Hey you farmers

[Smokinyotes]

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.

[HunterDave]

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.

[cody j]

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

[Sledhead71]

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.

[bloopbloob]

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[pikeslayer22]

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

[Dale S]

Very dry around the Taber area. These are chic peas.

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[ceedub]

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.

Craig

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[sns2]

Poor farmers can't catch a break. Hard job.

[Dale S]

Mother nature can be cruel. Hail damage south of Taber. Sad to see. The geese will eat good.

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[NCC]

That hurts. How big of an area was wiped out?

[MoFugger21]

Originally Posted by NCC

That hurts. How big of an area was wiped out?

I think the major crop damage started west of Vulcan (though I haven't been out there yet) and it heads south east to the Taber area. I did drive past Champion last night and the hail must have cut a 1.5mi wide swath west of there. Pretty ugly.

[Trochu]

Wow. That is really impressive for all the wrong reasons.

[sns2]

Poor farmers. Just brutal.

[Dale S]

There are spots around Taber that are 4 miles wide. I know 2 farmers wiped out. 100%

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[MoFugger21]

Originally Posted by Dale S

There are spots around Taber that are 4 miles wide. I know 2 farmers wiped out. 100%

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Someone on twitter posted a recent satellite picture highlighting the hail swath. From the looks of that picture, I was definitely off with 1.5mi+ wide....

https://twitter.com/ABfoothillsWX/st...307648/photo/2

[Dale S]

Some big money irrigation crops are 100% right off. Potatoes, onions and sugar beets. The sugar beet leaves were up to the pipes.

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[RickyP]

The super cell storm was about 10 miles wide with damage of about 100% every where . I am a member of the Barnwell grazing lease and the storm mowed the grass down to nothing we have maybe 3 weeks of grazing if were lucky then the cows come home normal take out date is October 15 . I have neighbours who lost all there grain crop almost all of there dry bean and maybe 75%of there seed canola. And hail insurance is never as good as a above average crop which we had here under irrigation .

[Y2K]

I’ve never run my pivots so much as this year

[tikka250]

wasnt part of that storm to the south but we got hit by the great white combine last week. made a real mess of the corn crop so we are hurrying to make silage out of whatever is left of the peas and oats to make up for the lost corn. lucky for us it appears the hail only cut a mile wide swath so a lot of crop was missed.

[KegRiver]

Crops here look good from the road but Some have gone down already.

Too much rain. We are up to about eight inches for the season which is a lot for this ground.



Lots of acres of crop in standing water and here it takes forever to soak in so I expect a lot of the good looking crops won't look so good in a couple of weeks.

I've been told that some farms around Peace River recorded over 16 inches of rain so far this summer.

I've been helping my BIL just north of Peace River. We were supposed to start haying last week but can't even drive in most of the fields, and he's had lass rain then neighbors a few miles south of him.

One day last week the ditches a couple of miles south of BIL were full to the edge of the gravel while in his yard there was dust flying. He's had rain since but nothing that day.

Saw the same thing at Manning. Ditches running full at Grimm's while the streets in town were dry. Grimm's is only two miles north of town.