Mustard,,, Hot Prices...

[farmaholic]

I would like direct readers to the Sask Mustard website where you can find the Mustard Grower Winter Edition newsletter. On page three is where I got the price chart. There is a small write up with it. It shows the bids in US dollars along with the Canadian bids and talks about the difference in the two and exchange and stocks. I think of the article as an unbiased review of whats going on.

[hobbyfrmr]

I am kind of a broken record when it comes this risk management tool. If you are exporting out of province you can qualify buyers by using accounts receivable insurance. A btrain of 60 cent mustard is worth about $55,000 or you can cover the value of your sale contract.

http://marketpowerassurance.ca

[hobbyfrmr]

http://www.saskmustard.com/grower/news/mustardgrower/2015/SMDC_Mustard_Grower_Winter_2015.pdf

Farmaholic, thank you for the suggestion. Thats a very good website.
It looks like the AGM is January 14.
$20.00 and a trip to Saskatoon could really answer a lot of questions for farmers.
The date , time , and location are on the website.

[farmaholic]

Hobby, is there an organic mustard market? Color sorting would fix the admixture/inseperable issue in yellow. It is used as a tool in the conventional market by the the cleaning plants to make pigs ears into silk purses. But that benefit should mostly accrue to them since they made the investment in the equipment, if a little value can trickle down to the grower, bonus! Production areas that don't have cleavers as a problem and have some dirt that hasn't seen canola for afew years are probably the last bastions of the old style of production. Others will have to rely on chemistry that only provides weed suppression and/or cleaning technology to produce something that will make the top grades.

Around here wild mustard has been beaten back pretty hard.

[hobbyfrmr]

Grain Millers and Sunrise Foods buy organic mustard, I am not aware of the price.
Historically I dont remember ever having to clean any of my organic cereal grains before sale. This year I grew more pulses and they are more sellable when cleaned.
I have not compared the cost of a good grain cleaner, gravity table and color sorter, and a weigh scale in a shed vs. a good used sprayer.

[furrowtickler]

SW Sask if not hit by drought, could be in for a good year . Very good yellow mustard, lentil, pea and malt barley prices could set up that area very well .