How about... the 'RR shareholder Alliance den of iniquity' must post a 10percent performance bond

[SASKFARMER3]

Lots in our areas bins are out of Canola as that has been the main cash resort.
Unless Alberta is Hording or SW sask I would say the lower is closer.

[charliep]

Just curious if there are farmers in your community who get 50 plus bu/acre and others who get less than 40 bu/acre? Are their costs per acre much different? What about costs per bushel produced? Who makes more money?

I ask these questions because the presentations I have seen from the Canola Council Agronomists is about getting better yields using better agronomics - not more inputs.

I would also highlight the forecasts are 10 years out. It is also based on increased world consumption. Western challenge is supply this demand. If we don't, one of the other major exporters will. Wheat is an example where Canada's/North America's share of world wheat trade has declined over the 50 years. Wheat production and exports are moving to other parts of the world.

[SASKFARMER3]

Charlie anything the Canola council says is Bull shit.
Really.
Yes some get 60 some get 25 in every area.
But my point is if industry isn't ready for 2025 because 2014 proved they aren't at all, why give them what they want.
Why pad a pocket of a industry that wants farmers to spend money but they cant do shit all to improve their end.
New bins 100000 plus storage is 201,000
So a half a mill storage will cost me a mill.
Ah farming why not fall into their trap.

[charliep]

Is it possible to get 52 bu/acre today? Are the costs per acre that much different than someone who gets 40 bu/acre? I never understand your arguement when you are allocating 40 % of your acres to canola. Are you asking all farmers (including yourself) to control yields by reducing inputs? I realize weather is a factor which goes into risk analysis which I assume everyone here does.

[charliep]

I have some of the same concerns everyone else has here about the projections. Having said, I wouldn't bet against the Canola Council building a business case for farmers to grow more canola and help them achieve their target. The CCC has a track record of success. The 7 MMT by 2007 was achieved in 2005. The target of 15 MMT by 2015 was achieved in 2013. You keep highlighting the production but the real accomplishment from my side is the building of customer base to utilize the larger production. Demand pull.

[bucket]

Think.

If you are well over your ten year average of crop insurance production,
Do you report actual yield or bump it a bit to get a better average.?

Bins empty quicker than most realize. An extra point of dockage. Blah blah blah.

Not sure anyone knows the actual number when you have 2 years of revisions.

Under .75 mmt by July 2016.

Pending what mother nature decides in the next 4 weeks.

[bucket]

Charliep

Have a look at the weather. And COP.

Seed costs are enough to limit growth.

[charliep]

Then why do farmers grow canola? Push rotations?

I hear about complaints about movement. Has canola movement been as big an issue as with wheat?

[jake550]

Keep in mind that this crop is still grown outside and not in a greenhouse. I chuckle to myself when people talk like it's just that scientific to grow a crop.

[Hamloc]

Looked quickly at the last canola digest read the list of sponsors all from industry quickly read the article on 52 by 2025 and filed it under g. Until our rail problems are solved big canola crop of no benefit to farmers as a whole. Charlie my experience with canola is that weather makes a huge difference, if it is too hot during flowering or too humid increasing sclerotinia. I have talked to neighbors in any given year about yields and inputs and regardless of variety or fertilization yields only vary by 5 bushels an acre, mother nature rules the roost.