Irony

[may-be]

I think lots of farms in the rrv are already 1/3-1/2 beans. Outside of the rrv beans will explode next year, lots of farms in non traditional soy areas will be 15-25% SOYS.

pea experiment was a flop for lots of farms. soy yields are as high as canola on some farms.

Beans are $2/bu higher than canola and cheaper to grow......

Canola seed prices are going higher, new fancy treatments that were supposed to be better aren't so now there are new ones again but they are a buck a lb more baldur stefansson is rolling over.

Soy is the best thing to happen to mb farms since the early days of canola.

Lots of competition in the soy seed business = lots of excellent genetics and new early ones yield good too.

Even have the legal off patent rr1 for guys who want to march to that beat of that drum.

Beans have exploded in my area. (Dauphin/ STE Rose) We still grow good canola here and I see rotations going to beans and canola with wheat for summer fallow. We also lots of grass seeds. Next year I am adding a little more beans, that will bring me up to 40%.

I have met a couple of guys growing off patent rr1 beans and they claim they are good. ) One person from Swan River showed me a pictures of his off patent beans that looked as good as mine.

[SASKFARMER]

I agree the ugly sister was taken from us by the seed companies those greedy prick's will one day see there's other crops we can grow. For more return to us and less costs!
Pigs get slaughtered by farmers

[wmoebis]

Don't see why CNL can't be just like all other grains and farmers can bin run there own seed. Farmers paid for R&D through check offs etc.

Maybe I'm missing something but doesn't seed you buy just come out of someone else's bin?

[Oliver88]

This is great news if southern Manitoba transitions to soybeans.

Could someone list the savings on inputs for soybeans vs canola?

[seabass]

Oliver. Minimal fert costs are the big one.

[rockpile]

Every time I see a thread like this, I'm reminded of Steely Dan's hit 'Do it Again'!

[bgmb]

This is great news if southern Manitoba transitions to soybeans.

Could someone list the savings on inputs for soybeans vs canola?

Seed, treatment and innoculant is $20/ac more for beams. Chemical is about 20 less for beans. Fertilizer is about 50 cheaper for beans

[freewheat]

Anyone growing non gmo beans? If you could save your own seed, could you not save a pile of money?

More ppl should be like me, and grow canola that you can keep!

[Oliver88]

Seed, treatment and innoculant is $20/ac more for beams. Chemical is about 20 less for beans. Fertilizer is about 50 cheaper for beans

Thanks.
Price for soybeans appears to be approximately $1/bushel higher to for Southern MB.
If soybean yield is equal or greater it is a no brainer.

[tweety]

Braveheart, FYI canola growers fund canola council

And the money the canola industry "levies" to the council is a line item in your basis that you pay for.

[Braveheart]

You're probably right. Who knows? And yes, the Grower organizations do help fund the Council. But, without promotion of the industry, how can it grow demand? For example, talking soybeans again, the check off for soybeans in the US funds their soybean associations and they are very active at promoting soy use and growing demand. In fact, I wouldn't doubt that some of our success with marketing soybeans here is piggy backing off of their efforts.

[bgmb]

You're probably right. Who knows? And yes, the Grower organizations do help fund the Council. But, without promotion of the industry, how can it grow demand? For example, talking soybeans again, the check off for soybeans in the US funds their soybean associations and they are very active at promoting soy use and growing demand. In fact, I wouldn't doubt that some of our success with marketing soybeans here is piggy backing off of their efforts.

So are we supposed to pay canola council to push canola and the soy groups to push soy. Kind of like pissing your pants to keep your ass warm. Let the richardsons and the viterras look after promoting the products they have for sale to end users and we can grow what ever is in demand be it soy, canola sunflower.....