Farmers pack Colfax meeting on oilseed crops

“It’s always been successful but it makes me pull my hair out.”

That was the way Dayton farmer Bob Hutchers summed up his years of growing canola on his farm, as he gestured to his bald head. Hutchers grows 115 acres of canola, the most common oilseed crop in these parts, on his farm, in rotation with other crops.

And while his remark drew laughter from many of the more than 100 persons who packed the meeting room at Hill Ray in Colfax, the remark reflected the mood and mindset of the gathering; some optimism, but a lot of caution.

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