Cinderella

[furrowtickler]

Just came from West Central Sask to West AB Canola crops are strange. One right next to another one will look nice next will look like should be plowed. Wonder what is going on? Variety, seeding tool, seed date it is strange. Even everything from obvious drought to drowned out areas.

Seeing the same thing from Unity through west of Kindersly

[jazz]

Don't grow Canola in the Palliser Triangle.

People are growing lentils in the NE. Isnt that the same thing.

Agronomy has always been pushed to the max to farm this country. After last year, I think heat tolerance might actually be getting better in these hybrids. Seemed to make it through for our area anyway.

[furrowtickler]

Crops very decent in this area ..

[Old Cowzilla]

No Cinderella crops here just the ugly stepsisters thanks to hail and drowned out stuff.

[WiltonRanch]

Canola looks strange here as well. But darn it’s been a fight as long as I remember to get it to emerge even and have it flower and bush out properly. Doesn’t matter if you plant it at 3 4 5 or 10 pounds with whatever weapon you attack it with it can be a challenge. Some years you throw it over your shoulder and it works, other years the most expensive drills and it still looks poor. Fly into it in the fall and your jaw drops at what that shitty looking stand did or be completely disappointed at what that beautiful stand produced. Varieties are so much better than when I started and you just don’t know how it all ends till you hit the pit. Was east of biggar to a sale and canola crops in those hills just didn’t come up. That’s one thing. Around here hills have got good emergence and now starting to flower and it looks scant. Still though enough plants and good opportunity to branch and pod more.

[Herc]

Don't grow Canola in the Palliser Triangle.

Did i say that,

Yes, I did.

Canola average in Rm kinderlsey vs rm of abernathy since 1970 is……a whopping 2.4 bpa. Maybe palliser can grow canola…..

[sumdumguy]

Do you count the drowned-out stuff. Both Canola and Lentils are suffocating on the Wascana Flats, that’s for sure, and every cloud dumps another inch or two. The spray planes can see the damage and it’s spreading out, big time. Now the disease is another issue. She’ll be a job getting this crop in the pit.

[SmallTimeOperator]

If canola flowers aborting and heat not the issue, look very very close for bugs. We have grasshoppers, so small that can’t be seen that we have sprayed for already. Grasshoppers will be all the talk in a few weeks in this area. And there are very small mites that eat flower parts, they are right in the flower. And they go unnoticed. Of course flea beetles. And aphids I started noticing the last few days. If not bugs then it’s fertility. And with the price of fert this past year, everyone I have talked to has cut back, or left out the phos or tried something to lessen the cost. Last ten years I have not found a canola variety that I am happy with. All too slow to germ and get going. Slow to get to bolt. Or won’t cabbage out. Or won’t stop cabbaging and keep cabbaging forever. And varieties keep getting longer and longer maturity. We have dodged train wrecks before, 2019 being the most recent when canola was very late. So cross your fingers. One cold night in August would be the defining moment.

[jensend]

If canola flowers aborting and heat not the issue, look very very close for bugs. We have grasshoppers, so small that can’t be seen that we have sprayed for already. Grasshoppers will be all the talk in a few weeks in this area. And there are very small mites that eat flower parts, they are right in the flower. And they go unnoticed. Of course flea beetles. And aphids I started noticing the last few days. If not bugs then it’s fertility. And with the price of fert this past year, everyone I have talked to has cut back, or left out the phos or tried something to lessen the cost. Last ten years I have not found a canola variety that I am happy with. All too slow to germ and get going. Slow to get to bolt. Or won’t cabbage out. Or won’t stop cabbaging and keep cabbaging forever. And varieties keep getting longer and longer maturity. We have dodged train wrecks before, 2019 being the most recent when canola was very late. So cross your fingers. One cold night in August would be the defining moment.

STO what is your general area that you expect grasshoppers to become significant? I am seeing many tiny ones the last three days north of Q. valley. One canola field nearby looks wilted and leaves tipping away from sun. I agree bugs could be an issue especially after heat and drought last year. Crop dusters and chem reps telling me grasshoppers really bad in pockets so far.

[jazz]

I see the cabbage issue on a few fields. Seem to cabbage a long time now trying to bolt. Looks like soybean or potatos out there.

Have seen other crops rush to bolt. Barely cabbages out and now bolting.

I have already sprayed for beetles twice. Sure don’t want to have to go back in for hoppers.

We aren’t that late around here. Should get most fields bolting this month maybe some in early August.

[WiltonRanch]

I waited and put my canola in around May long but early seeded stuff here is in full flower and fantastic. I am amazed cause early stuff is usually attacked. Biggest pestilence here are gophers. Can’t get strychnine and acres getting lost.

[furrowtickler]

I waited and put my canola in around May long but early seeded stuff here is in full flower and fantastic. I am amazed cause early stuff is usually attacked. Biggest pestilence here are gophers. Can’t get strychnine and acres getting lost.

Early canola here looks very good as well in general if it was looked after
Overall
1/3 very good
1/3 ave
1/3 poor

50% is still 10-14 days late