Big lentil, there is financial reward ONLY if you get a respectable crop. There are some guys with flax fields so polluted with weeds they will have 3 bu/scre flax and 5 bu/ac weeds. They will get turned away by some commercial cleaners because of the difficulty to separate. BUT they will harvest it because its $40.00/bushel. The hodge podge will sit in their bins for years and they will be sour on flax and organic farming.
I know of at least 2 large farms leave organic and went back to conventional farming when canola hit $14.00/bushel. i dont think of it as big money windfalls but modest profits on every acre if I do things properly.
Obviously I am not gaining properties and wealth exponentially like neighbors but I am content with how I am getting along.
I know of at least 2 large farms leave organic and went back to conventional farming when canola hit $14.00/bushel. i dont think of it as big money windfalls but modest profits on every acre if I do things properly.
Obviously I am not gaining properties and wealth exponentially like neighbors but I am content with how I am getting along.
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