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[ajl]

Easy to tell who's almost done. Only 20% around here.

Here too. Two crops in one field here as well. The one that is ripe and the one that is two weeks away. Rain currently falling does not help with that. The late crop was a result of too wet in mid June when the crop kinda seemed to die off and then it came back later after conditions improved.

[Guest]

Okay MB or who ever has been successfully adding water to dry canola, please describe how you did this. Hearing lots about this lately, but nobody has done it.

I have , weld a 1" collar to auger use a garden hose fitting in it . Use your sprayer truck . Get auger running , load a 100 bu . Test it. Use less or more . Cant even tell at truck thats its had water .May need a 1" hose for a 10"auger . Lots of ****ing around tho . Ok if your hauling your own in the summer or in fall when you have time. You get well paid. I always tell the buyer im doing it also

[shtferbrains]

2 in hose on a big auger.

Need to get 400 gal in a 40 te load.

Doesn't take long to load 40 te.

Garden hose takes 1/2 a day to fill 400 gal tank.

By the time you get to the pit it's just an extra 2 te of canola.

[Braveheart]

A local, clown actually, pumped water into his canola and bragged all over about doing it. Richardsons refused to take delivery citing food safety issues. No one here can guarantee the safety of their water supply. Hog barns everywhere and now wells show up with coliform and even ecoli.

No matter where you are, adding water to canola to bring up the weight is, IMO, risky. Canola is directly a human food. Water from a well, dugout, etc can't be assured to be safe.

If farmers are that desperate for an extra fifty cents, might as well pack it in now.

[sk_wheatking]

A local, clown actually, pumped water into his canola and bragged all over about doing it. Richardsons refused to take delivery citing food safety issues. No one here can guarantee the safety of their water supply. Hog barns everywhere and now wells show up with coliform and even ecoli.

No matter where you are, adding water to canola to bring up the weight is, IMO, risky. Canola is directly a human food. Water from a well, dugout, etc can't be assured to be safe.

If farmers are that desperate for an extra fifty cents, might as well pack it in now.

I get what your saying....but, maybe if the crooked bastards with the monopoly paid a decent price for canola which is an incredibly risky expensive crop to grow guys wouldn't have to resort to pulling bullshit stunts like this. This goes for all grains really. I have never done this myself but nice to see these grain buying crooked pricks have someone get one over on them, even if it's just a small amount.

[MBgrower]

Okay MB or who ever has been successfully adding water to dry canola, please describe how you did this. Hearing lots about this lately, but nobody has done it.

I know a few farmers that do it all the time to very low moisture canola and beans. they typically do it as they haul it from bin to the elevator or crusher. you have to do it slowly to give the water a chance to absorb.

obviously a little hard to do in the winter, some elevators know what they are up to when they see ice crystals in the prob sample

[MBgrower]

I have , weld a 1" collar to auger use a garden hose fitting in it . Use your sprayer truck . Get auger running , load a 100 bu . Test it. Use less or more . Cant even tell at truck thats its had water .May need a 1" hose for a 10"auger . Lots of ****ing around tho . Ok if your hauling your own in the summer or in fall when you have time. You get well paid. I always tell the buyer im doing it also

don't tell they buyer, apparently not an approved practice for farmers to do this. I have heard of foreign buyers/sellers adding water to cargoes.

[Braveheart]

Remember the Walkerton water crisis? E. coli in water there. Can anyone imagine the damage to the canola market should E. coli contaminate oil or the meal? Consumer confidence would be gone. It would be like BSE but for canola.

[farmaholic]

I get what your saying....but, maybe if the crooked bastards with the monopoly paid a decent price for canola which is an incredibly risky expensive crop to grow guys wouldn't have to resort to pulling bullshit stunts like this. This goes for all grains really. I have never done this myself but nice to see these grain buying crooked pricks have someone get one over on them, even if it's just a small amount.

I hear myself but never said anything!

[grassfarmer]

Remember the Walkerton water crisis? E. coli in water there. Can anyone imagine the damage to the canola market should E. coli contaminate oil or the meal? Consumer confidence would be gone. It would be like BSE but for canola.

Given that E. coli originates in the intestines of animals presumably the threat of E. coli contaminated water contaminating canola by this practice would be less than the risk posed by direct contact with faeces from mice, rats, birds, deer etc either in the field or in storage?

[Guest]

no rain for us . four days turned into a half a millimeter . combining this afternoon . she's one dry son of a bitch

[Guest]

Remember the Walkerton water crisis? E. coli in water there. Can anyone imagine the damage to the canola market should E. coli contaminate oil or the meal? Consumer confidence would be gone. It would be like BSE but for canola.

we used the same water we drink , was years ago , but always told buyer. the problem is you can haul 10 loads under dry and then one over and they nail you with shrink and drying . it's a joke . why aren't we paid for under dry . they always say , the computer does it automatically (screws you , that is)