What ever happened to that thing where us farmers put our yields of different crops into a listing a

[Hopperbin]

We would put acres planted and yield. Just wondering what happened to that, cause it could have been a good tool to warn agains l150 canola or some other variety good bad that we pay big bucks for.

[Hopperbin]

Could it be a fit for agriville to assist in something like this. WGRF?

[furrowtickler]

Talk to those who seen it, grown it or had it it plots, not some 25 yr old univ grad or some flunky line company sales guy talk. Or the worst ever - Bayer b/s.
Not pickin on you hopper but 70% of canola growers do not do their homework, yes my 2/3rds 1/3 rds b-s. 70% buy on the best deal,programs of the day, always have. Talk to guys that have grown it, been there and done it. And it matters not what seed company ....
73-45 was a good example, good yeilds in ideal conditions with no diseases presure.....
L150 was known for having weak legs from the start if you konw who ask. L130 different story.

[Hopperbin]

I am paying more attention to the neighbours now, l150 was pretty new last year I suppose your a bit more on top of the varieties than I am. Nothing wrong with some sort of database to put our varieties yields municipality acres of each etc etc into a data base so that we can see what is happenning on a much larger scale. I don't have enough neighbours and or time to call and talk to and try to jot it all down on all the different varieties out there. Think this is much easier.

[Hopperbin]

This has been done in the past or maybe is still around that I don't know of. I am willing to contribute to be a member. Farmers fields are the best test, sure there was some seed growers bragging up new varieties at the time but it showed up on the acres grown so one knew to be cautious. It was a good system.

[SASKFARMER3]

L150 has problems its had since it was
introduced.

[Hopperbin]

Ya but a lot of farmers got screwed this year that maybe could have had a heads up. I had plants that were laying flat on the ground I don't need to be reminded that its not a good stander. I want to know before hand cause the specs were that is stands straight.

[Hopperbin]

What about the barlies? Are they getting accepted for malt? What is the days to maturity? How is the fusarium? This is all questions us farmers should be answering ourselves.

[Hopperbin]

So much info fertilizer used. Protiens. Oil content, etc. Can be used to compare different crops like barley to wheat to canola to flax etc.

[Hopperbin]

Date of planting to yield etc.

[furrowtickler]

You bring up a very good point hopper. We need to do this.
S/F, did you not grow L150 this year??? After you knew this ???

[furrowtickler]

We did a variety of tests, with a weigh wagon, on seeding dates, fert with same and diff varieties the last 7 years. Interesting stuff to say the least. This year high fet rate with early seeding and low fert rates late seeding = same result. Mid fertility seeded mid may with proper deseases control won hands down 3 years in a row. Disease absolutely spanked certain varieties this year on earlier seeded crops not sprayed. Two years ago the opposite occured. We found that seeding mid may with mid-high fert rates for this area gives a 80% better chance of the highest return than early seeding and/or later seeding.
As for varieties, L130 is very good, 45H31 very good, 46H75 very good. Dekalb very weak legged, except 74-44.
Cantera varieties do o.k.
45H29 yeilds well, leans but hard to harvest at times.
73-45 is only good if no disease
Nex 500 stands well but thats about it.
The scerotina Pioneer varieties works as adveritised, but lean a bit.
5440 is solid, easy harvestability
The rest of the Nex varieties are way too late, lower yield regardless of premium-for this area.
At the end of the day it depends on your crop rotation and herb rotation as to what works for you and your area.
This year in this area 46H75 kicked everything - hands down - but a clearfeild variety that does not work for everyone. It has done well the last three years I seen it and BASF new chem Aries was by far the best canola herb we ever used- but not for everyone in every area - every farm.
Liberty was a wreck - full of cleavers
R/R was good if sprayed twice at the right time.
Clearfield was clean regardless - again not for everyone.
We seen 45S52 - slero res, with 10-20% infection in pea stb fields seeded before may 15th with a 3 year wht/pea/can rotations and 45S52 with 0 % infection in a 4 yr rotation seeded same time. Both fields had Dekalb and Liberty with 50% and 30% sclro infection repectively.
Just some tid bits for you....

[wd9]

Furrow, you always seem to post the
tidbits. How about some actual plot data,
from the same plot, seeded the same day,
all treated the same way, harvested and
weighed the same day? It doesn't matter
what the crop looks like, it matters how
it yields.

You show yours. I'll show mine.

[malleefarmer]

Don't you guys have independant variety trial
conducted in every farming zone.
What does yor research levy money taken from
each tonne of grain get spent on? Or you have no
research levies taken out.
We have grdc levy grain research development
corporation which does a multitude of stuff for
farmers without multinational and seed breeding
companies and chem companies sticking there
nose in. Some of the trials here really upset seed
companies at times cause there froth and bubble
claims are sometimes exposed.

[riders2010]

The problem with the plots is that they are such small area that if one plot has a bit of a lower area and it is wet for example the yield is very skewed, seen it many times. The plots would be much more reliable if done in 20 or 40 acre segments imho.