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Post by CrazyTrain on Oct 6, 2018 14:04:43 GMT -6
Hi everyone, I was wondering how farming was doing in other places, and I figured I could ask here.
In southwestern Manitoba, Canada, We are just picking .away at what is left of the corn. We only combine as fast as the dryer dries it. Snow is falling quite a bit recently, which slows things down.
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Post by canadafarms on Oct 9, 2018 14:49:06 GMT -6
We farm further north of you, in the parkland area, and we still have a lot to go yet. Got the peas and the timothy done and most of the wheat but we still have a little bit of standing wheat and all of our canola to go yet. We’ve only combined a total of 30 acres in the last 5+ weeks and that wheat came off at 23.3 moisture. The last year we had a fall like this was 1985 from what my dad tells me. I was pretty young but I do remember that because grandpa bought a grain dryer that year. We still have the same dryer but it’s been used very little in the last 10 or 15 years. After giving it a good look over we have it pretty much ready to go, just waiting on one part and it is going to be put to work again. The way it’s been going I am pretty sure we will have to dry everything from here on out.....if we can even get it combined before winter sets in for good. My dad said this year is even worse than 1985 because we can’t even seem to get combining at all this fall, almost every day we are getting some type of moisture, either rain or snow or just gloomy and cloudy and nothing is drying, where that year he said there would be some good weather windows to do some combining at least. Its definitely been an interesting year, we only had about four months that were snow free! I’m just waiting for that global warming that those greenies keep talking about to kick in!!!
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Post by CrazyTrain on Oct 11, 2018 6:31:03 GMT -6
Yea, last year or the year before we had high moisture wheat, and it wasn't coming out the bottom of the super b. We kinda had to poke it with a broom handle from the bottom to get it to flow out. Needless to say we dried it afterwards.
Hope you can get all the crop in.
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Post by canadafarms on Oct 14, 2018 9:09:14 GMT -6
I really hope so too! A little update on that situation, we did get the wheat off, it all needs to be dried but it’s off! Now just the canola and it looks like we might have decent weather for a few days, although we did get another inch of snow again last night 🤬. You get all your crops in yet?
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Post by CrazyTrain on Oct 14, 2018 9:28:28 GMT -6
We are still picking away at the corn, but it will take a while yet with this weather.
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Post by CrazyTrain on May 13, 2020 20:35:42 GMT -6
I figured I'd revive this board since I'm active again, and it seems like seeding is going to go really late this year. I sure hope we can get the crop put in, but this rain is making it tough.
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Post by CrazyTrain on Oct 7, 2020 12:52:44 GMT -6
Update: Harvest 2020 is finally finished.
Edit: On my family farm in South Western Manitoba, Canada
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Post by canadafarms on Oct 19, 2020 7:18:56 GMT -6
We got wrapped up by the end of September CrazyTrain. Sure was nice to have a normal harvest for a change. Yields were average to slightly above average, peas were well above average, quality was excellent and we didn’t have to dry a single bushel. Not much for break downs and nothing that was serious so we were very pleased with this year. We did have 150 acres of peas get hailed out at the end of July and they were looking like the best crop of peas we’ve ever had going by what didn’t get hail but that’s farming I guess haha.
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Post by CrazyTrain on Nov 5, 2020 14:04:42 GMT -6
That's awesome canadafarms, we ended up having quite a bit of luck as well. We had record oats, with one field hitting 171, and we actually managed to get all of our fall fertilizer work done this year. It wasn't very easy but I guess our farm must have bumped up its efficiency a whole bunch with my brother, sister, and I finally helping much more. Seeding was barely a dream around the start of May and my dad didn't have much hope but I'm glad it's all off.
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Post by canadafarms on Nov 25, 2021 21:59:02 GMT -6
Is anybody out there anymore?
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Post by CrazyTrain on Mar 1, 2022 15:07:35 GMT -6
Is anybody out there anymore? Lmao I'm back on my yearly checkup here.
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Post by canadafarms on Mar 4, 2022 9:45:12 GMT -6
Is anybody out there anymore? Lmao I'm back on my yearly checkup here. Hey there CrazyTrain how are things going? I had nearly given up on this place lol!
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Post by CrazyTrain on Mar 7, 2022 8:20:11 GMT -6
Things are going great, been hammering through my first year in the AG dip program in Winnipeg....online sadly... but otherwise I've been doin real good.
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Post by canadafarms on Mar 12, 2022 8:40:12 GMT -6
Right on, good for you CrazyTrain! Sorry it took so long for this reply, I have been on a snow cleaning mission all week and wasn’t checking in. This winter doesn’t want to give up lol. You know it’s bad when you get called to bring a dozer to clear snow haha. How did the harvest go this year? We were way down on yields, not as bad as some places but not great. Did you get FS22?
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Post by CrazyTrain on Mar 24, 2022 6:44:03 GMT -6
Right back at you lol, sorry for this late reply.
I'm glad the snow has started to melt, I've fired up my barbecue 3 times already these last couple weeks lol. Seems like winter started to give up as soon as the motor on my sled was put back together...smh.
Harvest was right around half of what it should be except for a few of the best fields by town that got the rains, so the oats there went 150 and the canola there went 45.
Yes I got fs22, and I built a new(ish) computer to play it on as well as do the online school. Other than school and video games, all I've been doing is drinkin' with buddies and helping to get some of our semis ready for safety.
I'm sure glad masks aren't mandated anymore, but the dirty looks of the people who still choose to wear masks kinda sucks, but oh well.
Long story short, I've just kept on keepin' on lmao.
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