Friday Crop Report on a Thursday!

[Sheepwheat]

Remember back in the mid nineties when the rage was early seeded canola, the earlier the better? Remember fall seeded canola? That was when quest came out and it was what? Couple bucks a lb?

They sure proclaimed early canola to be best. And some had some success with fall seeded.

[farmaholic]

I seriously tried fall seeded once, back around the time when we started seeding canola, and we weren't the first around here seeding canola. I didn't see it through the next spring and terminated it.. Had I know what I know now, which is very little, I maybe should have left it and see what it could have done, canola can fill alot of holes but I honestly can't say I remember what kind of plant count I had. Had to seed it at the end of Oct when soil temps were cold cold cold and winter was on the verge of setting in. Now I'm too lazy to try again on 80 acres....don't want to shit around with the drill for that little bit.
Oddly, why do early spring volunteers seem to tolerate a spring frost better than treated early planted canola?

Sounds like an experiment for furrowtickler.

[Sheepwheat]

Yeah they said it was shorter abe branched more. I did leave volunteer one year to harvest. It was too thick, but I had very little into it, and it went about 20. Volunteer is tough for sure.

[furrowtickler]

I seriously tried fall seeded once, back around the time when we started seeding canola, and we weren't the first around here seeding canola. I didn't see it through the next spring and terminated it.. Had I know what I know now, which is very little, I maybe should have left it and see what it could have done, canola can fill alot of holes but I honestly can't say I remember what kind of plant count I had. Had to seed it at the end of Oct when soil temps were cold cold cold and winter was on the verge of setting in. Now I'm too lazy to try again on 80 acres....don't want to shit around with the drill for that little bit.
Oddly, why do early spring volunteers seem to tolerate a spring frost better than treated early planted canola?

Sounds like an experiment for furrowtickler.

Lol I did the same thing back in the late 90’s
Canola came up great in later April .
It was a warm week and it established very well but it had no overnight freezing temps until about the 28th April , it hit a min 8 wiped er out, lesson learned lol.
If it came up and had some light frost every night it may have been fine .
Even tried a temperature release coating . Well it worked , but only because of that early warm spell . Tried early canola for several years and 80% of the time it’s frost / slow growth and flea beetles. So gave up on that as well .
End of the day Mother Nature rules and for us our best canola is always 12-20 May .

[SASKFARMER]

That's hilarious we tried that also back in the 90s.

But the seed was cheap and you could clean your own if I remember. right.

Looked great till one night it got really cold and game over.

[bigzee]

Just reading the DePutter weekly newsletter over coffee, surprising to see summerfallow acres are going to be up 22%? That’s surprising considering price of fert was down, and commodity prices have been going up, except red wheat. Are farmers sick of the high inputs?
Guess that’s a dumb question.
Had a neighbour tell me last winter he was going back to half and half, I don’t think he will.

[furrowtickler]

I think at the time of the report it still looked like mid winter in many areas that had crop out . The expectations were it would not get harvested on time to get a crop in ?

[shtferbrains]

Two nights -6 and-7 forecast here.

Hope it doesn't freeze the new grass and make it turn purple.

Takes about 2 weeks off the grazing before it gets going again.

Hopefully it's hardened off enough as we haven't had many nights it didn't freeze.

One of those years that the weeks just waste away.

[beaverdam]

Just reading the DePutter weekly newsletter over coffee, surprising to see summerfallow acres are going to be up 22%? That’s surprising considering price of fert was down, and commodity prices have been going up, except red wheat. Are farmers sick of the high inputs?
Guess that’s a dumb question.
Had a neighbour tell me last winter he was going back to half and half, I don’t think he will.

Could there be more fallow, because of the cheaper fuel price?

[Sheepwheat]

Regarding summerfallow. Could it possibly be that some farmers are struggling?