Friday Crop Report! on Thursday!

[SASKFARMER3]

Last year on the Hailed out half by town that they wouldn't pay till harvest which had stocks and plants crushed to a flat mess. Now this was the July 8th storm I believe. We hit it with Aceppella and hard. Revived it and it tried to come back to life. Problem is your now going to have some very very late canola that could have other problems come fall. It did come back to give us a very low 20 yield but I did make a mistake swathing 80 acres to soon out of the half. Early hail damage yes I would give it some thing later just don't drive by those fields take a different road and go fishing.

[farmaholic]

The sprayer is parked here, there is absolutely no use in spraying whats there. I can't spray myself out of a drought! No ROI under these conditions. No heavy morning dews and canopy is still somewhat open and dry dry dry.

Peas started flowering yesterday, canola started as well but probably won't flower for many days. Wheat is short and in flag. Flax is slow. Neighbors hay crops are bordering on pathetic. Pasture's hills along the Wascana are brown.

Bit of a deer in the headlights feeling, what the **** happened.

Rain on radar seems to run out of gas or peter-out before it reaches us. Or slides under us. Even if we do get a rain, the potential of this crop has been greatly reduced. One for the young guys to remember, my "kid" is 20 this fall.

[bucket]

Farmaholic

He will have a drought under his belt at 20 - that's a good thing.

He should have a good start after this to shoot for an average crop with average prices. Should keep him interested and we'll heeled for 25 years.

[farmaholic]

Like sumdumguy said, as long as this isn't the beginning of a dry trend. Could you imagine the corrections that would happen.

[bucket]

Pretty much have seen the fallout a couple times over the years.

Sadly I thought with dry weather a crop would emerge and a couple inches of rain.

We have had no rain.

Most guys here are hoping it doesn't start. They don't want 4 different crop stages at harvest. But it's tough to spray weeds if you know you are going to preharvest or burn the crop off to terminate it.

6 inch high crops don't interest many cow guys unless they can graze it.

[sumdumguy]

In 1962, my father moved our family from Canora to South of Regina. The fellow who owned the farm that we bought was an army Sargent who "severely disliked" the drought of 1961. He left everything behind, machinery, bins full, house furnished and cupboards full of memorabilia and family momentos. He moved his family to the West coast and never looked back. This is what drought can do to a guy. Once that gumbo cracks, what moisture was there seems to disappear. It's not like bush soil.

[Braveheart]

Crops in this area are interesting to say the least. Most cereals look beautiful. There's the odd cereal field farmed by peoPle that don't calibrate their drill that's just TOO thick and could end up a lodged mess.

Canola is crazy. The fields that came out of the frost (nOt reseeded) are uneven. Most reseeded fields have canola about to bloom surrounded by plants about 2" tall with 1-2 leaves. Canola that just missed the frost timing wise is beautiful. But, there aren't that many fields like that.

Fungi on flag for barley is on. Prosaro for head next week.

Spring wheat leaves are very clean so we'll forego flag fungi and try to get good timing for Prosaro on head. Wheat budget still tight so saving money is a good thing.

Soybeans are good for the most part. We used some foliars, Ligno, K, P, Mg, and may have hped ward off the chlorosis look most neighbor fields have.

We had some beneficial rain on the weekend. We dodged some serious storms this week. Tornadoes east of us near Manitou just yesterday being the latest.

[Braveheart]

Stripe rust reported in some winter wheat and Prosper and Faller hrs in the area.

[Hopperbin]

Crops in Humboldt area all cabaged to fill in rows. Wheat barley canary canola peas only crop to cabbage yet is flax. I give a ten rating to all.

[Hopperbin]

Town of Humboldt has 4 Inches total this spring. My yard one third of that. But not complaining. Tuesday wed we are forecast to get an inch. Would be welcome at that time.