Peas Please !

The Tiede's of Strathmore are Canadian Farmers who make the words Peas Please possible at meal time in many parts of the world ! Darren and Cheryl are our longest participating real Kernels Farmers ! This year they are growing Yellow Edible Peas for us ! Here's the scoop !

CDC Meadow is a new yellow pea variety from CDC Saskatoon.

( Is there any one good at shelling peas ? We'll let their combine do that !)

Yellow peas
CDC Meadow had good yield and good lodging and powdery mildew resistance in the Co-op registration trials, and was a strong performer in provincial regional trials. It is about three days earlier maturing than most of the other CDC varieties. Certified seed of CDC Meadow will become widely available in 2009 and 2010.

Hyas Canola

Hyas is a very small town in Saskatchewan ! It is in a very important location though because it is in the Heart of Kernels country ! It is just a few miles west of Norquay where Kernels began and has been continuing ever since ! We are please to welcome Warren and Pam Newberg aboard as some of our real farmers this year. They offered last year and have been waiting since ! They have 20 acres of canola seeded for us and it is up and growing and has already been sprayed for weeds !
Stay tuned for more details on progress

Ray the Grain Guy

New Video from Congo!

Helping End Hunger in Maniema

In Maniema, a province in the centre of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Canadian Foodgrains Bank and World Relief Canada work with Tearfund to help people feed themselves and their families.

Together, they have provided assistance to over 5,500 families over the past three years

Good Earth !

Dave Mazier farms with his wife Cathy just north of Brandon, Manitoba. He is in the elevator where I work quite often and has taken an interest in Kernels ! This year he offered to be one of our real farmers by seeding 10 acres of Round up Ready Canola . It is a hybrid seed... Making it one of the higher yielding varieties. It is called VT 500... It has excellent lodging resistance. That doesn't mean it likes to stay away from hotels... it means it won't lay flat on the ground unless you drive over it ! It is also R to Blackleg. Blackleg could be a pirate but in this case it is a disease that robs health and yield from Canola plants.
He actually got it seeded May 26. It has had lot's of rain on it since but I am sure it will survive and thrive... Dave's farm name is Good Earth Farms ! How can we go wrong ! Stay tuned .

Van Heyst canola

Just about 15 km north of the deep Assiniboine River where the river is overflowing its banks in Brandon is he Ron and Fran Van Heyst Kernels field ... The canola planted there Friday ( May 20 ) will help us over flow the banks also ! The bank accounts that will contribute to World Relief Canada and the CFGB and then the partners in North Kivu Congo !
Earl of VR Farms put the crop in for us. It is also an Invigor canola. 8440 is the variety. Big bushels from a small seed and a small field promise big things for those in need.
Stay tuned for progress on this field !

Ray the Grain Guy

Canola and Canola

May 18 was a good day at Kernels !

Last year Kendell at Melfort tried and tried to seed the crop and got wet every time !

The land lay fallow for the year... resting and waitin for an opportunity like we had now to get the canola seed in along with just the right nutrition to produce some Big Bushels in '11 !

We got 70 acres of Invigor L130 canola seeded ! This is a high yielding seed that uses Liberty as the chemical for weed control ... sometimes it needs to be sprayed once , sometimes twice ...

Kendell had lotsa help putting the crop in with good citiizens popping up everywhere !

We talked over where we could sell some of the crop...planning ahead ... storage of the crop would not be easy... so... on Friday with the seed planted we sold 15 tonnes of canola in advance.. We will haul it to Viterra in Sept 2011 and get $541.84 per tonne ... there are 44.092 bushels of canola in a metric tonne and that means we will get $12.29 per bushel for this 15 tonnes. That is a very high price historically ! Now we can watch the progress of the crop and see if we should set the price on any more !

In the pictures you will see the seeding operation and the sign that stands by the field.... Thanks so much to all those that contributed !

Grow with us Launch Letter 2011