Huge loss

[cottonpicken]

Totally agree farmholic.

This "take your beating like a man"attitude is a
sickness in our society.

[bluefargo]

Not only canola. I had a quarter of lentils that I foolishly swathed. They now belong to the neighbour.

[Kodiak]

So how do we handle 1000 pounds per acre, or more, of seed scattered across our fields? The volunteer situation will be horrendous. Cultivate it in, and hope for a tremendous amount of growth this fall???

[furrowtickler]

Good question kodiak, gona be a gong show

[newguy]

Alot of canola blew beside me last year. The one person with 1000 acre chunck must have burned off this spring with something with some residual because he was the only one not rushing to do an incrop spray because of volunteer canola. Would like to know what he used.

[wd9]

Light harrowing is the best option for
germ in the fall. DON'T bury it.

From Arvel Lawson's thesis and Masters
work on volunteer canola.

[vvalk]

We had a 1000 acres of yellow mustard that went
from a 25 bus crop to now combining just over 10
bus. Wind got to 110 km here just west of
Lethbridge. Never seen mustard shell so bad.
More on the ground then on the plant. I think the
plant we a bit too tall and it started to whip real
bad

[tipsy]

a fair bit of canola has been harvested in the north east, but there will be heavy losses in what is left. if the canola loss is as bad in rest of the country as it is here in the north east, makes me wonder how each canola crusher will manage there basis so as they will not be the one to run out of canola first? any takers as to which crusher goes short first? the standing oats because most if not all have been round up and are dead ripe didn't fair so well here either.

[groundspeed]

Sure a guy can quit and get out but then what? Punch the clock , join a union, not an option. Been kicked in the nads on the farm before, going to continue with the good life it has given me,we will survive.

[freewheat]

Trouble is groundspeed, some have been
kicked in the nuts for 5-6-7 years in a
row now. It gets old, and it gets
impossible if you are a young guy with a
fair debt load, and no previous
generational backing, paid for land,
etc. Not saying you do, I am just saying
that for some, continuing on will be an
impossibility.

I love the farm life. But if I were
approached with a decent offer, I would
bite. It gets tiring, this relentless
arse kicking. And no, I would not punch
the clock. There are more ways to farm
than big grain. Just about as many ways,
as mother nature uses to wreck a crop...