Whar canola to grow?

[hobbyfrmr]

Free wheat are you talking about 2014 season? We used to grow Westar and Tobin. Tobin was polish and early maturing.
15years ago the old guys used to tell me " you young guys should bag up some of these varieties in good shape, you never know what can happen. Then they started about how the seed companies were trying to control the farmers and make them pay more for seed. I remember thinking, these old ****ers, paranoid, cheap, and not willing to embrace new technology.
I was wrong.

[Guest]

and its going to get a lot worse before it gets better unless farmers send these greedy bastards a message . its a good time to give canola a break on your land . margins are so thin that if youhave a wreck you come up $150/ac short after crop ins ?? tell them shove high price seed up their ass . hard to believe their arrogance with these prices and growing season we just had !

[SASKFARMER3]

Freewheat My dad grew Westar and Tobin. Both we bought some new seed each year and cleaned the rest. Treated seed because you could buy seed treatment. It grew 40 to 45 on most years. 25 was a poor crop and 30. You could strait cut Tobin.
Yes all the Bullshit from seed companies about hybrids blah blah.
Our canola acres are down 1500 next year. Why grow expensive canola when a 30 bus flax gives you more money. They screwed us out of a great crop that paid the bills. F$%K Them I say.

[agstar77]

None. Canola needs a redo.

[Partners]

Hamloc..

Where is there PV530 for $485 a bag?

CPS here wants $600 a bag...$590 for 7444..

[Hamloc]

That price was in central alberta east of red deer. I assumed after CPS dropped decalb this was their way of going after market share. It shouldnt surprise me that their pricing isnt universal. The point I was trying to make is would you switch varieties for a better price?

[Hamloc]

That price was in central alberta east of red deer. I assumed after CPS dropped decalb this was their way of going after market share. It shouldnt surprise me that their pricing isnt universal. The point I was trying to make is would you switch varieties for a better price?

[freewheat]

Ha. My dad would treat his own seed in a big old tub in the yard. Family members got stir sticks and away we went. A couple dozen bushels of saved seed and good to go.

Thing is, now they deregister varieties and make them "unsalable". Someone said in another thread that there is only one op, non gm variety left you could in theory keep seed back from??

On my farm, canola acres will be about the same as this year, which was 25% of my acres.

What is the cost of soy seed these days? I am not all excited about soy quite yet, but I may jump on the 100 acre trials after all. I have a chunk of higher land that is very frost safe. Maybe try some there.

[Braveheart]

We're seriously thinking about a drastic increase in canola acres. With everyone reducing acres and/or growing varieties with less potential, it's time to go rogue, be contrary, and go big!

[Jagfarms]

My bin run 46A76 went 39 bu acre and the $600 bag canola went 36 bu acre in 2014.