Organic oats Grain Millers

[hobbyfrmr]

Organic oat bids continue to be very strong, with Jan Feb March 2016 pricing now at $7.00 a bushel FOB farm! For April through August, our price is now $7.50 picked up.
Northern Alberta bids for organic oats are now $7.25 delivered to Morinville for Jan Feb March, and $7. 50 for April through August. For those of you up in the far north we are $6.50 and $6.75 FOB farm for those periods.
If you are interested in booking up any organic oats, please contact Terry or myself here in Yorkton, or Sam down in Eden Prairie at 952-983-1311, or sam.raser@grainmillers.com.

[bucket]

With those returns you must be looking at a smaller protill to speed up your work.

Still thinking that machine would be perfect for you.

[hobbyfrmr]

I am thinking of that, but more keen on a Lemkin Rubin. Those are reasonable prices, but keep in mind organic is half the yield of conventional. Half a crop, twice the price.

[bucket]

Hobby

Which vertical tillage machine you decide to use its gotta help.

Faster smoother finer for better seed to soil contact and germination.

If I could get a tank behind the protill I would seed with it.

[furrowtickler]

Hobby - do you have much for rocks ?
I have a case turbo till that I might part with

[Braveheart]

If you're looking for a high speed tillage machine, we used a K-Line Speedtiller this fall and it worked fantastic. Very durable, well built machine.

Hobby, even though you have less yield, at those prices you must have good margin with lower input costs. What would cost per acre without fixed costs in?

[hobbyfrmr]

I don't need to speed things up. My land is pretty bouncy, I don't want to wear a helmet just to drive a tractor. I leave that to the neighbors. I would rather make two passes at a lower speed so some of these machines will not work because I am too slow.
Furrow, not many stone here. How wide is it, and how wore out is it? What are you changing to? Oats on stubble variable costs would be about $138.00 per acre.

[greybeard]

Can you give me a little more detail on the $138 variable on organic oats?
I could lose interest pretty quick at that.

[furrowtickler]

42 ft, not wore out at all. We pull it with a 400hp 9370 at 6 to 8 mph
Just bought a 60ft machine that looks like it will fit our operation better.

[bucket]

Hobby

That's what those things do - level land at a good speed.

It takes the harsh bumps out.

[hobbyfrmr]

Greybeard,

A year of plowdown costs me $120.00/acre so I add that as a cost of fertilizer and weed control over 2 crops.
$60 fert/weed, $8 x 2 cultivate $4x2 harrow pack. $4.00/acrex2, $8/acre planting, post emergence harrowing . Seed cost 3 bu/ac x 5.00, $20.00/ acre harvesting, $2/ acre certification and office.
Apologies, that is $137.00/ acre.
Fast and rough math .

[hobbyfrmr]

There is a $4.00 x 2 in there, that's the cost of passing the rod weeder.

Furrow, My biggest tractor is 320 hp and 34 years old I suspect it might be too much draft.
Can you break up hay land with your turbo till?
Does it have the hydraulic adjustment to change the aggressiveness / gang angle?
I will study them more.

[furrowtickler]

Nope , on a few things
A Madako twister might work for you

[Braveheart]

We've used the Twister a bit as a rental from Flamans. It's a vertical tillage and we find works best above 10.5 mph.

[hobbyfrmr]

I am backwards, maximum disturbance , highly intrusive tillage. When my zero till neighbors drive by they cringe like they're looking at their fusarium riddled wheat at harvest.