Monday, October 30, 2006

Nexara 830: A decent yield to go with the premium

I had one farm's Nexara 830 fields yield the highest of his canola.
I called the producer today for some details

Yield - 2 fields, 32 bu/ac and 34 bu/ac.,
Seed Date - May 18
Burn off - .6 L/ac. Transorb
Fertilizer - 85-28-0-12 side banded
Herbicide - Odyssey, June 20

Comments; The green count was estimated to be less than 2%. No fungicides or insecticides were applied. I forgot to ask seeding rate, swathing date and harvest date. Swath and harvest dates are important with Nexera because of the green count. We tell our growers "sow Nexara first, combine Nexara last"

I met with Louis Dreyfus today about Nexara contracts. They have been pretty happy with green count in Nexara this year. They have really noticed difference with the Nex 828 having lower counts (less than 2%). Having said than Dreyfus is seeing good counts from 830 (around 2% only limited amounts higher)