China is out of the canola market.

[Zaphod]

OK, let's just say I'm really dense (I hear it regularly at home), but where is all the free money you're talking about? I guess I need it spelled out for me. But please don't say it's organic. That works well for niche markets but not for a 15 million acre industry.

[silverback]

Just got in. Is this chinese canola to be crushed for oil or canola to be planted?

[furrowtickler]

It is canola for crush.

[checking]

And ado, when China buys our land, it will grow canola on it for export to the homeland, and nary will there be a peek that it has blackleg problems.

Good idea Pars, ply the Chinese customers with wine, and they will scarf down our canola blackleg flavored perogies!!

[parsley]

checking,

I really don't think you understand the seriousness.

Farmers, including you, I am going to guess, are not in the loop. Yet it's your canola.

Instead of attacking me, ask why, in this day of instant information, you did not know about the blackleg problem, weeks ago. You should have been planning for it.

You want to attack the messenger? Dandy.

You want to know what's going on?

Go ask the folks who will piddle on your leg and tell you it's raining.

It's what you prefer.

Carry on.

PS:
plum perogies, and cheese and onion perogies, and cottage cheese perogies, and sauerkraut and bacon perogies, and saskatoon perogies.

Now if the lot of you are so ddumbly stupid that you cannot believe the entire Chinese Government could not be bribed by perogies, well, you know nothing. lol Pars

[Hopperbin]

Let me get this straight. China wants zero tolerance on blackleg even though every sample in the world even Chinese ****seeds contain some level of blackleg?
Where is this news article anyway I cannot find it.

[parsley]

I'm a little pissy myself after thinking about crops.

Remember when I emailed Kevin Hursh and he emailed back and said:

"Contrary to comments posted with your blog, there are no GM mustard crops."

Now that is exactly what I call pissing on my leg and telling me it's raining. I was annoyed. Not for me. But because farmers' own payrollee was not giving out correct information.

AVer's bought umbrellas.

Kevin Hursh, on the front page of the Western Producer kept it up:

"There has never been, to our knowledge, a GMO mustard developed, certainly not in Canada. And we find it hard to believe anything like that has ever been developed anywhere else."


I quickly googled and found two websites that indicate Canada has hosted field trials growing GM mustard, and there will be more.

It's surprising the Saskatchewan Mustard Growers' Commission dosn't even know GM trials were done.

You think other countries can't google? DUH.

Will we, as farmers, be better decisions makers if we are informed? YES

Do you expect better from the people you pay? Obviously not.

haveapulse posted Oct 9, 2009 0:40

"We have handed over grain decisions to those who do not suffer from stoppage..."

Larry said, "Another European country yanked Dijon mustard from grocery shelves yesterday. When do you let farmers know - when it reaches 5 - 10?"

Truth. Yes, well. Not ONE word of "WTF?" from farmers.

Carry on.

Like the old movie: "You can't handle the truth."

If farmers are scared to ask the people who work for them, hard questions, and make them accountable,
farmers cannot survive.

as you read, your hair will be up on the back of your neck.

Yes, well, I'll dig up the old proven, Lead, follow or get out of the way," rah rah if you are too indignant.

It's believable, right? Pars

[Hopperbin]

Parsley my neighbors that bought the six quarters of organic certified land today when asked what they plan to plant was only one response. RR canola. I was a little disappointed that they did not even entertain the thought of applying for the organic registration certification. So say what you want about catering to the customer, you may not always be right. Actually myself I would have applied for the organic status registration or what ever you call it, but I don't own the land. We have a lot more to learn about China in the years to come. Americans will look like Angels.

[parsley]

"Americans will look like Angels."

Very very perceptive.


If the man bought the land, put his money on the table, so be it.

I wouldn't doubt if organic land, in the future, will be looked upon as "land/soil parks". Pars

[charliep]

Parsley

You have never indicated what your definition of genetically modified is means? Do you use the North
American definition or the European one?

The European definition is very specific to genetically engineer or transgenics if makes more sense.
Suspect they may put through the same tests (we do in Canada) but mutagenics are quite acceptable
in the political arena. No one complains about Clearfield wheat, lentils, canola, etc that are bred using
mutagenics - including Europe.

The only GMO flax trials I have seen are mutagenics - working with the flax own genes and not other
species genes. The conditions on these trials are listed in the CFIA website.

[URL="http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/plaveg/bio/dt/term/2008/brajunspe.shtml"]cfia[/URL]

Sorry for taking off the topic of China and canola.

[ColevilleH2S]

"Soil Parks" hahahaha Remember is was organic farming practices that took our beautiful virgin prairie soil and just about burnt every ounce of organic matter out of it by 1960s.

My soil OM has been increasing because I have left these soil mining practices behind...in the past...where they belong.

BTW I e-mailed Maille a couple weeks ago when this Mustard/Flax this thing broke-out, and basically asked them what the status of their German Dijon recall was. They never replied.

[Hopperbin]

Furrow where is this article?

[charliep]

second last paragraph should be mustard not flax. Sorry about that.

[Hopperbin]

Well the Canola pit has a virtical 7 dollars per ton in the last trade so maybe the Sichuan people do want their meals cooked in Canola oil. They saved their countries ass is the past and they can also destroy them.

[Hopperbin]

Besides last time I looked the water going on them Sichuan canola crops was more like toxic sludge. What the hell does blackleg have to do with human health anyway.