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Post by meskie on Sept 10, 2023 21:42:45 GMT -6
I will take a bear over a wild pig. We have them around us
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Post by kevlar on Sept 10, 2023 21:55:29 GMT -6
Have heard they’re a bad animal, used to be some heat years ago when I was just little, guys were raising them then the bottom fell out of the market so guys just let them go loose. You’re supposed to shoot them if you see them. Haven’t heard of any seen in the area for years now.
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Post by hardrockacres on Sept 11, 2023 6:37:34 GMT -6
We have the pigs in some of our land too...they can make a real mess in short order.
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Post by kenmb on Sept 11, 2023 7:14:42 GMT -6
Yesterday was spent attempting to combine the worst areas for volunteer rapeseed. Got 60 acres done so 1200 bu that has about 10% rape in it. Naturally some of the swaths only have a few plants visible in them. But then I had a 5 acre patch that looked like the swath in picture, I was just coming out of that patch when I took this one. The swath on the left is what it should look like, a gold color, no doubt a few rapeseed plants in there. All the silver in the swath is the rapeseed. I have no idea how a guy can prevent this. Never had a sample rejected because of rape/canola. Got some number 3 and number 4 mustard over the dry years because of weed pressure but never once in 25 some years was canola/rape a determining factor in grade. I guess it was just a combination of factors. Way late snow melt, lots of spring moisture and then those +30c days in early June germinated seeds that never did before.
One guy figures around $4/bu to color sort. Don't know if that guarantees 100% seperation or if color sorting still misses some. I will get experience with the process this year.
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Post by garyfunk on Sept 11, 2023 7:23:15 GMT -6
I would like to think that if a color sorter did what it was built to do, that would be as easy as it would get. The size of the sorter will determine the speed.
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Post by kevlar on Sept 11, 2023 19:46:19 GMT -6
Got some canola that’s still fairly green, my brother and dad have tried swathing some of it but having a very hard time, very tall, between 5-6 feet tall and my brother said in some places maybe 7 feet tall. So needless to say it’s hard to get it to come out the holes, one is 30 feet, the other 25. Never seen anything like this, but sounds like several other people in the area are finding the same thing. We have two different varieties and wouldn’t say one is any better than the other, although one is a little farther behind. Thinking straight cutting might be the only option but it’s going to be late. We’ve been lucky, we’re a couple days past our average first frost, a chance of frost tonight but with a low of +1 hopefully won’t happen. Not sure if I had cut the seeding rate back would have helped for shorter plants with more branches. Thinking there was more carryover of nitrogen on this land even though last year was terribly wet and no crop or poor crop.
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Post by Oatking on Sept 11, 2023 22:01:45 GMT -6
Got some canola that’s still fairly green, my brother and dad have tried swathing some of it but having a very hard time, very tall, between 5-6 feet tall and my brother said in some places maybe 7 feet tall. So needless to say it’s hard to get it to come out the holes, one is 30 feet, the other 25. Never seen anything like this, but sounds like several other people in the area are finding the same thing. We have two different varieties and wouldn’t say one is any better than the other, although one is a little farther behind. Thinking straight cutting might be the only option but it’s going to be late. We’ve been lucky, we’re a couple days past our average first frost, a chance of frost tonight but with a low of +1 hopefully won’t happen. Not sure if I had cut the seeding rate back would have helped for shorter plants with more branches. Thinking there was more carryover of nitrogen on this land even though last year was terribly wet and no crop or poor crop. Pictures of canola??? That is amazing ! We swath canola really high , and just put the upper branch section with pods . But that seems like a different kind of beast! Lots of guys trying to straight canola after a week of round up. Agronomist telling guys to wait two weeks for proper dry down . I guess no patience ! All that rain last year must sure be helping Kevlar. Your getting two crops in one year!!!! |
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Post by kevlar on Sept 11, 2023 22:33:18 GMT -6
I don’t know if I’d say that the yield is going to more than normal but the plant material is definitely a lot more. Will see when we get into it, if it’s not frozen or snowed on . We don’t usually desiccate our crops, and it gets slower to work this time of year, have seen guys spray stuff out, wait for two weeks then end up swathing, that’s why we swath much of our crops, at least you know in so many days it should be ready, but that has its risks as well. We have some on some southern land that should be close next week but it’s not nearly as tall, going to straight cut it. If we can get a week without a frost and some clear warm days that should get it along, this cloudy smoky cool weather isn’t helping any.
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Post by OptimallyDismal on Sept 11, 2023 22:40:39 GMT -6
The canola around here varies a lot, but a lot is very tall this year as well.
Kind of strange that it would waste it's resources growing so tall instead of making seeds on such a dry year?
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Post by kevlar on Sept 12, 2023 6:54:13 GMT -6
Got frost this morning, ice on the truck, time will tell how the canola made out.😔
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Post by meskie on Sept 12, 2023 9:20:41 GMT -6
Got frost this morning, ice on the truck, time will tell how the canola made out.😔 Hopefully not too much damage for you. I wouldn’t mind a good hard frost to cure out the rest of our canola |
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Post by kevlar on Sept 12, 2023 10:42:45 GMT -6
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Post by Oatking on Sept 12, 2023 10:49:48 GMT -6
Now i see why you always say see if the crop makes it earlier in august! He in the red river valley its usually a given canola makes it! its been a while since frost hurt our beans and more of a chance with the corn. weather looks great next week with temps hitting maybe 30!
harvest is all wrapped up on my farm. wished I had more to do, bean harvest went quickly ! No combine or anything really broke down which is always makes a stress free harvest. Only slight problem was the unload auger on my 05 9760 wouldnt fold out once or twice. Found out the cylinder had an internal leak. Also they say to grease the auger zerks when the auger is extended out to push grease across the tracking. Mine did have some debris on the track so that made it harder for the cylinder to push out.
calder you might want to grease your auger zerks with it in the dump position and just check around the pivot point for straw and packed chaff from rain or just washing the combine.
Most guys are pretty well finished here. odd corn field and bean field left. field work is starting but some fields look pretty chunky after the deep tiller!
I cant wait till seeding time now. I AM JUST A GRAIN GUY SO its lawn chair lazy time now!!!
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Post by Oatking on Sept 12, 2023 10:50:24 GMT -6
Your canola still looks pretty green!!!
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Post by garyfunk on Sept 12, 2023 12:30:23 GMT -6
I will take a bear over a wild pig. We have them around us "A" bear, maybe. We've got one field of canola with 3 mommas, 6 cubs. I think I will call crop insurance. |
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