Old crop Canary seed

[Guest]

anyone seeing any chance of price improvement ? apparently we missed the selling call .

[farmaholic]

Dave4111...you by/buy/bye?

[iceman]

Canary seed crops are not looking good but that probably won't matter for the price.

Iceman

[biglentil]

Canary seed crops are not looking good but that probably won't matter for the price.

Iceman

The budgies go into the pot of soup when food prices soar.

[farmaholic]

caseih....maybe they want to know how old?
How many candles does it have on its birthday cake this fall?
Is it rancid? Or "smell" old?
Are any Canaries still alive that were hatched the same year it was grown?

All important price discovery information!

[Guest]

caseih....maybe they want to know how old?
How many candles does it have on its birthday cake this fall?
Is it rancid? Or "smell" old?
Are any Canaries still alive that were hatched the same year it was grown?

All important price discovery information!

no, just Last years

[sumdumguy]

Here the canary crops are dismal. I've never seen a poorer stand in my life with this incessant drought. Despite that, I think canaryseed represented a good 40% of the special crops export business in our area during the 1980's and nineties. Now its importance is about 5%.

[farmaholic]

I think there is a steady supply of canaryseed available compared to thirty years ago.....stored old crop(s) and the fact its more widely grown has provided the market with ample supplies. So the big price spikes of the past don't seem to happen. I also think canary seed prices have risen at least enough to keep people growing it. I thought 30 cents/lb used to be a hot price....so the mid to high twenties may be as good as it ever gets under the current S/U ratio. I think I remember canaryseed as low as nine cents...

Sumdumguy...any comments?

[the big wheel]

Is there anywhere that posts the price the Mexicans actually pay?

[farmaholic]

Is there anywhere that posts the price the Mexicans actually pay?

There's alot of extra expenses and margins incurred before it makes it to the bird's beak!

[the big wheel]

Input cap type margins? Iceman you streaming canary now? Hahaha

[sumdumguy]

I think there is a steady supply of canaryseed available compared to thirty years ago.....stored old crop(s) and the fact its more widely grown has provided the market with ample supplies. So the big price spikes of the past don't seem to happen. I also think canary seed prices have risen at least enough to keep people growing it. I thought 30 cents/lb used to be a hot price....so the mid to high twenties may be as good as it ever gets under the current S/U ratio. I think I remember canaryseed as low as nine cents...

Sumdumguy...any comments?

Will never forget 1994 - May 5 ish - 54.5 cents a pound. And bins full to the rafters. That price spike was due to presales that were short-short-short. I too saw lots of nine cents and twenty. Maybe this year we'll see 30 plus. It'll depend on the pressure to fill contracts. Like I said earlier, canary doesn't seem to have the prominence it once did for us. But this year the water will be tested!