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Post by northernfarmer on Jul 30, 2020 19:19:04 GMT -6
I finally found a map that would have similar information to your degree days map although I have a feeling they didn't get Fort Vermilion on there as I found an interactive map of the western three provinces as the summer progresses and up there at FV it surpasses us here for the growing season. This map I did link shows we are probably in a similar growing degree day scenario although I have a feeling you are hotter down there.
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Post by kevlar on Jul 30, 2020 20:10:00 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. Ya, I'm not sure how they came up with that frost date, it' earlier than it should be, I think Sept 8 is roughly the frost date all though it can come earlier! It freezes and is always colder right at the park. It's funny how much it changes from here, about 15 miles east or south, there is close to a week earlier on the land in the spring.
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Post by SWMan on Jul 30, 2020 22:36:20 GMT -6
I have two farms 12 miles apart, one at 1800 feet elevation and one at 1600 feet. Can't say I notice a difference between the two as far as crop development or start dates or first frost. However if you go into the Turtle Mountains nearby there is always more precip and snow sticks around much longer in spring. I think the high point there is 2450 feet and second highest point in MB. The high farm has some quarters with a 50' drop on them while the lower block is super flat, maybe a little over 2' across the two mile block of land. You can walk as fast as that water flows...
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Post by northernfarmer on Jul 30, 2020 23:22:19 GMT -6
I am sure you are right that altitude is not always going to be a cut and dried factor in the same way at various locations. Take for instance the frost factor, we have land up against a hill a few miles from the farm so is between 100/150 feet higher then the yard and when we get a damaging fall frost here often it never froze hard enough there. But on the other hand in the spring those fields against the hill which faces south so its getting the sun, they are covered in snow yet when fields here are pretty much bare. I think it tends to get more snow and affected less by winter Chinooks so its usually the last area we can seed due to moisture. The frost seems to seek out the low lying area's here locally. Having said that there are some fields along a river flat not too far from here and its like another climate again as I believe the crops are earlier and frost free but large rivers/bodies of water create their own micro climate to a certain degree.
I'm going to take a wild guess that there is a taller mountain in Alberta then the Turtle Mountains
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Post by kevlar on Jul 31, 2020 11:46:10 GMT -6
July 31, finished crop spraying for 2020! lol I went and sprayed the drowned out spots in the canola that now has a beautiful but late crop of canola. That's going to be our "fun money" if it makes it!! ha ha ha
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Post by victory on Jul 31, 2020 13:58:19 GMT -6
Never say never lol. Don't swath it green. Let it stand as long as possible.
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Post by SWMan on Jul 31, 2020 20:34:20 GMT -6
Did some crop checking today, things look pretty good. I'm calling it an average crop unless something happens. This is an extend soybean from Brett Young called Renuka, never grown this one before. Almost waist high now. Redberry HRS(sprayed with growth regulator) Chrome yellow peas. The field of Carver's look better to me, but hard to say until they are in the bin.
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2020 Crop
Aug 25, 2020 6:15:34 GMT -6
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Post by slipclutch on Aug 25, 2020 6:15:34 GMT -6
Did some crop checking today, things look pretty good. I'm calling it an average crop unless something happens. This is an extend soybean from Brett Young called Renuka, never grown this one before. Almost waist high now. View AttachmentRedberry HRS(sprayed with growth regulator) View AttachmentChrome yellow peas. The field of Carver's look better to me, but hard to say until they are in the bin. View AttachmentSwman. What’s the yield difference between the Chrome and carver?
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Post by cptusa on Aug 25, 2020 7:22:44 GMT -6
We're falling apart more here. Mid to upper 90's this week and full on drought. Soybeans are falling apart now. Started cutting silage yesterday, I'll post pics somewhere, sometime. Its bad from wind. 30 loads yesterday, not even half of what I should have done.
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Post by generalchaos on Aug 25, 2020 10:47:26 GMT -6
Took off some AC Brandon wheat that I swathed last Monday. I cut it because the fertilizer floater tracks were about two weeks later in germinating. Yielding in the low 60’s.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2020 12:06:26 GMT -6
Super dry in my area, crops are well below average. Some guys are praying for hail.
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Post by gleanerl on Aug 25, 2020 17:53:38 GMT -6
Been drought conditions here since seed went in the ground, up until about 3 weeks ago. Now wishing it would stop raining. 12"since then. Water ponding in fields. Spring wheat off couple weeks now. Nothing great 45-50 bu, but did do better then most of the winter wheat around here. Beans and corn somehow seem not to bad. Worst corn is the so called drought tolerant variety. Anything but tolerant. Never growing that stuff again.
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Post by SWMan on Aug 25, 2020 20:34:15 GMT -6
Did some crop checking today, things look pretty good. I'm calling it an average crop unless something happens. This is an extend soybean from Brett Young called Renuka, never grown this one before. Almost waist high now. Redberry HRS(sprayed with growth regulator) Chrome yellow peas. The field of Carver's look better to me, but hard to say until they are in the bin. Swman. What’s the yield difference between the Chrome and carver? Did about 500 acres of Carver's so far, just did 20 acres of the Chromes today in pretty humid/tough conditions. Just looking at the yield monitor so far it looks to be averaging slightly less, but the fields are 12 miles apart and the Chromes got slightly less rain. The Chomes are shorter and do not stand as well, but as of now I am getting them without too much issue. I think if we had good harvest weather we could make better time in the Chromes because of there being less material. Peas are doing above average this year, nice crop. The dry conditions that produced the good pea crop isn't really helping my soybeans though, can't believe how they are holding on through the heat but they are gonna be way off their potential. Wheat and canola look average to me, canola possibly above average but it's got a ways to go yet. Hopefully you guys with the weather issues get some better luck going forward.
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Post by victory on Aug 25, 2020 22:39:59 GMT -6
One thing everyone in our area knows after this year is that peas do not like wet feet. Worst crop this year. Last few weeks have been much drier for which we are very thankful. Still some rain on and off, but we also had some hot weather. A few fields of canola have been swathed. Peas are being combined. First barley fields getting harvested as well.
Might be a lot of swathing happening this year because of uneven/second growth crops. Wheat is our best looking crop this year. Or maybe faba beans.
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Post by kevlar on Aug 25, 2020 22:56:09 GMT -6
Not a lot going on in my area yet. A few peas off, a little barley. We have almost all the barley swathed, got about 100 acres combined. Couldn't start until 4 o'clock yesterday and today, humidity is brutal and hot. Nothing dry yet, anywhere from 15.5 to 18ish, will rip it through the dryer some day. Oats are close to swathing, canola a week or better, maybe 2. Will be swathing everything this year, all different stages, a lot of weed growth now. Wild oats are really bad in this area this year, so dry until after we got done spraying, then 15 inches of rain over 2 nights got them growing good! So far happy with the barley considering the year we had. Soaking wet ground to start with but bone dry on the top, crop started good but weeds were in the dust, dry right up until the 15 inch rain, then next to nothing again all summer until another 1.5 inches last week, water laying in some of the low spots again. Hot the last couple weeks. Swathing is a little trickier with the clumps of straw and chaff that got floating around in the flood, I would have liked to see what it looked like from above when it flooded, there are spots in the fields that seem to be flat higher ground that you can now see where stuff floated around on it. With the weather we had this year, harvest really shouldn't be taking place, but happy with what we got.
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