Early canola round here...

[Braveheart]

Our earliest canola was blooming before Farm Progress and is still flowering. It is fantastic. Some will be a harvest challenge. Straight cut will hopefully help.

[Hamloc]

Last year hot and dry during flowering, maybe flowered for 10 days. About a foot of pods. Looked sad. Ended up best canola crop I ever had. This year it is almost done but has bloomed for 3 weeks. Looks very good much better than last year. Time will tell with canola I never try to guess.

[Grahamp]

Our early canola has had me on a roller coaster this year. We seeded early (may 4th-may9th) and it looked good out of the ground. Then it seemed to stress and bolt prematurely. I cancelled the fungicide and decided not to order any new bins. Then it slowly started to look better and better. Now it looks quite nice and is just finishing flowering and I kind of wish I would have fungicided. I would guess it is a 40 but who knows.

[boarderbloke]

Will heavy downpours damage flowering canola? Seems like we have a band through the pod layer where there are more blanks than there should be considering the wonderful conditions we've been having. Yes, also those "banana pods" in that same layer. Thinking the pollination was hurt by the heavy rain. ?

[SASKFARMER]

Heavy rain and canola is the same as temps over 28 you lose yield. Rain in excess makes mud not big yields! Early looks poorer and is shutting down!

[wedino]

Sclerotinia showing it's ugly face here, causing large areas to go down.

[Klause]

Heavy rain and canola is the same as temps over 28 you lose yield. Rain in excess makes mud not big yields! Early looks poorer and is shutting down!

Yup.

Then sclerotinia, and rots set in, and then you have big huge dead spots in fields... and wind starts to move half ripe standing canola...


Wet takes yield it doesn't make it... I was spraying a half of oats yesterday OMG. water in tracks from one end of the field to the other.... that's other side of Humboldt where they got an extra 3 inches over us here.

[hobbyfrmr]

The canola crops are looking exceptional here. The high input farmers' crops should do great. If it plays out like last year they are looking at 60-75 bu/acre plus earlier harvesting.

[Oliver88]

The canola crops are looking exceptional here. The high input farmers' crops should do great. If it plays out like last year they are looking at 60-75 bu/acre plus earlier harvesting.

60-75? 😂

[stonepicker]

Is this a case where bullshit gets far bigger yields than any other crop input?