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Post by meskie on Jul 22, 2024 21:28:17 GMT -6
Nicest day we have had in a while around here. 24° and a breeze. Had a bunch of things to do outside that I had been putting off when it was so hot.
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Jul 25, 2024 16:14:44 GMT -6
Post by victory on Jul 25, 2024 16:14:44 GMT -6
We got an inch of rain overnight and getting a little more today. Very thankful for the rain, but a little too late for some crops, especially canola. Lots of aborted pods and some with no pods at all on the lighter soils. Ten days in a row of 30C plus temps with no rain is a little hard on things. Probably about two and a half weeks in total with no rain.
We see what the combine tells us come harvest time.
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Jul 25, 2024 17:04:01 GMT -6
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Post by Oatking on Jul 25, 2024 17:04:01 GMT -6
We got an inch of rain overnight and getting a little more today. Very thankful for the rain, but a little too late for some crops, especially canola. Lots of aborted pods and some with no pods at all on the lighter soils. Ten days in a row of 30C plus temps with no rain is a little hard on things. Probably about two and a half weeks in total with no rain. We see what the combine tells us come harvest time. [ Usually the wheat looks riper than it is , hopefully that rain you got helps fill . How far are you from harvest ? I think I am a good three weeks from swathing oats . Canola at least the same time for swathing . We have more than enough moisture to finish the oats and canola but beans will need a steady dose every week to keep things looking fresh ! Loving the breeze today ! Cools you down and keeps the mosquitoes away. |
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Post by victory on Jul 25, 2024 18:53:06 GMT -6
The earliest canola is just finishing flowering, and swathing usually starts a month after flowering is done. Some barley is starting to change color a bit. I've mentioned this before, but I am still amazed at how the crops in Manitoba mature so quickly. (I know that Kevlar is different, more like us)  |
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Post by northernfarmer on Jul 25, 2024 19:54:12 GMT -6
I haven't seen any flowers left on the later seeded canola for some days now, never mind the first seeded canola. it just cooked them all off and high winds did a number on crops as well, and the pods are few and stupidly small stubby ones on a lot of the plant on most fields. We have wheat fields all leaned over badly to the north as it was like a wall of wind that came and then a bit of rain with it and just forced over such crops. I had been working at cleaning up a real mess of mostly dead trees that fell over in the yard and can only imagine what surprises are around fields from that wind with downed trees. One friend in the area had a few grain bins fall over from that wind. Some of the wheat fields have zero green leaf on them, completely burned the leaves due to heat and drought. Had a bit of rain yesterday morning but today its been raining more steady and all of this sure could have come about three weeks ago !. What I am afraid of now is that this will trigger wheat to shoot up a very late second growth after the stress they went through, we have seen it happen too many times. Also with stressed canola once its swathed it can shoot up new growth and cause a real mess for combining swathes. What looked like a decent crop potential at the beginning of July just faded away and no recovering from that now.
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Post by meskie on Jul 25, 2024 21:14:20 GMT -6
Early canola around here just has a few flowers left in spots. Later canola is just starting to fade from bright yellow. Some wheat and barley just starting to turn from dark green. I think our silage barley will be 10 days before it’s ready. Maybe 2 weeks that’s about normal time for us to cut. Corn has grown about 4 feet in the past couple weeks and is looking really good. Cows should have some grazing on it this winter.
Don’t think anybody would turn down a rain right now heavy smoke and humid has saved the crop with the heat the last bit hopefully it rooted down good.
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Post by victory on Jul 25, 2024 21:54:50 GMT -6
I haven't seen any flowers left on the later seeded canola for some days now, never mind the first seeded canola. it just cooked them all off and high winds did a number on crops as well, and the pods are few and stupidly small stubby ones on a lot of the plant on most fields. We have wheat fields all leaned over badly to the north as it was like a wall of wind that came and then a bit of rain with it and just forced over such crops. I had been working at cleaning up a real mess of mostly dead trees that fell over in the yard and can only imagine what surprises are around fields from that wind with downed trees. One friend in the area had a few grain bins fall over from that wind. Some of the wheat fields have zero green leaf on them, completely burned the leaves due to heat and drought. Had a bit of rain yesterday morning but today its been raining more steady and all of this sure could have come about three weeks ago !. What I am afraid of now is that this will trigger wheat to shoot up a very late second growth after the stress they went through, we have seen it happen too many times. Also with stressed canola once its swathed it can shoot up new growth and cause a real mess for combining swathes. What looked like a decent crop potential at the beginning of July just faded away and no recovering from that now. After reading this I realize that our crops are definitely something to be thankful for yet. This current rain will prevent the crops from getting worse. |
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Jul 27, 2024 7:34:36 GMT -6
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Post by iamwill on Jul 27, 2024 7:34:36 GMT -6
Only 6 degrees outside this morning. Just a bit of a change from earlier in the week. Last few days it has really cooled off fast in the evenings and it is starting to get that havest feeling to it.
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Jul 27, 2024 7:54:24 GMT -6
Post by kenmb on Jul 27, 2024 7:54:24 GMT -6
Had 0.05" since July 3 and nothing in the next 7 day. The high humidity and calm days have offset the lack of rain. The forecast for us with 36c and high wind luckily changed and the 34c days came with calm air and high humidity and hazy. My plava flax was still blooming quite well at 4 in the afternoon and 34c. The Rowland flax right beside had called it a day before noon, regardless it was good to see crop still going. Cooler air but drier air now, everything is looking like it hasn't rained for 3 weeks. Lawn is getting brown, kochia easy to spot, dirt I rototilled around the new shed a few weeks back became powder when I did it again yesterday. Was looking like late seeded crops would be the better ones again since it will rain sometime but with no rain coming, dry air and winds I suspect those crops may have issues.
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Post by meskie on Aug 6, 2024 9:36:10 GMT -6
6/10 of rain so far overnight and this morning. Silage barley is starting to lay over. Hopefully it stands up a bit before we cut in a few days.
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Post by SWMan on Aug 8, 2024 0:00:18 GMT -6
We got a quarter inch the day before yesterday(Tuesday evening) which is 36 days since the previous rain on July 1st. Crops are hanging in surprisingly well. Corn, soybeans and canola sure would benefit from a bigger drink but really no indication of that coming anytime soon.
Starting to wonder if irrigation might make sense with all these extended dry periods...
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Aug 8, 2024 6:56:16 GMT -6
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Post by garyfunk on Aug 8, 2024 6:56:16 GMT -6
Got 3 tenths Monday night-could have used 5 times that.
Woke up this morning to a white front yard. Thermometer showed plus 2°C. Not sure what that means for the lower land.
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Post by victory on Aug 8, 2024 7:30:54 GMT -6
Was that actually frost already Gary? That is kind of early isn't it? We were very foggy this morning. Everything is soaked with dew.
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Post by victory on Aug 8, 2024 7:34:57 GMT -6
We got a quarter inch the day before yesterday(Tuesday evening) which is 36 days since the previous rain on July 1st. Crops are hanging in surprisingly well. Corn, soybeans and canola sure would benefit from a bigger drink but really no indication of that coming anytime soon. Starting to wonder if irrigation might make sense with all these extended dry periods... Would you have a water source close enough to set up irrigation? If there is enough need for irrigation, I guess people build irrigation canals, just like in southern Alberta. |
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Post by Oatking on Aug 8, 2024 9:52:28 GMT -6
Was that actually frost already Gary? That is kind of early isn't it? We were very foggy this morning. Everything is soaked with dew. Well my heated steering wheel came on this morning !! Single digit lows now in the red river valley . I hope it’s not an early fr$$$t . Gary , please don’t say that f word this early |
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