mustardman-spicy topic

[mustardman]

A cleaner can take alot of wild mustard out of yellow as the wild is much smaller seed.
If conditions create a small yellow mustard seed size then separation from wild is very tough if not impossible.

[farmaholic]

mustard, same with the cleavers, but some cleaver seeds are bigger and hard to get out. I am sure tonnes are color sorted but not for the Producer's benefit. I've seen ads in the papers for "offgrade" mustard. Bet I know what they're doing.

[farmaholic]

Dave4111, chime in about the color sorting.

[ColevilleH2S]

After this spring all my nightmares include fleabeatles. Chomp,chomp,chomp all saying in unison, "no mustard for you."

[sumdumguy]

Colour sorting costs 2-4 cents per lb. Depending on the speed it can be sorted.

[mustardman]

Never had a problem with flea beatles on Yellow -due to hairy plant the bugs will be gone to nearest canola field.
Used treated seed first time I grew and after that seeded bare seed that costs about $.60 a pound. Slightly less than canola. lol

[farmaholic]

Shhh, others may catch on.

[Hopperbin]

Actually in my area flee beetles have totally eaten a crops of mustard in couple days. So they cannot be too resistant.

[ColevilleH2S]

I ended up spraying an aweful lot of Decis this spring because I too thought Yellow mustard was immune to fleabeatles.

Next year it'll all be Lumiderm treated

[Oliver88]

Apparently mustard seeded acres in 2015 will be The lowest it has been in at least 5 years.

(According to the sometimes questionable Stats Canada)

[bucket]

Why not just spray pounce with the glyphosate?

[GOODRUM]

Oliver lowest acres in 5 years and a drought in the main growing areas should make for some strong prices , I'm thinking