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Post by northernfarmer on Sept 1, 2020 22:27:40 GMT -6
In the last week or so some pea crops have been coming off in this area although have not asked the closest neighbor what his peas ran as I've been watching that disaster take shape since I drive by it but another neighbor with quite a few hundred acres of peas said his average was 6, yes a whole 6 bushels per acre. Today one of the buyers at a local grain terminal said that they are hearing numbers of 4 to 6 bushels, one farmer had a "whole" 12 bushels per acre on one of his fields. The rains either drowned completely or in other places rotted the roots and have plants with no pods or some little pods with 1 pea in it and a very small pea at that. And those same fields in some cases have piles of weeds and volunteer crops that sprung up so are a horrid mess. Having said that I don't know what the picture is across the Peace country, only some examples of this area.
Already had a light frost back on August 11th, then two nights in a row this last weekend in August where a shingled roof was white and the grass was stiff with frost and green canola out there not ready to swath and wheat crops with a long ways to go yet as in "hoping" to be combining some wheat at the end of Sept if we are lucky.
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Post by Oatking on Sept 2, 2020 6:07:13 GMT -6
That's why peas are not popular in the valley. One big rain and the whole year is over. I wish I could try them because they are great for the soil. For 4-6 bushels an acre I would just disc them up and take a hit on crop insurance. Seems like a lot of effort and wear on equipment and your own mental state. That is really too bad and tough on those families.
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Sept 2, 2020 8:12:35 GMT -6
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Post by slipclutch on Sept 2, 2020 8:12:35 GMT -6
In the valley. One big rain on any crop your up shit creek. IMO peas can take as much rain as canola.
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Post by meskie on Sept 2, 2020 8:25:12 GMT -6
In the valley. One big rain on any crop your up shit creek. IMO peas can take as much rain as canola. It would depend on the land. If peas have wet feet for any length of time they won’t be any good. We have had the under 10bu crops around here and canola will still be a 40bu crop. In sandier soils peas will do well with lots of rain.
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Post by kenmb on Sept 2, 2020 8:52:58 GMT -6
Different experience here with peas. Those wet years where we were getting 20 to 26" of rain the peas that weren't under water did really well. And nice clean fields. Combined some peas in November because ground was too wet, once matted down the ground doesn't dry up. Get the peas off and the ground was actually green from a distance because of moss growing on it. But the peas grew well and had good yield.
My good field of Metcalfe ran 68 BPA, it was on pea stubble that was a good crop but got 40% hail after podded last year so lots of nutrients available for this year. Lowest input barley crop we have grown in many years and best yield. Been loading the ground with phos last few years though.
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Post by kevlar on Sept 4, 2020 20:42:39 GMT -6
This is the year that just keeps on giving. Have about 230 acres of barley left, the first stuff turned out decent, what's left will bring the average down, will need to get the grain cart out for these fields, soft and wet, was hoping to not use the cart, not my favorite thing in the world to use. Can't seem to go more than 2 days without rain of some amount, got another half inch a couple days ago. Swathed a half of canola yesterday, it's all over the place from green to dead ripe, nothing in places to a decent crop in a few spots, over all poor, weeds did very well, couldn't get it sprayed the second time because of flooding. no arial applicators would bite on that. Have discovered a new obstacle swathing this year, driftwood. Should have had the oats down a few days ago, but with the constant rains thought we would leave it standing, wind yesterday played he!! with it, broke it over and shelled some of it, maybe looks like it shelled more than it did with a lot of it being the hulls, but still enough, got most of it swathed today. Not sure what to do with the rest of the canola, not quite ready to swath, some patches quite green, and calling for frost Monday and Tuesday. A lot of crop in my area won't fair well with a frost. Have had to dry about 75% of the crop we have harvested so far. The only thing we haven't had thrown at us this year is hail. Dad is 72 and he said he has never seen a year with so many different things come at us. I just keep telling myself when I'm trying to decide how to go about doing something as far as the crop goes, on a year like this, there is no right or wrong answer.
Is it too early to start ringing in the New Year??
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Post by kevlar on Sept 4, 2020 20:52:42 GMT -6
Oh silly me! I just went and checked the weather again, the frost outlook has improved somewhat, but in it's place is a special weather statement, now calling for 90 km winds for Sunday with strongest gusts between Sask border and RRV. Want to guess where I am?? And an Alberta clipper coming with cold temps and rain and showers, anyone want to bet snow will come with it?
I need a hug! lol
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Post by meskie on Sept 4, 2020 21:40:27 GMT -6
Oh silly me! I just went and checked the weather again, the frost outlook has improved somewhat, but in it's place is a special weather statement, now calling for 90 km winds for Sunday with strongest gusts between Sask border and RRV. Want to guess where I am?? And an Alberta clipper coming with cold temps and rain and showers, anyone want to bet snow will come with it? I need a hug! lol I think you might need a stiff drink or three
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Sept 5, 2020 4:26:26 GMT -6
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Post by slipclutch on Sept 5, 2020 4:26:26 GMT -6
Yeah!! No shit!!
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Post by Oatking on Sept 5, 2020 6:36:18 GMT -6
Tuesday morning is showing a 0 degrees c with frost, but first is to survive the 80 km winds sunday. Its a mini derecho coming our way this weekend Canadian style. If the flax goes through the combine today it will come off. Hope the beans are far enough along leaf drop to survive a frost. Lots of beans are grass green in this area!
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Post by cptusa on Sept 5, 2020 6:55:31 GMT -6
I think we're a high of 95 Sunday and windy then Tuesday a high of 55. No frost yet, lows still in the 40's. Early frost would just be the fancy little sprinkles on top of the icing on the cake for this years weather.
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Post by kevlar on Sept 6, 2020 21:02:03 GMT -6
This view is growing old fast.
On the bright side, we got a nice rainbow, but the pot of gold must be in the neighbors field.
Fortunately the wind didn't blow much around from what I could see. Calling for -3 tomorrow night. Have almost had rain every time we leave the yard with the combine. Yesterday was the closest thing we had to a full day of work, other than drying grain. Finished the last hour of swathing oats by noon, but it was still plenty wet, started combining after lunch, barley was 16.5, actually came dry for a few hours! Then little showers, not much, just enough to stop anything from drying, about every hour or so, quit around 12:30 testing 17, just went again this morning at 11 testing 17 and it never moved much until we got rained out at around 5. Would have finished the barley tonight if it hadn't rained.
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Post by kenmb on Sept 8, 2020 8:22:05 GMT -6
Next time you see a barley sample change 2% in a few hours take a sample of the "dry" barley and put it in a sealed bag overnight and retest. My suspicion is it will test 16 or 17%. I saw the same thing last year but wasn't clued in enough to question the results so assumed the grain was dry and didn't do the sealed bag test. Traditionally we see grain dry down over weeks and then we get some rain which wets the grain. Internally the kernel is relatively dry and just the outside gets wet and that is what your moisture tester is finding - the surface moisture. But when you get non stop rain and humid weather then the kernel never actually gets that dry and is, say 17%,then the sun shines for a few hours and drys that outer layer and that gets you a good result. But the inside of the kernel is still damp and soon affects the outside too when the surface drying stops. My belief is that when a 2% change in moisture in a few hours is too good to be true, it probably is. I binned some "dry" barley last fall based on the test results right off the combine and that cost me quite a few dollars when the bin heated in winter. Putting the sample in a bag overnight and retesting the next day I am pretty sure would have matched up with the 16 to 17% moisture reading i got when tested right off the combine early in the day.
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Sept 8, 2020 11:54:36 GMT -6
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Post by powerwagon on Sept 8, 2020 11:54:36 GMT -6
Interesting Kenmb that does make sense and believe it from experience as well. have had moisture go up after binned in those conditions and just figured the field changed or tester was off.
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Sept 8, 2020 12:01:33 GMT -6
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Post by powerwagon on Sept 8, 2020 12:01:33 GMT -6
Is there gonna be some frost damage after last night? Looked like it wasn’t near as bad as it was supposed to in the north where we are went to -1 for not long but I seen saskatoon was -5 at the same time around 6am but there prob further advanced enough? Maybe not some canola?
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