Ryan MacLeod

@brianeasland @CGP2XbyOstara Oh nice. Great to see it become more concentrated. We had been using the original Crystal Green for years but gave it up this year due to bulkiness and cost. But will have to have another look at it.

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@SolickSeeds I need this! What’s the story on the remote callout? Where does a guy get one? Does it require a cellular plan?

On to grain vac'N duty over west. The webasto and remote call out is probably some of the best money I've spent on this old girl..

@EvanShout @grok describes this as “Tall Poppy Syndrome” or “Crabs in a bucket mentality”. Just human nature, nothing new.

@choppermac One third respect your outcome, one third are just running their own race, and one third hate your success (even though they have no idea who you are or how you got there).

"It's so easy to be great these days because so many are weak" - David Goggins Every time I spend too much time on Ag social media I get reminded of this Goggins quote. Disappointing the amount of negativity these days. So much hate for so many success stories of great farms.

@LowBoomLowDrift @_daneco The trip is mostly gravel so probably wouldn’t tow it much faster than we drive it. Could save about 30 engine hours a year but would probably get less done in a day. Sprayer runs at about 65% non spray time.

@choppermac @_daneco Human performance is huge for changing machine performance. For now anyways. Buy a trailer to haul it ? What percentage are your non spray hours ?

What are guys finding for real efficiency gains when switching to 160’ sprayers from 120’? Our 120’ averages 75 acres per engine hour. Can we expect 110? Sprayer upgrades are tough to make pencil out. @LowBoomLowDrift

@_daneco @LowBoomLowDrift There has been some training of new operators over the last couple years and then they don’t run as hard when they are new, roading to 3 different areas we farm 80km apart. We load with hot tank in 5 minutes except at spring burnoff.

@choppermac @LowBoomLowDrift What do you think is holding you back from getting to 100 ac/hour?

@PostmissSk @JSeimes I’ll trade Joel’s canola for mine. No problem! It was knee high and bolting before.

@JSeimes I heard Ryan McLeod got hit hard too.

Well, guess I’ve got some claims to file tomorrow. Looks like a big swath of ours got walloped pretty good. And a big dump of rain on top of the 4” we had Saturday. I’m assuming most of this will come back but the lentils are surely finished now.

@LowBoomLowDrift Yep that’s a sweet sprayer, gave it a try in some nasty hills. Alex should have some good drone footage. At times we couldn’t see the boom tip out the window over the hill. Had to rely on the boom tip camera.

@choppermac My 160 out of the kindersley store? Sorry I couldn’t be there. 1 sprayer at a time. Are you buying it ?

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@NESaskFarmer @JSeimes Stranraer is home sweet home for this guy. 2.5” so far. Things actually looked pretty good leading up to this.

Glad I didn’t have too many lentils in this year!! Waters almost across the driveway, creeks running through the back yard and no sign of letting up yet. Looks like the canola will have to pick up some slack.

@GrainStats The better narrative is the dry area where smoke is coming from and what is grown there. Oats and canola 🚀

New bullish narrative dropped, smoke⛅️ (stay safe frens 🙏)

@olblue81 The 11 year solar cycle combined with the 89 year Gleissberg cycle spells disaster for this year unfortunately. I believe the upper level low system that settled in last May was an anomaly that got us the crop. Overall bias is dry.

This old tweet seems to have had some truth to it. 24 was indeed wet and it looks like we're back to the dry decade now. If 24 was like 05, then the drought doesn't end until 29.

@rgstone1 We ran a set for 1000 acres. Found that our ground was too heavy for them. Lots of draft. Dutch stood behind their product and got us switched into some straight ones that would penetrate better. Trash flow was better than straight. Dutch is making adjustments to design.

Anyone using these. Trying one row. Seems like it’s pulls a bit harder (chain takes longer to tighten) but the separation is more real than Quebec’s

@BAMichael7997 @DragoIndiana @HorschLLC What do the monitors look like when they are all fired up? Are they steering only or do they run rate control and sectional?

Prepping a new Horsch Leeb 6.300 VL for its new customer! JD g5 with extended monitor and Agra gps globe! @DragoIndiana @HorschLLC

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@olblue81 @harder_water Totally agree. I’m mildly obsessed with the 89 year Gleissberg cycle after listening to the Andjelic podcast interview. If it all lines up next year could be the super drought unfortunately with a couple dryish years to follow.

@choppermac @harder_water Going to need fall rain again to replenish that profile. We'll see if my prediction is correct and this was our wet year in a dry decade and the drought ends in '27 possible as late as '29.

The ag-water story for 2024 (in Saskatoon area) is really a story of timing that is captured in 2 images for me. The first was taken August 15 of some hayland that was cut in two parts 2 weeks apart at the start of July. #water #westcdnag 1/8

@olblue81 @harder_water Our durum rooted and used moisture like I’ve never seen. At its peak it was at 8.6” of available water now it sits at 0.2”. Good crop out there to be harvested but not a drop of water left. North of Herschel 7 miles.

@harder_water This canola crop used a lot of water in July. It's too bad we can't get roots to access water beyond 2' though. 2nd year running this probe has had untapped water at 100 cm. And like you said, we have limited reserves and are back to square 1 for 2025.

Have a customer debating between an inline knife opener or the standard side band fert knife on a Vaderstad drill. This is on Regina heavy clay soil type, I don’t have any experience with the inline knife in these conditions. Curious as to others’ thoughts?