1st week of October lost for Harvest.

[furrowtickler]

Kodiak is right, canola is worthless by spring if left out.

[Hopperbin]

That is also what my dad says but neighbour said differently of course he does not want to admit the loss. Oh crap I just realized I could spend a 1.50 per bushel drying canola and the crop would still be worth more than my wheat crop per acre if I did not need to dry the wheat.

[Hopperbin]

And I was just getting rested up from the last go.

[Hopperbin]

I'll probably get blasted again, but oh well.

Canola in my experience winters very well 02 left 1500 acres out. Combined 700 in Dec( will never do that again), other 1500 layed until next April, picked it up in spring, and harvested same bushels in spring as previous fall.

Oil content?? Not sure if it dissapears or not.... Don't really care, I hauled all that canola to the elevator for $7.00/bus. Not one load did they test for oil content.

Maybe I was lucky??

Same thing happened in 04, just not as many acres left out.

CP, Oats is very interesting. Carry over is big, but lots of crop out there, and that could spark something. Been long oats for 6 months now, loaded up on more July options.

If most guys would close their eyes, and open them one year from now things will look alot differently.

I can't believe all this doom and gloom.

Who the F%Y^Y listens to the weather network or accuweather??? I woke up yesterday 14 day outlook looked not bad on the weather network.... tommorrrow they'll forecast nice weather. They change by the hour.

One more thing.... It's OCT 5th, not OCT 30th!!

The guys that'll hurt are the guys pushing way to many acres/machine.

[SASKFARMER3]

Well snapper in my experience the two times we had crop out, canola and hrs. Hrs came through light and bleached but standing. Canola swath, Did half a quarter phoned crop insurance and boy does it ever burn hot in spring. Total Crap. Total. Yes its the first week but the days get shorter and cooler from here on or dont you really farm and know that. Their is huge acreage of canola out in the province of saskatchewan I know of some 2,000,000 million plus bushels out their and thats just people I know. Yea its rosy rosy rosy. Oh crap my glasses fell off again.

[wd9]

Boarderbloke, something to consider is in a swath the snow stays on top but standing and minus 10 or so it straight cuts ok. Saw that a lot around here. Swathed guys were always behine the standing. But, if its going to be there in the spring, i guess a swath is better. Not much help i know.

[boarderbloke]

wd9, I'll be holding off with swathing the flax as long as possible. With it having been sprayed with two nice weeks of weather already, I'm hoping if we get that week of -4 to -6 overnights, it should go a long way in getting the straw dried out and through the combine. I wouldn't doubt that the seed is close to dry, I just need the straw to dry down.

[fjlip]

North of Kelvington 50 acres canola combined yesterday 15% MT. Sprayed standing barley combined, no MT.

[RENO]

I too combined canola in the spring of 03...ADM took it, no questions asked.