Though I've lived in this country all my life it still amazes me the extremes we get in weather. Last week so cold I needed jacket, toque, coveralls working outside. Even had the furnace running in the mornings and evenings. Now today it was almost too hot to work. Temp well over 80 degrees by noon. We sure need the heat though. That oat hay I cut the end of August is still absolutely soaked. The ground under it is mud and in places there is water standing. True its a creek but it was dry enough to seed this spring. I need to turn those swaths or the under side will never dry. But that ground won't support a tractor. Canola swaths are still wet and showing mold inside from all the rain they've had on them. Standing wheat looks almost harvest ready until you look closer and see the green heads. By this date last year most of that wheat was in the bin and dry. No green.
Oats I have only observed from a distance but they are sure to be too green to harvest yet. Lucky I didn't swath them or they would be soaked like the hay swaths.
Much as I don't like the heat, we need another week or two of it if there is any hope for harvesting. Sounds like we only get a few days before the next rain.
On the positive side, here is a couple of minutes of rear bumper video on my old favourite 52 Mercury from yesterday. Autumn colours are starting to show.
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It's a shame you can't bring in a bunch of pigs and fatten them on the standing and mowed grains. China might buy them!
ReplyDeleteChina is a bad word here. Their rejection of our canola has cost thousands just on my small farm.
DeleteI didn't know what a 'toque' was. Old timers called them a 'sock-hat' or a 'toboggan'. Thanks for a new word.....Tex.
ReplyDeleteI've noticed that before that it is not a well known term down South.
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