Yellow Peas

[Hopalong]

See local price quote of $9.27 for Aug-Sept delivery. Hard red spring wheat just over $6.00.
From experienced pea growers, how does this pencil out?

[Guest]

done some for $9.35 a few days ago with richardson before it dropped . done some today for $9 with AOG on 15 bpa . max . peas are risky around here so sure appreciate the AOG clause . hrsw costs us over $275/ac . peas cost us $85 /ac . hrsw yielded 55 peas a touch better . but lotsa years peas give us SFA if we're wet

[Guest]

lotsa people around here prepriced peas for sept 2016 , now fining out they can't get seed !

[bigzee]

$9.50 new crop here, haven't signed any yet, getting tempting though. Seed is a HUGE issue!! Luckily I some cert Meadows last wk for $13.50 bu, real steal considering where the market is today. Might throw a target for $10 see if they will bite.

[ColevilleH2S]

I just received information on a Marrowfat pea production contract for $12.50/bushel. Seed is supplied (at a cost) and they take ALL the production at the contracted price.

Interesting contract, but i know SFA about Marrowfats. It kinda sounds like they are similar to green peas, but grade standards aren't as strict for bleached.

[food4u]

The way I understand it is they must be swathed, can not be desicated and straight cut.

[TOM4CWB]

Cole,

12.50 is what grade?

Swathed means please no rain till harvested... bleach brought big discounts...

blowing swaths... Have really good air bins so you can steal them tough... and air them down.

did it for years.

70 percent of yellow yields usually... best if on virgin land or 4 years out of peas if possible.

then when do they buyers take delivery... spring... summer...

[tweety]

Pencils out by 30$ for seed, 25$ nutrients, 15$ for weeds 20$ for fungy. Gross 50 bushel is 450$. Net is 360$ an acre.

Seems to pencil ok.

[ado089]

I wouldn't touch marrowfats for under $15. They yield 10-20% less and lay flat on the ground.

[Ronski]

Tweety. "Pencils out by 30$ for seed, 25$ nutrients, 15$ for weeds 20$ for fungy"

Seed here is $16/bu untreated. and what can you spray for $15/ac?

I figured $48 seed, $35 nutrients (innoculant, dry starter and foliar with chem), $35 chem (includes burnoff, in crop, and desication) and 20 fungicide. Looks like your numbers are pretty frugal compared to mine. I havent grown peas before so I may be overdoing it? Thanks