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Old 07-16-2019, 10:21 PM
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Default Hey you farmers

Just wondering how haying is going and how wet it is in your area.

Last year I was done baling my first cut on July 11th. I just started cutting yesterday and am seeing water laying where I’ve never seen water before.

Since the beginning of May we have had over 14” of rain.

I can never remember a July as wet as this.
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Old 07-16-2019, 11:46 PM
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I haven’t seen any haying going on around here. All of the low laying areas in the crop fields are filled with water too. Really wet and soggy.
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Old 07-17-2019, 05:40 AM
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No one has done anything yet in my area, everyone wants to be going but we are all a little scared to start cutting, weather doesn’t seem to be settled just yet. More rain forecast before the weekend. It sounds like not far to the north and northwest people are dried out, so can’t really complain I guess, but it’s going to be a long haying season
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Old 07-17-2019, 06:12 AM
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Severe draught in the South, I cut enough for my horses and didn't bother with anything else. If we got an inch since March, I would be surprized.

Went out to Elkwater yesterday evening and many are laying down crops and baling for green feed.
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Old 07-17-2019, 06:25 AM
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Old 07-17-2019, 06:56 AM
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Nothing around here either rain every other day. Slough hay is out of the question this year upland has water laying in every low spot
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Old 07-17-2019, 07:44 AM
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couple early birds knocked a few acres down in my area. hutterites are also making swaths but I don't think this is going to end well for any of them.
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Old 07-17-2019, 07:57 AM
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no hay down here . timothy is higher than the horses bellies in spots , got another inch of rain yesterday .
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Old 07-17-2019, 08:25 AM
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Brian told me he isn't starting until August, and you are right, she's some kind of wet for sure!! Id have said 79/80 was pretty close to this, but my memory is getting foggy
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Old 07-17-2019, 08:40 AM
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Do you guys ever catch a break?

I thought about asking if or when you've ever had a " Perfect Season" ,

But it seems to me, ( now this coming from a born and raised city boy ) ,

that for the last couple decades ( lets say ... " This Millenium " )

I should downgrade this question to ... " Great Season " ...or in some places .... " Good Season "

I don't know if it " Global Warming " , or whatever one would call it , but I sure have noticed the weather patterns certainly arent as ...stable or realiable as they once seemed to be

All in All , how is the province doing as a whole ?
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Old 07-17-2019, 09:52 AM
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North of Westlock , nope , haven't started , , WAY too wet , 2" of rain this week with T-storms every day
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Old 07-17-2019, 10:38 AM
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buddy claims we're looking at 200. a bale, this Fall. Way too expensive for cattle producers.

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Old 07-17-2019, 06:07 PM
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If I could get about 10 days of good weather I would probably be done. The problem is now if you don’t cut you probably won’t get a decent second cut. I hate leaving second cut till mid September because by then it’s usually pretty tough to get dry.
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Old 07-17-2019, 06:31 PM
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Deleted my original reply. I'll re-word it. We sell a few hundred million dollars of product to farmers, every year, at my company. This is an extremely slow year for us at least. 50% reduction maybe. Which is an indicator that it's not going well for the farmers...
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Old 07-17-2019, 09:37 PM
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20" of rain here this month. Hay is growing but will go to seed soon. Way too wet to get out into the fields yet. See rain every second afternoon still.
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Old 07-17-2019, 09:44 PM
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In our area if we never got another drop of rain till next spring we would be just fine.
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Old 07-17-2019, 10:07 PM
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Bone dry here!
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Old 07-17-2019, 10:23 PM
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Dry here most hay not worth cutting going to be expensive to feed cows this winter.
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Old 07-17-2019, 10:56 PM
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My crop of tall buttercup is doing fine in the fetid smelling swamp that is my land. It squishes under your feet as you walk.
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Old 07-17-2019, 11:02 PM
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We’re between Rocky and Eckville; just finished our silage tonight. Tore up the fields pretty bad but at least it’s done. The plan is to start knocking down the rest of the hay on Friday or Saturday and bale it. Hopefully we get some decent weather or it will get chopped into silage also.
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Deleted my original reply. I'll re-word it. We sell a few hundred million dollars of product to farmers, every year, at my company. This is an extremely slow year for us at least. 50% reduction maybe. Which is an indicator that it's not going well for the farmers...
That's a lot of grain bins
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Old 07-18-2019, 05:29 PM
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Very dry around the Taber area. These are chic peas.

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Old 07-18-2019, 06:32 PM
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That's a lot of grain bins
What's a grain bin? Is it those big thingys I see on some farms when I'm driving?
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Old 07-18-2019, 06:56 PM
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We’re between Rocky and Eckville; just finished our silage tonight. Tore up the fields pretty bad but at least it’s done. The plan is to start knocking down the rest of the hay on Friday or Saturday and bale it. Hopefully we get some decent weather or it will get chopped into silage also.
We haul a lot of farm parts usually 75 to 100 parts orders per day. We’re down to 15-30 a day. Usually at haying time through harvest it crazy. Stupid slow right now!

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Old 07-18-2019, 08:36 PM
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The crops around here look great. There are a few low spots where barley is drowning.
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Old 07-18-2019, 10:05 PM
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Another 6/10" rain today, its never going to dry out.
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Old 07-18-2019, 10:15 PM
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Heh Dale s I see the thistle are doing fine . Terrible either way
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Old 07-19-2019, 06:58 AM
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I noticed some swathing last week around the Innisfail area.
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Old 07-19-2019, 07:10 AM
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Normally I finish first cut alfalfa about July 10. We havent cut an acre yet. Big hay crop out there, was chest high but now is lodged and laying down. We need a few drying days just to get into the field. Its going to be one cut this year, so waiting for a window of dryer weather, if it ever comes.
Some of our grass fields where we cut and bale wild hay are under water, doubtful we can even get into some of those spots, late August at the earliest.
Another challenging year, with some patience we'll get there.

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