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2011 Canola Harvest Season in the Books- and Jeff Scott Calls it Another Home Run
Sun, 19 Jun 2011 21:38:17 CDT
The final acres of the 2011 winter canola harvest have been combined over the last few days- and one of those farmers who is wrapping up his havest is Jeff Scott. Scott farms around the Pond Creek community in Grant County- and we rode in the combine with him in the western part of that county. The field he was harvesting as we road along with him got hit with some late season hail- pea sized hail which cost him as much as half of the crop with it dead ripe and ready for harvest.
Among the topics we discussed in the combine cab with Jeff- the impact of drought on the 2011 crop.
The similarities of the 2011 and the 2006 harvest season.
The success of No-till techniques and a canola/wheat rotation.
The advantage of that rotation versus straight wheat.
and the future of canola production in the southern Great Plains- Jeff sees as many as 250,000 acres of canola being planted in the fall of 2011 for a 2012 harvest.
Click on the LISTEN BAR below for our full audio conversation with Jeff Scott.
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