Nexera Canola the same color as your JD combine!

[sewen]

What is with this crap? From what I have been reading the high green counts are not isolated but prairie wide. How many have grown it but wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole next year? I will be one. Maybe the companies involved should look at some retribution for farmers who grew this s***.

[sewen]

Oh I forgot, this is suppose to be a healthy canola. What about all the stressed out farmers who grew it?

[donco]

Our Nexera is about 8-10% green and was seeded before the spring snow storm. Our Invigor varieties were seeded 2-3 weeks later and are commong off at 1-3% green. We also will not be growing Nexera next year.

[tower]

I get a little upset at the prices being charged for canola seed. Out of curiosity how much was nexara worth per tonne or bushel.

[frustrated1]

Our nexera was the last thing combined on the farm. It sat through 3 weeks of rain and was swathed for a total of 5.5 weeks. It too is in the 8-10% green. I quess that's off set by yielding 4buacre LESS than the RR varieties. Despite promisies of "taking care of us", I won't be booking any for next year either. On the other hand, one of our neighbours less than 2 miles away only has 3% in his nexera and out yielded anything he's grown in the past.

[sewen]

My Nexera will be the last canola combined also but that might be in May as it is under 5 in of snow now. It was down for over a month and never did get dry.

Were there any Nexera varities that went #1?

Mine was Clearfield 824 and would have been 7 - 14% green. The Invigors were all #1 some less than 1% green.

The premiums do not mean much if the crop doesn't make #1 or you can't get it off in time. That's what upsets me the most if I would have planted an Invigor instead of Nexera it would be in the bin now.

[grefer]

My Nexera 822 was severly frozen so the green count isn't really relevent.I did talk to the elevator company who I contracted through and they to are pissed off.Everything is coming back with a high green count.

[tower]

If you take into account any seeding rights you pay per acre, somewhere in the neighbourhood of $8000-$12000, per tonne. Is anyone else upset by this?

There is little surprise that the big seed business is trying improve their market share of seed sales.

[rookie]

Mine too is now under snow... It won't ever be accepted if it doen't get off this fall...
A rep was heard saying the canola may be compensated for with the high green count and they earged to combine it even with the higher green number.
What ticks me off is I wish I heard this more than one day before the snow arrived.
So for those with it in the bin it may not be a total wreck, either way I won't seed nex 822 again or recomend it.

[crusher]

Same problem with Nexera in my area. Mine came off the day before the snow. I also grew some IMC for Cargill and its pretty much the same.

[bombay_43]

Our canola is also out in the swaths still. However it is RR canola, and had been swathed for 5 weeks as well. It also has high green counts. We were looking at 5% greens and #2 at best. We combined 2 rounds, the straw was just like leather and still a pale green. Some pods were going through the combine whole! Maybe a weather problem?

[Pen-Dale]

We farm in western Manitoba. Here all canola is froze pretty bad, however our RR canola and Liberty canola is generally only 1 to 4 green. The Nexera 822 and 824 however is between 15 to 40 green. I had a sample pail in my truck for 6 days and it was moldy and lumpy. Dow is talking with the grain dealers to try to find out how extensive this green seed problem is, so everyone, please make sure that you are talking to the contracting company to let them know how bad it is

[cris]

I had this problem 2 years in a row, Green seed (our farm has been nexera free for 3 years now). Enough discount to eat up any premium you may have recieved.
Dow sent out a tin snip offer ( free tin snips if you phone in and ask about nexera) I phoned and asked for the tin snips and said match my profitability side by side and I will consider it again. I have heard though the g****vine the stuff is selling like gangbusters and they need more in the ground. The are going to run out of first time growers soon. Nobody repeats. $4.29 a pound for seed they are collecting their premium up front. they will have to sweeten the offer to put acres in the ground!!

[Braveheart]

I farm in southern MB, and Nexera has the same problem here. Samples on our farm were as high as 13% green after more than 5 weeks in the swath. Other varieties seeded the same day have been combined and delivered long ago!

I won't grow Nexera again. A message needs to be sent to "agro" companies that farmers won't tolerate concepts or products that don't perform as promised. If this was the US there would be lawsuits already launched.

The least Dow should do in this case is admit the poor agronomics of their seed, and pick up any grading discount that results.

[tower]

The concept that bothers me is that the seed companies feel justified in pricing an agricultural seed at $9455./Tonne, ($4.29/lb). If a farmer is being asked to pay an additional $15./acre, ($3 per pound at 5lbs/acre), it's been a couple of years since I got into that so I'm not sure that they are still, that makes it $16,000/tonne of seed plus small change.

There's highway robbery and then there's highay robbery.