Canola acres for 2024. In the tank or increasing?

[SASKFARMER]

Check with your seed salesman I'm thinking not.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Check with your seed salesman I'm thinking not.

I asked one the other day, no change in total canola acres.

[SASKFARMER]

Everyone on the west side less and South of number oneless

[AlbertaFarmer5]

A good read about the future of renewable diesel.
The main takeaway is that the proposed expansion can not realistically happen due to supply constraints and that policy makers will have to accept that reality.
But if it does...

https://blog.ucsusa.org/jeremy-martin/all-about-biodiesel-and-renewable-diesel/

[Old Cowzilla]

Thought everybody allready had their canola seed acres way back. That call by seed guy in November saying gotta order now, supplies short ,can't guarantee your variety and you will miss out on $40 bag increase ! A 25% drop sure would knock the crap out of a lot of other crop prices . Some talking more edible beans around here and more sunflower .

[Crestliner]

All canola oil (high in Omega 6) should be in biofuel (our diesel tanks) and not in our bodies. There is nothing healthy about seed oil. Buy Olive Oil for the kitchen cupboard, grow canola and build more crushing facilities to accommodate made at home fuel supply.
The food for fuel debate is dead. I remember in the early 2000's how we were going to starve if we turned corn and wheat into Ethenol. Another story from the good old UN troupe. The same ones that are now the climate crazies, that fly to non stop meetings around the world, look at their belly buttons, tell us how to live and get nothing productive done.
If you think grain prices suck now....take away the Ethenol and Biofuel industry....wow corn at $2.50-3.00, barley at $2.50-3.00, canola at $8.00, wheat at $5.00.
Add more crush capacity and the guys who just want to pay top dollar for land and equipment....might have the Cashflow to do it!

[fjlip]

And with ALL this crushed seed/oil, the meal must be used also. Need MORE animals!

[AlbertaFarmer5]

The industry insiders at the Iowa Renewable Fuels Summit are more optimistic about biofuels going forward.

They see SAF supplying 100% of the aviation fuel market by 2050. I don't think that is even remotely possible.

https://www.agriculture.com/x-takeaways-from-the-iowa-renewable-fuels-summit-8430685

[SASKFARMER]

if it is it will happen after Biden is gone

[SASKFARMER]

soy is in trouble in sa and nothing is changing/