Input and crop prices

[blackpowder]

What we might do here is seed the canola before the wheat for a change. We always skipped frosts and beetles. But wheat grading has changed and we're straight cutting canola now. Waited a month after wheat in bin this year to even start canola.

[Hamloc]

Big time. Seems like the only constant we have had in our area ( north of edmonton) is that the earliest varieties seem to do the best ( the last 3 yrs with these hot hot julys)
strange bedfellows though as one would assume the flowering period is shorter with an earlier variety so you would assume that there would be less overall flowers and more damage with a hot period.

trial results = 3 bushel difference.
so you take those numbers and toss em out right? Is that more/ less than 5% difference?

Yes it would be just over 5% as the top yield was just over 58 bushels per acre.
I do agree the trick is to be fortunate enough for the plant to flower at the right time, tough to predict when the heat will hit. In 23 it was June, in 24 it was early July.

[Hamloc]

What we might do here is seed the canola before the wheat for a change. We always skipped frosts and beetles. But wheat grading has changed and we're straight cutting canola now. Waited a month after wheat in bin this year to even start canola.

Yes I have a neighbour who did that for years. Oddly enough in 23 he bought a swather and now swaths his canola. I used to straight cut until I had a bin heat, now I swath it’s all. Each to his own.

[blackpowder]

A better product and more of it. But 1.5 - 3 times the time risk both in readiness and acres per combine. Desiccation a cat in a sack. Always learning.

[blackpowder]

Yes I have a neighbour who did that for years. Oddly enough in 23 he bought a swather and now swaths his canola. I used to straight cut until I had a bin heat, now I swath it’s all. Each to his own.

Betting your neighbor turned 60.

[Hamloc]

Betting your neighbor turned 60.

lol that is funny. Actually much younger than me in his late 40’s and he was straight cutting canola for maybe 15 years.