Here comes 2017 Harvest

[sumdumguy]

It is amazing there is anything left of this crop, with the heat and winds every day. We'll be glad to have this one behind us nice dry, not diseased, not needing a dryer. 😂

[helmsdale]

Comments like that are just depressing me here in the Slum of the Ghetto......

Some of your guys' average yeilds are likely what my last year's stellar yeilds were , in my eyes and experience for here.

$2000/ac........HA! Gotta wonder if some of this year's yeilds here will pay the rent or interest on the mortgage after expenses.

Peas....27ish! (In the bin estimate and I won't be far off).

Peas and lentils done. 21-22bu/a.c on both. Started into mustard tonight. Going a monstrous 7 and change. Half my wheat has me a little worried. Other half is gonna have to pay a lot of bills...

[farmaholic]

What the hell, Helmsdale.....they open another Ghetto? Ghetto farming can be a challenge.

Contact me at farma@Ghetto-farming.nfg

[farming101]

Farma LOL!

4.5 tenths last night biggest rain in 2 months. might help canola

[Braveheart]

Yes Farma, I said it, Vom test. Unfortunately, here in southern MB, vom is always lurking.

Beer drinkers want their suds to stay in the bottle until it crosses the lips. Pigs like feed they don't puke up minutes after eating. So hopefully the barley ducked fusarium this year and both Bud drinkers and Berkshires are happy.

Winter wheat already done in our area and testing zero for vomitoxin.

[farmaholic]

Braveheart....any test result above zero is questionable...lol. of course that isn't completely true because any test result of zero is also suspect. ....because ANY vom test result is open for debate.

[biglentil]

Peas and lentils done. 21-22bu/a.c on both. Started into mustard tonight. Going a monstrous 7 and change. Half my wheat has me a little worried. Other half is gonna have to pay a lot of bills...

Gee I hope my mustard does better than that. My pods are short and stumpy compared to what I remember in the past. Like 6 seeds a pod. Does not bode well for canola yields either.

[helmsdale]

Gee I hope my mustard does better than that. My pods are short and stumpy compared to what I remember in the past. Like 6 seeds a pod. Does not bode well for canola yields either.

Park a super in a 1/2 section field... combine till you're done... it flowered for 4-4.5 weeks. Thought it would do a lot better. Bottom pods had 7 and 8 seeds. Top ones aborted or hardly filled. The merciless July wind and heat fubarred a lot of things around here.

Early pulses are just into the twenties, lots of lentils running mid to lower teens. Later seeded pulses are 10 days away and look rough.

Early cereals are a week away or so. Barley is fairly thick, but seeds are VERY thin. Heard through the grain elevator that early durum in bow island area is coming in quite light. One sample was 58lb and 21%Px. Some of my wheat heads didn't even make it out of the sheath. If there's kernels in them they'll be hard to keep in the combine I can imagine.

Amazing to see the difference between chemfallow and stubble on cereals this year. Even with full subsoil moisture in both at seeding, chemfallow looks to seriously outperform this year. Only guys with significant established and paid for landbases have the luxury of chemfallow around here though. Pretty hard to justify it on rented land which demands payment on a "per seedable" basis or even worse on a 160ac/quarter regardless of whether it's all broken or seadable or not basis.

It was next year country here by the 10th of July already. Next year will be a challenge if conditions do not turn around. Grasshoppers moved in late and are busy laying eggs, stubble subsoil moisture is non existent... running out of notches to cinch up my belt with!

[biglentil]

Whats my Glenn wheat going to run kernels are small with a deep V shape? Thats a 12 inch row spacing seeded May 6th.

[fjlip]

Desiccating wheat with the swather today (yeah yeah yeah.....I know, we'll leave the swathing versus straight cutting debate for another day). What a pile of fluff! Pretty ripe and the heads pointing straight up.....not a single sign of a fusarium infected head, even in the few "good" low spots with decent moisture. A report of some winter wheat in the area running 20! I find that hard to beleive, I'm hoping our HRS does about one and a half times that! HOPING!

Looking for a job this winter...SF3's golf caddy, baggage handler and condo(house) keeper, cocktail mixer....

Well, farma, raining today, watches all over, hope the swaths hold up...weather weather...