Whar canola to grow?

[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

[bucket]

Thanks klause. I needed that endorsement to confirm my thinking for 2015.

2.50 for clean seed or 12.50 an acre compared to well over 50 for the wonder canola.

I can move some inputs around to make that work.

[Jagfarms]

We were very happy with our Synergy Polish canola as well in 2013. We also used Muster and assure for weed control and it worked very well.

[farmaholic]

At $10.00/bu for the canola you sell, that's twenty cents a lb. for your own seed, plus cleaning....

$.20/lb. versus $12.00/lb.---kinda ugly when you look at it that way...

[bucket]

Jag

Ate you sold our for 2015 yet.

It sounds like this polish variety is performing well.

Any yield data?

[bucket]

Two solid endorsements it must be catching on. I must be the last to the party again.

[Jagfarms]

I did not have any Synergy canola in 2014 but there are other seed growers who did if you Look in seed guide.