Canola seeding rates

[farmaholic]

How low do you dare go.

Rates of 4.8-5 lbs. seems heavy, we get quite afew plants per square foot then too many spindly plants.
Crop seems it has to compete with itself. We are using a Paralink drill and used to use a flexicoil 5000. We are getting better crop establishment now.

Happy seeding and work safe.

[farmaholic]

[farmaholic]

Lol, belly laugh. New site learning curve issues.


Can't go a season without getting stuck once.

Cat tails sure sign of too wet.

[sumdumguy]

We will finish lentils today and start Canola tomorrow. Everyone is on the downhill stretch. We are going to invite the pope or Justin to bless this crop. Who else would you suggest?

[perfecho]

Used 4.2 lb and it seemed to work well...have heard as little as 3....

[farmaholic]

sumdumguy, Mother Nature's blessing or condemnation is the only thing that counts in the end.

[fjlip]

And you said it was DRY there! NOT, that canola is seeded too deep farma, also HI Float option required on drill.

[farming101]

You have land in China too?


Seed size under 5 grams per thousand we aim for 10 to 12 plants per sq ft

Big seed like 7 grams or more, 8 to 10 per sq ft

[Guest]

not to fancy here 4.2 # with a morris maxim. works well

[farmaholic]

fj, shouldn't have tried to get through that spot. Cocky because we drove through almost everything else! What a difference .78 inch of rain makes...stuck right away ;-)

101.. I understand the proper plants/sq.ft. part but how do you truly get that number? What is the true mortality rate? Using the 1000k formula or try to do an actual physical count of what's on the ground? If the Chinese can have land in Canada
why can't I have some in China?

caseih, I think we cooked alot of seed with our flexicoil(10 inch spacing) using same plane 3 1/2
inch paired row openers with about 230 lbs/ac. of dry fert down each shank.

[farming101]

We go by what the bag tag says but do check with a seed counter if we have time. The tag has been known to be wrong. Good value for the money with that
With an independent opener drill we assume that they are all going to grow. Likely none too wise but with the price of seed a little corner cutting is in order. Honestly established plant counts have been very close to the seeding rate.

[Guest]

farma. scared of that also , so we always float 150- 200 #s fines in fall along with 70-80 #s nh3 then another 10-15 N with drill for a blend of 120-140 n -35-10-48 seems to work good. still double shoot that 100 #s product through atom jet same plane openers .10 " spacing . nothing goes in seed boot .experts all say you need starter fert in seed row but i have left hundreds of test strips with single shooting. never any difference

[greybeard]

What are your experiences with low plant count?
If you have GOOD WEED CONTROL have you been disappointed with yield on low plant populations?

[Guest]

we left canola a few years that had been froze 3 times. crop ins said we had 1 plant per square ft left we really concentrated on weed control like you say and combined 55 bpa all the reseeded stuff around us went 35bpa but weed control is key

[farmaholic]

perfecho, we're seeding at about 4.5. this year and last. Even last year there seemed to be too many plants. I am kinda scared to go too low. My goodness, 5 used to be the recommended rate, 4.5 is 10% less, 4 lbs./acre is a whopping 20% less than the old 5 lbs./ac recommendations. ......that's substantially less. What do you think?