Fall 2021 prices

[blackpowder]

They booked the boats but they can't book the train to get the barley to the west coast????????

You must live in the worst place on the prairies for rail service. Terminals here pounding it and industry wide shipping is record high.

[bucket]

You must live in the worst place on the prairies for rail service. Terminals here pounding it and industry wide shipping is record high.

Ask the local manager if they have the trains or cars booked for September other than to say they might have the allotment ...maybe...

I understand grain is moving although the closest point seems to miss their trains too often with a 134 car spot....but it is a known fact elevators can not order their cars as they sign contracts...so if the graincos are ordering vessels for the west coast wouldn't it make sense to order the cars to move grain to the west coast as those contracts are signed with producers????

[farmaholic]

You must live in the worst place on the prairies for rail service. Terminals here pounding it and industry wide shipping is record high.

Our local with new loop track is supposedly pounding through a train a week, sometimes two.

CP mainline.

[Old Cowzilla]

Currently have soil moisture for 10 bu canola. Should i lock that in a contract ? Looks kinda dry in the west half of North America.

[Rareearth]

I hope it rains in May

[farmaholic]

The company I contract my specialty canola with would sure like me to sign again for 2021.
The program is essentially "almost "the same as last year.
I'm not playing hard to get but we are in one of the driest areas of Western Canada. Scary, bloody scary.
There isn't even much snow here. Without some good spring rains and rain during our typical June monsoon...we might be in for a world of hurt here. No sense writing off new crop in December of the previous year but at the moment our position has us sucking the hind tit and having trouble finding it.

I think you guys have heard me talking about "net drying"..... well there is very little moisture in the ground to dry out.
I have said that we might be best off leaving canola and flax, or any other shallow seeded crop, out of the rotation and seed only wheats and pulses.

Canola seed costs are ridiculous under these conditions, I'm carrying the risk of very poor establishment or very poor yeilds on an expensive crop to grow..... ACT OF GOD clause or not. I'm the one spending the Spondooli!!!!

The older I get the more risk averse I become

[blackpowder]

I've sold a little wheat for next fall.
Waiting on the canola and a little more wheat. Today I'm not comfortable selling more than a drought yield.

[farmaholic]

I've sold a little wheat for next fall.
Waiting on the canola and a little more wheat. Today I'm not comfortable selling more than a drought yield.

Care to reveal your fall wheat sell price?
Seems we are always lagging western Alberta wheat prices, you guys are that much closer to the feedlot market and those damn Rockies.

I saw 1 CWRS 13.5 $7.25 specials for nearby deliveries for western Prairie delivery points(the big V).

[GDR]

I've sold a little wheat for next fall.
Waiting on the canola and a little more wheat. Today I'm not comfortable selling more than a drought yield.

Haven't heard much for wheat prices, if barley is $5 should be able to find a $6 feed wheat price maybe? Or at $5 barley guarantee maybe wheat isnt worth the risk?

[sumdumguy]

GDR, what’s a drought yield? 1/2 crop, 2/3 crop?