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Mentor David Kruger posted an update
Camilina is starting to grow.
Hans Klopp, Courtney Geppert and 3 others5 Comments-
Camilina update. Planting beans in camilina may 12, second and third picture may 26 Camilina now knee high and starting to flower. Looking very good and beans about to emerge. So far very clean just a few dandelion and a couple spots of volunteer wheat, and a little downy brome and those were mostly in open areas. Will be interesting to see how this turns out.
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Thanks for the update, look forward to how it turns out! How’s the soil moisture looking? Any concerns with the camellia using too much?
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@austincarlson not at this point. Camilina is a low moisture use and beans need rain late July August. My thoughts would be if it doesn’t rain July Aug beans will not be great either way. Beans don’t like wet feet early (at plant) which is a positive this year which is unusual for us. Cargil says this heat at flowering is not ideal as it is not as heat tolerant as canola yet. What I do like is no chemical exspenses yet. Will we get by with just one chemical pass. Possibly just on pass of liberty??? Would help bottom line on bean inputs.
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Harvest over. Now we will see what the beams will do.
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Camilina yielded 789 lbs or 15 bushels per acre. No rain in August and September and cut the top off many of the beans when harvesting Camilina. Beans averaged 17, it was very evident where tops were cut off they were 12-15 bushels per acre and where they were not cut off they were 25-30. Should have tried drain tile to protect beans when harvesting Camilina. Even with those yields I contracted Camilina at $14 and beans at $12.30 it was NOT a big loss as the only expense’s the beans needed to cover was seeding, harvesting, seed and $9 chemical costs as Camilina covered rent seeding, harvesting, seed and land rent. I think we can improve soybean yield by 10 plus bushels and hopefully Camilina yields by 5 bushels with some modifications to make it profitable. For first try breaking even is a win in my opinion.
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