CANOLA on CANOLA...profitability or stupidity

[Farmforlife]

I know that most push rotations...myself included. But I have not and will never grow canola on canola. Club root will destroy the oilseed industry. Severe measures need to be put in place. Any operation doing this should have zero insurance not only and those fields, but should be denied crop insurance on every acre of their farm.

[the big wheel]

Canola on canola is nothing the real question is
Canola on canola on canola?

[Herc]

Canola on canola is all wrong....Entire canola ecosystems are collapsing....We are in the beginning of a mass canola extinction....

[Misterjade9]

There is a field across the road from some land I rent and in the last 10 years it has had canola 8 of them. Nobody cares about clubroot, the local RM had a information meeting this spring and only myself, the reeve and the councilor and his dad showed up. You think 9 dollar canola is bad what til your only growing 30 bu or less an acre of it.

[jazz]

Do you mean every year or just two yrs and then something else for a couple yrs. I don't think that's a problem.

[farmaholic]

What percent of land in Western Canada is rented?
What percent of landlords have clauses in the rental agreement that state proper crop rotations have to be followed?
Once the land is infected it also becomes the landlord's problem. What is severely infected land worth? As rental property or if it's sold.

They say a clubroot infection isn't an absolute death sentence if it is "managed" with proper rotation and resistant varieties.

Supposedly not a problem here YET. Maybe the guys farming in the clubroot zones should chime in and explain their experiences.

[Oliver88]

Central Alberta is the hotspot, It would be good to get their opinion.

[blackpowder]

Grow all C varieties myself.
Not sure but think most here do.
No one I know does canola on canola.
I tried it once and didn't work very well.

[MBgrower]

At the very least crop insurance shouldnt cover canola on canola.

[Partners]

If price stays at 9 something.
No need to worry about canola in the rotation..

[bucket]

If price stays at 9 something.
No need to worry about canola in the rotation..

Guys are taking off tough green canola and are quite happy with the discounts....it will be canola....

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Throw out the book on how Clubroot gets established. I am in west central AB, Clubroot has been east of here, so I grow some clubroot varieties if there is a history of canola, some without.

County found serious clubroot in a first year canola field of mine this year. Never been in canola before, hasn't been in crop for 30 years. No chance of contamination by tillage. Crop was extremely stressed due to spring tillage/compaction, followed by excessive June rain, and nutrient tie up from the sods, and being severely depleted of nutrients from decades of no fertilizer having been applied. Was truflex canola, just for the sake of grassy weed control. Owner wants it back into hay in a few years, so not a big problem, or worth arguing.

A few years ago I had another field in the same situation. first year ever in canola, extremely stressed growing season, shortage of nutrients, county pulled unhealthy plants and claimed to have found clubroot. I protested, they sent more samples and concluded it was inconclusive, has been in canola twice more since then without any sign of clubroot. I purposefully put that small piece back into canola the next year to prove my point( putting the quarter back into one piece), and they found no clubroot.

There are more environmental issues involved than anything.

[Guest]

that is very interesting
maybe it comes with the $800/bag seed????????????????????????

[hobbyfrmr]

It works well here. Lots of canola wheat canola. Some canola on canola, some 3 in a row. One hobby farm has planted canola on their 200 acres for 8 consecutive years. It makes cash flow.

[kANOLA]

I grew canola on some of my land from 1999 to 2013 15 yrs straight I kept an eye out for any abnormal plants or anything that might resemble club root.i never seen any signs of the disease and at the same time my yields rose with my best yields on my year of retirement. If disease would of shown up I would of done things differently but never happened.If I was still farming I would still be doing continuous canola on part of the farm.