Big Canola Field

rusty6 · Jul 10, 2020

Took a few drone shots over the yard this evening. That is at least an 800 acre field of canola off in the distance. Probably more.

Bruce from Can. · Jul 10, 2020

So about a section and a half. How many acres in
that do you think would be wet slew holes that
couldn’t be planted? 10% more or less.

Traditional Farmer · Jul 10, 2020

I see some trees around your yard/farmyard.Do trees come up and grow naturally in your area or have to be planted?

rusty6 · Jul 10, 2020

(quoted from post at 03:00:37 07/10/20) So about a section and a half. How many acres in
that do you think would be wet slew holes that
couldn t be planted? 10% more or less.

Bruce,
Actually 7 quarters in that block and my estimate is pretty rough when I said 800 acres. I'd guess there is at least 20 or more acres per quarter that is sloughs too wet to seed most years. Plus there are two farm yards in it.

rusty6 · Jul 10, 2020

(quoted from post at 03:16:16 07/10/20) I see some trees around your yard/farmyard.Do trees come up and grow naturally in your area or have to be planted?

This is (or used to be) the parkland area and it used to be nearly half bush. Natural poplar, willow. Most of it was cleared over the past century. Every one of those sloughs you see was originally surrounded by trees. So 90 cultivated acres on a 160 acre quarter was pretty common until land clearing started. I have aerial survey photos from 1949 showing a far different view.

coshoo · Jul 10, 2020

I remember some years back there was a trend toward a lower water table and some of the sloughs drying up. Is that still the case? Have you been able to bring more acres into production because of it?

rusty6 · Jul 10, 2020

(quoted from post at 06:38:10 07/10/20) I remember some years back there was a trend toward a lower water table and some of the sloughs drying up. Is that still the case? Have you been able to bring more acres into production because of it?

Yes, there were a lot of those acres reclaimed here a couple of years ago. Nice seeding straight through but by harvest time it was so wet again that many of those acres were impossible to harvest in the mud. Always a gamble on that kind of ground. I don't do as much of that as I used to considering the cost of diesel fuel and steel.

55 50 Ron · Jul 10, 2020

That old threshing machine casts a long shadow. Photo is looking to the northeast I
believe. That big field should be near your "100 acre wood" if I "know my maps".

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