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Post by kevlar on Jul 20, 2024 10:30:03 GMT -6
If wheat isn’t heading out yet, or just starting to, what are the odds of it making it before an average September 9 frost??😬
Barley is decent and canola has improved, oats looking good as they were in first and missed a lot of the rain. Some pea fields look bad in the area, assuming moisture issues, one is completely dead and some more getting the same way. Funny thing is one of the wettest quarters in the area has a beautiful looking crop of peas, can’t figure that one out.
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Post by meskie on Jul 20, 2024 11:37:57 GMT -6
Our neighbours have a couple 1/4s of peas that they had worked last fall and look way better then their other ones that didn’t on lighter ground. The 2 1/4s they worked are on heavier land that tends to get waterlogged. That’s the only thing that they can think of that saved the crop so far.
Our best looking barley crops we got protilled last fall also.
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Post by victory on Jul 20, 2024 13:02:42 GMT -6
High humidity + no wind = tough haying. Really been a struggle here. Cut the heaviest stuff first so it'd have time to dry. Got a half inch thunderstorm three days later and another half inch three days after that. It's now ten days since we cut that and the alfalfa regrowth is already ten inches tall. I flipped it yesterday and have another couple hundred acres raked together for baling. Got a few hundred bales made now. Yesterday I was baling and everything was going smoothly - made 53 bales in the first hour. Then, after unloading a bale, I saw a small flame at the top right drive roll bearing. I always carry some water in the twine box area, so after putting out the flames I loosened the belts enough to move them away from the hot spot and used the rest of the water to cool the bearing and shaft before heading home to fix. I guess a parts run is in order this morning. Oh the joys! 🤦♂️ Hey garyfunk, if you wouldn't run that baler so hard, maybe it wouldn't start on fire! Actually I'm guessing that you have a very nice crop there to get good production like that. Hope you get nicer weather and no more breakdowns. If farming was easy, everybody would want to do it.
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Post by Oatking on Jul 20, 2024 18:06:36 GMT -6
If wheat isn’t heading out yet, or just starting to, what are the odds of it making it before an average September 9 frost??😬 Barley is decent and canola has improved, oats looking good as they were in first and missed a lot of the rain. Some pea fields look bad in the area, assuming moisture issues, one is completely dead and some more getting the same way. Funny thing is one of the wettest quarters in the area has a beautiful looking crop of peas, can’t figure that one out. I think you’ll be alright with the wheat . Your dryer might get a good work out but that would be a good thing . I seen some late cereals around portage to elie . Man it’s wet in that area . For some reason , lots of summerfallow and peas in a world of hurt now .
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Post by northernfarmer on Jul 20, 2024 18:49:55 GMT -6
I think you’ll be alright with the wheat . Your dryer might get a good work out but that would be a good thing . I seen some late cereals around portage to elie . Man it’s wet in that area . For some reason , lots of summerfallow and peas in a world of hurt now . We have not grown peas for years now but when you mention wet ground and peas that look bad, that makes me wonder if the nitrogen producing nodules on the roots are now rotting. We saw that happen in a year where it was too wet and the plants turned a sickly light green as they were starving for nitrogen since the plant could no longer produce its own and was not enough nitrogen available in the soil otherwise for the plants to take up through their roots. Pulling up plants showed that those nodules were not right at all, instead of being a whitish pink they were like rotten grapes having lost their shape and colour.
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Post by Oatking on Jul 20, 2024 19:28:29 GMT -6
I think you’ll be alright with the wheat . Your dryer might get a good work out but that would be a good thing . I seen some late cereals around portage to elie . Man it’s wet in that area . For some reason , lots of summerfallow and peas in a world of hurt now . We have not grown peas for years now but when you mention wet ground and peas that look bad, that makes me wonder if the nitrogen producing nodules on the roots are now rotting. We saw that happen in a year where it was too wet and the plants turned a sickly light green as they were starving for nitrogen since the plant could no longer produce its own and was not enough nitrogen available in the soil otherwise for the plants to take up through their roots. Pulling up plants showed that those nodules were not right at all, instead of being a whitish pink they were like rotten grapes having lost their shape and colour. I have seen that in soybeans !
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Post by garyfunk on Jul 20, 2024 21:33:09 GMT -6
Grain weight ×2 seems really low to me. A 150 bu crop would only be about 6.5 tonnes of silage. If I combine the barley it would be worth about $900/acre but as silage only about $390-$470? That's not even close. Unless you are talking dry matter? Then 150bu equals closer to 16.5 tonnes at 35% dm then silage would be worth $990 to $1190. That works better but 16.5 tonnes seems high. Can't seem to find much for yields in Alberta. All that I have found are averages and I would assume they are mostly on dryland and include a fair amount of distressed crops. I should have mentioned dry matter yield. Everyone makes silage at a different moisture it seems.
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Post by iamwill on Jul 22, 2024 8:28:29 GMT -6
Ended up taking some pruning shears and clipping and weighing a half dozen spots. Anywhere from 8.5 to 21 tonnes per acre wet with no accounting for shrink of any type. Should average close to 14 tonnes with 10% shrink factored in.
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Post by Oatking on Jul 22, 2024 12:22:36 GMT -6
i wanted to post these canola pictures because it’s a good example how a crop can turn around . i think three weeks ago it looked like 20 bpa. I know it’s looking not great but I am amazed how this late seeded field recovered . I feel like I dodged a bullet just like Trump did !!! I seen slipclutches canola is making a comeback as well . It’s like being down 3 games to none and your team wins 4 in a row to win the cup ! slipclutches crop is looking fantastic !!!!
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Post by meskie on Jul 22, 2024 12:50:33 GMT -6
Ended up taking some pruning shears and clipping and weighing a half dozen spots. Anywhere from 8.5 to 21 tonnes per acre wet with no accounting for shrink of any type. Should average close to 14 tonnes with 10% shrink factored in. The grain in the heads get heavier as it matures also.
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Post by Oatking on Jul 27, 2024 7:55:56 GMT -6
canola is filling out and has a lean to it . I do have a few drowned out burnt spots but maybe the high areas will make up for them . The soybeans have grown leaps and bounds in the last two weeks . i can tell the crop is feeding off last years left over nitrogen .
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Post by bob123 on Jul 29, 2024 22:58:51 GMT -6
Starting to feel like that time of year around here, think canola will be swathed by the end of the week if things keep changing at the current pace. Looks like all the crops are gonna be ready to harvest at the same time this year, gonna be a crazy few weeks
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Post by SWMan on Jul 30, 2024 22:44:10 GMT -6
Nothing too close to harvest here yet, maybe peas in a couple weeks.
It's actually been 4 weeks now since we had rain after that really wet end to seeding and spraying season. Starting to resemble last year where we had a really long stretch with no rain in summer, I think that was 47 days or something but I'd have to check to be sure.
Corn is anywhere from 6-8' tall starting tassel so the dry warm weather has caught things up somewhat. Hasn't been crazy hot though, and very humid with little wind. Haying has been a real grind, but the crops are okay with those conditions. Hopefully we can catch some rain for filling on the later crops, still would benefit everything. At least a guy can get some work done when it's dry.
Hopefully everyone on here is getting some good growing conditions.
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Post by Oatking on Jul 31, 2024 6:51:11 GMT -6
Looks like next week guys around winkler will be thrashing spring wheat . Fields are sprayed already and look pretty ripe . These early wheat fields don’t look the greatest . I think the later wheat looks heavier and has less fuz. Maybe that early wheat had just too much stress in April and May ! I went to a plot tour at Paterson grain in Winnipeg yesterday . The most interesting part of the tour was the General Mills oat genetics plot . The whole plot did not receive a fungicide . You could sure tell the strong crown and stem rust cultivars . After seeing this plot , I was glad I put fungicide on all my fields . Even a variety that is resistant to rust usually loses that trait in four years . Another reason not to use bin run seed .
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Post by Oatking on Jul 31, 2024 6:58:34 GMT -6
i am thinking another week and a half and the oats will be ready to cut down .
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