Canola Report.

[wd9]

I find it interesting so many seed liberty first and then compare to RR canola seeded later.

[freewheat]

Well here, every day of heat is adding
bushels to this crop, only because it is
so wet and the heat is giving the canola
a chance to catch up/grow out of the
flood damaged areas. Nothing is
spectaular, but it is much better than
it was 10 days ago, when it looked like
it was a write-off. If the heat keeps
up, there will be some nice canola in
this country. Thing is that is saving us
"here" is that the crops are so late
that they are not past the point of no
recovery yet. They just need a good long
fall. Canola is in the 3-4 leaf to early
bolt stage. I am considering topdressing
some of mine to give it some hope here
in the next week. I have seen in the
past, excellent results with ammonium
sulfate applied up to early flower.
Canola can recover surprisingly well,
surprisingly late, unlike cereals.

It is just so late is all, and perhaps
20% flooded out. Unlike the other wet
years, at this point it is either
drowned out completely, IE no plants
left, or fairly decent, not alot in
between on individual fields. The rains
stopped in time. Almost.

My floated canola is surprisingly good,
other than probably 25% completely
drowned. This year, it appears to have
been the right thing to attempt. In the
areas that are not outright drowned, I
think it has a fair chance at an average
crop, especially if I can get some n and
s to it...

[redbaron]

Red River Valley. So far some of the best crops in a
long time. Heat is a concern. And we need rain very
soon. Canola is flowering and does not like the 30 plus
temperatures.

[sumdumguy]

Redbaron, it looks like you may get a good
splash tonight. GL

[Burbert]

Newsflash, canola doesn't due well in wet
conditions!

[jamesb]

As we didnt get any crop seeded last year to speak of every thing is on fallow. The fields worked last year with a cultivator to dry them out faired way better this year than the chem fallow that didnt get worked. Even stuff agressivly heavy harrowed pre seed helped with even germination. These fields hadnt been worked with a cultivator in 25 years. I have never seen the canola cabbage like it has this year. L150 looks best so far,just got it sprayed with proline.

[fjlip]

Also canola bolting without a lot of leaves.
Best crop is conventional tilled, air seeded and harrow packed.
Mainly poor areas due to torrential downpours. Concrete hard dried areas.
Variety of stands most thin and uneven are wherever excess rains occurred.

[furrowtickler]

Highly variable anywhere is Sask. Yields will range anywhere from 10 - 60 at this point.