Smaller canola crop....

[farmaholic]

I have a feeling that after today Mother Nature will have further reduced the size of my canola crop. My nemisis, the wind, will likely scatter or at the very least flip some light swaths.

[bucket]

What about the guys leaving it stand?

[farming101]

Next to none canola swathed here yet. Some forecasts are not predicting the 70 kph gusts as is enviro Canada

[farmaholic]

If its not mature to the point of it shelling I suppose it will be safe.

I didn't see a single tangled well knit together crop this year in our area.

Most are thin and standing straight up...yikes.

[SASKFARMER3]

I just love the Brain dead grain reps that keep telling me that its a average crop and we lucked out. Same song sheet either Chem, Fert, Seed, Equipment or Grain buyer. It should end up being a average. Years ago that was a great crop.

Yea but a Combine was $100,000 not $700,000.

And were still getting paid the same amount of money per bushel as back then.

Dumbest occupation in the world every one else gets ahead we get the scraps.

[bucket]

SF3

We are getting less if you account for inflation.....a lot less ...a 700k combine is retarded....for new decals.....

[TASFarms]

Lots of diamond back larvae damage. Will make shelling out worse ,plus what they ate in yield.

[farming101]

700K. I don't think you are actually supposed to buy them anymore

[bucket]

Yeah but the ****ing leases are nearly what I paid for a new combine in 1997.


A header is worth almost as a combine 20 years ago....I don't see the value....and the crop to pay for it all isn't worth as much.

Grow more get less....mother nature gives you less and it's still worth less....

Combines headers bins drills all for what....to bust your ass so elevators can give you less..

[Partners]

New style macdon for next yr.275,000 retail.
We paid 128 for our new 2014..35 ft.
We are in the wrong business regardless of farm size or great yields.
Cut 240 acres of canola..looks like the farms best.ever.but combine will tell for sure.