Canola Why Marketing Genius in Calgary is Wrong!

[freewheat]

Think you'll need more than a week. Either that or you could look at the forecast and figure out by that how soon the largest canola region in canada will be back in the fields.
Not soon.

[boarderbloke]

- the highest yield potential areas of the field, now sit with water after being planted.
_ the highest yield potential areas of unseeded fields won't be planted and every rain will set the drill back further from the best land.
- if you start planting canola as soon as you can get out on the field it will be packed in so hard it will never come through if the sun finally shines, so for it to emerge, you'll need more rain!
- if you wait till the fields have better tilth, you move later into June.
- mbratrud's statement about missing the frost last year are still understated, disaster would have hardly decribed it, catastrophic would be a closer expression.
- El Nino is dissipating, so don't expect a fall like last year.
- will you be able to make timely incrop spray applications this year when the land is so wet? other years areas have had to be left due to too wet an' soft, or portions, of the field have been "cut off", so as you couldn't get to it with the sprayer.
- 18mil acres might end up on paper, I know when I file my crop ins. I will be including the acres already flooded that I know right now, won't produce or be harvested.

[redbaron]

Manitoba is not the Garden of Eden when it comes to canola. Maybe parts further west. We have had lots of rain on freshly seeded crops. Standing water in these fields a concern. Poor germ in some of the earlier fields. Talk of reseeding. Got another inch on my farm this morning. Now see lakes of standing water. Makes 2.5 for the week. Thought is was bad but just heard south of Winnipeg areas are up to four inches this morning. And yes much more rain coming from out west. You are right this crop is a long way from in the bin and we are generally in no better shape then you guys are. Still have canola to seed. Will be June before it happens. Predicting another 2 inches for the weekend if you can believe anything coming out of the those offices.

[SASKFARMER3]

The heart of the Canola Belt between Regina and Moosejaw will save us all. Tounge in Cheek. How much is seeded in this new Canola area. This morning when I left all I saw out the window of the truck was straw and a mile of standing water. Yea Canola really likes to be flooded. Retard in Calgary is only way to describe this putz.

[bucket]

"Mentally challenged" is the politically correct way.

Don't insult the actual retards of the world - they have an excuse.

[fjlip]

I emailed Agri-Trend yesterday, here is a reply..."I agree with your comments. The projection was on acres. Stats Canada is reporting 16.9 million up from last year’s 16.5 million. The grain companies are reporting 17.8 million acres. We feel like it will be more like 16.7 up slightly from last year last year based on our agrologists crop reports in Alberta and south east Sask and Manitoba where seeding is 80% done with only bly and oats left to put in. If it rains on Saturday as forecasted it will drastically change that. Yield is another whole topic we are aware of what yields do after June 10th"



Derek

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[SASKFARMER3]

Every one who pays these idiots should phone and give them a piece of their mind. They are not helping you one bit with BS like this.

[furrowtickler]

I would bet that less than 13.5 mill ac is in the ground as we speak. Mojority of that has emerged and waiting this cold weather out. There will be frost damage by tue morning. Could be very little or alot.

[Partners]

No matter how late, or wet the ground is...The media always has a way to put a "Positve" spin on the situation, so that it sounds..Not that bad....

[Hopperbin]

Was at Horizon in Humboldt yesterday picking up some chemical. The forklift operator got wedged from the canola stacked up to the roof and too close to the chemical on the other side, LOL, he is a good driver really :-)), we max our canola acres here every year and the suppliers have one hell of a lot of it still in shed. I asked about the canola to go out yet and he laughed and said the acres are dropping as we speak.