Friday Crop Report. One word to describe the harvest of 2012." DISAPPOINTMENT"

[SASKFARMER3]

Yea hopper your right, quit at 5 today and headed
north with my boys and a nephew. What a
awesome night on the lake. I'll deal with the shitty
canola tomorrow. Cheers the beer are going down
real nice.

[wd9]

Be thankful you can at least get what is
there! Haven't even got the combine out of
the shed to take a sample once yet.

Been eagerly waiting to use the new
stripper header but rain every two days
makes it impossible.

[GreenValley]

Bird eye already know ahead of what
canola yield would be. Perfect tools for
traders.


Satellites see canola yields slip on
heat, disease
StatsCan satellite data point to 33.7-
bu./ac. canola

Aug 27, 2012 6:49 PM - 5 comments TEXT
SIZE  By: Rod Nickel
WINNIPEG | REUTERS
Crops, Machinery, Weather
A slew of midsummer crop threats
including heat, hail and bugs trimmed
the potential of Canada's record-large
2012/13 canola crop, preventing farmers
from fully cashing in on high prices,
industry analysts say.

On Monday, Statistics Canada lowered its
unofficial canola crop yield estimate
based on an experimental program that
analyzes low-resolution satellite data.

The Crop Condition Assessment Program
pegged the average Western Canada canola
yield at 33.7 bushels per acre,
producing 15.8 million tonnes, compared
to its previous estimates of a yield of
34.2 bushels per acre and production of
16.1 million tonnes.

In Saskatchewan, the biggest canola-
growing province, yield reports range
wildly from a dismal 15 bushels per acre
to more than 50, said Grant McLean, a
provincial cropping management
specialist at the province's Agriculture
Knowledge Centre in Moose Jaw.

Wet planting conditions in the key east-
central Saskatchewan growing region,
hail, insects and mid-summer heat and
humidity that invited sclerotinia
disease all dampened expectations.

The likely outcome is an average to
slightly above-average sized crop, in a
year farmers were hoping for more,
McLean said.

"Part of the disappointment is people
were anticipating the high prices and
expecting the big bushels," he said. "We
were hoping for the double bonanza."

Canada is the biggest producer and
exporter of canola, or ****seed, which
is crushed largely for vegetable oil and
livestock feed.

ICE Futures Canada's November canola
futures are about $630 a tonne, not far
off a four-year high. Prices have
remained well-supported in recent weeks
largely because of drought damage to
U.S. soybeans, but concerns about
disappointing Canadian canola yields
have also crept into the market, traders
said.

Based on its closely watched farmer
survey, Statistics Canada last week
estimated a Canadian average canola
yield of 32.8 bushels per acre, with
provincial averages of 30.5 bushels in
Saskatchewan, 37.3 bushels in Alberta
and 31.4 bushels in Manitoba. It
estimated canola production at 15.4
million tonnes.

The harvest is still in the early stages
in Alberta, and the extent of disease
and insect damage is unclear, said Mark
Cutts, a crop specialist for the
province's Ag-Info Centre in Stettler.

"I think a lot of canola fields look
quite good. It's just a matter of when
(farmers) get into them, whether they're
going to see disease and insect issues
that caused yield loss."

Manitoba's harvest is the furthest
along, and yields will likely settle on
average around 30 bushels per acre, said
Angela Brackenreed, agronomist for the
Canola Council of Canada at Justice,
Man. Yield reports range from about 20
to 45 bushels per acre, she said.

Overnight temperatures on most of the
western Prairies look to stay well above
freezing for the next week, allowing
late-planted crops time to develop
before a frost -- which usually hits by
mid-September.

According to StatsCan's satellite
analysis, spring wheat yields in Western
Canada look to average 41.1 bushels per
acre, with a harvest of 18.9 million
tonnes, compared to its previous
estimate of 41.5 bushels per acre and
production of about 19.1 million tonnes.

-- Rod Nickel writes for Reuters from
Winnipeg.

[hobbyfrmr]

I hope I break even...I could use the money.

[hobbyfrmr]

I hope I break even...I could use the money.

[Burbert]

Ifn wheat looks good, all over, which it
does, then wes won't starve this Winter,
which is a good thing. Unless its sold to
the highest bidder and all leaves our
shores, then starving a possibility. Oh
well that's framing. Potato patch looks
moderate ta good, THAT IS THE MOST
IMPORTANT CROP on Comedian frames always
has been, always will be!!!!!

[Hopperbin]

Oh burbert who do you think the highest bidder is? Is it offshore or Canada? I suggest you hold a thousand bushels to sell to your city friends when things get tuff.

[Hopperbin]

Burbert are you a union boss? You sound like a union boss trying to tell us peasants what is right.

[SASKFARMER3]

Burpfart hrs is the shits to.

[Partners]

Started on our 1st canola field, only 40 acres done before a shower stopped us, but its running 15 b/a....Just wonderful...Dekalb 7345 is just a pile of shit...7375 looks like twice the yield...