Mustard - Inelastic demand

[LWeber]

its going to be a shi@show for the next 10 months ...



Metric tonnes - all classes

1976 35,300
1979 49,900
2021 49,955
1975 50,200
1972 68,800
1982 76,500
1977 79,300
1971 84,200
1983 86,400
1980 90,700

[bucket]

Can they print mustard seed, like fake beef?

What other country can Canada import mustard from?

[tmyrfield]

So for mustard, like oats and flax, the price of the raw ingredient doesn't
'really' matter, what is most important is if it available. When there is lots processors simply make more money.
you would think that after 40+ years I would have figured this out by now.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

How well does mustard store? Is it about as volatile as canola? It looks like you would rarely have to hold more than a few years before there would be a short crop and high prices. The price swings that I have heard about would pay for a bin in a hurry.

[furrowtickler]

How well does mustard store? Is it about as volatile as canola? It looks like you would rarely have to hold more than a few years before there would be a short crop and high prices. The price swings that I have heard about would pay for a bin in a hurry.

We have stored mustard for 8 years
If in good condition one could store it as long as canary seed ?

[TOM4CWB]

We have stored mustard for 8 years
If in good condition one could store it as long as canary seed ?

Cross contamination with Canola is a significant issue. New clean land that did not have canola before the best... [canola can last 20 years in the soil 'weed' bank...] many less weed control options...lower yield, many reasons it is not in the rotations of well over 90 % of grain farms.

Cheers

[blackpowder]

Im still calculating the TVM over 8 years.

[checking]

We have stored mustard for 8 years
If in good condition one could store it as long as canary seed ?

Neighbor decided to sell his farm.

Informed his neighbor who had been short on storage, eight years earlier, that it was time he removed his yellow mustard, or it would go with his farm. The mustard owner never closed the bin lid from day one, never checked the contents in the time frame, but the weather and the flying rats had on a regular basis.

We all laughed at the struggle the mustard owner would have removing the rot.

Well, sunshine smiles on some farmers. He skimmed the pigeon shit, and the bin of mustard flowed out like it had been placed in it, yesterday.

John Galt, you screwed up royally on your mustard management plan!

[helmsdale]

Cross contamination with Canola is a significant issue. New clean land that did not have canola before the best... [canola can last 20 years in the soil 'weed' bank...] many less weed control options...lower yield, many reasons it is not in the rotations of well over 90 % of grain farms.

Cheers

Indeed.

Only option to knock canola out is color sort. That takes 3-5% of your mustard with it if you're sitting at .5-1% like i was after 2018. Being that canola can seriously out yield mustard, it doesnt take alot of volunteers to make 5-10% of your sample canola, and then you're going to have a real struggle separating. You can take a certain amount of large mustard out of the sample, thereby concentrating the canola, but I can't imagine how difficult it would be to take 15-20% canola out. Worst part is canola is dockage in mustard, and mustard is dockage in canola, so your dockage is basically fuel for a grain burner at best.

If you have buckwheat, you're going to hate your life. I surely hate mine when I get into a crop of mustard thats right full of buckwheat. ZERO control options!

With regards to the rest of the weeds, the best you can do is EDGE. And most years it leaves me wondering what the point was. I seem to spend the 3 years in between mustard getting control of all the shit that got away in the mustard year. This year will be the only year I have not essentially cleaned EVERY bushel of mustard to commercial standards... Only reason being is they are so damned desparate for it, that there is little spread from a 1 to a 2 or even a 3.

Yield? on stubble, (at least in my area) a hummer would be something that starts with a 2. I've never done it. Best was a 17bu crop with something like 5% dockage in the form of weeds. That year canola probably ran around 40 +/- 5. This year it managed 6, with neighboring canola anywhere from 8 to just shy of 20.

Nearly every winter I threaten to quit growing the stuff. And then every spring I seem to still put some in the drill. It works here... kind of...