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Post by Oatking on Sept 22, 2022 18:27:17 GMT -6
How is the oat crop in the Melfort area ? My grain manager said the oat area in north eastern sasketchawan has more of an effect on oat prices than Manitoba s oat areas. My overage will be locked up for awhile. 4.25 a bushel is not great when wheat is pushing 12 bucks.
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Post by meskie on Sept 23, 2022 7:25:04 GMT -6
Not as good as it looked. Around here it was 120-150. Guys I’ve talked to have said about the same. Couple guys have said some fields hit the 160 mark. This would be in an area about 30 miles east and north and west of Melfort. Big oat growing area. Crop looked like it should be in the 160-180 range.
i agree oat prices aren’t great. Can get $7 or a bit better for feed barley and we had a monster barley crop this year.
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Post by hardrockacres on Sept 23, 2022 9:14:07 GMT -6
We are in the 150~160 range for ours and that seems to be where everyone else is around here. This is 30/40 miles south of Melfort.
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Post by jaymo on Sept 23, 2022 9:39:31 GMT -6
You bet that is true Jaymo. I was at an oat tour at paterson grain in winnipeg this summer and I asked a question to an oat agronomist and they said there is no advantage with growth regulators based on there research, and he said a reduction in yield is noticed. Even more convincing , one farmer pipped up and said his farm trail showed a decrease in oat yield using a growth regulator. Cant argue with those results. The results were so convincing general mills does not allow growth regulators applied to there specialty oat program. I wont grow camden based on neighbours results of an increase in rust and green straw. I think most varieties have that green straw but some are worse than others. My Macdon swathers stay black all thru cutting 35-42m. I cant wait till next year to get going seeding oats again. I think the oat price will have to go up to get the acres. Looks like putin will end his deal providing a safe export path. A very volatile winter a head I think. So this is common knowledge in some circles? I ended up doing a half rate Manipulator with the herbicide and then a half rate of Moddus with Trivapro at very early flag leaf. My neighbor is claiming his oats did less then 100 where he sprayed a full rate of Moddus. Maybe I dodged a bullet with the half rate?? The oats here are doing about 140 which I'm happy with but on the light side around 37-38 lb. They were seeded June 8-10 on very wet ground but then missed some rains later they could have used. They are standing really well and short, only about hip high but really thick. |
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Post by garyfunk on Sept 23, 2022 12:48:07 GMT -6
Sask crop report has oat yields pegged at 101bpa for the nw and 110bpa for the ne. Must be some crappy fields around 🤔
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Post by meskie on Sept 23, 2022 13:45:41 GMT -6
Some guys think you don’t have to put much fertilizer with oats. And they like to seed them late. Both a recipe for poor oat yields in my experience.
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Post by kevlar on Sept 23, 2022 14:04:49 GMT -6
We try to put them in as early as we can, but also too early seems to really set them back if it turns cool and wet after they’re seeded. We seem to get a negative response to to much N.
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Post by Oatking on Sept 23, 2022 17:08:31 GMT -6
Go figure, a number of guys seeded at the june deadline and harvested up to 200 bpa oats. I do believe in early seeding but like kevlar said you have to be smart about it!
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Post by kevlar on Sept 23, 2022 17:54:22 GMT -6
Heat units play a big role when seeding late, you guys down there have a lot more than I do. If oats were put in on the 20th, they likely wouldn’t have made it this year, and this summer was above average for heat, on a normal year, not a chance they would make it.
When crop insurance extended the deadline years ago all it did was cover their arse so it reduced the wet acres payments and there would hopefully would be enough crop to keep them from paying out. In my mind we shouldn’t be seeding after the fifteenth.
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Post by Oatking on Sept 23, 2022 18:25:42 GMT -6
There is july seeded canola in our area that may do 50 plusbpa. Its a abnormal year. wish it was normal.
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