Canola rebates

[wmoebis]

Not that I didn't agree that changes were needed for marketing but I said from the very start farmers needed a purchasing arm or board more than a marketing board. Thought FNA was going to be a good start but seems farmers even brothers have struggles to see eye to eye. What if everyone took a years holiday from Canola or buying seed from one company every year? Or is that too close to a NFU tactic? LOL

[WiltonRanch]

Not that I didn't agree that changes were needed for marketing but I said from the very start farmers needed a purchasing arm or board more than a marketing board. Thought FNA was going to be a good start but seems farmers even brothers have struggles to see eye to eye. What if everyone took a years holiday from Canola or buying seed from one company every year? Or is that too close to a NFU tactic? LOL

Remember years ago I attended a financial sell job thing in Saskatoon. FNA guy got up and told the joke about getting three farmers to agree. Funny the Mann bros couldn’t get out of their own way with their “cooperative”

[ajl]

I have booked some CS3000 from UFA. Final cost should be $574/bag with the basic Helix treatment. Should be a decent but not likely top performer under most conditions. That should be fine with my variable field conditions and the need to swath. Trying to find something else to compare with it. Have had good results with CS2000 in the past. Best canola crop I have had was BY6076 in 2023. Made 50 on solonetzic ground. Paid $630/bag seed cost in spring. Can't get it anymore.

[furrowtickler]

If the NFU would drop their 100% mentality on single desk marketing for all grains , oilseeds and pulses they would gain 5X membership overtnight .
But their vast majority is so entrenched that will never happen, that’s how stunned they are
so completely oblivious to how real farms work

[furrowtickler]

A great example is weibomis or whatever, just can’t let it go, it’s overwhelming crazy

[furrowtickler]

And yes Certified seed is expensive, it is all in the same category as seed Wheat , barely whatever, it costs a frigin fortune to try to produce seeds on all levels now .
not trying to justify anything but don’t discount the the farms setting aside the acres to contract seed , it’s a nut job now.
Everyone is to blame
there are a lot of people making fortunes before it hits your local putz selling it .
Ask a Hutterite in southern Alberta what they make isolating Canola hybrids , it’s crazy
used to be somewhat justified, 10x. Way beyond that now

[Sodbuster]

I still remember buying canola seed for 40 cents a pound, the good old days when you planted canola at 7 pounds a acre.

[makar]

I remember ****seed for 15 a bag.

[Templeboy]

I still remember buying canola seed for 40 cents a pound, the good old days when you planted canola at 7 pounds a acre.

Close to a dollar a pound treated with lindane, but you could have also used Counter 5G, or Furidan ( the latter doubled the price). I remember the good old days very well, it was 2022 (the best days)

[shtferbrains]

I remember ****seed for 15 a bag.

Back in the days when the best seed grower among your neighbors grew and sold certified Canola, one dealer told me if you could get double the price of commercial everybody was happy.
It was called competition. Many options.
Direct from the grower.