New Canola Varieties

[workboots]

yes, canola check-off organizations are the major funders that keep the canola performance trials going. the varieties included are submitted by the seed companies, which does limit what's included. in order to keep costs down the sites are kept to the minimum required to generate the needed statistics, and in the end it means not every community will have a trial site, but there should be comparison site data available.

Don't hesitate to contact any of the provincial canola groups directly if you have any questions.

Ward Toma, General Manager
Alberta Canola

Would it be a legal issue to go about collecting and publishing trial data on your own selection of high yield cultivars available to farmer today? Why must they be submitted by seed companies if the farmers are the ones funding the program ?

[Sodbuster]

On our farm we grew all Liberty resistant varieties, top yielder this year with less than 4” of rain and none in July was L340. All yields should be taken with a grain of salt, this year was all about location, location we started with frost then flea beetles then no rain and relentless heat and finally wind to toss the swaths around, glad it’s finally in the bin ad
and can now move on to next year. it’s a wonder we got what we did. Yields on my farm was a little less than 50% so to protect my actual numbers I’ll express my yields as a percentage of L340.
L340 @ 100
L357 @ 91
L345 @ 83
506 @ 76
505 @ 71
Again it comes down with location, thunderstorms, wind, frost and every other threat that seemed to happen this year so don’t take it personally if your favourite variety is at the bottom of my list. On a normal year these results would e much different I’m sure.

[SASKFARMER]

I agree it's about the area.

We had 3 inches during the growing season and now 5 in since August 10.

Also, our temp on the east side is usually about 3 C less and yes that helps.

L340 was number one were harvesting now and the last 10 quarters are all L340 very happy. Our 233 was good but half normal. 506 was on a section, one half did well for this year other was not so good.

Then believe it or not was 252 we swath and it was very good. We had 505 but it didn't do the wow factor like 501 other years.

Dekalb PC has potential till the hail wiped it out.

We did see pod drop on the hailed out.

There is a reason the North and East grow canola plus Manitoba Temp in Summer and usually more rain. Yield is half normal to a little above. Half. Canola did well in the south and west in the wet years very well. Hell stupid well but Canola doesn't like days over 28 it's a fact. You might have got rain but the heat cooked a healthy plant.

Just imagine growing 65 Canola at today's prices.

[bucket]

65bpa canola would never give you today's prices. Unless you are a subsidized irrigation farmer.

[GreenGobbler]

In our area L345 stood very well this year and out yielded L340. L233 was a dud this year and was consistently 5-6 bushels behind the other two varieties. Last year L345 was painful to swath but this year straight cutting it was a breeze. L340 is a safer choice for standability but yield potential goes to L345. Shatter and pod drop were excellent on all invigors across the board. Keep in mind this is with 33mm of rain from May 25th - August 15th.

[SASKFARMER]

[SASKFARMER]

L340

[wardtoma]

Would it be a legal issue to go about collecting and publishing trial data on your own selection of high yield cultivars available to farmer today? Why must they be submitted by seed companies if the farmers are the ones funding the program ?

Yes, it is a legal issue. Purchased seed can only be used in a trial or research program with the sellers permission.

[Sodbuster]

Yes, it is a legal issue. Purchased seed can only be used in a trial or research program with the sellers permission.

So if I run my own canola trials on my farm and post them on Agriville, is that a legal issue?

[Partners]

So if I run my own canola trials on my farm and post them on Agriville, is that a legal issue?

Should be ok.
Our plots are always free bags .
So the reps don't care..