[AT] Canola

[charlie hill]

What does Canola weigh per bushel?  I'd guess about 60#'s but don't know. 
Or to state the question another way, what  does it sell for per bushel in 
the open market and what are typical yeilds/acre?


Charlie
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From: "Ralph Goff" <alfg at sasktel.net>
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Subject: Re: [AT] Canola


> Canola better be worth something before spring or there will be a lot of 
> fuel bills that won't get paid this fall here. Most of the canola is still 
> in the field here. Only a few have begun harvest. Mine is all in the 
> swath. Lucky that it stands rain well. We just had another two inches 
> yesterday.
> Yes, bio diesel is an interesting concept but I wonder just how efficient 
> it is. How many gallons of "dino diesel" do we burn to produce that bushel 
> of canola?
>
> Ralph in Sask.
> http://lgoff.sasktelwebsite.net/
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>> Canola is a major crop in this area and right now at 8 cents per
>> pound its at one of the lowest prices we've seen for a while. Big
>> yields this year though.
>>
>> On 1 Sep 2005 at 8:54, CBear81438 at aol.com wrote:
>>
>>> I am heading out to plant about 15 acres of Canola seed.  It is supposed 
>>> to
>>> be the seed that biodiesel is made from.  100 lbs is only 2 sacks about 
>>> the
>>> size of 25 lb dog food sacks.  I don't know how many lbs of it it takes 
>>> to make a
>>> gallon of biodiesel, but at $3.00/gal, Canola might be worth something 
>>> next
>>> spring....
>>>
>>> Cecil in OKla
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