HUSA Jun 5 2026 - Dandelions

Let's continue that conversation between our co-host David Woodruff and Mike Bashutski, custom harvester from Saskatchewan, that works in the U.S. quite often. Let's listen in.    "Now this spring, believe it or not, dandelions! I was talking to a few people and like I looked at my garden and when the snow melted off here, that wasn't that long ago. They were green, I just thought, you know, from the winter. They just kept on growing and like some of the fields here, just the other day, it was like finally the heads popped out. So in the night before, there you could see a bit of green, you know, that was left before the pre-burn. Yeah, then all of a sudden in the morning, it looked like somebody spray-painted the fields yellow because there's dandelions everywhere. So do you suppose that they're like winter wheat or fall rye? They've been growing all winter? Yeah, the way the winter come this year and it covered up with so much snow that I believe like lots of these because there's weeds like we got in the, you know, garden that the other day I worked it up and they were already seeded out and I was like that's not even a week, that's a stone melted away and these other little, I'm not exactly quite sure the proper name of them, but they were seeded out already and I was like holy smokes."   So you had a warm winter over there, same as we did, no?   "Well, kind of yes and no. Our February was warmer, but we did endure a lot of minus 40 days, like it was cold, but the snow was come down, it didn't get blown around. Lots of guys that were doing a pushing any snow found out that they could still roll the grass up very easily. It wasn't, it didn't freeze into the ground very, very little."   Custom Harvester Mike Buschewski from Saskatchewan, Canada with our co-host David Woodruff.