[AT] Jim Erdle Auction

[charlie hill]

Thanks Ralph,  that's in the range yield I was expecting.
You'll have to get yourself some bee hives and raise some flax honey.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Ralph Goff
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 2:56 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Jim Erdle Auction

On 9/18/2013 12:36 PM, charlie hill wrote:
> I don't know a thing about Canola, what is an average bushel per acre
> yield
> for the stuff?
> They have just started growing some Canola here recently.  A friend sent 
> me
> a pint of honey
> from his hives the other day and told me the farms around his hives were
> planted in Canola this
> spring so it is Canola honey.  It's nice honey.  Smooth and not overly
> sweet.
Charlie, I guess it depends on whose farm what the yield is. I hear talk
of 50 and 60 bushel per acre canola but with my methods I am well
impressed when I see 40 bushel per acre.
I hear canola was always a good source for honeybees. Nowadays I guess
some people get all hyper about canola being genetically modified
(roundup ready) and might have some issues about it. I wonder how the
bees like the flax flowers? Plenty of those around here this summer.
http://imageshack.us/a/img138/6489/aj4c.jpg

Ralph in Sask.
>
>

_______________________________________________
AT mailing list
http://www.antique-tractor.com/mailman/listinfo/at