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Hopes are High About the 2010 Winter Canola Crop
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 5:54:54 CDT
Expectations for the 2010 Winter Canola crop are high, as Gene Neuens with PCOM telling us that he has seen fields from southern Kansas across western Oklahoma into North Texas- and it all looks good. Neuens says that canola appears to be coming out of the winter season in excellent shape. He does expect to see some aphids in the canola in the near future, so he advises producers to be checking their fields on a regular basis.
Neuens and other crop watchers estimate that there are about 85,000 acres of winter canola growing in the region this year, substantially above the 35,000 estimated acres of a year ago. Neuens says the biggest challenge will once again getting the crop harvested, as farmers in the southern plains are still learning how to best get the tiny seed out of the field without leaving too much of it on the ground in the field.
You can hear our conversation from this past Friday with Gene Neuens on what he is seeing in canola fields as we approach the official start of spring- click on the Listen Bar below for that convesation.
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