Wheat Yields, Canola Yields and the Bullshit old Combines tell the drivers.

[danny W1M]

SF3, funny you comment on the yield monitors. I had my red combine in for a thorough winter check last Dec. They kept insisting I let them install this new software update for the yield monitor. I didn't want it as it was an extra charge and I felt the yields were fairly close. I finely gave in as I thought it might improve the GPS. All it's done is improved my yields by 15-20%, though when I'm filling the bins, the grains not there.
Totally outta whack now, but sure makes you feel like a hellava farmer growing 55bus canola and 85 bus wheat in the 2017 crop year.

[bucket]

The only yield monitor or scale that matters is where you sell your grain. .....

[Quadtrack]

Exactly right on this fake news story on varieties and yields.
Of course plant breeding is important. Over time small increments of yield improvement is made. Quality enhanced. Breeding in disease resistance (like Dr Knott did rust in 1955 I think) but this self serving claim of 50%? The western producer should know better but the CBC doesn't. Part of that article was just another chance for bill Gehl to get his name in the news ahead of this fall sask wheat election.
Sure there are some ok varieties but that maybe had 5% to do with this crop. No rain and no foliar disease, and saturated soil to start with was 90%.
As a farmer I will take 5% of the credit for putting some fert on and no till seeding.
So industry your seeds have not changed the fact a crop uses water to grow. Quit with the bullshit already.

[SASKFARMER3]

Well said on the new variety yield yes in swan the 80 acres did awsome but rain and excellent soil

[tweety]

Well then, if the "old" combine yield monitors aren't accurate...how do you get an accurate prescription for variable rate applications...I guess if its consistently out across the whole field that's ok? But then you're application is wrong across the whole feild. Do pay little attention to our yield monitor.

Seriously can't believe farmers still buy into the prescription map ripoff.

[sumdumguy]

All these BS check-off groups should be fired (except Pulse Growers). All these major issues and not a word out of them. Everyone should ask for their check-off back - today.

[SASKFARMER3]

I for one am getting pissed at some of these farmers groups, like I said everyone in our industry seems to always talk the crop up to keep us idiots spending on useless shit.

I did variable rate fertilizer in 1980 to 1986 never since yes system is better but you need one ingredient rain and no frost. Or just dumb F$&king luck.

Yep it's a monster out their boys!

Oh and Friday a company offered a dollar premium for Dec delivering in nov yea it's huge boys.

[Grahamp]

I am not disputing all farmers have a tendency to exaggerate their yields. Having said that we are on the eastern side of the province and our canola yields are a bit better than last year. I do wonder if part of it is from no fungi pressure. Take last year we fungicided, I am sure some days it was a little hot, we had the trampling from sprayer, and then all the beneficial things a fungicide hurts. I still am a believer in them when conditions warrant and I think they made sense in 2016. But with the subsoil moisture we had and zero disease pressure I don't think higher yields for this part of the world are that much of a stretch.

[SASKFARMER3]

You grew the same size as last year or a little better on the east side take that as the same as normal now take the new frontier in canola the south and south west and they had 15 or 10 great years now with this years crop way less how in gods creation can we have a huge crop in total.

It's all the students who took the new math

[grassfarmer]

It's all the students who took the new math

I prefer new math to SF3 math where 2/10ths = zero, lol

[sumdumguy]

I prefer new math to SF3 math where 2/10ths = zero, lol

Grassfarmer, 2/10 does equal zero when it is 35 degrees and wind gusting to 70 clicks. What's your problem?

[grassfarmer]

Grassfarmer, 2/10 does equal zero when it is 35 degrees and wind gusting to 70 clicks. What's your problem?

You could probably write that out as a complex mathematical equation but I'm pretty sure the answer would still be 2/10ths.
Saying that you didn't get as much rain as you wished for or needed is fine. Saying you got rain then saying you didn't get in fact get rain or that you are now choosing not to count it because it was a smaller quantity than you would have liked is ridiculous. Leaves the author with no credibility.