What would you do?

[sewen]

Here's the Scenario: Invigor Canola froze 6 or 7 times 90-95% damage, some plants are starting to come back but it's the 12th of june and they have 1 leaf the size of a dime and they are not very many at that. Oh yeah and it is starting to get very dry.

Now I have crop insurance I could get $50/ac to reseed but it's so dry that I might as well go beat my head on a wall instead.

Or I could write it off now for half coverage and put to another use but there is nothing out there to use.

Option three wait until June 21st to put in a claim but they will not write anything off until the middle of July and the weeds will have to be dealt with before then and right now I feel real silly spraying with Liberty when there is hardly any Canola out there.

[gregpet]

Tell CI you are going to reseed. Then manufacture a delay/breakdown until its too late to plant and hopefully still collect the $50.

[fjlip]

Wait till mid July. By then you will be able to assess potential of what is there. If a write off, chem fallow with R'up. A write off is worth much more than $50/ac? Option to seed winter wheat if moisture happens.

[TOM4CWB]

Sewen,

CI said they would not pay reseeding until it rains.

Did it rain?

If it did... wait till you see what recovers... 1 plant per sq ft will make a crop most times.

[sewen]

No it hasn't rained, what it needs is a shot of roundup but I don't think CI would like that even though that would be the best thing to do right now.

[cottonpicken]

step 1-get drunk
step 2-hammer with roundup
step 3-seed flax

[silverback]

"Accidentally" spray prepass instead of Liberty.

[Ron]

frak it. spray with rup or 2,4-D and call it frost. (rup there will probably be enough stray volunteers survive to hide anything?)
Either fallow it when they write it off or go with winter wheat? Any change of early barley making greenfeed in July?

[SASKFARMER3]

I have around 500 acres of our farm that looks likeyou said. Get drunk and then take the next two days off. look again hopefully will rain soon. Look at below average yield and way below what you got last year. Way below. Its tough You cant believe that crop can get cooked so bad. Plant count is thin. But experience says its to late to do any thing,so protect the few that are their and hope for the best.
Yea management is the key. Ha Ha damn mother nature makes or breaks a farm. Oh yea one earths canola looks excellent on the burnt ground.

[sewen]

If my canola looked half as good as the guy on the front page of the western producer (who supposedly had frost damage) I'd be happier than a pig in s&*%.
I'm sure if they would have looked they could of found some real frost damaged canola to take a picture of.

[skhadenuf]

Did you say your canola already had one leaf? God I am SOOOO envious. although I did find about 10 or so plants with half a leaf that the flea beatles didn't eat yet on a quarter section.

No worries there is the new crop insurance right and I can't wait to see what my coverage under the new Cais program is, after all it's a new program designed for disasters isn't it?, should fit perfect for where most of us could be headed. I mean look at how the cattle and hog producers have been looked after by that new peogram, pretty much both industries wiped right out. But hey when we're wiped off the map at least we can all stop in at GM and Chrysler and look at the new cars and trucks that we all own.

[furrowtickler]

sewen, I agree about that picture/story. That would be the best frost damage that I have seen. Alot here at least 50% gone completely. Good rcovery over the last few days though on whats left. But it going to be ugly to say the least.