Nexera Canola the same color as your JD combine!

[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.

[shamrock]

It's not a weather related or isolated cases. This has been a problem for a few years. I grew Nexera canola two years ago and it was sold in bales. All my other canola which was seeded after made a #1.

[rookie]

For those who had nex in the last few years , how did the seed company handle the poor results. I would really like to know if they stood behind there product when the poor results came in, or if dance around the issue... and you payed for the educational experience...

[Ajax]

I called Dow's 1800 # and asked about their support for the product and what they were willing to do to get me to sign up for next years crop at the Dec 31 deadline. He said they were working on a package. My canola, too, averaged 12-13% green. Though the yeild was a little off, I am willing to trade that for a higher price. What was disturbing is that he told me it was my area that they were seeing the high green counts. I guess from this forum, my area is Western Canada. It is also frustrating that there are people in my area that waited too long to get the green to come down and now have it under snow.
We did get a compensation package from Cargill on their IMC product last year. Hopefully Dow and Bunge can come up with something for us or there won't be a next year for me either. Maybe 15% green for a #1?
Should I hand out sample packets at Red Deer show so that people know what they are getting into? Probably not but it does vent some frustration.

[tower]

I say bring back the Tower. and maybe keep the requirements for justifying a new variety.

[sewen]

There was a story in the Western Producer that quoted this very thread. In the story a Dow Agro rep said that there was a problem in certain gegraphic regions.

I agree with Ajax that region seems to be Western Canada. By the replies, we have people from Fort Saskatchewan to Manitoba and anywhere in between and not just this year.

I also agree with Pen-Dale to let them know that there is a problem. Tell them what area you farm in. Also post it on here where you are from as they should be aware of this site.