cropping choices...

[farmaholic]

FOOD4U. Did she say anything about fusarium and vomitoxin?

[food4u]

unfortunantly those were unknown words to her, she passed Nov.2015 at 100 years of age.Brief shower and now a very beautiful rainbow, love our "land of living skies"..

[hobbyfrmr]

Hobby

How do you grow canola organically?


Just curious ... there has to be a way to avoid some of these outrageous costs....and still make money conventionally.

I don't grow canola. I watch the neighbors. Last year there was 2500 acres around me where farmers planted every acre of their farm to canola. What happens this year? In the bigger picture, if 46% of acres are planted to canola the math tells me that crop rotation has gone out the window for the sake of cash flow. It is working, there were very good crops and those guys did well.
Organic prices have fallen pretty bad, so you guys are not the only ones getting a haircut these days. It's going to get interesting!!!

[farming101]

Fusarium dictates extending cereal rotations to once every 4,5 or 6 years
Pea root problems means once every eight years
Canola every three or preferably 4 years
Lentils=fungicide

There seems to be a great need for another main crop. Soybeans? Anything else grown in excess floods the market and tanks prices for years

Wiseguy took wheat, durum, barley, oats and lentils right off his rotation.

Interesting that in the US many grow corn on the majority of their acres year after year. Or are half corn, half soybeans. How does that keep working as a rotation?