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Post by SWMan on Jul 24, 2020 19:55:23 GMT -6
I'll start things off here. How is everyone's crop looking? We had a late start here but heat and adequate moisture has things almost caught up and looking pretty good. Getting some decent rains lately which is good as the crop gets bigger. I haven't taken many pictures lately but those soybeans are from over a week ago and they are over knee high now and look awesome. The canola is from today, my last big field with fungicide(still have one super late field). Cereals look average I would say and the corn looks incredible, and I don't have any this year...ha ha   Looks like pictures work. What are you guys seeing in your area? |
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Post by Beerwiser on Jul 24, 2020 20:23:48 GMT -6
Canola here is crap. There are lots of fields in full blossom and you can still see rows. Wheat is picking up, but is really late. If by some miracle we get a extended growing season with out frost they will be good. I suspect the protein will be pretty low with all the excess moisture.
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Post by kens on Jul 24, 2020 22:59:47 GMT -6
Crops at my farm are above average, though not the best ever, or even the best in the area. We are sitting on approximately 6" of rain for the season, which mostly has come at the ideal times so far. Just need another inch to finish it off. You only have to go a few miles in any direction from our farm and they have had over 10" in most areas, and are bordering on too much rain. We are NE of Humboldt. But for the most part the crops in the area are going to be really big.
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Post by daryl672 on Jul 24, 2020 23:20:00 GMT -6
We are flooded out here NE of Prince Albert, Snowden area. May wasn't too bad but we got hit hard June and July, we had rain almost every day up until 3 days ago. Anything seeded really early still has a chance, seen two canola crops that might do around 35, the rest are pretty ugly. Early cereals and peas seem to be not too bad too but will be average crops... if this heat sticks around and no more rain comes for a while.
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Post by meskie on Jul 24, 2020 23:23:32 GMT -6
Crops around here look good for the most part. Some drowned out spots but should be above average. SW of melfort. The closer you get to melfort the more water stressed the crops are.
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Post by jcalder on Jul 25, 2020 6:08:16 GMT -6
Our crops look pretty good except for a few quarters of canola that have gotten every single storm/shower that has rolled through this summer, they have some substantial drown out spots.
All in all this year is shaping up decent, but the constant thunderstorm risk is getting a bit old on my nerves, haha.
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Post by warreng on Jul 25, 2020 6:11:33 GMT -6
this is a couple of days ago, sigh hail is a bugger, and no coverage -I think-?
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Post by northernfarmer on Jul 25, 2020 8:39:26 GMT -6
I haven't even had the heart to take photos of the crops, while some looks reasonable but all quite late and with some areas totally dead from drowning, other fields are a disaster of dead or barely surviving stunted little plants that will never be anything and you know there is a problem when canola is 6 inches high and is blooming with a miniature sized stem, there may as well be nothing standing there at all. While I have not been driving all over the place in the Peace country I have heard from others saying some areas not bad but some areas its one disaster of a field after another and there never will be anything in those fields other then weeds taking over. I heard one grain company was having a meeting a while ago to figure out what to do with farmers who contracted crops that know full well they won't be able to fill contracts. On this farm anyway it was July 1st when the main shit show began with that high rain fall event and our land just can't take that much rain with that clay underneath, goes from too dry to too wet very quick. A neighbors field of peas and its on more of a gumbo piece of land, wow is that ever a horrid mess as a few spots are green and blooming and the rest is a total drowned sickly yellow mess of stunted little plants. At this point its setting up to be a lot of late frozen crop and mud, time will tell though.
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Post by SWMan on Jul 25, 2020 9:00:56 GMT -6
Sorry to hear about the wet conditions and hail. Fighting mud is exhausting, seems I have fought those conditions more than dry in my career. Hopefully things dry out, but that's not always great either because the crop won't be rooted very deep...sigh.
Is this a large area that's affected? Sounds like a good chunk of Alberta and Northern Saskatchewan? I am thinking that there will be parts of Manitoba on the wet side too based of the radar(jcalder being in one of them), but sometimes hard to tell from the radar.
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Post by kevlar on Jul 25, 2020 9:19:31 GMT -6
Our crops have come back surprisingly well after our major rain event, and seem to be catching up, they had a slow start but since the big rain the weather has been close to perfect, with a few small rains since. The stuff that completely drowned out obviously has nothing but was surprised that the canola that was wiped out is coming back. At first I thought it was volunteer canola but then you could see the rows, I highly doubt it will make it, but at least I don't have to go out and sow something in the drowned spots now. Went camping this week just east of Winnipeg, and the whole way never seen too many bad areas, a few bad fields here and there but over all pretty good I would say. Nothing is in the bin yet though, so that could change.
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Post by farmercook on Jul 25, 2020 9:40:46 GMT -6
Been wet here. Western Alberta, crops are. Ok for the most part, barley is taking it the worst, turning yellow in a lot of places. Everything is late and will take a good fall to help get it to full maturity. We haven’t had much for heat, and it seams every Time it does get warm it boils up some nasty storms.
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Post by bob123 on Jul 25, 2020 17:29:38 GMT -6
Crops are above average here in general, but lost some yield potential due to lack of moisture in the first month of the growing season, amazing how dry it got after last fall
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Post by powerwagon on Jul 25, 2020 22:19:29 GMT -6
Ya it’s a swamp northeast of Prince Albert I’m not far from daryl672 prob 20 some miles west think it’s worse over here lol. Went to nipawin about a week ago crops get better the closer u get to nipawin.
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Post by daryl672 on Jul 25, 2020 23:04:54 GMT -6
Yeah you guys started getting hit hard earlier than us. I rent some land north of Meath that got 7 inches May 20th, we only got an inch here that day. At least our area had a decent start before it got crazy, but it still did a lot of damage.
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Post by powerwagon on Jul 26, 2020 0:42:43 GMT -6
Ya that was a bad one I’m right around there but we didnt get quite that much think about 4 inches or so in that dump. I don’t seed much but didn’t get seeding till June. We were never dry was still kinda waiting then it got worse and had a bit of flax to combine that over wintered and never did get it all. Screwed up should have had it in the fall but waited too long straw was too tough struggled to get through the combine.
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