h/t to Larry, who does the farm boy math;
$2.10 a pound or $105.00 bushel
So let’s say that Dodge Ram ½ ton of yours holds 32 bushels even with the box – $3,360.00 of brown mustard
Sobeys has Bud on for 2 X24 for $80 – $88.80
That will give you 37 x 48 beer = 1776 beer for a ½ ton of brown mustard
So the French’s people got to you too, eh, Kate?
;^)
I have no idea how much land it takes to produce a pound of mustard seeds, anyone know?
About five quintals per acre.
A quintal is a hundred kilograms.
About five pounds to seed that acre, fertilizer, fuel to plant, spray for weed, and harvest.
Factor in too wet, too dry, too cold, late frost, early frost, hail and you’re all set.
And dont forget the glut that happens when YOU have a bumper crop and the buyer downgrades your load and they can bring it in by the hopper car load…
1000 pounds of seeds per acre!!! – (According to Qwant 🙂 )
Good luck trying to grow any type of significant acres without volunteer canola in it. That is one of the reasons it’s that price. Canola has been grown in all areas of province and even if you have never grown it, like some organic producers, they still have volunteer canola. I’ve grown yellow mustard once and would try it again, would wait till last week of May, spray the canola out and hopefully get the mustard to establish.
French green lentils was around that price as well, better bet.
“Bud” is not beer. It is like making love in a canoe.
Effing close to water…
If it’s ice cold it’s okay after cutting the lawn, and if you want a cheap buzz, it’ll get the job done.
But yeah, it’s not actually decent beer.
Captain obvious- Yer doing it wrong
As I told a girlfriend (an immigrant) that to be a true Canadian you had to make love in a canoe standing up!
Thirty seconds of a quizzical expression, enlightenment and then she threw something at me. And no, she did not want to try the experiment.
We have a winner. Absolutely correct, Bud is not beer.
Excuse me, Sir, do you happen to have some Grey Poupon?
Wayne’s World.
Biblical version…
Faith is a mustard seed….you know the parable, those with ears to hear.
Thing is though, it’s like comparing the price per litre of say petrol and milk (before the Biden price gouging)… Per litre, milk is more expensive; but unless you’ve got a commune with some odd lactic needs, you wouldn’t normally consume say 60 litres of milk a week…
Your vehicle is likely much more thirsty for petrol than your household should be for cow juice!
As to mustard; if you must consume the stuff to dragon-level proportions, well, I hope I don’t have to visit you! There’s a reason why using mustard gas is a war crime, but using maple syrup gas isn’t.
Great Western Pil is 55 bucks at Costco for 48. Taxes and deposit and it’s about $68. I raise your redneck math to 2370 beers! Quick Dick McDick would be happy. Now if only I had a truck full of mustard… And not just on my pants and the console.
It was $47.99 @Costco in Red Deer last week. Add 5% gst and deposit of $4.80.
How’s that stack up Americans?
Is great western decent?
US prices : bud light- $12/24can $15/24 bottles
Natty light – $12 /30 can
Steel reserve- 99cents for a 25oz can
No deposit in most places
GW brews crossover beers. Beers that maintream beer drinkers aren’t offended by. Drinkable but zero envelopes pushed.
OTOH, Bud Light is undrinkable (more rice & cane sugar, pls!). Dunno what “Natty light” is. Steel Reserve is, to quote a fellow craft beer snob, “Ass Juice”. At 8% it’s fine if all you’re after is effect. However, if you want to actually enjoy the taste…
Kate –
Is this an episode of “Honey, I finished the Internet” ? Cause I’m utterly lost in farm jargon and can’t conjure up a picture of anything being discussed here. I’m too much of a suburban-lubber.
That is OK Kenji, most of us know that food comes from a supermarket, how it gets there really doesn’t matter. Beer however…..
Right there with ya Kate! Lol
Kenji, imagine your a farmer sitting in your comfy recliner late-winter, looking at the seed catalogue (on your ipad) and wondering what to plant this year? Planting one seed looks to return 38x more than what you planted last year. Holy ham-hocks Martha, looks like we’re planting mustard as soon as I finish my tea and coffee cake (mustard, I understand is a very beautiful and dramatic-looking plant as a field).
That’s sorta what I surmised … but “beer”? Mustard ? And “Pil”? Pilsner? I don’t get the connection. Mustard flavored beer? They don’t sell that at my local Costco …
I’m sure Newsome can explain it to you.
And I’m sure he can fkcu right off … 🙂
That’s a lot of beer.
One fall our hired man Bill and I were combining mustard when 2 of his hunting buddies up from the states drove out to the field to see what we were doing.
Of course they were not familiar with the crop and Bill told them to taste it. They picked out a couple seeds but BIll being a bit of a joker said, “no no, you’ve got to take a handful to get the real taste”.
Well mustard isn’t exactly ghost peppers but still pretty hot especially when you’re not expecting it. Suffice to say there was a goodly bit of spitting and choking and gulping of beer in between cussing Bill out for being such a prick.