Friday Crop Report on a Thursday!

[bucket]

Prairie Clean Energy has been advertising through radio interviews and meetings about buying flax bales to make something out of them...

[bigzee]

Whats your rotation zee? Got to have something in that 3rd spot and that's canola for most around hear.

Flax is an option but nobody likes dealing with the straw.

I’ve avoided canola for two years now.
Basically I’ve been growing pulses .. obviously, no chicks though, growing cereal on cereal.

This particular year we’ve had an abundance of rain so durum on durum and wheat on wheat looks not much different than cereal on pulse.
I like growing canola but we aren’t Melfort or Tisdale country ... take a 35 bu canola crop in our area there’s not much left for a return.
I personally feel safer taking my chance cereal on cereal with less seed cost than canola.
Fert isn’t the issue as both need a healthy supply.
My feeling at the end of the day I will net as much with cereal on cereal than I would canola. This is just my opinion. I also grow barley which is very good for the land.
I’m taking a more “back to the basics” of farming. Watching costs is the only way we will survive with the commodity prices we are given.

[jazz]

I’ve avoided canola for two years now.

I’m taking a more “back to the basics” of farming. Watching costs is the only way we will survive with the commodity prices we are given.

I hear ya. We have had to increase our target yields in canola to 50bu to make it all pay and that includes a lot of risk and the right rainfall.

Cereal cereal pulse is an option here as well but stacking chemistries could be a concern down the road. Liberty gives a nice 3rd option as well.

[sumdumguy]

As I see it, compared to many or most growing areas, we have very few crop options as it is and only one growing season. As returns on production fail to keep up with input cost increases, we narrow our sites and risk less and less. But maybe we can start growing high-return vegetables with dug-out irrigation. Just ask Moe and Stewtart for their advice. 👎 I just saw a pie in the sky go by. 🙈

[jazz]

No 1durum is going for over $8. A 50 bu crop of that is higher return than canola. No seed costs. Gets up and out of the ground off winter moisture and dry at 14.5 vs 10.

Life might be a lot less stressful without canola and probably not even notice the difference in returns.

[Richard5]

Sask you really should apply for the Sask Wanderer job next year. You seem to cover a lot of area annually

[SASKFARMER]

Thanks but sask in summer is great. Some things I discovered as a summer student 35 years ago. Went back with my boys.


Real reason for trip three tractors to see. One to buy two to find again and a old screaming GMC semi for a project truck

[SASKFARMER]

Why do we even have a Saskatchewan crop report put out by the government.

It was “all is great and everything is just sucky nothing to see here”

Drives me nuts.

[SASKFARMER]

Peas changing and way to fast

[Dr Tone]

No 1durum is going for over $8. A 50 bu crop of that is higher return than canola. No seed costs. Gets up and out of the ground off winter moisture and dry at 14.5 vs 10.

Life might be a lot less stressful without canola and probably not even notice the difference in returns.

#1 wheat? What is that?

[Tucker]

You're looking for tractors Sask? I've got a mint 5020 with 10 hours on a complete inframe I might let go.

[jazz]

#1 wheat? What is that?

Its purely aspirational