Friday Crop Report on a Thursday week 19

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Just made a trip to Calgary and back.
Good cereals in the usual areas.
But did not see one canola crop with a nice flat top.

Did you get out and look at any of those good looking cereals? Are they filling? A lot seemed to go from deep green to shades of white or yellow in a matter of days. Some but I have looked at did not fill.

[SASKFARMER]

Yes I stopped and some didn't fill well. We have a few blank heads our way also

[blackpowder]

I didn't. I should have said "good looking" from the road, for the year.
Certain areas make cereal production look so easy.

[fcr]

Retired farmer told me he sold wheat for 6.50 a bushel in 1973. And he had a 40 bushel crop.Our freight and handling charge today for new crop wheat will be close to 2.00 a bushel , about 25 % of the value of the grain.Grain freight and handling charges are now our biggest expense and good luck trying to find out the exact amount on any given day. Back in the 70s to the early 2000 the freight would have been about 5 %

[sumdumguy]

AF5. - nothing in the heads? The farmer must have ordered Trudeau Barley.

[blackpowder]

Retired farmer told me he sold wheat for 6.50 a bushel in 1973. And he had a 40 bushel crop.Our freight and handling charge today for new crop wheat will be close to 2.00 a bushel , about 25 % of the value of the grain.Grain freight and handling charges are now our biggest expense and good luck trying to find out the exact amount on any given day. Back in the 70s to the early 2000 the freight would have been about 5 %

And why was it "only" 5%? If it ever really was.

[furrowtickler]

Peas on 15 inch space stood up quite well

[BreadWinner]

The CWB kept 1/3 of the $6.50 for freight and marketing costs

[fcr]

Yep. And now the grain co’s and railways take it so nothing has changed. Try to find out how much profit Richardson or cargill makes. Impossible.

[oldjim]

The CWB kept 1/3 of the $6.50 for freight and marketing costs

That's close. I sold 2 Red wheat in 1973 for $4.36 initial payment and got 83 cents final payment for a total of $5.19 per bushel. Fertilizer was about $100 per ton, thought I was in high cotton. First year of farming, hell this farming thing is great! Make nothing but money!