Crop Progress 2024

Not sure this is going to pay many bills, hope I don’t owe any of you money 😬😬. For those of you who have never experienced water coming out of the top of the hills, this is what it looks like.

It’s amazing how ground water moves!
Kevlar , when I was breaking land near sprague I encountered the same ground water issue. It’s a strange feeling being able to disc thru the valleys but as soon as I hit the top , I sunk!
To correct the problem we cut a ditch from the hill tops to a road ditch . That water ran at least a few months until the water table dropped .
I still think you farm beautiful country up there kevlar.
I think , I am confident to say is canola has frustrated me the most over the years.
Lots of canola is hanging on over here too.

Just finished most of the canola, sprayer was down from about 5 yesterday until 3:30 today. That’s a story in itself, I’ll get into that another day 🙄. Sprayer is filled and ready to go do the last 100 acres of barley. Can’t say I’ve ever crop sprayed on July 10 before. Still have about 90 acres of dad’s canola left but there might be 10-15 acres of it left so going to leave it a week or so and do it.

Leaving for Craven tomorrow afternoon so don’t give a crap about anything until I get back!

finished spraying soybeans today .
As soon as the heat came on the soybeans have been looking awesome.
I am so glad I didn’t give up on beans . 
Soybeans grew thru the excess moisture again . 

riverlot land makes the worse farmer look like a pro !!!! 

Out in Regina right now, have to say some really nice looking crops all the way here and some good looking hay crops as well. Haven’t been west of home for awhile and I’d say maybe 20 miles west things get looking a lot better. When I left the crops were starting to look better after a couple days without rain and heat. Maybe get something yet 🤞. Nice to get away and not have to see and deal with things at home.

Hate to complain , but after the flood of 22 , our liberal government had an open pocket book for flood repair . Boy did everybody with a truck and a high hoe come out of the wood work . Some work was done right ! But oh my f ing goodness did they screw up water drainage ! Lots had lasers but cut long dug out for water to stand still in ditches .
I lost one quarter of canola that way . Rm of Morris will be repairing this nonsense for twenty years .!
These guys were not professional operators !
It’s frustrating to see the damage . We pay close to 5000 dollars a quarter in the r m of Morris . That really hurts to pay that when the field is a complete loss🤦‍♂️
Glad I limit my canola acres.
Some guys fields near rosenort might be lucky to get 4-5 bushels an acre of canola ! Yes , it’s that bad as back up water from our west flooded our fields . I am glad my worst field might be 25 but holy crap , lots of 5 bushel an acre canola north west of rosenort !
Some guys had two tractors pumping water over the road because the ditch work was so bad !
It’s a strange year again for canola . Some of my canola will do 50 or better and some might do 25.
Right now I think 40 will be my average . That hurts the pocket book . Oats look like 165 or better , maybe even 200bpa!! and beans may be 35-40ish . Beans are hard to tell yet .
Oats is by far and away the brightest star on oat kings farm. That is why I consistantly put 60 percent of my farm in oats . Glad I presold 130 ish bushel per acre at 5.65 a bushel. The rest I might it 4.50.
I often wonder why so many guys grow hrs wheat! When I use my numbers oats makes almost twice as much money as wheat does.
I know rotation plays into it !
If I get hailed out , you guys get first dibs on that price !!!
I still think canola is under valued currently .

I am still pumped for harvest even though a few canola fields turned into shitola!