50 days till seeding any change in plans.

[jazz]

I get 2 crops in the same field this year. 50 acres of spring harvest canola, then seeded to lentils.

Durum, flax, no canola this year. Still too high cost and not stable enough market without china who will be off line probably for the foreseeable futures. Without people and pigs buying our canola from that country, there is no way those prices will hold.

We have very little snow this year, going to try an early seeded half assed cover crop. Going to drill in some lentils late April and then terminate and drill wheat in a month later.

[MBgrower]

around here, oats will be up, soybeans up (finally some moisture last fall after two dry summers), canola down, wheat same maybe down a bit, corn up (cheaper nitro prices).

[SASKFARMER]

My view is this


Canola acres are going to keep going down due to cost.

Wheat acres will be down

Barley acres are going up as some are getting feed yields and sell for malt.

Oats will be up due to price.

Rest will be fillers lentils peas durum flax faba etc

[jazz]

Rest will be fillers lentils peas durum flax faba etc

Lentils have peaked in the province. Guys are finding 4 year rotations are not enough to break the disease cycle. Some are talking 7 yrs now. Substituting chicks now because they aren't so susceptible. But picking chicks off the ground in November sure doesn't look fun. If there is moisture they never stop growing until a super hard frost stops them. They are super cold tolerant. You could drill those in April and probably not have to worry.

[TOM4CWB]

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I also have a seed question why is red water getting shut down to this feed class. It was our second choice to switch to out of Brandon.

I believe this is being done to keep us buying seed not class destination. Look at all the great varieties and see where they are putting them. It’s a scam. Brandon will be next then farmers maybe will wake up. It’s us against all the parasites start waking up, they only care about the money they can get from you.

Saskfarmer,

The CGC lowered Redwater [to the lower class] because they said the gluten strength was not high enough to meet standards now needed by end users. in years of good harvest conditions Redwater could be acceptable. Bad harvests [extra weathering] tends to lower gluten strength more in some varieties than others.

[GDR]

Seeding down about a third of my acres. What I can’t feed I will sell. 3 bales at 70 to 100 works on a one time seed cost of 25 bucks. Will rotate through every six years. Toying with the idea of gasp, organic for first year after forage takeout.

Not saying that's a bad plan, good rotation and reasonable inputs but just so you know just about everyone I've talked to down here is putting more hay in, after quite a bunch went in last year and lots of guys sitting on those $100 bales. Hay business has always been cyclical. A non issue if you can feed it though.

[Sheepwheat]

Not saying that's a bad plan, good rotation and reasonable inputs but just so you know just about everyone I've talked to down here is putting more hay in, after quite a bunch went in last year and lots of guys sitting on those $100 bales. Hay business has always been cyclical. A non issue if you can feed it though.

Yeah I hear you. I plan to price my hay at well under the crazy prices we have seen. I see 100 bucks as gouging, when 70 bucks should be plenty. I have been having to buy a bit of hay, and I also want to get on top of that!

I also intend to fence a lot of our land and drift the sheep through, using extended winter grazing etc as well. Some of the seeding down will be for stockpile grazing. I hear you though. I certainly am not the only guy thinking along these lines.

[Sodbuster]

I’m dropping my barley acres, canola same as it was last year, wheat and oat up a bit.

[Goodtime]

My plan should be to sell out to the hutterites and move to a country far away from the piece of shit Trudeau.

[furrowtickler]

My plan should be to sell out to the hutterites and move to a country far away from the piece of shit Trudeau.

I like far south Argentina, away from people