Farmers have been rotating crops to replenish soil nutrients for centuries.
Winter canola may clean up weeds and increase yields for Texas wheat farmers. As a rotation crop, canola also offers an attractive value, as much as $2 per bushel more at market than wheat, reports Southwest Farm Press.
Wheat farmers have strived for years to find a suitable rotation crop. Winter canola is a higher maintenance crop, but is a higher value crop and allows higher wheat yields in following years.
Texas farmers plant about 40,000 acres in canola with a majority within a three-county area of the Rolling Plains.