Canola varieties for 19

[Wink73]

Pod integrity is crazy good on L233P. Extremely variable rainfall in our area this year and as such the crops were quite variable. Straight cut one quarter, the most even one, and swathed the rest. Some was easily 90% seed colour change or more.... lighter soil on one end of a half kinda got ahead of me. No shatter.

Yields were good given the lack of rain. Will definitely grow again. Neighbours had 75-65 do very well both straight cut & swath. A Pioneer sclerotenia resistant variety looked very nice too, 45CS40,lots of pods.

L230 we grew last year and it had high oil content and very good yield. Little tall for my liking.

[Goodtime]

I wouldn't be banking on Truflex being registered....nothing in it for China to want it.

[fjlip]

Dekalb really spending BIG advertising True flex. Think hard about Club-root....apparently in our crop district, no phone call, so keeping fingers crossed. Seed CR varieties for your farm's survival. The whole area is at least 50% canola!

[GDR]

I grew half 233P and half 75-45, cant say yield wise much difference. It was first year for 233P, seed quite a bit smaller, maybe cause it was dry and may plump up better with normal conditions and improve yield? 232P was tall and bushy, I left some to straight cut and it did not stand up as well as the neighbors 75-65 through the crappy fall weather we had. (Straight cutting not gonna be the way of the future here)

Was tired and cranky when Richardson's booking deadline came during the only good harvest weather we had, told them no because the deadline is too early when we hadn't even combined one acre of canola yet and am moving to another retailer. Sounds like I wasn't the only one! Maybe they will learn for next year. Whats wrong with winter or at least after agritrade when you've had time to research and compare and even think about next year.

I have a field of breaking that would be a good fit for the truflex option but haven't seen any yield info, did I miss it or are they tight lipped about it?

[jazz]

Guys around here, myself included, are buying pod shatter varieties and swathing them anyway. Standing canola is very slow to cure for some reason. Neighbor sprayed twice and still waited a month.

[bucket]

Guys around here, myself included, are buying pod shatter varieties and swathing them anyway. Standing canola is very slow to cure for some reason. Neighbor sprayed twice and still waited a month.

It was a weird year for sure.. sprayed peas with heat and worked great ....two days later went on the lentils and it was a disaster....the rep said wait 21 days.....**** sakes I said I may as well swathed them....21 days later they were still not any better....left a check strip for them to look at.

It was too hot or too dry or some ****ing excuse....it just didn't work was what I told them...

The stupid part was they could look across the road at the peas and see very good results....2 days difference in spraying.

[farmaholic]

Neighbor sprayed twice and still waited a month.

Is hobbyfrmr his agrologist?

[bucket]

Is hobbyfrmr his agrologist?

Thats a good one farmaholic....you are sharp this morning....lets see if hobby picks that up...lmao

[jazz]

Without the weather bomb, swathed would have been picked up a week ahead of standing. But with the weather we had, straight was only a day ahead of swathed anyway.

[hobbyfrmr]

Is hobbyfrmr his agrologist?

Beetlejuice.....Beetlejuice ......

Farmers are kind of strange in their conversations. Was that neighbor bragging or complaining?
Is he really that dependant on chemical that he cant think of a “Plan B” other than spray a second time?
Did he use the recomended water volume? Everybody cheats on water volume and it shows up around here. Some weeds sneak past, show up in the crop, lower yeild and higher dockage plus mutiplying the herbicide resistent weed seed bank on their land for another 30 years worth of spraying. Or else the dessicated crop did not take up the chemical die as expected, or the pods shattered regardless of the application of the pod sealant.
And the beat goes on.