Whar canola to grow?

[Guest]

well braveheart , guess you dont think there is anything wrong with seed companys raising seed prices on a year when a lot of farmers have been dealt a real tough blow this growing season . you should probably sell your canola for $8 or $9 also . go big , assume all the risk , maybe you'll get the short end of the sticknext year . thats why farmers are in the predicament they are in . to each his own , i guess . we had a really good canola crop here , but i feel it is time to take a break . good luck on going big

[SASKFARMER3]

Thsnks Jag you proved my point our old varieties would compete and kick some of the hybrids ass!

[SASKFARMER3]

Farmers wake up the same will happen with wheat! All you young guns the companies don't care about you!

[ado089]

I'm going to share a little secret...the fertility in the test plots even 10 years ago,never mind 15 or 20 wasn't what it is today. I don't know of anyone that is hitting the genetic potential of even the shi, I mean most economical varieties. A guy can accomplish a lot by diverting that extra $35/ac from seed into other inputs.

[farmaholic]

Well said ado089....I'm not playing the "most expensive, therefore has to be the best, varieties are selling out" game anymore. I haven't committed to any canola seed or fertilizer yet.

[SASKFARMER3]

It's such a gsme test plots use to be spiked with 200 lbs N ag Indian head! It's a joke what's happened with canola! And it will with wheat!

[Braveheart]

We've actually reduced our inputs, especially N. Used to be over 100# N, now 85. Better seed placement and fertilizer placement. Fertilizer on when seeding. Of course no till, so yields get a nice bump from that.

We won't go wall to wall canola next year but will increase by 30%.

The nice thing is, people have a choice. Buy into the low input system or pay for more high tech. Or go for maximum economic yield. Your choice.

There's always the risk we'll get a short end of the stick. I have to balance that against the reward of high returns.

The thing is, if most farmers are thinking like the posters in this thread and reducing acres or inputs, then I smell opportunity. I make no apologies for that.

[bucket]

What do you guys think about using just a conventional canola.

No liberty or roundup or Clearfield.

Just a good burnoff and in crop management.

[SASKFARMER3]

Ah brave you have found the secret of growing the retarded sister! Opportunity! Yes back in the 80s we made out like bandits with reasonable farm grown seed and some bought! It's about unrealistic seed prices for shit varieties! Just offered 9.35 for canola I said its 10.50 and I'll book seed till then no seed Fert etc!

[Klause]

Polish canola seeded in July sprayed with assure ii and muster was clean as a whistle.... out yielded all the fancy expensive canola seeded in early May...


Was seeded with an old bourgault fixed frame cultivator with 6 inch sweeps and no real packers...


Pretty impressive 40 bpa.


High tech varieties everything thrown at them planted with PHDs. ... 17 to 25.



Just give it a thought is all I'm asking