US Farmers Ramping Up Pulse Acres!!!!

[furrowtickler]

Don't know don't care - simply stating a fact that farmers chase old markets. This lentil thing may be a bit different and if you get good quality , prices may stay strong into harvest. If you get poor quality , and there may be a lot - be prepared for a bath. Canola is a different animal - 95% of the time it is still a top grade .

[bucket]

But furrow ... you know they are going to try to blend that shit out.

Last time I grew lentils .... they graded a 3 .... worth 8 cents. My wheat was worth more.


When I finally sold them years later.... they were a 2 and worth 32 cents. But it was a struggle to keep the faith.

[furrowtickler]

Been in the same situation as well and you are correct , just may need to hold off grade for 2-3 years this time.

[furrowtickler]

Are those pea AC going to yellows in the U.S. ? I hope so , that will take the 'heat' off my greens ...

[farmaholic]

subliminal messages furrow?

[sumdumguy]

The first year we started farming 1972 flax was $11.50/ bushel and Durum $7.00. Total variable costs for a 640 acre farm $30 an acre. Flax yielded apprx 30 bushel and Durum about 45. That was the year after LIFT. Lift away Liberals.

[fjlip]

Those were the GOOD old days! $9 canola in 74. New Deere 4430, $14000.

[bucket]

Sure were 40 dollars a barrel for oil and a gallon of gas was 25 cents or 6 cents a liter.

Nothing to see here folks move along and bend over.

[seabass]

Exactly Wiseguy. Mother nature has a way of curing the impulse to grow crops in areas they shudn't be. May get away with it a year or two but eventually she evens the score.

[ajl]

How about 0.23 GRIP lentils in 1992. That year there was lentils at Vegreville AB. Ah the good old days. Wheat was around $3 per bushel then.