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Canola TV-Canola is in the Ground; Now What?
Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:45:51 CDT
Heath Sanders with PCOM has been helping producers get their canola in the ground. Now that the planting window has closed, Ron Hays asks "What's next?"
"This year, like every year it seems like in Oklahoma, we've been faced with a lot of challenges. And one is we went from extremely hot temperatures with no rain to getting a little bit of erratic rain here and there to a cool down with some more moisture. But we obviously know that there needs to be a lot more moisture out across the state."
He says the erratic weather has made it hard on producers and he's tried to spread himself as broadly as possible to help as many as possible get a crop in the ground.
"We've got a lot more canola farmers, more acres being planted and it's been difficult to get to everybody."
Sanders says he expects the predictions that Oklahoma will have between 250,000 to 300,000 acres of canola this year to be correct.
"We've got a lot more newer growers out here. We've got experienced growers that are planting more acres. They really like what's going on in the field with the wheat crop plus a canola crop following that. It's able to clean up a lot of our weed problems plus it's just been two years in a row that's been a disaster on our summer crops. And if we can grow can winter canola like we can grow wheat, which we should, then it should work just great for them."
He said most canola seed dealers in the state rain out very early this year.
Sanders says producers need to be looking at their new stands and be thinking about weed control.
"Here again, Mother Nature provided us with rainfall towards the end of September and it's been erratic, but it hasn't rained all summer and has been really hard to get any of this weed volunteer or flush up."
With the recent rains, Sanders says, producers are noticing a flush of weeds among their canola. He said producers need to apply controls, if necessary, before the completion begins hurting the canola.
You can see today's conversation with Heath Sanders on CanolaTV by clicking on the play button in the video box below. CanolaTV is a service of PCOM, Producers Cooperative Oil Mill- click here to learn more about how they serve cotton and canola producers across the south.
Our YouTube channel has several dozen past episodes of CanolaTV, with a lot of great information about producing and marketing winter canola in the southern plains- click here to jump there.
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