Canola School: Reducing Canola Left in the Field Increases Your Revenue and Lessens Volunteers- Deni

[shaney]

There is no way you would ever be leaving just 5lbs in the field.

[mcfarms]

Thats what I'm saying though , If I was throwing 250 lbs !!!!! there aint enough Prepass for that. they are saying between 30 and 50 times normal seeding rate! Even @ 1% loss its 50 lbs and thats more along the lines of what I would say average is..

This said the problem of volunteer canola is a real one and the game plan here now is rotate rr one year and the next rotation LL that way we can be 6 years between rr and should drop the number of dormant and sleeping seeds that show up as weeds (effectively. Down by quite a margin. And if I was really wacky ( which is open for discussion) you could through Clearfield in there every 4th time or something.

[mcfarms]

Oh and thank you shaun we is all experts....LOL

[Hopperbin]

One thinks can keep under planting density. Another thinks its 3 to 5 bushels per acre. Should we add shattering loss before swathing, loss at swathing loss from pick up, hail loss, Saskfarmers frost, drown out, too wet loss, mudded in loss we could be up to total loss and how come were still getting 40 bushels to the acre.

This is how I learned from Dad and experience to harvest canola, don't swath until you can see some shattering. I set my IH on max wind and alter the sieve if needed. Watch the monitor and the ground to see if things change. Other than that its whatever can go in the front at max. ground speed.

[silverback]

Max Wind in canola? Really? My kids have never tried that. How about concave?

Will that be taught at the canola school?

[shaney]

By the sounds of it this might be a great future episode to focus on actual combine setting strategies.

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[Hopperbin]

Max wind works on my 2188 and 1680. Nice sample not much adjustments ever needed, I think mostly lighter seeds blown out anyway. Concave open and rotor speed as slow as can get away with. I would sure like to see how the canola school gets their 5 bushels maybe they just tested gleaner.

[hedgehog]

what a load of nonsense, 5lb an acre of spilt seed will give a full crop.
you can never cut volunteers to zero.
sounds like some wil get a crop where none was seeded, bettter than nothing.
volunteers are ok.

[mbratrud]

Every bushel thrown over would be about 700 - 1000 seeds per square foot (depending on the 1000 seed weight). Just an interesting number to be aware of. Not arguing that some people could be throwing over five bushel but not to see 4000 seeds per square foot you would literally have to be blind.

[shaney]

I don't think Denise meant that 3-5 bushels was the average but the council must have seen this on some farms to mention it.

What is the groups opinion on what is the hardest crop to set the combine for.

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[cottonpicken]

canary seed-its at the end of harvest,your mentally
and physically damaged goods,the weather sucks,and
you get incredibly uncomfortable making combine
adjustments.

[wmoebis]

I never got a chance to look. Was there an up front charge for this clinic?