I'm out making ruts right now with the sprayer. Not really much fun but then I hear of guys in the southern US getting 5 BPA on dry land and some going unharvested... So I will just be happy with what I have, it will probably be dry by the time harvest comes.

That being said I am pretty sure you are wetter than me.

 

Yeah I'm sick of rain too most of my land got a 4 inch wack last storm. Spraying is not goin well. Forecast sure is bad.

 

mbfarmer are the tiled fields better?

 

Yes they are but the tile is having a hard time keeping up. I sure wish every field was tiled. Someday.

 

Up until father's day weekend we had a big crop like last year coming but now my canola average is in the low 20's with this forecast it will drop down to the 15 bu/ac range. Irreversable damage has been done, our early fields are starting to bolt and will only put 5 - 10 pods per plant.

Today we just finished putting up another bin that I won't need oh well maybe next year.

 

The tile can remove about 1/4 every 24 hours. We have been getting a lot more than that but they are better.

 

We got out with the sprayer today around noon. "Suppose" to be sunny today and tomorrow, then rain sometime Thursday. Will try to get some spraying caught up before the rain hits, but it's sure muddy out there. Not as bad as those around us though, so I guess we are lucky.....wet, but lucky....

Andrew

 

Not much better on this side of the country, we had 5 1/2 inches Wednesday through Sat. Got some spraying done today but it is muddy as all H*ll. Forcast is the Shi*s!

 

Is the corn going to make it this year or soybeans? Was MB not going to plant a record number of soybean acres this spring.

 

Depends where you look in the province, most of that corn and soybean acreage would be in the Red River Valley which for the most part still looks pretty good. As noted there is some extremely wet areas in the SE, SW, NW and Interlake areas... in some places there is land that hasn't been seeded for up to 3 years. I'm on the escarpment just west of the Red River Valley and so far we have been better than last year. We managed to get our acres all seeded in decent time, but the rains are holding up timely spraying at the moment. I am seeing more soybeans than normal (they've just been moving into the area in the last 3 years) but there sure is a lot of canola around here. This area will be yellow in 3 weeks.

 

Hello All
Up until last nights 1.65" I was figuring break even at best. Today, it is a losing proposition.

Barley field.

I spent the good part of last week making ruts with the tractor. Today, you can't even see where I made the ruts, the water in the ditch is higher & flowing in the fields. & the worst part of it all is that this land in not even 1 mile from Lake Winnipeg!!!! I have to wait until all the water from the west flows past here, before my water has any place to go!!!!

Same thing with my corn field. That water is from the municipal ditch backing up onto my land. Same thing here, have to wait 3, 4, maybe 5 days before all the water from the west flows by here, before this water can flow back into the ditch & to the lake, which is about 3/4 of a mile away.

Now I have to worry about what my cattle are going to eat this winter & how I'm going to pay for it???

This flax field was looking the best out of all my fields, up until today

Another barley field.

 

I Hear Ya

we are the same here just south of RMNP. It has never dried up since the snow went. I was able to hold off on the seeding long enough to make not too bad of a job with very few ruts, even though I was spinning all the time. The crop came up and was looking awsome because we went almost a week without out rain. Now the canola looks like its holding on but barley is yellow and sick, oats are so-so. Barley hasnt done anything for close to two weeks now and probably won't for another week or so by the sounds of it. I'm trying to stay opptimistic but in reality I really don't see us getting any kind of crop. Kinda sickening when its the third week in June, we still have the heat on in the house, and we know we dont have enough frost free days for crops to ripen, unless it doesnt freeze until late October!

 

ya we are in the same boat, trying not to complain too too much we have some nice fields but majority is turning into crap again.
gotta go spray but just can't even walk in the field.
wish tile would work out here though our ditches are just not big enough to take any water.

 

ya we are in the same boat

Terrible term to pick.

 

Just don't forget to bring a paddle!

I'm glad the tap has been turned back on here. If that's any consolation.

 

I think our fields are wetter now than when we seeded. We were lucky enough to get all of our acres seeded but not without doing a few circles. The 620 duals on the sprayer are being put to use this year. I think there is going to be a lot of tillage this fall.

 

Send some moisture our way, we sure could use some, less than a foot of sub moisture and crops are at their hi water usage.. we could handle a nice four incher

 

Spraying here again but making ruts. My land has some pretty good drainage done by my father and Grand Father starting back in the '70s. Wheat and canola are still quite wet but holding their own so far.


CR Toney,
Open up that tap some more. I know the water will find somewhere to go in your country. Here,...everything is full!!

J Hildebrand,
Here too. I managed to get 99% of my acres seeded, some guys are in the 75% to 85% seeded range, quite a few did get done. Lots of acres floated on. Some guys here never got the chance to get on at all !! If we get more rain, they may not even get green feed in, in decent time. Some are trying to spray, some are trying to pull out the sprayer. I will go give it **** again tomorrow morning and see just how deep I can go.

Fall tillage is a must on the heavier land around here. If you didn't get it worked last fall, you did not get across it this spring.

 

Bussard,

Just move the farm out here, it would be easier than trying to move all this water.

 

A couple of acres that didn't get worked up last fall, never dried out enough this spring to seed.

and now this........

 

We were wet here in central sask for seeding. Lots didn't go in. Now stuff we have seeded is drowned out. Over 4 inches last week. Up to 14 inches on the season. Can't get in the fields to spray here either and another 5 days of rain in the forecast. Not having fun anymore.

 

Wet in the interlake too one guy was asking for rain and ooo did he get it. Hoping to do some spraying today and tomorrow going to make some ruts but what are you going to do it has to be done, with more rain coming this weekend doesn't help out the situation. Really hope it don't stay like this we went through alot of wet harvest and not sure how my 690 will do in soup like our cat or gleaner did.

 

Send the rain down here if you want. what few dam-made lakes there are, they are super low, and at 3000-3500 ft elevation, all sloping south and east, I doubt we could ever flood.

We are blessed to be getting what we are, it was super dry, and in the past month or so we have probably gotten 5+ inches, and the ground just soaks it up like a sponge. It is still dry about a foot or two down the last time we dug a hole, so we can handle more!

 

Sure wish we could spread that water out a little, we will be out of water by August 1st here. Probably only had a couple inches of rain since Feb.

 

In southern Ont we had a very late start on corn plantingi need four days to plant all my corn I did get it in ,in four days but it took me a month to get four days .by the time we got the beans in we were in the need of a rain Becarefull what you wish for it restarted raining and will not stop.

 

Sw sask, rainfall has been perfect(lighter land) just hope for more heat and timely July rains.

 

Any land for sale?

 

Been raining a lot quite a few places, Thursday the 19'th our area looked like those pics MCatSHF posted. A couple inches here, a couple there over 2 weeks then got 6 inches in one night. For the most part here drainage is a bit better but nothing can cope with that much water. Plenty of flooded basements in town too. Corn was tall enough that it pulled through better but beans weren't so lucky. The peas for canning are turning yellow and brown and all shades between, probably not going to be very good in a few weeks.

 

Good and wet here too. Tired of moisture tired of mud and tired of changing plans daily due to weather. I guess we should count what blessings we do have but it can be hard to do sometimes.