How much harvest done!

[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

[food4u]

Grain vac works wonders BUT you have to take it slow. We have an older vac that is rated at 500 bushels per hour and it works great.

[hobbyfrmr]

Lex,

I had a similar experience with freight form cleaner to processing facility, then claims of damage, so I did my own lab testing at SGS and everything came through OK. No mention of bugs, but there was some funny business going on there. I have decided to do less business with that facility. It all worked out, but it was way too much fooling around.
If a person chooses to grow hemp I strongly suggest grow by contract and know ALL the details. These companies require 12 months supply so you may be delivering in the summer. Which is ok if you know that ahead of time.

[tipsy]

Lex my neighbour's field of hemp has a lot green growth in his also. It's odd that by the end of Sept we have not had a had frost. Can you desiccate or swath hemp??

[sawfly]

75 % of 2900 acres, wheat left.