Western Canadian crops dismal

[Whitesand_Farms]

 Reports of a bumper crop out on the Canadian prairies held some truth a month ago. After the combines started to roll disgust and disbelief are words coming out of farmers. I have talked to friends from Southern Manitoba to Northern Alberta and the story is the same," it looked like a 60 bu/acre crop and its barely making 20-30. In my area wheat is running from 15-35 bu/ acre, canola 5-25 bu/acre, barley 10-35 bu/acre. Some small pockets will have good yields but most people can't believe the crop is that poor. I had to get out of the combine and check if the clean grain elevator door was left open because I was in what looked like  50-60 bu/acre wheat and it averaged 26. The local crushers are starting to get the picture and have changed the basis to a positive something I haven't seen before at harvest.

[Palouser]

I have never seen a worse disconnect on yields. Earlier I had rad a number of evaluations saying that yields looked like they would be below average due to conditions. Then suddenly, about three weeks ago there were reports of a 'bumper' crop. Then I started hearing yields the ast 5 days or so confirming the worst fears. I'd have to go back to see who was doing all the fibbing.

[Whitesand_Farms]

 It was another wet spring and alot of crop got mudded in if it even got seeded. I had neighbors seeding into July which never happens, usually a late Aug to early Sept frost in these parts. July and Aug the sun and heat came on and really changed the crops aound and gave us some hope that we would have an avg. crop, sure some fields still looked poor but not 5 bu/ acre poor. The biggest factors that hit us were the scorching heat at pollination and aster yellows. I lost about 50% of my crop to aster yellows in my canola this year and  I have never heard of more than 10% damage. Another thing I really noticed was the spotty germination on my canola seed about 20% came out of the ground fast then about 3 weeks later another 40% came out then 3 weeks after that another 40% came up, it looks like 3 crops in one. At swathing time the first 20% shelled out because it was over ripe the second 40 was fine and the last 40 was not ripe and shrivelled up. Alot of guys arent happy because at $600/bag for seed they are giving us 2 and 3 year old blended seed with poor vigor something the medis will never say they just cite that disease and heat took it all.

[Whitesand_Farms]

 As for the what whole bumper crop report that it what you get when you crop scout at 60 m/hr from the road, there was never a bumper crop but from the way everything looked this spring and the last 3 years of poor crops average looked awesome this year lol.