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The 2011 Winter Canola Crop Looking Good in the Oklahoma Wheat Belt
Wed, 29 Dec 2010 6:57:26 CST
The 2011 Winter Canola Crop is off to a good start, based on comments that Heath Sanders made to us this past week as we sat down with this Oilseed Agronomist that now works for PCOM. Sanders started with OSU Extension as a canola specialist, based in Enid- and earlier this year made the move to the PCOM team as they try to increase the Canola IQ in the wheat farmer population in the southern plains.
Sanders believes that we have somewhere between 100,000 and 125,000 acres of canola planted here as 2010 ends- those acres to be harvested this coming June of 2011. He tells us that every time that he goes down the road in the western half of the state of Oklahoma- be comes upon another field of canola that he was not previously aware of. Farmers very interested in canola this summer, even as wheat prices were jumping higher, because of the need to find a way to break the cycle of weed problems in wheat fields across the region. Those weeds have given wheat producers major headaches in the form of dockage and foreign material discounts when they sold wheat from the 2010 harvest.
We talked with Sanders about this past year's production, the learning curve that producers are climbing in order to grow canola and market it as well- and we talked about some of the things that producers must do over the winter months to make sure the canola crop arrives in good shape to start growing in early spring 2011.
We also preview several grower meetings planned for early 2011 that will help producers learn more about how to grow winter canola.
Click on the LISTEN BAR below to hear our full conversation with Heath Sanders of PCOM.
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