Well happy happy happy to finally see rain. Sunday almost killed everything as temps in regina soared to 39 on the truck temp guage. Lake was 29. Kind of sums up why canola does better further north you go.
Did a trip north this week up Wadena to nipiwan over to Hudson Bay and back to Canora. Wow you feel sick and very sorry for all the guys who were flooded out last fall and witness the shit show aftermath. Tillage going on all over the place trying to dry out and get it back for 2018. We escaped because we didn't get the snow that had to melt first to complete harvest. Then you have canola that's this thin sick looking plants flooded ground doesn't grow grain. Yet this isn't published in any crop report just everything is happy nothing to see bull shit that goes on in Grain marketing in canada and the USA. The USA was called out finally on the bullshit northern spring wheat tour this week. Finally the beer drinking barbecue billshit by Grain buyers and bakers etc that showed ND with just about same crop as other years. Oh they didn't count poor counties or fields and Montana. Really market manipulation at its finest. But maybe more farmers should fight back with this bullshit instead of fighting between us over a f$&king tenth of rain. Crop conditions in Saskatchewan for the most part are not great. If their is a oasis some where it sure isn't in my travels. So yes we will harvest something but Western canada wide it will not be bumper, or average it's just a poor crop.
Ok here we go rain now just brings in what's their doesn't increase the crop it just stabilized what could of been way worse.
Hrs is turning very quick and heads are filling one row has disappeared and tops blank or starting to not fill. Sign of drought stress. With rain that fell will stabilize and actually make the fall roundup actually work better. It's the Regina Ex rain and that's the last one you want till late in October. Still I predict this crop will be over half of last years but no greater than 70% because of plumper kernel.
Fall desiccation will start in 14 days.
Oats this will help on fields that didn't turn white colour those patches are done but will make plumper seed on rest with light shit oh you might have to auger the semi full in a strong wind so elevators don't scream at you it's to light. Did notice in my drives lots of wild oats in oats some fields extreme.
Peas are done and starting to desiccate today. Seed variety for 2018 is still hanging on. Yellow peas most grow and yield I believe will look good from road but once you start the effects will be lower than you thought.
Barley the one crop that I think the experts are way out on acreage. Oats is other one that's out. How you ask oats acreage is way higher than said in stats can way higher and barley is way way way lower. The malt barley dream may be just that as early fields will be swath by Sunday or Monday and lighter higher protein. Late night do better time will tell it's a game.
Soy is in trouble I think with no rain for most yields will be the shits and one cool night at plus 1 or two for hours you might witness empty big pods in harvest that aborted and it didn't even feeeze. They should be tall dark green colour and flowering like crazy. Not happening on most.
Lentils to those who have might be the cash saver this year. Even with piss poor yield it will bring in money.
Corn if you grew and have rain it's looks good if not or flooded ugly.
Canola all I have to say is you experts and Grain companies will have to create new bullshit to try to talk the yield up as where is the awsome canola crops. Either two wet from floods to to dry to wtf is that to sick curled pods to you can see two gophers screwing in the middle of a section. Yes their is some not bad crops but reality is when you look at the. If picture comparing the last ten years to this it's not a canola year. Half or less last year as Late seeded will benefit some but frost could wipe that out in a night.
Some very early is within a week of getting swath.
Pastures are going backwards after Sunday heat haying and cutting outside rounds on barley and wheat and oats for feed is happening.
So the rain finally came and proves it can rain. If any thing it just stabilized a poor crop. It will speed the crop up that's their. Harvest is 10 days away on peas then barley and wheat. Drew says he wouldn't be surprised by a frost because no humidity and temps drop like last nights 6 in Regina.
On politics JT gives what 60 million to a park yet the railway to Hudson Bay needs help and like every thing he drops the ball on improving Canada's infrastructure but you can go to a city park and meditate as he destroys canada. Oh donate to the BC wildfires he will match but gave the Clinton foundation cash. When will the insanity stop.
So be safe enjoy Saskatchewan day and have a safe harvest if it's started because The ones at home are way more important than this crop.
Oh one last thing how can all the green climate guys promoting solar and wind with their ugly windmills killing birds and solar panels that look like blank shears of black plywood and not see the beauty of the man made Tobin lake the dam and all its glory. Again a real special mind of person. Great fishing love this place.
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