Still time for farmers to seed?

[Saskia]

I'm not a farmer myself but I do feel sorry for people who are and depending on the weather to get on with working the fields.
How is it going for you guys? Is there still time to get things started?
The fields around our yard look sooooo wet with little lakes everywhere. I know lots of those fields should be done by now but the rain just doesn't stop.

[cowgirl]

It's getting really late to plant now, next Tuesday is cut off day for canola according crop insurance.

The guys round here are mainly around 80 - 100% done, we just got ours finished on Monday here, so we are a lot better off than other areas. We were just talking to a fellow immigrant who lives up near Star City and he is only 50% done, and I hear that in the Foam Lake area some folk have not managed to even start. It's going to be a tough year for sure.

The next challange is get out there and spray the weeds off, at the moment it is just to wet to do anything at all.

[Saskia]

[quote="cowgirl"]It's getting really late to plant now, next Tuesday is cut off day for canola according crop insurance.

What does that mean....cut off day for canola crop insurance?

[cowgirl]

If you subscribe to crop insurance you can get payouts if you have crop losses, but they have dates that you must hit to get things done. So our canola is in the ground, so is insured under the scheme, if you can't get it in before next Tuesday they will not insure it, because it won't have time to mature ready for harvest. You will either have to plant another crop, or claim for unseeded acres

[princess warrior]

We will be in trouble to as we have honey bees.

[Serendipity]

Things are wet wet wet around here. Although my husband and I don't farm, my parents do and they are one of the very few people in the area who have over half of thier crop in the ground. Cowgirl mentioned people around Star City who are 50% complete....I think that is very good for the area as I know several farmers around there who have not put a thing in the ground, and likely will not be able to this year. It is going to be a very scary year for many farmers out there I think.

[sk_pacer]

We are just over half done and that is all she wrote. It's at it again, and the sloughs are filling, the yard is becoming a series of large puddles and I am betting the patch job they did on the buggered road to town is NOT going to hold up. Enough already....I am getting cranky with all this wet and I think I am rusting. Only good is IF it ever dries up, it's gonna be a good hay crop.

[Paintedhorses]

We haven't even started yet....it's too wet
My dad only puts oats & rye in usually but he's scared that if this doesn't stop, he wont be able to do even that anymore.
Time shall tell.