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Spring Canola ?
Topic Started: Dec 8 2012, 02:38 PM (802 Views)
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Now that my hunting season is officially over I am planning my food plots for next year and what seeds mix to use for both early season and fall plantings. My question is anybody using spring canola for a fall planting food plot? I was talking to the owner of Gore Bay Agromart and she said it would be a good draw for deer till December.
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spring canola? I know nothing about it. I have about 6-8 acres plowed and ready to be worked and planted in spring. I also have a few 1/2 acre to 1 acre bush plots that have been cut each year but never planted. Now that we have a tractor I am hoping to really get going on plots next year.
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Canola is part of the Biologic Maximum Blend.
But I never heard of spring canola, you need to tell us more about it ?
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I know it's in the brassica family and there are two kinds of canola spring and winter. The spring is not as cold tolerant as the winter although it is a hell of a lot cheaper the spring will eventually die off during the winter months as the winter will thrive during the winter although the price of winter canola is too expensive.
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The deer eat spring canola here in Alberta, but deer seem to do strange things here..... I'm not sure if it's because better foods are in short supply, but they hammer the canola all summer long and they turn onto the spring wheat and other cereal grains come September. In southern Ontario I've never found deer to be particularly interested in wheat that has gone to seed, but I have seen them hit fall planted canola pretty hard after it sprouts.
Not sure if that helps at all....
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Thanks for the info cervus stalker.
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I have planted both spring and winter canola. Spring they hit in early summer until the leaves get to big and mature and then it works like any other brassica once it freezes & snow's they go crazy again.
Winter Canola is more like planting rye they hit it early Oct/Nov, but if it's planted to early like before Aug 15th here in NWOntario it will get to big and they won't eat it. I have had good luck with both, as he mentioned winter canola$$$. I planted one year when my corn froze before the cob's could dent, well then it will mold. The guy @ the elevator told me to put in Winter Canola it worked out great!
It's all in the timing and what other food sources are available.
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I'm interested in this canola. Anyone have any pics of there plantings and share any more experiences with it. What kind of cost is the seed?
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Canola (Rape) if planted early in spring will go to seed if not eaten and will re-seed itself the following year. This could be a problem if your wanting to rotate this plot to something else.
Fall planted canola shouldn't have this problem.

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thanks Friggs - I was kind of wondering - after seeing the results of bigr's spring plant bracs I was thinking it might not be the best idea. His brac's grew but mostly all stem, very little leaf and lots'o flowering.
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Jan 11 2013, 07:15 AM
thanks Friggs - I was kind of wondering - after seeing the results of bigr's spring plant bracs I was thinking it might not be the best idea. His brac's grew but mostly all stem, very little leaf and lots'o flowering.

No problem, the next time I plant brassica it will be mid July to early August or 60-90 days before major frost. The winter canola keeps growing and needs a good hard frost to stop it from growing.
I learned the hard way about spring planted brassica, took 3 years to finally get rid of the canola/rape and the deer hardly touched any of it. That's why I'm adding forage radishes to my rye/oats/r. clover mix this fall. Once they start eating the radishes I'll add canola/rape and if they eat that also is when I'll grow straight brassica's again.

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