Viterra sees above-average Prairie crops

[Hopperbin]

WD them little plots that they straight combine on the best part of the field are not quite what happens typically on the whole field and especially when a person does swathing. Or has to use a 40 foot swather. Etc. You know what I mean?

[Hopperbin]

WD them plots are typically havested on the same day some varieties have a longer or shorter growing season. The taller one may have been trashed from the wind while the l150 may have been sc****d off the ground by a 3 foot header. Not typical of a farmers field.

[Hopperbin]

I played the game of moisture conservation this year and it cost me. In my years of farming that is what I thought I should do.

[Hopperbin]

And I agreee about sask 3 comment and Charlies article that viterra wants to get their share bid to pass. 1.8 percent profit on a 6.1 billion investment is not something I would just jump into, gotta be something more to it.

[wd9]

Not talking small plot. They're field
scale at least 500 to 1000 feet and are
cut by the farmers own 40 foot or
whatever foot swather he does the rest
of the field with.

Pioneer doesn't do competitors, or at
best one, Bayer keeps the ones they win
at, Dekalb is probably the fairest by
posting them all on their site
regardless who wins. Council just uses
the companies data but you can't compare
because there is no common check, its a
shit show. Don't think it changed for
this year either.

Best is to follow a local plot and watch
them all year. Get the data and make a
local decision.

No plots aren't perfect, nothing is, but
Hopper, care to suggest how to be more
fair/accurate?

[SASKFARMER3]

Yea find out what the 1000 2000 3000 4000
5000 acre canola farmer harvested and
divide by the acres.

[furrowtickler]

wd your wrong, PHI plot here DKL 73-45, VT 500, DKL 74-44 and L130 were all in a plot near here.

[wd9]

Cool, that is good. Have never seen one
like that within a hundred miles here. And
how did it turn out?

[wd9]

SF3, that's like saying you have to use
your entire crop to use as a sample. You
instead take a representative sample of
it. One pail full represents a thousand
tonnes for example.

A plot is controlled and representative
and then with several plots it is highly
correlative to millions of acres. The
reason industry does it is because it
works.

Not hearing any other good ideas for
determining yield comparisons that are
fair and accurate.

[hobbyfrmr]

I agree with dog patch. Buyer rhetoric about good
yields softens prices. They buy low. They have
been doing it for decades. It drives me crazy how
one blurb on the radio drops prices.