snipe
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What’s the conditions like in your part of Canada. i see there is drought and too wet in parts of North America.
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Dry dry dry. Not quite as bad as southern Alberta. Supposed to rain this week and even next so we’ll see if it starts to look more optimistic or not.
June hit us with 6” of wet goodness. While it only took 2 days of the first rain system to get the crop guys crying about too much rain 
, I’m quite happy with it all! The only areas really suffering around home are the potholes they can’t normally seed but did this year because it was so dry. Can’t imagine anyone actually thought we’d get out of the drought without becoming too wet at some point. Can’t build up the subsoil moisture without having some sit on top for a bit. Crops around here are actually looking pretty freaking good. Now they just have to make it through storm season.
Doesn’t sound like south got the rain in time, they're pooched. Also an area in southern Saskatchewan that seems to still be missing all the rain. Manitoba meanwhile is courting flooding. They have lost a lot of acres to drown outs. Also in typical farmer fashion there’s some moaning about grain prices dropping. “I should’ve sold two weeks ago!” Yeah, because you aren’t still getting double what you were in 19… I like being the balloon popping silver lining for the fella. I’m not sure he appreciates my reality bites about prices and potholes though Lol
It is interesting to see how the land responds though. Crop fields, standing water kills the crop and it turns into a mud or dirt spot with some weeds. Maybe some cattails depending on how established a pot hole it is. Pasture, standing water just causes different kinds of grasses to grow, you never see a dead spot appear.
Was starting to feel like England for a bit. Rainy and soggy every day! This swale usually only gets water in it for about a week a year during spring melt. Had no water in it this spring, was a booter risk when this photo was taken.
This is the summer pasture with the main herd. North end has a spring on it so a fair bit of boggy ground but it was so dry this spring we could drive in the back gate and get almost up to the barn. After the rain the water was back. No more driving there.
And now we’re into storm season.
While most crops are good, some canola is struggling. These fields are by the cattle pasture. Not sure what the issue was/is, if flea beetles got it or cut worm or if it’s that BASF variety with slow emergence that made it vulnerable to being wiped out. Either way it’s crap.
Last old crop train was loaded at work and is now patiently sitting and waiting to go. The other morning the dew was showing how balanced the cars are. Sometimes bins will show where the grain is but I’ve never seen it on cars before.
Meanwhile I’ve got my meat chicks on the go for some fresh rotisserie this fall
And slogged through the slough you check the cows yesterday and got this little family portrait. Always has to be one that wrecks the photo though… Calves are looking good, can’t complain there!
Set to be another rainy week this week so we’ll see what we get.
, I’m quite happy with it all! The only areas really suffering around home are the potholes they can’t normally seed but did this year because it was so dry. Can’t imagine anyone actually thought we’d get out of the drought without becoming too wet at some point. Can’t build up the subsoil moisture without having some sit on top for a bit. Crops around here are actually looking pretty freaking good. Now they just have to make it through storm season.Doesn’t sound like south got the rain in time, they're pooched. Also an area in southern Saskatchewan that seems to still be missing all the rain. Manitoba meanwhile is courting flooding. They have lost a lot of acres to drown outs. Also in typical farmer fashion there’s some moaning about grain prices dropping. “I should’ve sold two weeks ago!” Yeah, because you aren’t still getting double what you were in 19…
I like being the balloon popping silver lining for the fella. I’m not sure he appreciates my reality bites about prices and potholes though LolIt is interesting to see how the land responds though. Crop fields, standing water kills the crop and it turns into a mud or dirt spot with some weeds. Maybe some cattails depending on how established a pot hole it is. Pasture, standing water just causes different kinds of grasses to grow, you never see a dead spot appear.
Was starting to feel like England for a bit. Rainy and soggy every day! This swale usually only gets water in it for about a week a year during spring melt. Had no water in it this spring, was a booter risk when this photo was taken.
This is the summer pasture with the main herd. North end has a spring on it so a fair bit of boggy ground but it was so dry this spring we could drive in the back gate and get almost up to the barn. After the rain the water was back. No more driving there.
And now we’re into storm season.
While most crops are good, some canola is struggling. These fields are by the cattle pasture. Not sure what the issue was/is, if flea beetles got it or cut worm or if it’s that BASF variety with slow emergence that made it vulnerable to being wiped out. Either way it’s crap.
Last old crop train was loaded at work and is now patiently sitting and waiting to go. The other morning the dew was showing how balanced the cars are. Sometimes bins will show where the grain is but I’ve never seen it on cars before.
Meanwhile I’ve got my meat chicks on the go for some fresh rotisserie this fall
And slogged through the slough you check the cows yesterday and got this little family portrait. Always has to be one that wrecks the photo though… Calves are looking good, can’t complain there!
Set to be another rainy week this week so we’ll see what we get.
Good to catch up!June hit us with 6” of wet goodness. While it only took 2 days of the first rain system to get the crop guys crying about too much rain
Doesn’t sound like south got the rain in time, they're pooched. Also an area in southern Saskatchewan that seems to still be missing all the rain. Manitoba meanwhile is courting flooding. They have lost a lot of acres to drown outs. Also in typical farmer fashion there’s some moaning about grain prices dropping. “I should’ve sold two weeks ago!” Yeah, because you aren’t still getting double what you were in 19…
It is interesting to see how the land responds though. Crop fields, standing water kills the crop and it turns into a mud or dirt spot with some weeds. Maybe some cattails depending on how established a pot hole it is. Pasture, standing water just causes different kinds of grasses to grow, you never see a dead spot appear.
Was starting to feel like England for a bit. Rainy and soggy every day! This swale usually only gets water in it for about a week a year during spring melt. Had no water in it this spring, was a booter risk when this photo was taken.
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This is the summer pasture with the main herd. North end has a spring on it so a fair bit of boggy ground but it was so dry this spring we could drive in the back gate and get almost up to the barn. After the rain the water was back. No more driving there.
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And now we’re into storm season.
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While most crops are good, some canola is struggling. These fields are by the cattle pasture. Not sure what the issue was/is, if flea beetles got it or cut worm or if it’s that BASF variety with slow emergence that made it vulnerable to being wiped out. Either way it’s crap.
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Last old crop train was loaded at work and is now patiently sitting and waiting to go. The other morning the dew was showing how balanced the cars are. Sometimes bins will show where the grain is but I’ve never seen it on cars before.
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Meanwhile I’ve got my meat chicks on the go for some fresh rotisserie this fall
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And slogged through the slough you check the cows yesterday and got this little family portrait. Always has to be one that wrecks the photo though… Calves are looking good, can’t complain there!
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Set to be another rainy week this week so we’ll see what we get.
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- Glen Clova, Angus, DD8 4RD
Loving the photos, thanks.June hit us with 6” of wet goodness. While it only took 2 days of the first rain system to get the crop guys crying about too much rain
Doesn’t sound like south got the rain in time, they're pooched. Also an area in southern Saskatchewan that seems to still be missing all the rain. Manitoba meanwhile is courting flooding. They have lost a lot of acres to drown outs. Also in typical farmer fashion there’s some moaning about grain prices dropping. “I should’ve sold two weeks ago!” Yeah, because you aren’t still getting double what you were in 19…
It is interesting to see how the land responds though. Crop fields, standing water kills the crop and it turns into a mud or dirt spot with some weeds. Maybe some cattails depending on how established a pot hole it is. Pasture, standing water just causes different kinds of grasses to grow, you never see a dead spot appear.
Was starting to feel like England for a bit. Rainy and soggy every day! This swale usually only gets water in it for about a week a year during spring melt. Had no water in it this spring, was a booter risk when this photo was taken.
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This is the summer pasture with the main herd. North end has a spring on it so a fair bit of boggy ground but it was so dry this spring we could drive in the back gate and get almost up to the barn. After the rain the water was back. No more driving there.
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And now we’re into storm season.
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While most crops are good, some canola is struggling. These fields are by the cattle pasture. Not sure what the issue was/is, if flea beetles got it or cut worm or if it’s that BASF variety with slow emergence that made it vulnerable to being wiped out. Either way it’s crap.
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Last old crop train was loaded at work and is now patiently sitting and waiting to go. The other morning the dew was showing how balanced the cars are. Sometimes bins will show where the grain is but I’ve never seen it on cars before.
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Meanwhile I’ve got my meat chicks on the go for some fresh rotisserie this fall
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And slogged through the slough you check the cows yesterday and got this little family portrait. Always has to be one that wrecks the photo though… Calves are looking good, can’t complain there!
Proper moody sky in the storm one.
Cattle looking good. Do they do better in the dry or wet? Here they seem to do better in dry years unless they are REALLY dry.
Nice to know Canadian farmers find things to moan about too.
I’ve yet to reach a conclusion if it’s farmers that moan a lot, or menLoving the photos, thanks.
Proper moody sky in the storm one.
Cattle looking good. Do they do better in the dry or wet? Here they seem to do better in dry years unless they are REALLY dry.
Nice to know Canadian farmers find things to moan about too.
Even wet years here aren’t that wet so I wouldn’t say there’s really a noticeable difference in how the cows do. If there’s grass, they’re good. Now depending on the type of grass, some will do better in dry and some will do better in wet. Rough fescue can give you great calves while it seems like there’s nothing for the cows to eat, for example.
Just sold my last yearling heifer to an older farmer who’s of the opinion that cattle grazed west of highway 2, so here that’s a higher rainfall, good grass growing, area, have poorer gains because the grass can be over their heads but it’s mostly water. I don’t particularly agree with that logic, especially since a lot of feeders send backgrounders to that area for the summer. If they have yearlings coming back with poor gains they aren’t going to be sending them out there year after year, and they will know exactly what each animal has gained in what time period.
I’d say feed value, while maybe more concentrated in dryer years and lower in wetter years, is made up for in the fact that they can eat 10x as much of it to get the same nutrition.
Other factors can come into play though. Foot rot for instance, although that’s not necessarily just a wet year issue. Sometimes the worst years are actually dry years. Bugs can be another. Right now the mosquitoes are exploding which can reflect in gains, same with flies.
Temperature is another one. Dry is usually linked to hot and hot can mean less eating. Meanwhile cooler can mean eat lots.
So I would say, beyond wet or dry, the microclimates of specifics pastures are going to have more effect on the cattle. Trees, shade, wind, sloughs, grass type, etc.
- Location
- southern riverina Australia
It's been a smashing start to the winter cropping season here too. Further north in the traditionally "safe" areas in the central west of New South Wales has seen up to 18 inches since the start of the year, and that's before the last dumping a few days ago. Some have sown 3 times and still lost crop to drowning. Others have paddocks they still can't drive on. Will be a miracle if they get an average yield.
Last weekend brought a number of severe storms into the local area. July everyone was fairly lucky when it came to hail but August made up for lost time. A tornado producing storm on Sunday followed by massive hail storms Monday have made a large impact. 3100 out of 4400 acres hit for one farmer, 52 quarters - over 10,000 out of 12,500 acres hit on another (between two separate storms), and on and on. Damage ranging from 15% right up to 100% wrote off. Hail adjusters are backed up 3-4 weeks at least now. Amazing what a half hour can do.
The link and Twitter post refer to a storm on Monday that produced massive hail the size of grapefruits. It went over the busiest highway in the province and left over 100 cars stranded on the side of the road. A local farm is located right beside the highway and is showing a video of the holes the hail left in the tin roof of one of their sheds
www.theweathernetwork.com
This storm came ridiculously close to my house. I escaped by the skin of my teeth really. Here is a photothat shows the hail scar from that storm, the red arrow is where I live. The hail scar is ~3 miles from my yard, keeping in mind that just because you can’t see a scar closer doesn’t mean it didn’t hail closer, it just didn’t hail bad enough to see the plants dying from space! I wasn’t home at the time but I don’t think I really even got any rain.
Later that night a second round of storms came through. At home it was heavy wind that took out some bins and damaged some crops, but no hail, just rain. Out at the fellas place they weren’t so lucky.
Here are two photos of his yellow pea field. The first is from Sunday and shows the tornado storm that passed to the east of him, the second photo is one week later. The field was smashed by hail. It was up to my waist, now you can see how flat it is with my dainty foot included. Also many peas shelled out onto the ground.
A neighbour’s wheat across the road from the is toast.
Even my garlic that I’m trying to grow for the first time did not fair very well in his yard. Not sure how big they’re going to be after this
Been some mad silaging being done trying to salvage some crops but nitrates turn into a big issue with hailed crops. You’ve got about 48 hours to get it cut otherwise you’ve got to wait 10 days or risk nitrate poisoning in livestock.
Here’s a couple more hail scar shots. The first shows the storm that hit the fellas place on Sunday, the horizontal line. The more diagonal, up and down line, is the path of the Sunday storm that can be seen in the very first (still green) pea photo.
And here you have a satellite image showing all of the storms, the one near my house on the left, the other two towards the right. However if you look close you can actually see where the storm by me jumped and carried on farther over on the right of the image. I circled that scar myself since the storm chaser sharing the image didn’t realize it stretched that far.
All in all it was a very eventful long weekend around the area! And now harvest may be a tiny bit shorter.
The link and Twitter post refer to a storm on Monday that produced massive hail the size of grapefruits. It went over the busiest highway in the province and left over 100 cars stranded on the side of the road. A local farm is located right beside the highway and is showing a video of the holes the hail left in the tin roof of one of their sheds
PHOTOS: ‘Grapefruit-sized hail,’ severe storms leaves damage in parts of Alberta - The Weather Network
The majority of Alberta was under severe thunderstorm watches Monday. Supercells triggered tornado warnings for central and southern regions of the province.
www.theweathernetwork.com
This storm came ridiculously close to my house. I escaped by the skin of my teeth really. Here is a photothat shows the hail scar from that storm, the red arrow is where I live. The hail scar is ~3 miles from my yard, keeping in mind that just because you can’t see a scar closer doesn’t mean it didn’t hail closer, it just didn’t hail bad enough to see the plants dying from space! I wasn’t home at the time but I don’t think I really even got any rain.
Later that night a second round of storms came through. At home it was heavy wind that took out some bins and damaged some crops, but no hail, just rain. Out at the fellas place they weren’t so lucky.
Here are two photos of his yellow pea field. The first is from Sunday and shows the tornado storm that passed to the east of him, the second photo is one week later. The field was smashed by hail. It was up to my waist, now you can see how flat it is with my dainty foot included. Also many peas shelled out onto the ground.
A neighbour’s wheat across the road from the is toast.
Even my garlic that I’m trying to grow for the first time did not fair very well in his yard. Not sure how big they’re going to be after this
Been some mad silaging being done trying to salvage some crops but nitrates turn into a big issue with hailed crops. You’ve got about 48 hours to get it cut otherwise you’ve got to wait 10 days or risk nitrate poisoning in livestock.
Here’s a couple more hail scar shots. The first shows the storm that hit the fellas place on Sunday, the horizontal line. The more diagonal, up and down line, is the path of the Sunday storm that can be seen in the very first (still green) pea photo.
And here you have a satellite image showing all of the storms, the one near my house on the left, the other two towards the right. However if you look close you can actually see where the storm by me jumped and carried on farther over on the right of the image. I circled that scar myself since the storm chaser sharing the image didn’t realize it stretched that far.
All in all it was a very eventful long weekend around the area! And now harvest may be a tiny bit shorter.
- Location
- Glen Clova, Angus, DD8 4RD
With hail that size did anyone die? You wouldn't want to get caught away from cover.Last weekend brought a number of severe storms into the local area. July everyone was fairly lucky when it came to hail but August made up for lost time. A tornado producing storm on Sunday followed by massive hail storms Monday have made a large impact. 3100 out of 4400 acres hit for one farmer, 52 quarters - over 10,000 out of 12,500 acres hit on another (between two separate storms), and on and on. Damage ranging from 15% right up to 100% wrote off. Hail adjusters are backed up 3-4 weeks at least now. Amazing what a half hour can do.
The link and Twitter post refer to a storm on Monday that produced massive hail the size of grapefruits. It went over the busiest highway in the province and left over 100 cars stranded on the side of the road. A local farm is located right beside the highway and is showing a video of the holes the hail left in the tin roof of one of their sheds
PHOTOS: ‘Grapefruit-sized hail,’ severe storms leaves damage in parts of Alberta - The Weather Network
The majority of Alberta was under severe thunderstorm watches Monday. Supercells triggered tornado warnings for central and southern regions of the province.
This storm came ridiculously close to my house. I escaped by the skin of my teeth really. Here is a photothat shows the hail scar from that storm, the red arrow is where I live. The hail scar is ~3 miles from my yard, keeping in mind that just because you can’t see a scar closer doesn’t mean it didn’t hail closer, it just didn’t hail bad enough to see the plants dying from space! I wasn’t home at the time but I don’t think I really even got any rain.
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Later that night a second round of storms came through. At home it was heavy wind that took out some bins and damaged some crops, but no hail, just rain. Out at the fellas place they weren’t so lucky.
Here are two photos of his yellow pea field. The first is from Sunday and shows the tornado storm that passed to the east of him, the second photo is one week later. The field was smashed by hail. It was up to my waist, now you can see how flat it is with my dainty foot included. Also many peas shelled out onto the ground.
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A neighbour’s wheat across the road from the is toast.
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Even my garlic that I’m trying to grow for the first time did not fair very well in his yard. Not sure how big they’re going to be after this
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Been some mad silaging being done trying to salvage some crops but nitrates turn into a big issue with hailed crops. You’ve got about 48 hours to get it cut otherwise you’ve got to wait 10 days or risk nitrate poisoning in livestock.
Here’s a couple more hail scar shots. The first shows the storm that hit the fellas place on Sunday, the horizontal line. The more diagonal, up and down line, is the path of the Sunday storm that can be seen in the very first (still green) pea photo.
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And here you have a satellite image showing all of the storms, the one near my house on the left, the other two towards the right. However if you look close you can actually see where the storm by me jumped and carried on farther over on the right of the image. I circled that scar myself since the storm chaser sharing the image didn’t realize it stretched that far.
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All in all it was a very eventful long weekend around the area! And now harvest may be a tiny bit shorter.
No, I haven’t heard of anyone dying.
Hail adjuster was out last week to do the peas. Field in the photos was assessed at 81-91% write off.
Rode around in the sprayer the other night while it was sprayed out for combining. Great thing getting to spend the same amount of chem and fuel and time for 10-20% of the yield.
Rode around in the sprayer the other night while it was sprayed out for combining. Great thing getting to spend the same amount of chem and fuel and time for 10-20% of the yield.
- Location
- southern riverina Australia
Be worse with no insurance.
Not everyone has insurance.
- Location
- southern riverina Australia
No. But obviously the fella does.
Business decision based on their risk evaluation. You live around here it generally pays off to have hail insurance, although that is changing as the frequency and rates increase.
Hail insurance on your house. On your vehicle. On your worthwhile outbuildings. On your crops.
Other farms’ business models don’t feel the risk is worth paying for it anymore.
snipe
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- west yorkshire
What are yields like(expected to be) in your area, or is it too early to tell