Storing new canola on top of old

[agchat]

Have a bin with about 700 bushels of canola in it. Had heard rumors that is not good to store new ontop of old. If it is testing below 8 moisture why should it matter? Whats your thoughts?

[tweety]

There is no problem whatsoever.

[farming101]

Did that once in a small bin. Turned out old canola had warmed up over summer and acted like heater keeping the new stuff from cooling down. Heated.

Likely depends on how dry your new stuff is and if it has been dry for some time so that respiration is no longer an issue.
Also, a bin with a fan on it should allow you to manage grain temp and get things cooled down.

[farmaholic]

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[farming101]

Farma, have another cup of coffee and check your post again!?

After reading your post again it looks like I was the one low on coffee. Funny..

[farmaholic]

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I did say "message"......not massage!

Did I miss.something?

[agchat]

Did that once in a small bin. Turned out old canola had warmed up over summer and acted like heater keeping the new stuff from cooling down. Heated.

Likely depends on how dry your new stuff is and if it has been dry for some time so that respiration is no longer an issue.
Also, a bin with a fan on it should allow you to manage grain temp and get things cooled down.

Have an opi in that bin, old canola is 21.5. Any new stuff going in will be warmer than that unless i wait till its only about 15 or16c out to combine.

[boarderbloke]

What about "cured canola", not meaning dry canola or having the green count low enough, cured, that it will store?
Having an unusual fall with no rain on the canola swathes, to speak of. Rubbed out a sample into a 5 gal pail the other day from a lower area where the crop was a little greener than the avg.(swathed 2 weeks) Tested 8 percent moisture and had only 4 green out of 700 seeds, Yet the straw was still quite tough, and I'm sure you'd know it when putting this area through the combine.

So my question , if the straw is still tough, even though the canola is dry, Is it cured that it will keep in the bin? Lots of guys are combining it, but they maybe delivering it right away too and not storing it themselves.

[agchat]

What we started yesterday will be down two weeks today. Started out at 8 percent at one oclock, by four oclock it was down to 6.5.

[seabass]

Fan or cable no problem. Otherwise sell it. Had problems before but had more than that in the bottom than u got

[farming101]

Anything over 8 I would watch like a hawk.

Temp cable should give you a warning. Over 28C and high oil content left long enough will at the very least oxidize. Over 30, look out.

I can't imagine anything at 6.5 giving trouble, but with high oil content you just never know if it is quite warm.

I guess you can tell I really hate heated canola!