April 1st "National Cancel your 2019 Canola Seed Day".

[westernvicki]

Sure glad the budget included a bail out for dairy impacted by trade wars. Oh Canada.

[westernvicki]

ABC
anything but Canola.. who'da thunk it.

[WiltonRanch]

Still laugh about canola council wanting to get production up to 25 million tones. All the money into research and development, high seed cost etc, for what now? This is completely out of our control and the feds don’t give two shits about us. We are so screwed.

Think what’ll play out this year is lots of guys will still buy the expensive seed and hope for better times. The pain and real actions won’t be seen till next year. If anything good comes of this bs is hopefully everyone realizes to avoid having more to do with China.

[SASKFARMER3]

I find it amazing that this isn't big major news every night. Wow, Trump picked his nose and CBC and CTV are all over it. Or climate change is causing it to be warm in March.

Nothing on 2.7 Billion loss.

I do agree that a lot of farmers will plant like normal and then when fall approaches and the USA has its deal and canola is like oil selling at a discount the truth will be shown.

The Canola council is also to blame with the bullshit.

[bigzee]

Better hope and pray there’s BIG demand by fall for canola and going into winter. Carry over is going to be huge, and get an avg to slightly above avg crop, prices may be high today then what could possibly be coming.
I sold some yesterday, and overnight prices dropped. Amazingly something went my favour. I must have flooded the market with my sale.

[SASKFARMER3]

The Big sale we did in Fall and January make my marketing year look like a Genius so far.

This worries me and we are looking for other things to plant. Back to normal rotation.

[furrowtickler]

We were warned back in Jan that this was not going to end well.
We have about 10% left .
Lets all hope that something changes big time .

[MBgrower]

*** canola council playing politics, nominated that failed ostrich farmer a lifetime member this week, yeah, like the liberals wont take notice . glad i get all my canola check offs back and away from these fools.

[SASKFARMER3]

We just lost 40% of our market share in China. So again explain how Canola seed is justified at the price it is today. Or explain the 20% hit we have taken on the price of our Canola Today from the high.

It's sick but I bet Trudeau would get a wake-up call if Bayer and BASF and Dekalb came to a calling. Farmers No we mean jack shit to anyone but big boys lose money. Wow, subsidy here we come.


I can control what I seed, what I put for fertilizer and what I spray and my land costs plus equipment.

But like the Carbon tax, seed tax and Stupid politicians I can't protect my farm from these and pass on the costs of their stupidity.

[Hopalong]

Still too soon to change seeding plan because of China situation.
Two months before too late, lots of time for circumstances to change.