Planting Intentions 18

[malleefarmer]

Not much will change here in terms of cereals % will stay the same and canola will increase at expense of pulse crops.

But climate dictates our bread and butter is wheat and barley unlike western canada you guys can grow a myriad of crops.

[4GFarms]

If it doesnt rain, all chemfallow. She is pretty dry out in the field. Snow mostly gone.

[Stampsguy]

If it doesnt rain, all chemfallow. She is pretty dry out in the field. Snow mostly gone.

Might be a good plan, that way a guy could have the summer off and make a guy feel like he's retired !!

[checking]

...retired...

...so you work for Canada Post!

[SASKFARMER3]

Easy

1200 peas
4300 canola
1000 oats
500 malt barley
3000 wheat

Reason cost cutting

Malt acres will drop off as guys are fed up
Peas will switch to soy or lentils
Oats is swing crop
Canola less than this year, dropping all specialty oil and cost
Wheat hasn’t been a bad bet and if USA stays dry spring contracting for fall will be good till then nothing contracted for fall.

We went into fall dryer than I would of liked. That one more inch would have been nice. Shift the gear to neutral and coast through 18

[the big wheel]

Wall to wall peas and selling them all to Dave. Somebody at least then will make good money on them. Me I ll be broke. Oh well

[Jagfarms]

Wall to wall red lentils

[fjlip]

USDA outlook suggests 10 more years of similar grain/oil-seed prices, barring a major weather event/maybe WAR...that will be a rural economy killer if costs keep going up!

[helmsdale]

Rotation is pretty much locked in. 25% pulses (split roughly evenly peas/lentils), 25% oilseed (mustard), 50% cereals (split between cwad and cwsp).

[Goodtime]

**** it....wall to wall canary seed.

[SASKFARMER3]

This is a good topic because what will pay the bills in 2018 if the current high priced every thing doesnt change 2019 could be even worse.

Sharp pencil is needed.

[farming101]

The last time we didn't seed some fields was because they were flooded.

At this stage of my career there is no way I am not seeding. I will qualify that by saying we do have 1 to 1.5 feet of soil moisture. Below that is dry. I don't know where the moisture starts again further down then that.
Another qualifier is that I don't even know the name of the loans manager at the bank. That helps