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Canola TV: Canola College Comes to Enid
Mon, 28 Jan 2013 14:26:02 CST
The interest in growing canola in Oklahoma continues to grow by leaps and bounds. Gene Neuens with Producers Cooperative Oil Mill in Oklahoma City spoke with Ron Hays recently on the latest edition of Canola TV. He says his company is partnering with the Great Plains Canola Association, Oklahoma State University, Kansas State University, and several other companies to present an educational event for current and prospective growers.
"Canola College-Taking Production to the Next Level" will be held March 28, 2013 in Enid. Neuens said he anticipates a large group of first-time and veteran canola producers at the day-long event.
"The main thing is education on growing canola. The first part is going to be for beginners. There are a lot of people who are just starting to grow it who need to get that type of education," Neuens said.
But, equally important are the producers who may have a few seasons under their belts and who are trying to maximize their production efforts. Neuens said two veteran canola producers, Bob Schrock and Jeff Scott, will offer a session for advanced growers, those who want to get the extra ten bushels per acre out of their crop.
"Those two are some of the bigger growers in the state and also Kansas. They've been growing canola for eight to ten years now. They've learned a lot by trial and error. That's how we've learned this crop. And they've been doing very well. So, they're going to talk about how to fertilize right. Maybe micronutrients and just the little hints about how to grow the extra few bushels of canola."
Neuens says that growers in Oklahoma are benefitting from those who have pioneered the crop here over the past decade all the way from producers to academics to end users in industry.
He said there is no charge to participants at Canola College, and lunch will be provided.
Click here for the Canola College Registration form: http://canola.okstate.edu/canola-registration-form.
You can see today's conversation with Gene Neuens 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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