Frost damage

[Zaphod]

Just a note about the "disaster" of 2004. People were talking about frozen cat dishes and garden hoses in August. Apparently, the crop was wiped out. A funny thing happened though, 2004 provided the 2nd highest yield ever to that point, and the 4th highest average yield ever. Were some guys hit bad? Absolutely, but Snappy's point is well taken. If all you do is look for bullish news and criticize the bearish, you've got blinders on.

[LWeber]

So how did those 35-40 bushels an acre Canada Feed wheat at $1.80 to $2.00/bu pencil out on your farm in 2004?

[Zaphod]

Sorry, I'm just talking canola here. You're right about the grain quality.

[boarderbloke]

in 2004, i had a half section of canola that was looking like a 45bus/acre crop, -4C turned that into a 20bus/acre crop(still sounds good eh! still yielding close to prairie avg.) except the green count was 50% and the dockage was 15%! decided to straight cut it to cut costs and it worked nice, got my 6000 bus and thought it'd be worth something, say $3.oo or $4.oo/bus! but Nobody was interested in it, Nobody, No offers for the first 12 months! then after storing it for over a year i received an offer of a whopping $1.oo/bus ! never, never will i do that again, the disk will be coming out! no-till or not!

[NDHAWK]

South Central Manitoba, considerable frost damage to canola on monday night, significant # of acres being reseeded,if seed can be located.Damage seemed to the worst on the fields that were zero tilled or had heavy trash cover. June seeding doesn't make for big yields, at least in this region