CANOLA on CANOLA...profitability or stupidity

[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.

[fjlip]

Okay finally someone admitted to C on C, last year that was the highest yielding field and REAL clean with Transorb 2 years in a row. Wheat this year is weed free, cleanest we have. Is there any other great yielding overall good variety that is Club root resistant? Dekalb is CRAP.

[kANOLA]

In the 15 yr stretch I grew lots of invigor followed up by either pioneer hybrids or dekalbs. I found my best yields come on the invigor years.Since I have retired I am not familiar with new varieties. Going back to our situation I think there was a little stupidity in this rotation but also lots of profitability.

[farmaholic]

I think its a little broader than just clubroot.
What about alternaria black spot and schlerotinia?
Was fungicide always applied?

[kANOLA]

Yes schlerotinia seemed to be around at different levels but also showed up in fields grown on wheat stubble,even present on 35 yr grassland.My fungicide applications were very sporatic with mixed results.I probably applied fungicides on 30% of canola Acres.

[furrowtickler]

Yes schlerotinia seemed to be around at different levels but also showed up in fields grown on wheat stubble,even present on 35 yr grassland.My fungicide applications were very sporatic with mixed results.I probably applied fungicides on 30% of canola Acres.

I will agree you did very well , been out in your fields I think. Thinking outside the box is a good thing . I personally can not recommend it it but there is absolutely no denying it did work for you.
I have a neighbour that seeds wheat and then peas , same every year. Never ever had aphenomicies ... ever .

[poorboy]

Club root is a market garden thing and I don’t there is any difference between canola rotations on when you will get it. After you have club root there is good research showing a longer rotation between canola crops will help.

They grow corn and soybeans in rotation in the US for 50 years. What’s so different between wheat and canola vs corn and beans? Also lots of corn on corn on corn in the US.

Continuous wheat has been a rotation on some farms for a long time. Lots of canola- wheat- wheat rotations. Perhaps the 2 years of wheat in a row is a bad rotation.