5.45 am

[malleefarmer]

What is the maximum temp that you will harvest at? The risk of fires at those temps are really amplified. I have even stopped combining when temps were around 35C. and waited until evening.This doesn’t happen very often here.

We have something called fire danger index.
It’s temp relative humidity and wind speed when index hits 35 your meant to stop harvest.
You can have a 40 c day with 75% humidity and zero wind it’s ok to harvest.

[malleefarmer]

Try this one

[malleefarmer]

What the table says at 35c and 10% humidity harvesting must cease when wind gets to 26 kmh

[seldomseen]

Doesn't look like you would have much use for a grain dryer?

If only we could have 10% humidity when you get the combine in an alfalfa field!

[farmaholic]

I should use that chart for spring seeding in the Ghetto.

[fjlip]

I should use that chart for spring seeding in the Ghetto.

Rarely gets to 15C at seeding, soil temps in single digits till late May this year.

[blackpowder]

15C? Haha, June.

[malleefarmer]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-20/sa-prepares-for-bushfires-on-catastrophic-fire-danger-day/11719590 http://https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-20/sa-prepares-for-bushfires-on-catastrophic-fire-danger-day/11719590

[malleefarmer]

8.44 still disgusting as night and darkness depends

38c

[farmaholic]

MALLEE, are rains that downgrade grain quality ever a problem during your harvest season?

Here we panic and it's always a race against Ma Nature with a sense of urgency to get the crop off the fields, especially if the grain is dry, before it rains on it or our harvest season comes to an end and winter sets in. As you know this year was especially challenging for the Western Canadian Grain harvest. Is your harvest season almost unlimited? I find it odd you guys wouldn't harvest any available day than risk down grading. Keeping fire fighting equipment in the field would help. In your "harvest pics" thread I see you have a tote filled with water and a pump on a trailer, do you have a disc in the field too?

With wall to wall seeding in most of Western Canada it is important to be able to put out any fires because there is little to nothing from stop them from spreading. The fires could even jump roads on windy days but there are seldom any hot dry windy weather conditions that would STOP us from harvesting. Some guys who never had aeration would stop harvesting canola if they were binning it at 35+° for fear of the bin heating.

Have you ever heard of the rusty grain beetle? A stored grain pest. They like stored hot grain and can infest bin tops when moisture and heat migration make bin tops a perfect environment for them.

Take care Mallee, and have a safe harvest. May your grain prices rise and your expenses fall and your bank
account over- floweth.