Prairie production and acres chart

[farming101]

Hopperbin, here's a few numbers.
Principal field crops included.
Left out peanuts, beets, hay and stuff like that.
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[cottonpicken]

Thanks for those charts. We need more stuff like this on here when debating things.
So one third of production increase has come from summerfallow acres maybe most of the rest from fert/spray and we want to give up seed rights to gain what?

[TOM4CWB]

CP,

Not giving away seed rights... gaining quality control and purity.

PLUS new novel seeds can be developed and released here... without fear of contamination and poor genetic quality.

Grain Growers can use pre 2015 seed supplies... as they did before... as those seeds registered before UPOV91 came into force in Feb 2015... use the old rules NOT UPOV91.

We never get something for nothing.

[furrowtickler]

So any seed varieties registered from 2015 foreward we can reuse on our own farm?

[SASKFARMER3]

Ah tom quit trying to explain how the new seed act is going to benefit farmers.
Its all about taping the last area in ag in Canada that the industry felt wasn't paying enough.
You can only crush a farmer so long till their done.
WERE APROACHING THAT POINT REAL FAST>

The extra yield in Canada over the last 40 years came about because now we fert the shit out of a crop and a little seed treatment and fungicide.
Yield only increased because of these factors.
Oh and it rained in the Palliser triangle so production is back up.

[cottonpicken]

Take your pound of flesh for one year then it's ours or when you meet your maker and asks you about those young farmers who took their own lives because of your greed,spend your eternity in hell.

[bucket]

Quality control and purity.

Really?

Has anyone noticed that our end users paid more for lower quality durum last year than some of the best grown the year before?

Purity. Really. Klause said his terminal would buy pasteur wheat as a hrsw.

Someone is blowing smoke.

[farmaholic]

Quality seed like L150
ACCOUNTABILITY like the triffid issue?

Wasn't there changes made to the registration process of new varieties a few years back? Does anyone know if there were any more than KVD? Have the rules been relaxed too much? wmoebis?

[grassfarmer]

Hopperbin, Published research from AB AG Lethridge and U of Minnesota.
"dryland" situation alfalfa fixes up to 198lbs

under irrigation S. Alberta (and you all tell me you have more than enough water in SK)
alfalfa 267lbs, sweetclover 223lbs

Worth a look, no?

[farming101]

Grassfarmer, I like the idea of getting hold of a nice heavy disc and turning a good stand of clover into the soil. I'm sure it would do our waterlogged, rutted soil a world of good.

[hobbyfrmr]

I disk down clover and its a very good feeling when I'm doing it. A good stand fixates 90 to 120 lbs N. The trouble is, around here it is inconsistent catches. It seems either you get a totally awesom stand, 4 feet tall, or else a mangy field, 30 acres nothing, 25 terrific, 15 nothing , 20 terrific.
I am moving towards Faba beans or peas for N fixation. I think alfalfa is the best, but I cannot seem to want to take land out of production for the 3 or 4 year commitment, and no animals to feed. Alfalfa and cows is a perfect organic circle.

[hobbyfrmr]

I am pretty sure it was fjlip that had presented a very good rotation that included fababeans . It in here somewhere!