Mother Nature just took another million tonnes off the books

[wilagro]

dubsy: Nope, never worked for the CWB but never could see why some farmers absolutely detested the CWB. I had a neighbour who recorded his sales of barley through the CWB and recorded the equivalent non-board returns at the time and he maintained that the CWB brought him more return about 97% of the time. Had it all down in a scribbler. Unfortunately he passed away a few years ago.

If you want to know what's good for farmers just ask Ritz and Harper...they'll steer you straight and pardon you if you make a few mistakes as well.

[malleefarmer]

fooled me too wilargro i presumed you
were a farmer
makes no difference still read your posts

[TOM4CWB]

Willy
Strange you should use Barley as a crop
the Cwb was beneficial to grain growers
on.
No market power, proof year after year
the pool lost growers big money.

Cheers.

[wilagro]

malleefarmer: I did return to the farm. Inactive farmer now as I'm too fricken old but have grown cereal crops, canola, cattle, horses, swine, chickens, hay crops and lots of wild oats.

Tom: My neighbour grew barley (feed and malting) for over fifty years...his records did show more return through the CWB than local non-board sales. Your records may differ.

[Hopperbin]

I think if I tried to direct cut my last field of Canola I would have just as much dirt in the hopper as canola. Could a person actually sell shit like that? LOL

[Hopperbin]

Making more money from a crop than a different crop or making more money from a crop are two different things.

[JDGreen]

Why are most fields seeded north/south when my whole life the most damaging winds to canola swaths have come from the west? Been switching fields east/west for a few years now. My swathed east/west fields are perfect, the neighbors north/south are not so good..

[cottonpicken]

Free,i distinctly remember the vast majority of posts
being empathetic to your prior weather wows.

[furrowtickler]

Jd , I agree , i have no idea why guys seed and swath north to south - bafling. Then piss and moan the swath blew. The swath always settles way more the dierction of seeding and blows less with the 90% prevailing winds.. Same guys that go to Vegas and bet the house on a pair of 7's i geuss?? Also compmplain that that variety blew worse than the other seeded and swathed east west ???

[furrowtickler]

I know i am going to hear ,"it did not matter which way" - maybe not, but 90% of the time it does. Much like the fungicide debate , but it did make a huge diff here - if it(caonal/peas) were sprayed at the right time it is huge. B/C of the earlier rains (in this area) than the past 5 years, 20-30% flower was a huge benitfit, 50% flower too late. Sucked but while every one else was at the lake fishing, I sat on the sprayer. Then I went to the lake.
No doubt in some areas it did not matter, with thin stands and way too wet but some are just coming up with excuses here. And yes we have been lucky with weather up till now, but so has everyone else in a 20 mile radius of here. Outside that area it is a different world and not slinging mud at most of you. Localy I got abused for spraying too much, again time will tell. I played the cards as they fell, not coffie shop shit. Good luck too all, very wet here now, can not even swath.