Finally started peas.

[SASKFARMER3]

I thought the Heavy rain in August would plump them up some.

[SASKFARMER3]

Just a word of caution on the combining after 12 days.

In 01, and 07 picked up canola on September long that was cut Aug 20th, both times by Oct 1st it was heating on me. We mark every bin, when harvesting, and all 3 bins had 0 green and were testing 7-8% moisture.

We now leave Canola minimum 16 days, and usually wait 21.

[boarderbloke]

snappy, did you run your aeration fans on those bins?? some people don't run their fans because they feel it's already dry or are afraid to dry it more. on canola like that, we run the fans during the 'night only', for about a week, no problems then. turn them on when getting home from the field and off when you go out in the morning.

[Hopperbin]

I agree with snappy , cotton are you hauling the canola to the elevator yet especially if it was never dry your canola at 11.5 is like dynomite?
I intend to leave mine lay 3 weeks also. Then again I have June, july, and sept. basis contracts on the Cargill specialty canola. And I also have wheat to combine at the same time, helps I guess.

[SASKFARMER3]

We never combine canola till October Let the swath rot in field makes harvesting way easier. Also cures real good. Plus cooler so stores easily.

[SASKFARMER3]

Bb, no air on those bins.

[AdamSmith]

Combined about 80 acres of Canola Pioneer RR 45H28 yesterday, was swathed on Aug 22 was hardly ready, testing between 10.6 in the greener hollows (when swathed) and as low as 8.5 on the rest, but as the day went on it toughened up.

The yeild is huge. Combine says 56, many places in the field is mid to high 60's. It's a dream crop. But because it is no more than ready my poor old 9760 was grunting and shaking all day. Nomally I can combine a 30 ft swath of 40 bpa canola at 4.5 - 5 mph.
I was 2.5 - 3.5.

I think I will wait a couple of days before I go back in the canola.



gonna be a long one

[fjlip]

I agree canola has to be dry, less than 10%, once to be cured and store safely. Still needs air if warm days. Usually three weeks and a shower or dew rots straw and removes green seed. Adam were on the prairies is this 60bu Canola crop?

[AdamSmith]

fjlip, I'll make you do some homework,

It's in Brenda Municipality of SW Manitoba.

Planted on pea ground, with 100 lbs of N applied, with 2-3 inches of rain on it in June and 3.5" on July 12 and another 1.5" a week later.

And swathed as close to ripe as I dared.

the sour land on the headlands which most years grow only koshia were even yeilding 32 bpa.

[Hopperbin]

Adam have you got that thing calibrated properly?????? We never get a canola crop like that here. Peas only doing about 40 little disappointed with that.