Straw Poll

[mustardman]

On most years continuous cropping in the palliser triangle the only people making money growing canola are the $465 per bushel seed companies.

This year and last will be the exception

[northfarmer]

mustard, why do you buy the seed if it is not a good deal. I am sure you could get your hands on the old op varieties for cheap...oh, but then you would not get the returns on the canola you now enjoy

[checking]

I don't understand why he doesn't grow all wheat and barley. That's where the money is (-:

[freewheat]

Oats are a month away, canola 2-4 weeks
from cutting. Wheat green as a lawn,
barley, anywhere from grass green to 2
weeks away.

Was down at regina on the weekend. There
is actually wheat that is quite ripe,
canola being cut, etc. But what else is
new, we're always weeks behind.

[mustardman]

Northfarmer I don't buy the seed. I don't grow canola

[mustardman]

checking durum will net out alot higher than canola due to way less input. So whats the r.o.i for canola companies on seed and why doesnt anyone bitch about it on this site?

Oh right we are supposed to only bitch about the board

[TOM4CWB]

Mustard,

No need to worry about it... so many choices and opportunities... it is fun to decide which option to choose... who to sell the produce to...

If there is sooo much money in hybred canola seed production... why aren't you growing it and selling it???

[checking]

Mustardman.

Isn't choice grand.

Like you I also don't grow canola, and likely for similar reasons, so you are asking the wrong farmer about roi on company canola seed. My oilseed was flax until that was royally pooched.

Durum, well there's a 6000 tonne binned product that will remain in that state till August 2012, which should have been August 2011. What do you find so offensive about world durum prices that were available in Sk. through Johnston's at $15.00/bushel (if only not obstructed) that you would be so happy to hope that a PRO of $9.64 would hold that you could collect on through the CWB?

Please say you have a sharper pencil on your mustard sales.

[cottonpicken]

The tea party thing is what is scary to me.Its been
hijacked by twisted monsters so now the level heads
will be associated with kooks in the minds of most of
the public.

Has anyone heard what kucinich is doing?

[mustardman]

Tom and checking you do see the Similarity in situations?

I don't grow Canola because I"m ticked with the seed companies.

You are ticked with the CWB But you still grow it Why? Instead of bitchin CHOOSE to grow another off board cereal.

And yes choice is grand.

[checking]

Mustardman.

Do you agree with Vader's post that frequently is reposted on this site?

I do my best to throw oats in as a cereal, but a steady diet that has a close relationship to its wild cousin tends to build up too much of a seed bank. I need my durum from time to time to spray them out.

You're toast with your grow something else argument, and it can't come soon enough. Why don't you get on with throwing your advice to your director that you have so many tonnes of durum that you want the CWB to market for you, after the change. It might help to get him out of the silly season that perhaps something is better than nothing.

[TOM4CWB]

Mustardman,

I am NOT telling you what to grow... or what not to grow...

But somehow you feel you have the right to tell me I cannot grow wheat or barley... unless I give you a pound of flesh for your socialist fund!

Please tell me how there is any parallel here?

You can grow Canola worth $465/bu... or not. Your choice. You do the work... you are rewarded for that work.

Alternatively I must give you your pound of flesh... if I grow wheat or barley!

Since when did God (or anyone) give you the patent over the production of Wheat and Barley plants???

[BTOfarmallll]

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[SASKFARMER3]

Lots of canola going down from cupar to balgonie
some fields green not just a bit.

[fjlip]

Be sure to check the seeds for color change.
Ours have brown in lower pods but field color is green?
Just a year that could be deceiving.