How much harvest done!

[farmaholic]

Finished everything tonight. But weez not that big(1 combine). Started August 1st on peaz and finished wheat potholes and flax low spots tonight. Now the clean-up. Reclaiming low spots(already started) and clean up the remaining flax straw. Neighbor did us a favor and baled over half the flax acres.

Man I HATE cattails/bullrushes!!!

Work safe people.

[jake550]

90% done here. Hoping to finish late Monday or early Tuesday.
Very happy we don't have a pile of straight cut canola out there.
Nice to put it in the bin and get on to other jobs.

[fjlip]

77% combined and swathed. over a foot of rain and yields not as good as 2013, 2014. Should have got an AB address. Swathing wheat through WATER, combining leaving ruts and swaths in water. A bit like freewheat, and sick of catails and bulrushes and wet drainage ditches and beavers. Humidity like Vancouver, fog = damp grain!

[SASKFARMER3]

Hit the 50% mark late last night!

[Oliver88]

50% of crop in bin.
All fans running, 90% came off tough....will dry a fair amount of wheat.
Propane is cheaper this year at 33 cents/L.

[Lex]

We will hit 60% done today. Canola done last week. Sold and delivered. Using bins a second time. All swathed at 70% color change. Beautiful sample. Moisture at or near 10%. Had to air dry the last 10,000 bushels.

Oats are next. Swathed them also. The last green patches refused to ripen. Swathed faba beans yesterday. Second growth on faba was in full flower.

We'll be held up combining waiting for frost on our hemp. Where is the frost when you need it???

But hey, two weeks with no rain has really turned things around. Fall Spraying roundup through the low spots with fat tires leaving some ruts but should be able to disk through some of them before freeze up.

Hemp has been a fairly high margin crop for us but movement is now lagging by a year with contracts in place. Shipped out a load this week and had to pay freight both ways to Winnipeg when the load got rejected for bugs. It was dried and cleaned and I have looked for bugs in the returned load and cannot find them. Nevertheless I now have to hire a fumigator to apply phostoxin because I can no longer buy it without an applicators (fumigator) license.

Will be rethinking growing hemp next year. Might grow wall to wall canola simply for cash flow. And we all seem to love running the swather around here. And picking up dry canola at 4.5 mph!

[TOM4CWB]

Lex,

If rusty grain beetle;
Can u use a vacuvator and kill them that way instead? This is what is used by everyone around here when they have infested grain. Going through the air chamber and pump/hoses kills all the bugs.

[Lex]

Yes they are rusty grain beetles. At least according to the buyer. I still haven't lsud eyes onnone.

I've heard that a grsin vac works. But I wasn't sure if it was 100% effective. And I thought the air had to be freezing for it to work.

[HFL]

I think the grain vac blows the bugs out the exhaust. Dosent have to be cold.

[dalek]

SRW was done 1st week of August. Soys 50% done, azukis ready to start this week. Corn is mature, needs 2-3 weeks of drying