Pea rant

[bluefargo]

We made the unfortunate decision to seed a fairly high percent of our relatively few acres to peas this year.
Many acres badly flooded but some not.
The unflooded acres were passable but all went flat. I have felt for some time that they really only need two ratings for standability - flat or very flat. Yes some years they stand. Most years not.
Sprayed some fields with fungicide. Absolutely no difference. Wish I had the money back.
The geese are very happy around here!

[blackpowder]

No middle ground with peas. All good or all bad.

[sumdumguy]

Maybe if they were seeded with a companion crop like sunflowers they would stay standing. Just thinking!

[bucket]

Anyone remember carnival peas. Every variety since that has promised better standability and yield has disappointed.

[dave4441]

Are you joking bucket? Stand ability in most years on yellow peas is dramatically better then the past. Yields are way beyond what they were 20 years ago.

We have some issues on maple peas this year and guys with yellows have very few issues.

[hobbyfrmr]

I have grown peas and barle together for a few years. It makes a nice swath like canola. 1.5 bushel per acre each. They battle each other to survive all summer. They thresh similarily.
They separate easily with grain cleaner.
40 bu/acre barley, 14 bu/acre peas.
Organic, second crop, no fert, no spray. I am positive better results conventional. Just have to plan for it.

[Klause]

We grow our peas on wheat stubble... leave thr stubble a foot tall.

Peas still fall over but the stubble keeps them off the ground. Only 1 spot in 1 field had goose damage where we worked a slough and they went to the dirt.

Meadows are really good to harvest. First variety I grew was croma what a pita to harvest

[farmaholic]

Re greens...don't grow Patricks. We started in greens with Parades and they stood pretty good and didn't seem as disease prone. We expandex our Readers this year for next. Hoping for better standability and disease resistance and did seem better than Patricks. There has been some challenging years here with the extra moisture and the odd heavy rain with wind. Sometimes its just the conditions are too brutal....

[dave4441]

Klause is totally correct re stubble height. Problem is the tractor tracks at seeding. Fell right down in those spots. More the year then anything but don't see me growing maples again.

[farmaholic]

Re greens...don't grow Patricks. We started in greens with Parades and they stood pretty good and didn't seem as disease prone. We expandex our Readers this year for next. Hoping for better standability and disease resistance and did seem better than Patricks. There has been some challenging years here with the extra moisture and the odd heavy rain with wind. Sometimes its just the conditions are too brutal....

[bucket]

Dave 411

Not joking and the stats back me up.

[charliep]

As a part of a farmers risk management strategy based on their farms business needs, it is likely a good time for farmers to at least consider it. I note you are talking about shorting the futurues market (hedging). That means you have the ability to lift the hedge during the winter if conditions warrant.

My caveat is the decision isn't so much of a market forecasting exercise but rather determining a price you can live with and locking it in. To my definition of risk management, you are protecting against lower prices but you have also given up the right to participate in higher prices.

[Grahamp]

In theory I agree but I think we are late to enter. When the market broke through 470 or even earlier was the place to join the trend. I worry about joining a trend 6 months and 15% value move in. I like Tom Demark's (market analyst) response to the above mentioned cliche, "the trend is your friend unless it is about to end." Having said all of this I certainly wouldn't be a buyer while this slide is going on.

[Hopperbin]

Bucket if you grew an older variety you would be in serious shit of a crop. I will have to challeange klause in a side by side next year. This year his peas were 20 miles away in diff land. Anyways mine are coming off number two green at the 8 dollars I contracted. Hauling direct to elevator. So far only 3000bushels under air and have 4500 bushels In storeage that I dont have to clean for planting seed.

[Hopperbin]

And near o dock and split.