HUSA April 29 2026 – Montana Update

So we’re talking to Michael Deacon, Conrad Montana. So how are things looking?

“Okay we’ve got some surface moisture, not a lot of deep moisture. Everybody’s getting rolling on spring seeding and yeah so things look good for now but we definitely need some more here shortly.”

So that last storm that came through hit our country with we about a half an inch of snow or maybe a quarter. Did you get any of that?

“Yep, just a skiff of snow.”

Some beats nothing.

“Yep.”

So do you have any winter wheat?

“We do, yeah, we had we did put in some winter wheat. Well and I think just right where we were here because there’s some pretty good-looking winter wheat around but yeah ours looks a little spotty in areas. I was gonna go scout it out a little bit and kind of see if we needed to redo a little bit of it but yeah I don’t know there’s some pretty decent looking winter wheat around.”

Some pretty good-looking winter wheat in our in our area too.

“Good.”

Do you raise any canola down there?

“We don’t, no.”

There is some canola in the neighborhood, I think isn’t there?

“Yeah there is some I’ll see canola every now and then, not a ton like up north, but yeah there’s some grown for sure.”

Lentils and chickpeas and stuff like that, are they good bit dry land?

“Yeah yeah there’s quite a bit grown. I know the lentil prices are way down this year, so there’s I don’t think there’s quite as much. I think the same on conventional chickpeas. We’re doing some organic chickpeas and we haven’t done that in a number of years so we’ll see how that goes.”

That was David Woodruff from Alberta Canada talking with Michael Deacon from Conrad Montana.