Interest in canola is sky high

By Doug Rich

Nothing will increase planted acres of a specific crop like an outstanding just-harvested crop and that is what canola growers experienced this year.

"Not all the showing, demonstrating or talking we do will be as important as a really outstanding just-harvested crop," Ron Sholar, Great Plains Canola Association executive director, said. "We finally have that and interest in canola is sky high."

Growers in the Great Plains region harvested approximately 175,000 acres of canola out of 200,000 planted acres. Sholar said there was some hail damage and some canola planted on marginal land did not do well but overall that is a pretty high percentage for harvested acres.

Bob Schrock, a farmer from Kiowa, Kan., and vice-president of Great Plains Canola Association, experienced some of the hail and wind damage on his crop. His yields ranged from 19 to 43 bushels per acre across the 1,850 acres of canola he harvested this year. Schrock said he had enough moisture to grow a good 40-bushels-per-acre crop or better.

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