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CanolaTV- Harvestime Visit with Josh Bushong
Sun, 20 May 2012 06:28:05 CDT
The 2012 Winter Canola harvest is well underway- and Josh Bushong, OSU Extension Canola Specialist, joins Ron Hays in the latest episode of Canola TV. Bushong discusses the various ways that farmers are approaching the harvest process, saying that probably the most common method being used this season is swathing. This is the cutting of the canola plant and moving it into a windrow, where it will be allowed to dry down and then picked up by a combine a few days later.
Bushong says that harvest has literally been going from southwest Oklahoma near the Red River all the way north to the Oklahoma-Kansas border- and early yields have been very acceptable to producers. He believes most fields have come in around 30 bushels per acre- or 1500 pounds per acre. Higher yields, closer to 2000 pounds per acre (or 40 bushels per acre), have also been reported- while some farmers have only combined 1000 to 1250 pounds per acre. Those lower yields are still making producers money, given the $12.50 to $13.00 per bushel price for canola this season.
Bushong and others in the fledgling industry believe that the total acres to be harvested this year in north Texas, southern Kansas and all of Oklahoma is around 180,000 acres.
We also talked with Bushong about how many producers are showing interest in adding canola to their crop mix in the coming year- he believes that number continues to grow and that the number of acres will be continuing the trend of expansion when the time comes to plant the 2013 crop.
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