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Post by shmiffy on Dec 1, 2021 11:38:23 GMT -6
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Post by Albertabuck on Dec 1, 2021 13:24:55 GMT -6
Too bad thats a hemisphere away from where there would be a good market for much needed feed supplemental for protien.
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Post by Oatking on Dec 1, 2021 14:52:08 GMT -6
Its never safe until in the bin! I wonder what percent is windrowed compared to straight cut. Oh man! if it rained 150mm in the red river valley in on a heavy canopy it would be h ell getting it off.
Its that weather scare is why I swath my canola and that always beats the straight cut canola to the bin. Article was not clear if the sprouted canola was from standing or swathed. I have seen canola crack open or spout standing.
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Post by OptimallyDismal on Dec 1, 2021 17:50:56 GMT -6
It's a bad feeling than when you discover a heated bin of canola, or get a load rejected at the elevator, I don't wish that on them.
Only had it once, hope never again.
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Post by snapper22 on Dec 1, 2021 19:54:43 GMT -6
Think it doesn’t matter standing or swathed, it’ll sprout over there if it gets wet and humid at the wrong time. Seen pictures from a Facebook friend over there several years ago with sprouted canola in the pod.
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Post by iamwill on Dec 1, 2021 21:58:14 GMT -6
It will sprout here as well. This year with my new combine I had way too many splits and too much blowing out the back. At first I thought it was the combine but when we looked closer the vast majority of the losses were light sprouted seeds and so were most of the splits. Didn't notice any difference between swathed or straight cut. This was all hybrid seed canola so an extra 5% dockage/loss definitely adds up but not as bad as loosing your entire crop. It's a real kick in the nuts on a year like this with the prices being what they are and a chance to bank some real money just vanishes. Oh well there's always next year for most of us.
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Post by victory on Dec 1, 2021 22:29:37 GMT -6
Hey Oatking, it not always safe after it is in the bin either. I have spent quite a few winters driving for a local trucker and have come across funny smelling canola on numerous occasions.
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Post by northernfarmer on Dec 1, 2021 23:32:50 GMT -6
I don't even want to think what sort of a mess I would be in if we got 6 inches of rain during harvest. Speaking about the sprouting, I would say this was the most illogical year to have experienced what we did and it was with two different Liberty varieties of Pioneer. It wasn't just a matter of finding sprouts at the time of combining the swathes due to any rains, the sprouts happened well before the canola was even ready to swath. A neighbour who grew one of the same varieties had the very same issue with his as well and wondered why his combine was cracking canola so much until he realized it was the sprouted seeds cracking. Not impressed at all and no idea what would happen had it been a wet fall. The seed dealer blamed it on our weird growing year and yet the non Pioneer variety had no issues like that at all nor did other neighbours with still other varieties so I certainly blame it on the varieties in my instance. But that sample pictured in that link, that is something all right and wonder if that was a representative sample or the bad ones picked out just to show the sprouting. Canola likes having a bit of rain on it typically to weather out but it can go to the extreme the other way for sure.
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Post by jcalder on Dec 2, 2021 8:00:22 GMT -6
Fall of 19 we had to leave some corn because the water was above the cobs in the field when it froze, then it ran away and left a 2" layer of ice in the plants. Didn't want to run it through the combine.
Had beans we had to leave because they were frozen into the ice as well.
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Post by kevlar on Dec 2, 2021 8:43:32 GMT -6
I can’t remember how much rain we had here this past fall, I looked back through some of my posts and at one time was up to 6 inches, then there were posts after that where I said it was raining, I think around 7 inches anyway. The biggest problem with that this year was it was so warm when it was raining, and that would be the biggest problem for them in Australia. If it’s wet an +10 it takes a lot longer to sprout than when it’s +25 or 30. I’ve found canola will sprout quite easily, both swathed and standing.
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Post by northernfarmer on Dec 2, 2021 9:08:41 GMT -6
That's a good point I was also thinking of but didn't express, typically up here our falls are cool so even though we may get some rains its not all that warm with it but of course like anything weather is variable. Now down in the southern part of the prairie provinces its going to be warmer on average and more chance of sprouting if rains come. In Australia I am only guessing that the temps would be starting to ramp up so warm and soaked grains/oil seeds would have the perfect condition to sprout as per the mess in that article.
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Post by jcalder on Dec 2, 2021 14:04:53 GMT -6
I can’t remember how much rain we had here this past fall, I looked back through some of my posts and at one time was up to 6 inches, then there were posts after that where I said it was raining, I think around 7 inches anyway. The biggest problem with that this year was it was so warm when it was raining, and that would be the biggest problem for them in Australia. If it’s wet an +10 it takes a lot longer to sprout than when it’s +25 or 30. I’ve found canola will sprout quite easily, both swathed and standing. About half our canola was laying in swath through that 6" or so of rain. It was getting dicey by the time we combined it, the regrowth from under the swath was starting to hold the swath to the ground. Luckily we didn't see much for sprouts in the grain, but the auger in the hopper of the combine was all caked with garbage from the mud/sprouts the header was pulling out of the ground. |
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Post by generalchaos on Dec 3, 2021 11:00:06 GMT -6
One year the sprouts under my swath were so bad and big, it started plugging up my sieves. Not fun.
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