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Aug 13, 2020 22:44:59 GMT -6
Post by SWMan on Aug 13, 2020 22:44:59 GMT -6
Got about a half inch on half the farm today, same half that got rain Sunday morning. The dry half hasn't seen rain since July 20 now and that's where soybeans are...sigh.
Had corn getting hauled up to Minnedosa this morning and apparently it came down hard, trucker said lots of water laying around up there.
Still a chance for rain tomorrow and then we are likely into pea harvest and will be looking for dry weather.
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Aug 14, 2020 3:16:14 GMT -6
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Post by cptusa on Aug 14, 2020 3:16:14 GMT -6
Looks like the tap us off here again. Soybeans need rain. Corn really doesn't matter at this point after that wind. COOPS planning to take grain this fall, one starts rebuilding Sept 5 24/7 in hopes to get 4 structures up. Going to be interesting to see that happen!
I'll get some pics eventually when internet becomes available, still on cell internet. No power in most places yet. The damage path of this is remarkable.
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Aug 14, 2020 7:33:58 GMT -6
Post by jaymo on Aug 14, 2020 7:33:58 GMT -6
I heard along the border places got ping pong sized hail.
I got a slight bit of hail, along with 7/10" yesterday morning. Nothing ping pong ball size. More like pea with a few marble sized pieces. Thankfully, I couldn't see any crop damage.
It's raining again this morning.
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Aug 14, 2020 17:26:40 GMT -6
Post by Oatking on Aug 14, 2020 17:26:40 GMT -6
Thanks cpt for responding on the Iowa storm. How is the damage around council bluffs. Really unfortunate about the wind damage. what speed of winds to knock down corn. I agree totally that grain anal yst seldom know the true impact that we feel on the ground. I hope most guys can pull thru. Truly a remarkable size of storm. cant imagine that hitting Manitoba. Had a hard decision on Monday, I knew a big rain was coming on Friday and had a pile of Oats standing. The seed is ripe but the straw is grass green. I decided to windrow them all because I was worried about hail or big winds shattering them all out. Its raining now on the swaths but at least I don't have to swath in mud now. Our Oat crop looks like it will out yield corn. Never imagined that either unbelievable. On Wednesday we got going combining Oats and no word of lie you leave the unload auger on constantly and Oats bushel in a steady stream. Had to tell my wife it was eventually time to shut off the combine auger while we were dumping on the go. My tongue is hanging out like my dog trying to keep up the trucking.
Hey sorry capt , don't mean to up talk the yield because I know crops sometimes don't pan out. last year our crops were wipe out in a heart beat from a 8 inch rain had personal problems and thought the world was closing in on me, but got help and this year I can say was the most enjoyable year farming in over 20 years. all I am saying is be proud of what you have and remain positive for the next year! |
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Aug 14, 2020 21:31:30 GMT -6
Post by cptusa on Aug 14, 2020 21:31:30 GMT -6
Yep, a years work gone in seconds, but for some a life's work wiped away. It is what it is, can't change it just move forward.
I'm not concerned and haven't taken the time to pencil it out but with my crop insurance with wind and hail rider this will pay out better.
Make no mistake, this is a market affecting event, the market just does not know it yet. My phone has been ringing for corn chopping, guys are planning on cutting more and bagging it to hold over next year. With the massive shortage of storage corn will be piled on the ground. Down corn is already rotting. I would not be short corn on the board right now.
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Aug 14, 2020 21:58:55 GMT -6
Post by serffarmer on Aug 14, 2020 21:58:55 GMT -6
![]() Did anybody in the eastern part of Saskatchewan or Manitoba get much from that storm that moved through today? I heard along the border places got ping pong sized hail. Another twister again around the same area that had the one that killed the kids last week. Brother in law got a picture of the twister today near Kemnay. Seen this west of home after I heard of the tornado, not sure if it was the making of anything or not, but gets a guy a little concerned when there alerts going off!! We were right on the edge of a real nasty one that went through in eastern SK. Some hail was as big as tennis balls. We had a bit of golf ball sized ones come down on our land that was on edge of storm. Not sure how wide of a path it had but lots of damage done to crops and machinery and vehicles also. |
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Oct 20, 2020 17:03:23 GMT -6
Post by generalchaos on Oct 20, 2020 17:03:23 GMT -6
My view at 3:00 pm. Attachments:
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Oct 20, 2020 17:13:53 GMT -6
Post by SWMan on Oct 20, 2020 17:13:53 GMT -6
Same here. Sure hope this isn't it because I have some projects I'd like to get done yet. Too early for this but harvest is done and fields are all harrowed. Yesterday was calm and dry, got all the creeks and ditches burned that I wanted to get done. Probably could run with the scraper for awhile yet even if it doesn't warm up.
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Oct 20, 2020 17:36:14 GMT -6
Post by victory on Oct 20, 2020 17:36:14 GMT -6
Got our first snow yesterday. About half an inch. Got all our fields worked once, but was hoping to do some harrowing yet.
Fields needed to be worked to level out all the ruts from sprayers and other machinery the last few years. Ground was incredibly hard this fall. I guess that is what happens after a lot of rain and then a couple dry months. Very hard on disc blades and cultivator shovels.
Think field work is over for this year -- had a few nights of -10C already.
Not complaining. We had beautiful harvest weather this year. Such a treat after the last 4 falls. Last fall most of the harvesting happened the last 2 weeks of October.
Little hard on the nerves!
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Oct 20, 2020 17:51:51 GMT -6
Post by Albertabuck on Oct 20, 2020 17:51:51 GMT -6
Little over an inch here late yesterday afternoon into the evening, first snow this fall here. Sun was shinning today and maybe half melted where the sun hit it. But buried in some absolutely insanely cold temperatures, been hitting -12 to 15 almost ever nite and hasn't broke freezing during the day for the last week now. And there is another week of the same forecast. Finally got the first real killing frost around the 10th of Oct, had been hitting just below 0 for several times since early Sept but never enough to really shut everything down till now. I still had sunflowers flowering lol
Was some frost damage to some crops in different areas.
Spent today moving my cows home, seemed stupid to do so, they had good green grass where they were that would have held them well into Nov, but too much deep water with two inches and more ice building up on it, been using the big MFWD with the loader to break up ice along the sides of the one dugout with either the tires or the forks, but even still, calves end up walking on the ice, I couldn't let it go anymore, so even though it means feeding some other stock, moved the cows to some stuff where now they drink in the corrals. Price of one calf can buy a lot of hay IMO, never mind the piece of mind.
All field work has come to an abrupt end. Well over three inches of frost in some places already. I still got some grass hay to bale, and second cut still standing, finally with the frost it stopped growing, not sure if it will ever dry enough to make hay, might zero graze it or possibly bale it frozen later on, usually keeps till about Feb that way, play that one day to day I suppose.
Big thing here is depends on what November is like. Still lots of crop out, none of this fantastic stuff we keep hearing about, bunch of light green shit is what most got.
My neighbor did manage to get his barley done, no screaming hell either, straw grass green in places, finally got the last of it baled the other day and yesterday morning took me over an hour to coax the Stackcrusier into life, thought I was having trouble with the hydraulic tension on the baler, that was bugger all to keeping the systems flowing on that bale wagon. Those hydraulic systems aren't made for -10 and lower. And then from what I can tell, there is no heat stove under the carb on that Ford industrial 361, carb kept freezing up, was kind of embarassing the way it was missing and farting around at times going down the road, but whadda ya do, then to top it off, alternator crapped out lol. Got last of the straw in the stack and tarp pulled over and was screwing in the last two cork screws when snow started. I was pushing early to get them bales picked before it hit because with them racing slicks those wagons have for tires, they won't pull themselves across the yard in an inch of snow lol. Gonna change it over the dual truck tires for that very reason.
One other note, gonna be some bad flooding come spring, after what we had for water this summer, probably one in three culverts are half or more full of water, be it beavers or whatever causing the water to back up, well them are now starting to freeze up, be July before they thaw out, gonna be a mess.
And so it goes, certainly been the year for adversity lol
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Oct 20, 2020 18:02:19 GMT -6
Post by northernfarmer on Oct 20, 2020 18:02:19 GMT -6
First snow I had was a week ago, about an inch and that melted into the afternoon as we did NH3 but in the shade of buildings or grain bins that some of it slid off of onto the ground it never totally disappeared as that goes to show how cool the days have been just getting a few degrees above freezing or was until this last weekend. Turned colder yet on Oct 16th that night and the ground is frozen and then Oct 19 it snowed and again today Oct 20th so looks very wintery and last night was down to -17c. Its hard to say but its rather doubtful the ground will unthaw to do any more field work and some guys just got started NH3. Around here Oct 7th was the last decent harvest day as it rained the next morning and crops were very tough after that as in 15% canola etc. I am sure there is some crop out yet but nothing at all compared to last years disaster with crop all over the place. Sure hasn't been any of this harvest/field work scenario of some years ago going to the end of Oct or just into Nov as Oct 8 was like the switch was flipped.
As to the ground conditions for field work, way too dry and hard but then had a bit of rain just into the Oct long weekend and that was enough to help some but problem soil areas were still awful and pulling up boulders of dirt as the too much rain during July tapered off and later August and into Sept got very little and over wet soil here that dries up turns hard. Sure never had issues with the grain trucks in the fields this year and all low spots were rock hard as well.
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Oct 20, 2020 20:10:00 GMT -6
Post by kevlar on Oct 20, 2020 20:10:00 GMT -6
About an inch or so here, was hoping it could have held off for another day or two, just about done cleaning up a pile of oats off the ground, snow can sure slow that job down. Our old Rem vac didn't handle snow well at all, have a Brandt now, get to see if it's any better. October hasn't been great for getting much done. Have only had a few fairly cold nights, but the days struggle to get to zero. Noticed Minnedosa Lake is almost completely frozen over this afternoon, that seems pretty early to me. Still see the odd Robin flying around, hope that's a good sign, and not a sign that the bad weather is coming so fast it just gave up and didn't even try to make it south!
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Oct 20, 2020 21:17:34 GMT -6
Post by northernfarmer on Oct 20, 2020 21:17:34 GMT -6
I can relate to the shit weather we get here in this part of Alberta but it seems weird to me to hear of the very southern part of Manitoba getting snow and freezing daytime temps. Also odd was at least in Nebraska ( not sure of other states ) seeing quite a few inches of snow having fallen this last Sunday. No wonder they had to change the narrative to the fearmongering scamdemic to shift attention away from the global warming theme with predictions of warm winters ... no snow, when we seem like we are entering an ice age instead.
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Oct 21, 2020 7:36:57 GMT -6
Post by cptusa on Oct 21, 2020 7:36:57 GMT -6
Snow flurries every day here, had an inch Saturday night I think but melted off right away. High chance of severe storms tomorrow... why not.
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Oct 21, 2020 8:25:27 GMT -6
Post by kenmb on Oct 21, 2020 8:25:27 GMT -6
Much the same here. First real killing frost a few nights back. Lots of green volunteer barley around the bins and peas in the pea fields. Was a seasonal, Windy two weeks with lows rarely getting below -3c and then a few days ago it switched and now highs of 0 at best. Next week has forecast 10 to 15 deg below normal. Got my bush piles burnt and ran through those cleared areas with the cultivator a few times so that is the last of my to-do list for this fall. Have a water storage tank beside the house for collecting rain water off eaves, forgot to empty it and it was froze solid even before the real cold hit. Did not think that first week of Oct I should have been draining all that stuff. Normal highs are +9c right now.
One nice thing perhaps is if it doesn't rain or melt anymore, the soil may stay loose from being dry and suck up some extra moisture in spring as things melt rather than run off.
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