Canola? Rain makes MUD and Observations from the Road!

[SASKFARMER]

Still spraying so far missed everything!
Yes there is a god!
Ok some luck is coming out way!
Still can't make a pig look good with lipstick but at least it's a fighting chance if we miss the shit show!

[fjlip]

Kindersley /Rosetown are under water this afternoon. Lentils fields water everywhere. Wash outs, runs are full. They got 5" a while ago. Very sad... Pouring so hard wipers needed a third gear.

[SASKFARMER3]

What happened the last few days is what we have lived with for 15 years. You seed with hope only to have mother nature deal you a shitty hand some time in the growing season. There was no boom years only survival as mother nature takes and doesn't care. So far we missed the shit show by a bit. Yes we received rain but just the right amount. Our crop was taken for the most part after the May long weekend with two pea size hail storms that flooded newly seeded fields. No coming back from that shit show.
Rain in excess destroys fields.
Proper drainage projects would be a great start but try to get three farmers to agree on something. Sask could have a extra two million acres with proper planning and projects. But hey why look to the future.

[newguy]

Do not think manitoba would go for more sask drainage.maybe you should try to work with mother nature instead of trying to beat her.yes she seems to give extremes but 15 years is a new normal not an extreme.

[SASKFARMER]

New guy it's about looking at the big picture! In Europe or USA you don't see sloughs like canada and South America and Australia either! Why because people gov etc understand land is not being made any more and why work around water! A proper drainage system in canada would work just need all to realize that! Keep the excess rain coming maybe some of you will realize this shit is a problem!
We need to think out of the box that would be a start but hey it's canada where not on my back yard attitude runs deep till it happens to you!
Flood on I say flood on.

[foragefarmer]

Sk3

"We need to think out of the box that would be a start but hey it's canada where not on my back yard attitude runs deep till it happens to you!"


Sounds to me that you would gladly send your water to someone else's backyard to keep yours dry from reading your posts. Two post's above your saying " Yes we have received rain but just the right amount". and you were just spraying yesterday.

Why don't you let the poster's on Agriville who are really suffering from the heavy rains vent on here!

[farming101]

Will the real Saskfarmer(3) please stand up!

[fjlip]

There have been extremes for ever. From heat/drought to floods/frost. The fact that we are still here trying, speaks volumes. Successes despite nature's effects on the crops, a narrow frost free window, on the fringe of viable agriculture.

[newguy]

Since 2011 for the first time cows walked across water and calves swam to a 200 acre pasture.Half mile fence gone that I fixed this year.But boy.mother nature sure gave that native grass a great rest.A few thousand acres drained in there by many people.Was not a big deal till we got the flood years.just cause I never lost 60 bushel canola crop does not make it any different .

[Guest]

what the **** makes you think you are the only one flooded for 15 years , we have lived it too , and we're living it again today and tommorow also 2 more inches already this morning . "flood on " what an ignorant thing to say , un****ing believable actually coming from someone who supposedly has lived it ?????? we have lived it so many times in the last few years that it makes me cringe every time I see it on the news . we have several houses here that are probably totalled from last night . a person really doesn't need to read shit like that after sandbagging , knocking out roads , culverts , pumping water , etc for the last 36 hrs. talk you would expect in a kindergarten class

[newguy]

That was my point to sask farmer.Lots of flood problems out there.he is not the only one that has land that has been lost.our floods were only a couple years but still recovering land from those years.

[farmaholic]

I AM so ****ing lucky.... still counting my blessings!!! We've never lost "huge" acreage to too wet or flooding. Probably never alot more than 5% of our farm. This year a lot of stuff was seeded corner to corner but might begin to lose some low spots if the tap doesn't turn off.

Not alot to bitch about in that department..... so I find other things to complain about, it's my nature!!!

[freewheat]

Just came in from having a look at my "best" land. A joke is what it is, a slimy, lost cause of a joke. Crop past the point of no return. Heartbreaking when the kids cry at night, knowing we are this screwed. We dodged our firewood on the driveway last night, and they knew what it meant. I shook my head, no words. They started weeping. How do you console that?

You buy more sheep of course! lol

All I can do is laugh. It has officially caused insanity.