2018 Harvest snow causing problems on Canadian Prairies.

Blaithin

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Livestock Farmer
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Alberta
Had a bit more snow and some rain with that wind on Friday night. Saturday was miserable, cold and cloudy. Yesterday was finally nice and it's only kept warming up. It hit 17 degrees today! Hasn't been that warm in over a month :ROFLMAO:

Guys are jumping in their combines and letting er rip. Standing canola was really dropping today, from in the 11's and 12's this morning, all the way down to 8's by this evening. There's hopes swathed stuff will catch up as it's dropped a couple points today as well so should be within reach by tomorrow. Seen some standing barley that even came in dry! Wheat still has a bit to go but what's been seen is in the 17's so tomorrow we'll probably see that really start to drop too.

And the best thing is the forecast is saying sunny and warmer for almost the next two weeks!

I'm expecting to see many combines going on the way home tonight as long as there's no dew set in.
 

Ffermer Bach

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Livestock Farmer
Watching a video like this, I have a great idea, lets not worry about food security in the UK, we can buy all we need off the world market, and we better prioritise using our top quality land for road building and houses oh and all the land that's left, why not put badgers top of the priority list, pretty much on a par with public access, at least that seem to be the attitude of all in Westminster, I can recall when Margaret Beckett was agricultural minister, she was asked what proportion of food was produced in the UK, she replied she wasn't even going to bother asking her civil servants to work that out!
 

Cowcorn

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Mixed Farmer
Had a bit more snow and some rain with that wind on Friday night. Saturday was miserable, cold and cloudy. Yesterday was finally nice and it's only kept warming up. It hit 17 degrees today! Hasn't been that warm in over a month :ROFLMAO:

Guys are jumping in their combines and letting er rip. Standing canola was really dropping today, from in the 11's and 12's this morning, all the way down to 8's by this evening. There's hopes swathed stuff will catch up as it's dropped a couple points today as well so should be within reach by tomorrow. Seen some standing barley that even came in dry! Wheat still has a bit to go but what's been seen is in the 17's so tomorrow we'll probably see that really start to drop too.

And the best thing is the forecast is saying sunny and warmer for almost the next two weeks!

I'm expecting to see many combines going on the way home tonight as long as there's no dew set in.
Buiochas le Dia!!
 

Brisel

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Arable Farmer
Location
Midlands
Watching a video like this, I have a great idea, lets not worry about food security in the UK, we can buy all we need off the world market, and we better prioritise using our top quality land for road building and houses oh and all the land that's left, why not put badgers top of the priority list, pretty much on a par with public access, at least that seem to be the attitude of all in Westminster, I can recall when Margaret Beckett was agricultural minister, she was asked what proportion of food was produced in the UK, she replied she wasn't even going to bother asking her civil servants to work that out!

Perhaps we should have realised that this was the future of UK agricultural policy instead of writing her off as a bitter old windbag* who wasn’t enjoying her new job in the dead end of the Cabinet.

Sorry to go off topic. I hope all Canadians have a few more weeks of warm sunny weather to help get the harvest in :cool:




* she was a bitter old windbag!
 

Speedstar

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Scottish Borders
Have been to a good few parts of Colorado and the harvest is no more than 50 % done down here as well , ground conditions do not look to bad to travel on , with lots of snow laying around , saw one combine going yesterday and that was all
 

Blaithin

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Alberta
They're going hard. For some around here they were over 5 weeks sitting and waiting. One guy said 38 days since he's turned a wheel.

Canola dried down first so that was really getting done but the last couple of days the wheat has finally caught up so most seem to be switching to that. One of the many decisions of the farmer - stop the crop worth more to do the one that can lose quality the most or leave the one that can downgrade and stay on the one worth the most.
 

Speedstar

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Location
Scottish Borders
They're going hard. For some around here they were over 5 weeks sitting and waiting. One guy said 38 days since he's turned a wheel.

Canola dried down first so that was really getting done but the last couple of days the wheat has finally caught up so most seem to be switching to that. One of the many decisions of the farmer - stop the crop worth more to do the one that can lose quality the most or leave the one that can downgrade and stay on the one worth the most.
Will there not be a lot swathed and if it has a lot of snow on it left until the spring then harvested ?
 

Blaithin

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Livestock Farmer
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Alberta
Will there not be a lot swathed and if it has a lot of snow on it left until the spring then harvested ?
If it gets stuck under too muchsnow then it’s left until spring, yes. But once winter sets in and it’s dry snow they can combine it with some snow.

Right now swathed has caught up to standing and is on the border of dry or really getting dry so they’re combining swathed as well as standing. Or in some cases they’re swathing the standing because it’s so laid down and tangled up.
 

Speedstar

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Location
Scottish Borders
If it gets stuck under too muchsnow then it’s left until spring, yes. But once winter sets in and it’s dry snow they can combine it with some snow.

Right now swathed has caught up to standing and is on the border of dry or really getting dry so they’re combining swathed as well as standing. Or in some cases they’re swathing the standing because it’s so laid down and tangled up.
I thought that , have a friend up,there that has a lot of farms and runs a custom cutting team and see him most years at the NFMS and all ways has lots of photos of his operation
 

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quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

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