Planting time for Canola in Kansas
The month of September not only kicks off fall harvest but also fall planting for many crops.
Jeff Frazier, Market Development Manager at Scoular shares what the planting window looks like for canola.
"The planting window, it's going to vary somewhat across the state of Kansas, what part of the state you're in but generally we're talking about the month of September into United States early to even mid-October and northern and southwest, excuse me, northwest and southwest regions of Kansas. We really recommend getting started early in September and generally finishing by about mid-September shortly after while central Kansas runs a little bit later generally through the 30th and then south central Kansas can extend into early to mid-October," Frazier said.
Frazier spoke about the Goodland Crush facility and how it has impacted the production of canola and soybeans in the state.
"The Goodland Crush facility has been a major piece of that puzzle giving it a key point for these growers to deliver their canola here in the high plains. So the cooler facility processes about canola and soybeans. It has a capacity to process about a thousand metric tons of oil feed daily and that's the equivalent of more than 400,000 acres of high plains canola. So there's definitely demand that's out there," Frazier said.
But the question remains, have the genetics improved to become suitable for the plains?
"The improvements in seed genetics is to me one of the most exciting parts of the story.
The genetics available to producers today are dramatically better than what we had just a few
short years ago. We're really seeing improvements in water hardiness, yield potential. There's
different of these packages within these varieties, herbicide traits and just as importantly as
the winter hardiness we also are seeing a lot of pon shadow tolerance," Frazier said.
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