Straight cutting canola?

[Hamloc]

In our area standing canola is not drying down. I swathed my canola about same time as my neighbour sprayed his invigor canola with roundup. My canola is almost all in the bin his is still testing 13 to 14. Was wondering if this is happening to everybody?

[Klause]

Ours is testing 7 to 9. All straight cut.

[tweety]

It could be the same problem as our crops. It won't stop raining!

[Partners]

Guys that are straight cutting here, there canola is white..Must be alot of loss before the combine even sees the field..

[RD414]

Stop and take a look Partners. Ours looks white but almost zero on ground. Loading tri axle like wheat. Too heavy to stuff it in 11% moisture canola. 7 moisture now. Big black seeds look like g****s. You do have to watch this stuff in bin like a hawk though.

[Klause]

Yeah we had researchers out here. Pre harvest loss was under 1 bu.

Weigh wagon yield straight was 6.7 bu better

[sumdumguy]

Theory according to Sumdumguy: Old Round-Up had 'heat' added. Now cheap Round-Up, you gotta add heat for it to have any effect. Good marketing? " If they aren't gonna pay through the nose for Round-Up, we'll fix that! "

I bought a jug of Round Up for yard use. First sprayer - no heat added-just double strength used on weeds, grass and lawn. No effect two weeks later. The other jug Round-Up and Sodium Salt - next day death all over, total kill.

[nicolaas]

lots of straight cut around this year. I have only straight cut when I am forced to. I find big winds will shell out standing canola, even lodged crops. It is a lot riskier than having it in the swath. I swath at the correct time (70 - 80 %), and not much difference in seed size on my farm. My swathed end up yielding more. I guess if there are anti shelling varieties being developed to straight cut so that is why it is suddenly the thing to do? One costly wreck will have people swathing again. I guess if my 36 ft swaths get too wet, It would be better to straight cut.

[Ronski]

Klause what header did you use? Any keer shear or just dividers? Cross auger? Thanks

[quadtrac]

very little straight cut canola done around here. 12 to 15% moisture.
Swathed stuff 7 to 8% moisture the last few days.

I think getting it in the bin is still worth something. Gamble for maybe a couple more bushels???
I must be missing something.