US Farmers Ramping Up Pulse Acres!!!!

[sumdumguy]

The first year we started farming 1972 flax was $11.50/ bushel and Durum $7.00. Total variable costs for a 640 acre farm $30 an acre. Flax yielded apprx 30 bushel and Durum about 45. That was the year after LIFT. Lift away Liberals.

[fjlip]

Those were the GOOD old days! $9 canola in 74. New Deere 4430, $14000.

[bucket]

Sure were 40 dollars a barrel for oil and a gallon of gas was 25 cents or 6 cents a liter.

Nothing to see here folks move along and bend over.

[seabass]

Exactly Wiseguy. Mother nature has a way of curing the impulse to grow crops in areas they shudn't be. May get away with it a year or two but eventually she evens the score.

[ajl]

How about 0.23 GRIP lentils in 1992. That year there was lentils at Vegreville AB. Ah the good old days. Wheat was around $3 per bushel then.

[WiltonRanch]

One positive there'll be some high pro lentil greenfeed out there for the cows up here in the north. No heat stress or near drought and they'll be 6' tall without a seed in them. If oats can have in determinant growth here sometimes then I can't see how lentils wouldn't. Peas going in around here on ground guys swore they'd never ingest another rock for. There again 5' tall diseased 5 bpa cow food. Guess the hard lessons 3 years ago weren't hard enough for some.

[furrowtickler]

Sask Crop insurance is going to get sand bagged by Nov on this one .
I agree the money is there on pepper but when the quality is not there and crop insurance has to do claims - it will be deer in the headlight time.
I fear for next years premiums is all