Will You Expand Canola Acres in 2012

[Ronski]

I will be down to 25% canola. Other crops are profitable this year so its a good time to straighten out my rotation. I've been up to 70% canola in the past so I do have a guilty conscience.

[furrowtickler]

No worries freewheat, I did my post before yours was even up.
My point is "who" is saying 20 mill acres, how and why did they come up with this number of 20 mil ac?
My thought is, show me how the *** it is possible? Givin the points i made and look at current soil moisture maps..? Somebody needs to show me how 20 mill is possible.. if so, legit and I will stand corrected. All this b/s did was drive down the canola market today... so WTF is going on realy?

[$short]

I hope to increase canola acres this year to a
more normal 25-30%. 2 years of wet wet wet
have not been fun.

With all the unseeded acres it's hard to get a
pulse back into rotation.

Canola still pencils out the best return.

[groundspeed]

Some say be carefull pushing canola rotation, if clubroot spreads across the praries it could devestate the canola industry. Dont want that.

[Daylate]

but a serious threat would be OK. LOL
I think their getting these acres on % of rotation assuming western canada's seeded acreage will be higher due to the fact that most of us will have more ground to run the drill over this year.
I think the trade is somewhere between 6 and 8 percent more in Wesern canada for total acreage.

[freewheat]

Yeah guys tend to forget all the unseeded, when they seeded 'er all.

[SASKFARMER3]

Their is no way in hell that their will be
20 mill acres of Canola in Canada. Its a
pipe dream. Phone and see if you could get
canola any variety. Oh yea why are the
seed companies continuing to offer
discounts for prebooking.
DAh this is BS on 20 mill.

[Hopperbin]

We can still get planting seed cause look at what we are paying for it. 20 million acres times 5 lbs per acre times say average 8 dollars per lb equals .8 billion dollars yikes.

[furrowtickler]

Western Canada will be within 5% /- of last years canola final seeded acres, givin an average spring.