historicalarms
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Never heard of "winter canola around here and we grow thousands of acres locally....any of the canola Im familiar with is extremely frost sensitive and dies with only a touch of frost.
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Finally finished planting
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Lifelong hobby - cold iron
Can I find out what the average income per hectare is? Also, if you don't grow any crops and let the land go to waste, will the government fine you?
DPittman
Ultra Member
Actually canola is quite frost tolerant when it is small and will even regrow when the top is froze off.
DPittman
Ultra Member
Average income per hectare isn't a useful measurement really because the range can be sp extreme. It depends highly on the area, the crop grown, input expenses and fluctuating markets. No the government doesn't fine you if you don't plant a crop, there is enough common sense and economic incentives to prevent that sort of waste.
Most farmers in Canada will tell you that average farm income is a negative number. Especially if you don't farm it. In Ontario you have to have 7K gross income to qualify for the farm Property Tax rate.
Nobody will fine you though. They will just gouge you.
Interestingly, lots of farmers do summer fallow which is leaving your land crop free and working the dirt for a year to control weeds. For large parcels of land with low yield rates, it's more economical than using weed spray.
Dan Dubeau
Ultra Member
Glad you got it in. Sounds like that last row won't be as straight as the others......
Wife got our garden in yesterday while I was building a deck with a friend. I hate gardening, but love the results.
Wife got our garden in yesterday while I was building a deck with a friend. I hate gardening, but love the results.
Doggggboy
Ultra Member
My father in law used to call that recreational tillage.
DPittman
Ultra Member
Another term I've heard for "recreational" tillage is "honey dew" tillage....that is when the wife is always saying " honey do this, honey do that" so the husband instead goes our and summerfallows, whether it needs it or not.
