Friday Crop Report on a Thursday week 27

[Old Cowzilla]

Can't seem to jam $40000.00 worth of canola into a superbee this fall. WTH ! are they making the trailers smaller this year?????

[Ronski]

Can't seem to jam $40000.00 worth of canola into a superbee this fall. WTH ! are they making the trailers smaller this year?????

I think my trailers are larger this year? Combined a 130 acre piece of canola and moved to the next quarter to finish filling them.

[fcr]

We did a field of l358 which ran 34bu/ac. Moved across road onto a field of 233 and it’s running less than 20. Seeded two days later. Same land , rain , everything else.It was slower to develop. Trucker went from kinda busy to not busy at all, lol. We think it just got heat blast at wrong time.

[GALAXIE500]

I got a few 1/4s for sale at $800,000 ! That is crazy money. Mind you in Alberta that would be considered a "deal".

[AlbertaFarmer5]

I got a few 1/4s for sale at $800,000 ! That is crazy money. Mind you in Alberta that would be considered a "deal".

How much freight to move those $800,000 quarters out to central AB? I might be interested if you can include delivery.

[Marusko]

800k per quarter? that's what good land cost here in 2018.... family discount deals are a million bucks nowadays.

[furrowtickler]

800k per quarter? that's what good land cost here in 2018.... family discount deals are a million bucks nowadays.

Recipe for bankruptcy in many many areas

[Marusko]

Recipe for bankruptcy in many many areas

I'll throw some math at ya. A guy getting a 'family discount deal' for a million dollar quarter, fully financed over 30 years, with today's grain prices and my average yields and crop rotation, would need 1.5 paid-off quarters or 3-4 rented quarters to make up the shortfall between cashflow and land payments on the new land. Not accounting for any income tax or living expenses.

We've become a real estate speculation industry, not a food production industry.

[TSIPP]

Can't seem to jam $40000.00 worth of canola into a superbee this fall. WTH ! are they making the trailers smaller this year?????

I’ll bet you can fit 40 thousand dollars worth of calves in a 25 foot trailer.

[furrowtickler]

We did a field of l358 which ran 34bu/ac. Moved across road onto a field of 233 and it’s running less than 20. Seeded two days later. Same land , rain , everything else.It was slower to develop. Trucker went from kinda busy to not busy at all, lol. We think it just got heat blast at wrong time.

Huge differences this year between varieties , maturity and seeding dates

even a few days made differences in all the above , then add all three and there is huge swings