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Wanna puke? Look at the next 14 days on the Weather Network. Probably the same for all of Alberta and Sask. We need a massive weather change bad.
Yeah nice drying weather.

Might get just warm enough to start sprouting wheat.
 

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Please don't say the s word. Lol

i was out looking for geese last night, neighbours who swath everything have wheat on the ground that has had 4 inches of moisture on it since it went down. I turned some swaths over and it made me want to puke!
 

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Thanks to some ruby ****s our combine and semi batterys were all stolen and keys taken. They hit the whole area several farmers missing batteries.
 

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Thanks to some ruby ****s our combine and semi batterys were all stolen and keys taken. They hit the whole area several farmers missing batteries.
I feel for you. This has been going on in our area as well as of late. Another thing they are doing is drilling holes in the plastic fuel tanks on the combines and tractors and stealing the fuel that way. Would be nice to catch them in the act but they work longer hours than us I guess?
 

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Tomorrow is the best looking day in the 14 day forcast, by lots.

This is really starting to get grim.
 

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I feel for you. This has been going on in our area as well as of late. Another thing they are doing is drilling holes in the plastic fuel tanks on the combines and tractors and stealing the fuel that way. Would be nice to catch them in the act but they work longer hours than us I guess?

They work the night shift, I've heard of meth heads going a month without sleep!

If a guy could get one of these guys doing something besides stealing.... should get these guys driving a combine for you haha
 

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They work the night shift, I've heard of meth heads going a month without sleep!

If a guy could get one of these guys doing something besides stealing.... should get these guys driving a combine for you haha
HaHaHa!...………………………………………………………...no. lol
 

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Hey got a nice thundershower an hour ago. With pea size hail. Just some snow now and I can tick off all the boxes for this year on what can ruin a good crop.
 

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Hey got a nice thundershower an hour ago. With pea size hail. Just some snow now and I can tick off all the boxes for this year on what can ruin a good crop.

I thought most of the crops would be off in your country, you guys are usually weeks ahead of us?
 

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I thought most of the crops would be off in your country, you guys are usually weeks ahead of us?
Would have been if all of it came out of the ground at the same time this spring. So dry that even had poor germination on cereals for us guys down here. A lot of canola had like 50-60-% germination in our area this spring. I don't think anyone has any canola off yet. Worst seeding and early season conditions I have seen in my 40 years of farming.
 

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Heading to a site near Ashmont. There are many unfinished fields all the way from st.albert, I feel for all of the farmers affected and hopefully you can get what’s left of your crops off before the weather changes again or they are destroyed by excess moisture.
 

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Canola wouldn't test today.
Can wring water out of the stems.

Didn't even bother with the wheat.

Tomorrow is another day.
 

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Standing canola tested 12.5 at 3pm today and wheat at 27 I was told by a neighbour.
 
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