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rusty6 · Oct 6, 2016

After the rain and snow I'd say any crop left out there is soaked thoroughly and will need days of good drying weather. Will we get it? Its not impossible but the odds are against. By mid October it was all over for me last year.
This heavy wet snow will have laid down a lot of standing crop I think. Have not been out to look. Maybe I'll give it a few days. This was the scene in my yard this morning.

fixerupper · Oct 6, 2016

A farmer from close to your neck of the woods told me they get nervous about crops left standing after October 1 and knock them down into swaths. He claimed the crop is safe after it is swathed. I think he was talking about wheat barley and oats. Dont know about canola and flax. I had very little to do with canola but when I stuck my hand down into a canola swath I couldn't believe how easily the pod shatters open and dumps the seeds on the ground.

Mike(NEOhio) · Oct 6, 2016

Where are you? We often get some snow in mid-October and have a foot on the ground by Thanksgiving. This pic is from mid-May this year.

rusty6 · Oct 6, 2016

(quoted from post at 20:38:27 10/06/16) A farmer from close to your neck of the woods told me they get nervous about crops left standing after October 1 and knock them down into swaths. He claimed the crop is safe after it is swathed. I think he was talking about wheat barley and oats. Dont know about canola and flax. I had very little to do with canola but when I stuck my hand down into a canola swath I couldn't believe how easily the pod shatters open and dumps the seeds on the ground.

With canola you don't really have the option. If it is ready to swath you don't wait. After a certain point it will all shell out on the swather reel. Unless you want to gamble on straight cutting it. Some tried it here this year. Looked ok but I don't know how well it compared to swathed canola.
Cereal grains take longer to dry than oil seeds like flax and canola if they are in the swath in this weather.
Mike, your picture would not open for me. I'm in east central Sask.

Greg1959 · Oct 6, 2016

WOW! and I'm just starting to cut and split firewood for this year!

GreenEnvy · Oct 6, 2016

Its not totally safe. In the right conditions wheat will sprout in the swath. Even if it doesn't sprout you will still have quality issues. Nothing good happens to a crop after its ripe unless a combine is going through it.

Lyndon - AB · Oct 6, 2016

It was a pretty big, ugly storm system. We fought hard, but finally gave up trying to haul anything anymore this week (I run for 4-D). I was getting tired of being dragged around yards on the end of a tow rope. We also finished up all of our elevator pickups, so we really had nowhere left that we could load at. Headed for home this afternoon, and between Biggar and Battleford, there looks to be around a foot of snow.

I really hope we get a bunch of nice weather yet. There's quite a bit of crop still in the fields in most areas.

rusty6 · Oct 6, 2016

(quoted from post at 21:01:40 10/06/16) Its not totally safe. In the right conditions wheat will sprout in the swath. Even if it doesn't sprout you will still have quality issues. Nothing good happens to a crop after its ripe unless a combine is going through it.

Very true. Although oilseeds don't lose much quality its a different story on cereals. Wheat loses colour and weight, and of course grade the longer it stands, or lays out in the rain/snow.

Traditional Farmer · Oct 7, 2016

Thats what I like about my main 'crop' being grass,a good rain or snow will make it better.

Bruce from Can. · Oct 7, 2016

Yuch ! you can just go ahead and keep that white stuff , I don't care to see any till Dec 24 , or later even.

Bill VA · Oct 7, 2016

Can't say I was ready for that pic!

casecollectorsc · Oct 7, 2016

Makes for a long winter when it starts the first week of October. Here in E SD it snowed on Oct. 12 in the early 70s and never left till spring. Picked corn all fall for myself and neighbor in the snow and cold.

oldtanker · Oct 7, 2016

(quoted from post at 05:08:01 10/07/16) Makes for a long winter when it starts the first week of October. Here in E SD it snowed on Oct. 12 in the early 70s and never left till spring. Picked corn all fall for myself and neighbor in the snow and cold.

I remember in the 70's having snow on the ground from late Oct till thaw here in west MN. Makes for a long winter.

Rick

Bob in SD · Oct 7, 2016

[i:654c4848f0]...main 'crop' being grass...[/i:654c4848f0]

I do have some thistles I want to spray this weekend, so I'm glad that's not me yet.

OP, where are those pictures from?

Bob

rusty6 · Oct 7, 2016

(quoted from post at 08:47:05 10/07/16) [i:4686483e1b]...main 'crop' being grass...[/i:4686483e1b]

I do have some thistles I want to spray this weekend, so I'm glad that's not me yet.

OP, where are those pictures from?

Bob

Right in my yard. Could be anywhere in Sask. Some had less, some had more.

ditchwitch · Oct 7, 2016

Me either i was kinda thinking maybe or hoping thats a last years picture

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