August 16th and we are already 1/3 of the way through harvest! The last few days the grain has been dry enough that we haven’t had to run through the dryer. All the oats are now done, and about 70% of the barley. We also swathed about 1000 acres of canola – we have another […]
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We had a decent week of harvest – it was a slow start, most of the crop is still immature and not ready, but we did enough to get everything working and tested out, and by the end of last week more crop was getting mature enough to just keep on going. The first indications
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We haven’t harvested in July before, this is a first! We started harvesting some earlier planted 6-row barley at the end of last week. We took off 70 acres to make sure all the equipment was working and so we could run some grain through the dryer to make sure everything was working with it
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Still no break in the weather. At least we have had some forest fire smoke from the north drift in and that’s been keeping the temperatures moderated the last few days. This is the driest weather we have had in a long time – with 60-75mm of moisture to date since the end of May,
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Starting to sound like a broken record….hot and dry conditions have been the predominant feature of the 2021 season thus far, and the trend looks to continue for the balance of July. Last week we had a brief reprieve of the heat, with daytime highs dropping to the high teens, but at the end of
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