100 bu canola

[ado089]

Yesterday agritrend and John deere threw out a 100 bpa challenge. First one to do it across 50ac wins a full line of jd equipment for 100 hrs. Thoughts? I think 80 is doable but 100 is a stretch. I'm also not sure it would make a guy anymore money than a 50 but crop

[nicolaas]

maybe doable in fresh breaking with optimum weather?

[ado089]

I think water will be the problem. Getting enough on without turning the soil anaerobic.

[bucket]

Strive for 100 bpa and what will the price be in the future?

Yeah that sounds like a money maker across the prairies.

[wmoebis]

Likely be able to get computer to read that out easily.

[fjlip]

Hetland Seeds at Naicam had a 70.5 bu/acre award to a local farmer in 2013. Not sure on acres, perhaps plots.

http://www.hetlandseeds.com/home/index.php/whats-new?start=5

[tweety]

This will make Agritrend far more money then for any farmer.

[farmaholic]

Good for bragging rights. I know my land and management style couldn't come close to that target.

Oh well, I will continue farming in the slum of the ghetto and do my best to accept the limitations.

[freewheat]

Interesting, but I am not sure how attainable. Funny, because I had a 50 acres chunk of chem fallow at the end I decided to shoot for the stars on just for fun, and I gave her a pile of everything. And then alfalfa loopers, which I had heard of, but never seen, came in and chomped off my emerging crop, thinning it dramatically.

I got the brakes put on, by a bug that is rarely if ever a canola emergence threat!

So much for that. I was kinda shooting for 80 from a fertility perspective, and if things looked good, she was going to be well treated from then on.

We will see what happens with the strippy, unevenly nibbled stuff.

[ado089]

I punched ideal everything into the the western ag crop caster and the closest I could get was 80. Any more than about 15" of total moisture and things go backwards.

[crusher]

Had some 75 bpa fields in '05. Can't remember what we did but I'm sure it was all weather related. Was a bitch to swath and combine. Also remember selling some for $5.85 that year.

[ado089]

I've had patches run in the 70's. To get to 100 you'll need close to 300#/ac total N, I want to say another 60#K 80# P and 50# of S.