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Canola Looking Great in Ottawa County- Take a Look
Fri, 03 May 2013 05:36:11 CDT
Oklahoma Canola crop ratings have reflected the stress that the 2013 crop has been under across most of the state since the planting window of last fall. Most recently, 42% of the crop was rated poor to very poor, 31% in fair condition, 24% in good shape and 3% in excellent condition. Northeast Oklahoma has not been considered a primary target for winter canola production- but Brent Rendel of Ottawa County clearly has some canola in that "excellent" category as we head into the home stretch of the production cycle.
Brent sent these pictures you see here to us earlier this week- and offered these thoughts about this canola- "Pretty hard for me to make an accurate estimate, but I think we will easily top 2000 lbs/ac here and might make it all the way to 3000 lbs/ac." Canola is figured in fifty pounds per bushel- so we are talking north of forty bushels and perhaps as high as sixty bushels per acre as the upper limit.
Brent had told us earlier this year that he had not grown canola for a couple of years- but decided to give it another try this past fall- clearly, he's very pleased with the outcome to this point- and hoping for a bumper harvest in a many of just a few more weeks.
When you drive down the road in the country- it's impossible not to notice the distinctive yellow blooms of canola- and while folks living in town see a beautiful backdrop for Prom pictures- farmers looking at it see dollar signs, with current canola prices at $11 a bushel.
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