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.