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Corn pricing is available now for 2025! Contact Blair @ [email protected] or 403-739-2233 for pricing! Silage and grain trial data will be coming soon but lookout varieties for 2025 are:
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We wanted to compare oats and forage sorghum for double cropping after a milk stage cut on hybrid rye. We are comparing tonnage plus quality in this. These plots were planted on June 26th,2024 Forage sorghum came out on top for the second year in a row against oats, one thing is the forage sorghum was not quite ready (75.74% moisture) while oats (60.76 % moisture) were ready which makes them the safest choice to get tonnage off I also planted KWS Serafino at the same time to see tonnage ability with a full vegetative cut in the fall, it did very well!
 We wanted to see if we could take barley to grain after a hybrid fall rye boot stage cut, if the timing works out there could be a good possibility! Blair planted two different varieties (Esma and CDC Durango) on June 2nd,2024 Esma plot averaged out at 140 bushels/acre CDC Durango plot averaged out at 144 bushels/acre Each plot was 3 by 10 feet and planted in a good spot of a field These were done in small plots and calculated down to find bushel average  We took forage samples from our demo plots which included barley, soft wheat, triticale and oats. We cut out sections of the plots for yield and quality to compare each variety to each other. Each plot is taken at soft dough Barley was taken off August 8,2024 Soft wheat, triticale and oats were taken off August 23rd,2024 Blair Balog, our Seed Specialist has compiled the spring crop forage information in a chart for you to make comparisons from variety to variety and crop type. This in not replicated or scientific data, just side by side on small scale as we cut a 3'x10' spot and sent a sample to Down to Earth Labs to get these results. The plots received a PGR at proper timing this year, barley was still lodged at time of forage cutting, soft wheat and triticale were all standing at time of forage cutting. FB 23618,FB 23619, TR22669 are all experimental lines from the Olds College Field Crop Development Center and not currently licensed in the marketplace Winner of registered varieties in the trials is a new variety for 2025, Alotta GP wheat. This will be an exciting variety for the marketplace!   Enchant Community Hall Dec 10th, 2024 9 AM Coffee 9:15 AM Start
RSVP if possible: [email protected]   We heard lots about sawfly cutting stems late season. For a CWRS our farm CDC Adamant VB (semi solid but the refuge is not a semi solid). For durum AAC Grainland are what we use on our dryland and AAC Stronghold can also be an option. Very early seeding will help you get the field before plants fall down or a winter crop can also help but of course not all of the cereal acres can be first. Montana sawfly publication: https://www.montana.edu/extension/pubs-linked-in-store/EB0244_Wheat_Stem_Sawfly.pdf This season marked our 40th year of pedigreed seed production. There have been up's and down's and much growth of the farm, seed sales, offerings of seed varieties, service, and scale! We couldn't have done it without you our customers, as your success is our success. Thank you! What does being in the pedigreed seed business mean to us?
 I haven't noticed this at other elevators yet but from P&H Wilson siding's texts they have a red wheat program for all red wheats (Winter, CPS, GP, CWRS) this is priced very similar to CWRS! The prices will fluctuate but it may drive more winter wheat acres and maybe more demand for GP reds like the new Alotta (launching this fall!) I feel like the CPS market has dried up a bit as people are either growing the new CRWS varieties that yield like a CPS or the GP reds that can yield up to 20%+ more vs a CWRS P&H Willson Siding's number is 403-381-8710 if you have questions for them on their program.  We have seed cleaned and ready of the below pulse crops and prices set for early pickup. If you would like to have them treated, the seed treatment companies support fall treating as the effectiveness of seed treatment does not wear off until it's in the soil. Some of these products are carry over inventory but most of the pulses are 2024 crop. We don't have pricing set for most seed yet but if you do want to pickup now we can sort a price out now.
 Canterra has an amazing lineup of varieties that keep getting stronger with varieties like CS3200TF and CS3300TF to compliment solid varieites like CS3000TF and CS4000LL. Below is trial data from a dryland trial done outside of Bow City in southern Alberta. More trial data to come.
We can get you the best pricing in the marketplace! Truflex Trial: https://canterra.com/performance/trials/2024-bow-city-ici-scandia/ CS4000LL – Great high yielding liberty link variety fit for all areas! CS3000TF – Great yielding, standing variety that has a perfect fit for straight cutting. Short variety which gives it excellent standability CS3200TF – Brand new variety that has a 7+ rating on pod shatter, great yield potential. Fit for long season areas. CS3300TF – Brand new variety that also has a great pod shatter rating, 1st generation clubroot resistance which makes it a great fit for southern Alberta! Very early variety Early booking deadlines are below and they are hard deadlines as we need to enter a customer to achieve these discounts.
Contact Blair Balog at 403-634-4349 (call or text) or [email protected] for pricing or for any questions! Marlene Boersch provided the lentil market update.
Chuck Penner gave the update on dry beans and faba beans. Dry beans stocks to use ratio are still tight this season. Beans
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Special crop trends follow cash receipts = farmers follow the $ Lentil acres have climbed a lot since the 1980's but other crops like mustard and canary seed have been flat. Canary seed 290,900 ac in 2024, up 13.5%
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Malting rye, wheat, yeast selections, beer styles, and more, learn more about where our malt barley ends up: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-brewdeck-podcast/id1527835620
Its always fun to listen to perspectives in agriculture and how people got to where they are:
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-truth-about-ag/id1740590178?i=1000664611590 Corn seed pricing is out, with the best discounts on now. Thunder Seed corn sales by Blair has taken off with growth every season!: https://www.stampseeds.com/corn.html Canterra Canola Pricing is also available with LL, RR, and CL https://www.stampseeds.com/canola.html For seed sales contact Blair Balog at 403-634-4349 (call or text) or [email protected] for pricing or for any questions!  I enjoy reading and listen to Peter Zeihan. Here he talks about how changes to weather patterns may impact wheat growing regions of the world: https://mailchi.mp/zeihan/will-climate-change-be-the-death-of-wheat  I like the personal stories around farming, and have met Gurcharan one of the newest breeders in western Canada: https://grainswest.com/2024/09/for-the-love-of-wheat/
After the recent railway strike, it always amazes me how much goes on behind the scenes that we as farmers don't see. From advocacy and lobbying such as this website https://stopthestrike.ca to how much just the threat of a strike impacted shipments of all goods including farm goods. Just the threat of a strike date meant ships were not being sent our way, trains / shipments were being canceled weeks in advance because no one wanted infrastructure stranded or products stranded. Farm groups spent a lot of effort to make sure that the government know how big of a deal this was. Obviously it was a quick strike but even letting it get that far is a big problem.  Timing is pretty important when seeding a fall crop and Hybrid Rye does not like to be too late, although you can increase rates as you get later in season to compensate. If you are grazing you can seed earlier as you will be resetting the plant. Below are ideal seeding dates but some exceptions do occur:
 Real Ag had Chuck Penner on to talk about the China situation and where he sees it going re canola: https://youtu.be/LdKrUI9kYik?si=XfiHFVcKvEDxbzHd  The recent news of the Chinese anti-dumping probe into Canadian canola in response to EV tariffs Ed White posted this link about Canada's challenging position in the world of trade: https://apple.news/A3fI-I_36TCOlMfPtw4hQ9w
Farmers newer to fall crops have questions!
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