Post by canadamike on Apr 5, 2011 0:04:31 GMT -5
In my new job with my (mostly) organic/natural fertilizer company, I have the luxury to be paid to find, also, new interesting cultivars, mostly of the cash crop type.
Being organic, you sure can understand I am not on the look out for GMO's ;D
I have come across an old oat that was immensely productive, DOUBLE the usual harvest in an organic setting than the usual chemical oat harvest. Around here chemical commercial oat scores around 40-50 bushels an acre, and this one 80. One guy even got 130 bushels in one parcel.
We are talking minimal fertilization here...and the oat goes up to 7 feet high and stays put, no lodging problem. Ontario oat averages around 38 pounds abushel, and this one is more like the prairies oat at 42. We bought 3 tons of it, all that is available really, but I should have some for the friends here, should you ask for it.
The oat is a cross of MERRIT, a public domain oat of the 40's- 50's ( read canadian government) oat crossed with an unknown century old one. A bunch of 10 guys or so were verry verry happily groing it, doing their small thing, when I met the wonderful Victor Kucyk, an amazing corn breeder from Ontario. I will talk about him later, but we have a new hero, a man who will make the transition, productivity wise, between OP corn and hybrids, in favor of OP of course.
In the corner of his kitchen was that ziploc bag with HUGE oat kernels...I asked about it, it came from his friend and was grown by some of the ORGANIC MEADOWS dairy coop people.
I asked him to call his friend to knoif some was available and...yesss....some was. It is all bought.
And the friends can benefit from the purchase of course...I have a picture, which I am trying to loccate in my computer right now, I will post it later when I» do, it does look only 5 feet high, but do not forget it was cut by an old folk, and this kind does not bend to low
Meanwhile, here is a picture of a VERY productive OP corn, this one around 1600american units, but «i am not sure, yours are different from the canadians, anyway, it is quite early, and loaded with proteins at 50 pounds per acre of nitrogen, organic source or not, which is one third to one quarter what the guys put in the ground to get half that...
Being organic, you sure can understand I am not on the look out for GMO's ;D
I have come across an old oat that was immensely productive, DOUBLE the usual harvest in an organic setting than the usual chemical oat harvest. Around here chemical commercial oat scores around 40-50 bushels an acre, and this one 80. One guy even got 130 bushels in one parcel.
We are talking minimal fertilization here...and the oat goes up to 7 feet high and stays put, no lodging problem. Ontario oat averages around 38 pounds abushel, and this one is more like the prairies oat at 42. We bought 3 tons of it, all that is available really, but I should have some for the friends here, should you ask for it.
The oat is a cross of MERRIT, a public domain oat of the 40's- 50's ( read canadian government) oat crossed with an unknown century old one. A bunch of 10 guys or so were verry verry happily groing it, doing their small thing, when I met the wonderful Victor Kucyk, an amazing corn breeder from Ontario. I will talk about him later, but we have a new hero, a man who will make the transition, productivity wise, between OP corn and hybrids, in favor of OP of course.
In the corner of his kitchen was that ziploc bag with HUGE oat kernels...I asked about it, it came from his friend and was grown by some of the ORGANIC MEADOWS dairy coop people.
I asked him to call his friend to knoif some was available and...yesss....some was. It is all bought.
And the friends can benefit from the purchase of course...I have a picture, which I am trying to loccate in my computer right now, I will post it later when I» do, it does look only 5 feet high, but do not forget it was cut by an old folk, and this kind does not bend to low
Meanwhile, here is a picture of a VERY productive OP corn, this one around 1600american units, but «i am not sure, yours are different from the canadians, anyway, it is quite early, and loaded with proteins at 50 pounds per acre of nitrogen, organic source or not, which is one third to one quarter what the guys put in the ground to get half that...