Planting intentions for 08

[kamichel]

I am looking at planting much more soft wheat, much less canola, about the same yellow peas. Maybe look at canary seed.
Maybe some barley.

[freewheat]

Anything but wheat??? Barley, oats, lots of canola, flax, fall rye(in the ground and well emerged).

Kamichael, where are you from, and how is the soft white running? Any agronomic information in terms of maturity, height, and lodging resistance would be great. this is one wheat I could see myself trying next year...

[railway]

we grew soft white here in southeast side by side with HRS. The soft wheat ran 37 bu/ac, grade #2. HRS went 31.8 bu/ac grade #1 15% protien. Seeded same time, and treated equal in all other ways (herbicide etc..)
My only problem is trying to sell it.
Ethanol plant will pay $4.75 picked up (no kidding!)
I did an FPC for all of it (around $6.30/bu) , but no elevators around here will take it. I'll likely have to do producer cars, or sit on it till next summer when the elevator can make something work.
I don't intend to grow it again, unless HRS and durum show signs of crashing, as selling to one ethanol plant is the only real market for me here right now.

[dalek]

We'll have about 20% in SRWW by the end of next week, 15% probably in alfalfa. Out of the rest we'll probably be 60/40 corn/soybeans or thereabouts.

[kamichel]

North of central Sask. Black soil. So far running 60 bushels to the acre. Short straw, easy thrash, appears to be running close to barley here, maybe just under. Stands well but lots left in the fields here is now not standing well. We still have very heavy saw fly and midge pressure. Some reports of yields cut 30 percent from midge on unsprayed fields. Where spring wheat has been cut to half or less from midge damage. I like the high yield side and the fact that feed grains are strong and the local feed mill here is also buying the stuff and giving 0 dockage. But they will have to pay more they just don't know it yet. I won't do another CWB contract till after harvest again.

[kamichel]

And its late maturing.