Huge loss

[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...

[farmaholic]

Last year we suffered with scattered swaths as well, we heavy harrowed the feilds and later it rained and alot of it germinated(and looked aweful until it froze). Did the same this year but haven't had any rain since it was harrowed, I hope it does later to get the shit germinated. Groundspeed, I am not barking at you about the "getting out" option but it is an option. Every year I get robbed someway and it is getting old. Too much invested in a crop these days to just sluff it off.

[SASKFARMER3]

I thought we lucked out and got through yesterday
ok, well today f$&ked up the canola good 2 can't
see swaths in a valley so wind just got it good.
Ret holding own but it's 81 km today. Just not our
year!

[fjlip]

This makes 3 crap years out of 6 for us!

[newguy]

The guys I am talking about did not heavy harrow. Whatever they used for their preseed burnoff must have sonething to give a residual to kill any canola coming up in crop. They would have had 10 bushels per acre shelled.Had absolutely no problem with canola hurting their durum crop before their in crop spraying.