Friday Crop Report on a Thursday.

[biglentil]

Didnt descicate a single acre of canola, took it all straight with green stems all came off dry, some too dry, was done harvest Sept 23 and not once did I say boy I wish I spent all those zeros on bringin in the plane so it could be far too dry and overload the seives. Yields all started with a 6, green count zero everytime. To each their own.

[Guest]

Didnt descicate a single acre of canola, took it all straight with green stems all came off dry, some too dry, was done harvest Sept 23 and not once did I say boy I wish I spent all those zeros on bringin in the plane so it could be far too dry and overload the seives. Yields all started with a 6, green count zero everytime. To each their own.

Are you close to Chuck ?

[Guest]

With these podshatter varieties you can leave it stand way longer before cutting , then it’s the same as straight cut
There is no difference anymore except way slower combining, in the straight or labor/depreciation costs for swathing , risk of swaths blowing or hail on standing with the extra 2- 3 weeks
We do half and half ,wouldnt bet farm on swathing or straight , both have advantages , depends on what the old bitch throws at us
BL , if you farm where you can grow 60+ and straight cut it all without desiccation and be done in sept , well that’s a miracle for sure . Lots of heavy canola won’t go between Nipawin and PA yet , unless the roundup/heat kept it green

[jazz]

Havent desiccated canola in 10 yrs. Been all straight cut going on 8 yrs now.

Dessicating wheat and canola is going out of style around here. Not gaining guys much except extra costs.

Only time swather comes out is if you have a green stand a week or two after typical first frost day. Then guys get nervous.

No fungicides on wheat or canola either. Very little payback.

Next year I drop crop insurance.

[biglentil]

With these podshatter varieties you can leave it stand way longer before cutting , then it’s the same as straight cut
There is no difference anymore except way slower combining, in the straight or labor/depreciation costs for swathing , risk of swaths blowing or hail on standing with the extra 2- 3 weeks
We do half and half ,wouldnt bet farm on swathing or straight , both have advantages , depends on what the old bitch throws at us
BL , if you farm where you can grow 60+ and straight cut it all without desiccation and be done in sept , well that’s a miracle for sure . Lots of heavy canola won’t go between Nipawin and PA yet , unless the roundup/heat kept it green

They shoulda sprayed reglone. Heat does next to fk all to speed it up the rup.

[Guest]

Havent desiccated canola in 10 yrs. Been all straight cut going on 8 yrs now.

Dessicating wheat and canola is going out of style around here. Not gaining guys much except extra costs.

Only time swather comes out is if you have a green stand a week or two after typical first frost day. Then guys get nervous.

No fungicides on wheat or canola either. Very little payback.

Next year I drop crop insurance.

You farm in a different world
I do often wonder if some of the fungicides are keeping stuff in greener longer (to long)

[Old Cowzilla]

I have had canola sprout in swaths but so far not in standing during crappy weather spell. It is slower going straight cutting but still cleaner field than swathing if you got that twisted, tangled thing going on . Haven't used the auger reverser in years and don't miss the (beaver huts ) !!!!!!

[furrowtickler]

Didnt descicate a single acre of canola, took it all straight with green stems all came off dry, some too dry, was done harvest Sept 23 and not once did I say boy I wish I spent all those zeros on bringin in the plane so it could be far too dry and overload the seives. Yields all started with a 6, green count zero everytime. To each their own.

Moose Jaw area ?
That’s impressive for southern Sask 👍

[BTO780]

I have a friend in southern SK who had a yield start with a “6” and nothing after that.

[Hamloc]

In my area roughly half of the canola was swathed, the other half straight cut. Personally I enjoy straight cutting canola but I haven’t done so in 3 years. I had a bin of canola that part of it heated. It was the bits of green material from the green stalks and the odd weed. It had been pre-harvested with glyphosate but I didn’t wait long enough. Most people grow LL canola and pre harvest with round up. Some used to add heat but found it was a waste of money. One neighbour used a plane and reglone on his RR canola. Personal observation is their is certainly canola shelled out from the sprayer track during pre-harvest and in certain fields some shelling where the canola hit the underside of the sprayer. Using no pre harvest would take tremendous patience.

[blackpowder]

As always every area slightly different. Every year different.
What we did fung had a 10-30 bus difference. I always leave a AB line without.
We are adding AMS to all our spray water next year to amend our water supply. Big difference. Noticed a difference with Heat added to Gly on wheat. I dunno.
Trying a mega water with Reglone on peas next year.
And if I can gain with the combine, I'll take whatever the sprayer shells as a trade off. Ongoing experiment.

[furrowtickler]

This area used to be about 20% straight cut canola , getting closer to 50% now
Every farm has a different take on it
Some are all in , some will stick to swathing
As seeding rates have gone up in cereals , pod shatter canola varieties performing very well in most cases and variable rate fertility gain acceptance , crops are much more even in maturity than even 10 years ago in general.
This year in this area crops were very uneven due to lack of subsoil moisture in 90% of fields and with very little rain huge areas were drought stressed bad but low areas were heavy making it near impossible to harvest without a swather or desiccation. Also the dried out areas had significant regrowth after fall rains . If left unchecked it made for nightmare scenarios for any combine
Agree 100% if you have good even crops that mature even and are clean , by all means leaving stand naturally is a no brainer . But that was not the case for many in western Canada this year .
I hate spray tracks in crops , cause a headache on many levels .
Rather not pre harvest a single acre and do some post harvest weed control if needed . But that’s in a perfect world .