Well its 90 Days till Seeding whats the crop of Choice and why?

[AlbertaFarmer5]

not sure if I missed it but why don't you guys use your farmer kept canola seed?

standard practice in oz is to buy the latest and greatest seed and bulk it up for seed for following year and do it every year.

exhaustive testing by companies agros etc has shown little if any yield penalty by doing so in non hybrid varieties.

some even do it with hybrid at about 10 to 15% yield loss.

same with cereals nobody uses fresh seed each year and some guys still growing types that were bred 20yrs ago

Are you growing any of the same varieties or close relatives of what we grow?

The reason I ask, is are Canadian farmers subsidizing farmers elsewhere with different laws by paying for R and D costs when we buy expensive seed?

[MBgrower]

Saved seed in western canada? Ha ha ha ha. Longer jail term than first degree murder.

[SASKFARMER3]

Its always been a sore point with me. We created canola at the UofM or UofS and gave it to the world. Yet nothing comes back to those places. In canada you save seed you get a life sentence and they take your farm. your basically done.

[SASKFARMER3]

Agriculture Canada is expecting domestic producers to stampede out of durum this year but plant more canola and spring wheat, says a story from Syngenta Farm.
In its first look at the upcoming 2017-18 marketing year, Ag Canada on Monday pegged 2017 Canadian durum planted area at 5.26 million acres, down 15% from a year earlier in response to projected heavy 2016-17 ending stocks of 2.6 million tonnes. The sour taste left by last year’s harvest and quality problems are also likely to chase some producers out of the crop.
With the reduction in seeded area, and a drop back to more average yields, Ag Canada forecast an even steeper 25% reduction in 2017 durum output, to 5.8 million tonnes. However, the total 2017-18 durum supply is still only expected to decrease by only 5% as higher carry-in stocks mostly offset the fall in production. New-crop durum ending stocks are estimated at 2.2 million tonnes, down 15%.
Nationwide soybean planted area is seen up 8%, also due to good prices. On the other hand, barley area is forecast to decline 3% and corn 2%.

[newguy]

this year may be the first year in over 50 years that I can remember that there will be no durum on my farm.canola majority acres.I even have some durum seed from 2015 and may still not seed it.Was #1 15 protein last March.Now they say #3.

[farmaholic]

newguy..... re old durum, makes you want to bitch-slap them back to reality!

[newguy]

wanted to haul it on a #4 contract that had a spread widened since I took it out.Would have got 10 bucks for it if would have sill been a 1.

[bucket]

Newguy


How can your grade change?


It's always a puzzle how grade can change from year to year and prairie to port...

No one is regulating these things or at the very least being accountable and transparent about it.

[SASKFARMER3]

Question on seed costs what variety is every one going to use.

Were switching our HRS to almost 100% AC Brandon.

Peas are getting switched to Amarillo's.

Canola is mostly Liberty L252 and some Pioneer strait cut the new one.

Barley sticking with Copland.

So only two need to change is

Maybe some Durum new variety for 50 acres and Some new Oats variety for 50 acres.

[sumdumguy]

It's time for us to try some new crops. We need to go out on a limb. When lentils were first introduced to our area at Jerome Bechard Farm in about 1970, they were a wreck. The registered seed growers in that area were horified at the weed competition. But some growers were undeterred and the tests were repeated. Why aren't we trying sugar beets? What other crops would you suggest?

When the Crow was paid out, huge grants were made for agricultural innovation, but guess what - they were never available to farmers, the motors of prairie invention.

[farmaholic]

SF3...I saw some Marchwell durum a guy here grew.....had no rain on it at harvest.....ugly stuff! Seemed so shrunken but had half decent color...fusarium issues as well like any other durum had. Our Verona looked better even after it was rained on.

We are going to give Jatharia HRS a try. Otherwise the main variety is Cardale....for this year anyway....see how the new stuff pans out.

Growing green peas.....Raezers.

Canola...Bin-run......;-)