management
specialist at the province's Agriculture
Knowledge Centre in Moose Jaw.

Wet planting conditions in the key east-
central Saskatchewan growing region,
hail, insects and mid-summer heat and
humidity that invited sclerotinia
disease all dampened expectations.

The likely outcome is an average to
slightly above-average sized crop, in a
year farmers were hoping for more,
McLean said.

"Part of the disappointment is people
were anticipating the high prices and
expecting the big bushels," he said. "We
were hoping for the double bonanza."

Canada is the biggest producer and
exporter of canola, or ****seed, which
is crushed largely for vegetable oil and
livestock feed.

ICE Futures Canada's November canola
futures are about $630 a tonne, not far
off a four-year high. Prices have
remained well-supported in recent weeks
largely because of drought damage to
U.S. soybeans, but concerns about
disappointing Canadian canola yields
have also crept into the market, traders
said.

Based on its closely watched farmer
survey, Statistics Canada last week
estimated a Canadian average canola
yield of 32.8 bushels per acre, with
provincial averages of 30.5 bushels in
Saskatchewan, 37.3 bushels in Alberta
and 31.4 bushels in Manitoba. It
estimated canola production at 15.4
million tonnes.

The harvest is still in the early stages
in Alberta, and the extent of disease
and insect damage is unclear, said Mark
Cutts, a crop specialist for the
province's Ag-Info Centre in Stettler.

"I think a lot of canola fields look
quite good. It's just a matter of when
(farmers) get into them, whether they're
going to see disease and insect issues
that caused yield loss."

Manitoba's harvest is the furthest
along, and yields will likely settle on
average around 30 bushels per acre, said
Angela Brackenreed, agronomist for the
Canola Council of Canada at Justice,
Man. Yield reports range from about 20
to 45 bushels per acre, she said.

Overnight temperatures on most of the
western Prairies look to stay well above
freezing for the next week, allowing
late-planted crops time to develop
before a frost -- which usually hits by
mid-September.

According to StatsCan's satellite
analysis, spring wheat yields in Western
Canada look to average 41.1 bushels per
acre, with a harvest of 18.9 million
tonnes, compared to its previous
estimate of 41.5 bushels per acre and
production of about 19.1 million tonnes.

-- Rod Nickel writes for Reuters from
Winnipeg.