The death of oilseeds

[Oliver88]

Canola is around $9.25-9.40 for February.
The Chinese disaster cost canola farmers $1.50 per bushel, this is quite a cut.

A chemical rep won’t feel the impact as much.

[jazz]

Canola is around $9.25-9.40 for February.
The Chinese disaster cost canola farmers $1.50 per bushel, this is quite a cut.

A chemical rep won’t feel the impact as much.

Add in the drying penalty 30c a bushel, most guys are getting $9 bucks. Lots getting lower than that, #3, sample grade, heated, high green count. I haven't heard of too many people with any truly dry top quality canola this year.

[jazz]

Farmers are way too lazy, will continue that 90% of the land will be doing the diseased up wheat canola rotation until nothing grows anymore from clubroot, alternaria, blackleg, leaf disease, root rots, and every form of resistance imaginable

Why does a farmer have to be the one to do things differently? Any members from Unifor being asked to do things differently?

Frankly even considering the downsides of that rotation, its the main reason that Canadian ag is in any kind of decent shape at all. People tried diversifying without any govt support and went out of business. Remember elk and alpacas?

Any wise govt would find a $100m from skippy or whoever and tell every Sk crusher to add a biodiesel plant with power generation off the side and bring Greta in to approve it all.

[macdon02]

It's probably nothing

[fjlip]

Pigs, chickens, people ate all the vermin, who is next?

[GDR]

It's probably nothing

It's no wonder they eat bats and snakes over there if they cant keep livestock healthy.

Wonder what the issue is, climate, overcrowding, lack of knowledge?

[jazz]

Wonder what the issue is, climate, overcrowding, lack of knowledge?

Chinese farmers farm like its the middle ages except with 100 times the population. That means you house livestock in tight quarters with poor hygiene and you basically live a few feet from it. That's how these vectors jump from species to species.

[Sheepwheat]

I assume the problem there is the hyper intensive agriculture they practice along with pop density. Their intensive ag makes ours look like a pasture in northern Scotland. For a country of 1.3 billion that almost feeds itself on a limited land base, they do pretty fair really. Imagine Canada feeding ourselves if we had even two hundred million people!

Then ah would get the heavy subsidization many on here seem to crave...

Get breeding, Canada!

[tweety]

Sorry Tweety Canola was over $11 when the arrest happened. Ask your dad.

How will you ever survive without that 50 cents. Jan 24 you could get $10.50

Canola used to be over 15, doesn't mean that should be your budgeting price.

[furrowtickler]

How will you ever survive without that 50 cents. Jan 24 you could get $10.50

Canola used to be over 15, doesn't mean that should be your budgeting price.

Let’s run a budget at $8 or lower see how ****y you are .
Not everyone gets 12 in rain with no early frost