Colza.... AKA Canola

[farming101]

some things that need to be done to thrive

Pull wrenches
buy haywire
order jobber parts online
dust off welder
buy machinery at auctions and take your chances
Learn about electronics online during the winter
Don't go hog wild on fertilizer and chemicals
Build relationships with processors and value added industries
Have sufficient grain storage. I know Bucket will hate that one
Buy grain drier
Take care of equipment
Take care seeding and harvesting. It pays
Don't hit the bottle and quit smoking
Just some of the things that at one time or another have made a big difference to the bottom line or saved our bacon. Learned from experience and observation

Others can add
feel free to yell if I'm off base

[farmaholic]

101.1

My only complaint would be why primary producers are the only link in the chain that is expected to tighten their belt or trim the fat and get lean. Do people realize the amount of parasitism we endure? God there's alot of people not earning their keep in this Industry. Every ****in supplier of goods and services could afford to do what is expected of us! They might lift their boot off your throat just before you take your last breath.....because they "need" you!

Hope you're not drowning in those negative waves.

[samhill]

Why is there no grower groups pushing for rail lines to Churchill? A very close seaport. I wonder if the lack of government support is pressure from line companies and others with a vested interest in east/west transport. There is a problem with facilities at the port, but that could be remedied.
A seaport must surely be a valuable asset.

[wmoebis]

I wonder if there is stats on number of loading days/hrs ports are shut down due to rain? Including all ports Rupert, Churchill, Vancouver and along St Lawrence.

[farming101]

I wonder if there is stats on number of loading days/hrs ports are shut down due to rain? Including all ports Rupert, Churchill, Vancouver and along St Lawrence.

You can bet there are. Graincos use that to figure out where the basis should be at your local elevator

Out of railcars for unloading stats have been going up every week for the last 4 weeks into the north shore at Vancouver. Bad for Pioneer and Cargill. South shore was at 20% 3 weeks ago.
Week 16 down to about 2% for south shore
Prince Rupert seeing improvement lately
T Bay better lately.
Info in Grain Monitor weekly report
[URL="http://quorumcorp.net/Downloads/WeeklyReports/GMPGOCWeek201716.pdf"]http://quorumcorp.net/Downloads/WeeklyReports/GMPGOCWeek201716.pdf[/URL]

[Guest]

Furrow....someone mentioned that Primary Ag Production will be exempt. Well that's only a part of the increased (carbon)tax costs....everyone supplying goods and services will do exactly what they've been doing forever....pass their increased costs "DOWN". And I don't have that luxury.

Some how I think Ag will survive.

ps...I have no canola seed booked and a portion of my fert unsecured. I hate "seasonal price increase deadlines". Maybe if evryone quit playing "their" game.....! I'm incorporated and don't need the write-off AND the money is here to buy it. My accountant said their has to be an economic benefit to me to spend money 7-8 months in advance for a product I need that far out....and then can use up to sixty days to pay for it depending on the timing of pick up at the time of year I need it. That's up to ten months! Aren't you sick of bank rolling the crop input Industry?

trouble is , they have us by the nuts, 46 has gone up $50/mt since we bought in sept

[Kinger]

My understanding is both Argentina and Chile have been doing a lot more canola as of late but a large portion is for seed production. Mostly to be sold in Canada.

Pretty sure Idaho is the main seed sourcing area and then Chile/Argentina are the back ups.

Likely not accounting for every acre that is grown there but probably is a factor.

Or i'm wrong. 50/50

[hobbyfrmr]

I have a sick feeling , and believe 90% of us are fuked going forward if we continue to try the world export game in commodity grains . Carbon tax is coming regardless what we believe or hear . That can and will eat up to 50% of our net profits . Our cost and inefficiency of transportation to markets is making us obsolete, just re read what Dave said a few posts ago , all those transportation costs will only keep going up. When the simple transportation costs are higher than the pit prices ... it’s game over . Big farming inputs are on a one way ticket to the moon . Check grain/ oilseed / pulse prices to historic values and relate that to inflation... it’s a dead end . Even the biggest most efficient farms will eventually stumble if things continue as they are here in Canada .
Add that to skyrocketing land prices .... I see a crash again on most farms if we continue to go status quo regardless of farm size . Even for the most conservative basic family farm , run the numbers , then add on the environmental cost that’s about to be passed on to the lowest guy on the totem pole ... it’s you and I .
Everyone in Ag is milking the cow too much , it’s going to be dry ... soon .
I live and breathe Ag , but see a suffocating situation ahead.
Too many hands in too shallow of pockets, too far from commercial markets.
Without a strong bio fuels mandate and far more in depth local processing environment, even to an on farm basis, there is little if any hope for commercial grain farms looking forward 5-10 years.
Klause knows this and is trying in the right direction. We are looking way outside the box as well .
The stays quo is not going to be sustainable... at all, for any farm , not if the current direction in western Canadian Ag continues.... it’s impossible as primary producers regardless of size . Simply do the math , and look at additional costs coming that will strip your bottom line even more.
I hope I am wrong .

Dont't sugar coat it Furrow.

[Klause]

My understanding is both Argentina and Chile have been doing a lot more canola as of late but a large portion is for seed production. Mostly to be sold in Canada.

Pretty sure Idaho is the main seed sourcing area and then Chile/Argentina are the back ups.

Likely not accounting for every acre that is grown there but probably is a factor.

Or i'm wrong. 50/50

Funny story...


In the 70s ****seed was introduced in Argentina but it didn't go over well and fizzled out. In the team 1990s Canadian companies went down therlooking for a place to produce seed... And they found it... Farmers there saw what new varieties were like and that's where the acre growth started...


Once they figure out from agronomy of it... And growing canola in opposition to beans (n credits from beans are much higher there than here) we may have a problem.


So far the export shipments have only been to other Mercosur countries...

[bucket]

I think we should continue to send our people all over the world to teach foreign farmers how to destroy our markets....

We should also continue to use checkoff funds to develop private label varieties for certain processors....for essentially SFA of a ROI to the checkoff fund...

Sarcasm of course.....

You guys talk about terrorists travellers....these are no different....as an anology to the farming sector....

Our best hope is political unrest worldwide so others don't get ahead of us...

If Nebraska finds out that lentils would work under pivots without as much water....there won't be much left to grow here...

Or Africa starts to use its vast agriculture resource. ...