And the 2011 Canola Crop is in Excellent Shape!

[cottonpicken]

Ya i spend most my my money on my woman and
booze,and the rest i just waste.

cotton proverb 11.32

[rook]

Our earlier seeded canola doesn't look so hot. Spotty
emergence and flea beetles munching on what is up.
And what hasn't been eaten was hammered by frost
on Sat nite. Some is white and will come back but
some is black...A good rain may save the crop but
none in the forecast. Oh well, cereals look good.

[gregpet]

Cotton that made my day.

[SASKFARMER3]

Got two mudded in today. F%$#%#%$ did the inch on Friday slick up everything again. Got stuck going to the field with half ton.
Rained out at 6:30 This storm looks bad really bad.

[ProFarmer]

My canola looks real good it's in the bag and even a nice blue colored...

[SASKFARMER3]

Latest BS out of Alberta.
DONT WORRY -8 wont Damage the Canola Crop.
Note. If you seeded at 15LBs an acre maybe. What a fricking joke.
Were flooded and the good areas froze. HM some one is sending BS information.
South of us on top of valley lots seeded Canola first since the land drains to valley they were able to get going early. Now their reseeding because their crops were gone. AH dry frost Damage more than a wet one.

[T.N.T.]

Sorry Charliep but $13.58 didn't even spark my interest,but they are atleast getting closer.I bought and paid for this farm years ago,and the boys are set right up now to.So they don't mind letting me gamble with the price on the canola,and gives the hired man and me something to do by moving it around once in a while to insure it stays a number 1.My way of saying to the grain buyers i'm not a price taker,a lot of people could learn from that!

[charliep]

Thats fair. The summer is going to interesting. My only concerns are soybean oil - how much above 60 cents/lb can beanoil go. Also China - will it continue to import oilseeds to the extent it has.


I hear you on not accepting the bid price. If farmers want to be market makers (which is fair), do they have an offer price? If $13.68/bu isn't adequate (it may not be), would $14/bu having you booking sales? Some other price? If markets go haywire this summer, will get you offered the same basis you did on this deal?

[hobbyfrmr]

I think TNT is holding out for $9.00/bushel.

[ASRG]

Froze the canola east of Red Deer Alberta. Got the potatoes in the garden as well. Red Deer area produces a lot of canola.