bap
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Post by bap on Jul 26, 2020 13:13:46 GMT -6
Average to a bit above in some fields...knock on wood...couple strips of hail went through...
Need all of august frost free for the later stuff...
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Post by victory on Jul 27, 2020 9:54:48 GMT -6
Very wet here about an hour and a half northwest of Edmonton. Most wheat crops look pretty good, most canola fields not good, some pea fields completely drowned out, and barley struggling. Some nice looking faba beans.
It was very wet here last fall. Then we had a late spring. The first few weeks of seeding were very nice conditions, but after that a lot of rain. Not much fun spraying. Just hoping for a drier fall so we don't have to struggle in the mud again.
Our area normally produces good crops. The last 5 years have been a struggle with excess moisture.
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Post by SWMan on Jul 28, 2020 21:38:09 GMT -6
Heard form someone who drove west through southern SK and AB, said crop looks really good. Already murmurs from one grain company about rail service not being up for the task. Get ready for some bad basis levels this winter.
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Post by kevlar on Jul 28, 2020 21:44:15 GMT -6
OK, I'm taking bets. We had some canola that drowned out at the start of July in a flood. I was going to go and sow some barley in the drowned out spots just for the sake of having some cover on it. Before it dried enough to sow it, the canola started coming back. The tops died right off and I guess it sent up a new plant from the roots, have a beautiful looking crop, maybe some of the best we have! Only thing is, it's July 28 and it's not flowering yet. Who here thinks it will make it before a frost? Just so you know, I'm not going to bet the farm on it! lol
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Post by SWMan on Jul 28, 2020 21:54:15 GMT -6
All bets are off in 2020, but it definitely could make it.
My last low spots of canola I seeded on June 15 are nicely into flower now, late crop looks great and has moisture to be decent.
Early crop in the area was affected a bit by dryness and is pretty short, but some of the heads on the wheat look to be filling quite nicely.
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Post by victory on Jul 29, 2020 8:21:50 GMT -6
OK, I'm taking bets. We had some canola that drowned out at the start of July in a flood. I was going to go and sow some barley in the drowned out spots just for the sake of having some cover on it. Before it dried enough to sow it, the canola started coming back. The tops died right off and I guess it sent up a new plant from the roots, have a beautiful looking crop, maybe some of the best we have! Only thing is, it's July 28 and it's not flowering yet. Who here thinks it will make it before a frost? Just so you know, I'm not going to bet the farm on it! lol If it was in my area of north central Alberta, there is no way that crop would make it. You have many more heat units there in Manitoba. I hope it makes it. What variety is it? That can make quite a difference.
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Post by jcalder on Jul 29, 2020 8:54:18 GMT -6
OK, I'm taking bets. We had some canola that drowned out at the start of July in a flood. I was going to go and sow some barley in the drowned out spots just for the sake of having some cover on it. Before it dried enough to sow it, the canola started coming back. The tops died right off and I guess it sent up a new plant from the roots, have a beautiful looking crop, maybe some of the best we have! Only thing is, it's July 28 and it's not flowering yet. Who here thinks it will make it before a frost? Just so you know, I'm not going to bet the farm on it! lol What variety is it?
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Post by Albertabuck on Jul 29, 2020 8:57:58 GMT -6
There might be some good crops down south in Ab, but I would say from about Red Deer north, much of it sucks, northern AB alone has almost 1 mil acres that went unseeded and what did get seeded, some is good, but most not so much so, maybe half the growth and two to three weeks behind. Now it could still yield but I can't see it being no screaming hell. And if it freezes hard early Sept that will take care of almost all of it.
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Post by meskie on Jul 29, 2020 11:10:58 GMT -6
I heard a market analyst talking about the satellite imagery of canola crop. Going by vegetation he figured 42bu/acre average in western Canada. Must be some big crops somewhere to average that.
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Post by kevlar on Jul 29, 2020 12:32:21 GMT -6
OK, I'm taking bets. We had some canola that drowned out at the start of July in a flood. I was going to go and sow some barley in the drowned out spots just for the sake of having some cover on it. Before it dried enough to sow it, the canola started coming back. The tops died right off and I guess it sent up a new plant from the roots, have a beautiful looking crop, maybe some of the best we have! Only thing is, it's July 28 and it's not flowering yet. Who here thinks it will make it before a frost? Just so you know, I'm not going to bet the farm on it! lol If it was in my area of north central Alberta, there is no way that crop would make it. You have many more heat units there in Manitoba. I hope it makes it. What variety is it? That can make quite a difference. It's Pioneer 45M35. No, it has no hope in hell of making it, was just joking. I would guess it's still a good week away from flowering, it will likely still be flowering when it freezes! I'm in a short growing season here, just south of Riding Mountain Park, elevation I think is what gets us. SWMan and others in the southern part might be ok, not here.
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Post by SWMan on Jul 29, 2020 22:04:39 GMT -6
By golly went for a drive today and saw a combine in a partially cut field of what must have been fall rye. Our first pea field has the odd little yellow patch and my new combine has not showed up yet. I will admit my heart did skip a beat when I saw that...
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Post by kevlar on Jul 29, 2020 22:15:53 GMT -6
According to this, there is 0% chance of the canola making it!
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Post by northernfarmer on Jul 30, 2020 15:21:36 GMT -6
According to this, there is 0% chance of the canola making it!
What altitude would you be sitting at as I went on google earth and not that I know your exact location but I was guessing in that 2200 or a bit higher range which to me isn't high but that is a lot higher then to the south or even east of you drops a lot. You are still south of Calgary latitude wise so to me you are in the deep south !. I sit at around 2000 feet or so and although I call myself northern which in relative terms is true, its another 500 km by road to get up to Fort Vermilion and always amazes me that they can farm up there that far north. Their altitude is 900 feet at the town and would think that is part of the reason but to equate Fort Vermilion to Manitoba, its almost as far north as Churchill if you can imagine.
Nothing has regrown from the drowning we had around here even though it wasn't near as much rain as what you had out there. Canola plants that were severely affected died or was right on deaths door and are just sitting there as mini plants. Close neighbors peas are looking worse all the time, its like most of the field was sprayed with reglone as its turned all brown and stunted little twigs sticking up and somehow a few of them have one lowly pod on the top with one pea in it and that comprises most of those fields acres wise and a few patches of green normal looking pea growth on higher spots of land.
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Post by kevlar on Jul 30, 2020 16:42:01 GMT -6
Just looked on my phone right now, not sure how accurate, but it says 640 mters/2100 feet. Maybe it's not the elevation itself, but the fact we are so much higher than the areas to the south and east. There are maps from the Manitoba government with all the info like frost free days, heat units, etc. and we are pretty much on the edge of the worst conditions weather wise for farming! lol
Our farm is roughly on the edge of the light blue/white area north of Minnedosa.
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Post by northernfarmer on Jul 30, 2020 18:42:04 GMT -6
Looking at the legend for the dark blue colour for the average date for the first frost, its NOW !, I gather that is slightly north of you butting up against the park. Your growing degree days are way less then to the south east towards the boarder. I've never looked up a map like that for Alberta.
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