Our Crops Are Drowning

rusty6 · Jun 27, 2014

Cereals are turning yellow or drowned right out. Flax too. Canola has a lot of purple leaves. I shot this video over a week ago and we have had more rain since then. I know drought is no fun but watching the crops drown is pretty frustrating too.
http://youtu.be/wt4_hMj8U9E
Wet Fields

Frank 41 · Jun 27, 2014

You were pretty lucky not getting stuck. My buddy would love to have that Honda.

I guess you can blame that rain on me as the 19th was my birthday.

rusty6 · Jun 27, 2014

Frank, nobody to blame but mother nature I guess. I actually did get stuck and had to put the camera down for a while to push the trike out . It does pretty good considering those rear tires are original 1987 rubber with over 15,000 kilometres on them.

Jim in Sask · Jun 27, 2014

Sure is getting tedious - sounds like we could be in for a lot more this weekend, Yorkton might get the brunt of it at over 50 mm. I finally sprayed one small field yesterday then got over a half inch today.

I feel sorry for those guys down in the drought areas but I'm reminded of an old saying, "A drought will make you think you're going broke, a flood will break you."

Paul from MI · Jun 27, 2014

Glad you made it out OK. Getting stuck is no fun. We're so far behind spraying and fertilizing here it's pathetic.

rusty6 · Jun 28, 2014

Not much here so far Jim. But 8 miles west they got
an inch and a half in half an hour. I don't know if
I am doing more damage by trying to spray crops in
the mud or leaving the weeds to grow.

Dick2 · Jun 28, 2014

In 1962, I planted the same 60 acres of flax 3 times. All that survived was about a 50 ft. strip on the headland on the high end of the field.

Bruce from Can. · Jun 28, 2014

Sometimes Sask. can be hard . My mother was from the Estavan area in the south. Told me stories of dust and hardships of the 30's. while she was in her teens. I went west few years back to visit cousins , Looked just like your video. Water every where, roads and train tracks under water, real mess. Nothing like my mamas story. You live in the land of "next year" , best of luck. Bruce

skip33652 · Jun 28, 2014

The year the grass never turned green because it had not rained in a year, convinced me never to complain about rain.Paul

rusty6 · Jun 28, 2014

I would have to say that in over 40 years of farming I have lost more crop to excess rain than I have to drought. Worst we had was 1988 when there was very little rain and tremendous heat. We still harvested a crop. Maybe a third of normal yield but it was bone dry and top quality grain. Early and easy harvest. No worries of getting stuck with the combine or truck. Prices were good and the railways and grain companies were eager to accept all the grain we grew. Much different than recent times.

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