Red Lentil Seed

[farmaholic]

40 cents on the first 600 lbs/acre is a nice $240 to go towards covering costs. You have to wonder what the overage will sell for. Anyone able to sign up more than 10 bu/ac? Or did you contract twice as many acres as your seeding? Lol. YIKES, did I say that!!!

[TASFarms]

Where can you get 40 cents now for fall contracts?

[farmaholic]

This has to be one of the earliest I've seen new crop production contracts offered. Some said not alot of new business was written at the Crop Production Show because so much was done before and for more money than they were offering at the show. Could be a lot of lentils and yellow peas grown this year. Hopefully prices are decent for uncontracted production. Sometimes it takes a year or two to get a comfortable stocks to use ratio for buyers to get bullish. Empty pipelines are the Producer's best friend, as long as you have something to put in it.

[bigzee]

There are no more .40 contracts, that was offered quite some time ago. It started at .30 and climbed to .40, now it's around .33 which is still quite a good start.

[Quadtrack]

So here's a question-how many of you think the pulse crop industry could have grown to where it is without the pulse levy? The vast majority of funding to Usask CDC has been farmer money and it has returned some excellent varieties, royalty free.

[sumdumguy]

Quadtrack, I don't think anyone argues with the levy, just the size of it and the fact that it's the only levy that is non-refundable. Sask Pulse is a good example of great past leadership and exemplary allies. Right at the start, they teamed up with the university, laden with unparalleled researchers (Slinkard, Morrow and many others) that bred and developed many new varieties, offered them to legitimate seed growers to propagate and the Crop Development Centre and Canadian Seed Growers Association made the seed available to you and me - but what's this new twist on King and Queen Reds? Someone fill me in.