Had to laugh at a Cargil FMR

[charliep]

Just curious what an open pollinated RR canola is? From what I know, all RR are argentine varieties which are close pollinated. I assume you mean non hybrid.

The only open pollinated canola I know are Polish. The reason that polish has not had the RR trait bred into the seed.

[cottonpicken]

The patent will come off in a few short years(im
guessing 2015 ish),then their screwed.

[ado089]

All canola is open polinated. O.P. or hi-bred reffers to the breeding of the seed. O.P.'s simply aren't crossed whereas a hi-bred is a cross with only the female plants harvesteed for seed. A synthetic or composite is a cross with both the female and male plants present in the seed resulting in about 10% off type in the seeded crop. This year it looks like my OP Canterra 1818 is going to do as good as my high price Pioneer Hi-Bred D3151 with alot less straw to put through. Conventional is canola without any herbicide resistance traits, therefore no tech fee.

[ado089]

The patend for using glyphosate on a tolerant crop is up. There are another 15'ish years left on various process and genes that will prevent slow the process of new players in that market. But I have heard that Pioneer Hi-Bred is near having their own RR gene and that is why they (DuPont) have entered the glyphosate market.

[ado089]

Locked in a 13 under FOB farm with 110km truck ride for Sept delivery. They'll take it up to 12% if I can get if off soon.

[charliep]

A reason I would look at these offers considering all the factors (basis, storage, market for higher moisture, etc.) is to get higher moisture content moving as was suggested in the last thread. Think the market has potential to go higher. Buy the futures.

[charliep]

should get my terms right. Should be look at the bids. Offers are the price you would be willing to sell for.

[ado089]

Get your offers out there. Put some $11 plus targets out there.

[ProFarmer]

Check this mornings prices!!!!