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Post by hardrockacres on Nov 1, 2023 10:27:08 GMT -6
See fella out doing st cut barley yesterday. It was sprayed long, long ago but it still has green in it that you can see from the road. Only about 1/2 the field are the heads bent over. 2 790 deeres goin in it with 40' st cut headers. Certainly not moving very fast and almost zero dust. could sure smell it as I went by, wonder how tough it actually is. This is the last field I know of that wasn't finished on my 25 mile drive to work.
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Post by kevlar on Nov 22, 2023 19:23:41 GMT -6
 Hopefully this will be the last night looking at this thing and tomorrow planning on cleaning up the last pile and get it dried bringing an end to my 2023 crop progress report!! 🤞 |
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Post by OptimallyDismal on Nov 27, 2023 14:34:21 GMT -6
Got an email from Quality Grain, here is a quote from it:
"One thing I need to mention today is please check your bins. We are seeing a lot of crusted bins already. Pay extra attention to your canola if it was straight cut. To give you an idea of how big a problem it is. We have marketed more heated canola already this crop year than we did last year total. So just check."
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Post by Oatking on Nov 27, 2023 16:42:20 GMT -6
Got an email from Quality Grain, here is a quote from it: "One thing I need to mention today is please check your bins. We are seeing a lot of crusted bins already. Pay extra attention to your canola if it was straight cut. To give you an idea of how big a problem it is. We have marketed more heated canola already this crop year than we did last year total. So just check." Yikes that’s not good! I squeezed inside my brock bins last week to check the quality . So far so good! I hate brock lids! It seems as straight cutting took off so did heated canola ! |
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Post by bob123 on Nov 27, 2023 17:29:44 GMT -6
drove to saskatoon on the weekend and still saw multiple canola fields in swath with no snow on them. what could they be waiting for at this time of year?
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Post by northernfarmer on Nov 27, 2023 17:55:03 GMT -6
I didn't even have to walk out the door to check on any bins of straight cut canola ... since it came off in a swath. Not that I couldn't have some heating canola but not straight cut. It seems as you said Oatking, a combination of larger bins around and guys straight cutting canola have certainly caused a lot more talk about canola heating in bins. Also I know on years where guys are drying a bunch of canola and not cooling it enough in the dryer and going into larger bins and in some cases with no fans but even with fans they put in hot sweaty canola and created a whole problem as the fans push the moisture still capable of coming out of that hot canola up the bin column and either the moisture stalls out there or the fans are turned off too soon, anyway they are shocked to find the bin heating of their "dry canola".
Bob, that sure is a mystery with those canola in swath fields, I could see if they had gotten rained on and then snow, then waiting for that to all dissipate before combining. Otherwise it just doesn't make sense that its still out there so there has to be some explanation.
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Post by meskie on Nov 27, 2023 18:25:26 GMT -6
Canola harvest was early this year for us with the grain going into the bins at a higher temperature along with the warm fall that went into November the bins just didn’t cool down as quick as it has in other years.
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Post by kevlar on Nov 27, 2023 18:35:17 GMT -6
The canola swaths are likely frozen to the ground, might look like it could be combined but the edges more so will freeze down. Seen one guy tried some here last week, same thing, no snow on the swath but where he tried to combine it there were strips stuck to the ground, and likely shells badly trying to pry it from the ground.
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Post by kevlar on Nov 27, 2023 18:42:51 GMT -6
Got an email from Quality Grain, here is a quote from it: "One thing I need to mention today is please check your bins. We are seeing a lot of crusted bins already. Pay extra attention to your canola if it was straight cut. To give you an idea of how big a problem it is. We have marketed more heated canola already this crop year than we did last year total. So just check." I’m expecting to see some heating grain rearing it’s head here shortly ( well hopefully not RIGHT here) but I’ve talked to a few people that said they were taking off grain dry when nobody else was, so I suspect theirs was tough as well. My brother drove by one place a week ago and seen a pile augered out in front of the bin, not sure why but am thinking something was wrong with it. |
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Post by meskie on Nov 27, 2023 19:17:22 GMT -6
All our bins have snow on the roofs yet so hopefully they are ok. Spent a day couple weeks ago and moved some canola around. Glad we did as it hadn’t cooled down yet and it was all swathed canola in 4500bu hoppers. No air on those bins is why we were checking them.
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Post by Oatking on Nov 27, 2023 22:25:12 GMT -6
You are right , November was so warm we didn’t get many cold nights to condition the grain.
Our local elevator is urging guys to cool the grain down! I find that funny . Most of us know better right! But I guess a few forget.
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Post by garyfunk on Nov 27, 2023 23:06:30 GMT -6
Temp cables here are still showing temps going the right direction. Hopefully that translates to everything is alright.
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Post by kevlar on Nov 28, 2023 8:31:13 GMT -6
Our plan next week is to pull a load out of all the bins, have done a few already, one barley bin had a crust forming on top. We usually pull a load out of all the bins about a month after harvest just to check them and break up any crust that might be forming.
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Post by Oatking on Nov 28, 2023 9:30:53 GMT -6
Our plan next week is to pull a load out of all the bins, have done a few already, one barley bin had a crust forming on top. We usually pull a load out of all the bins about a month after harvest just to check them and break up any crust that might be forming. Barley seems to crust quite easily compared to oats. I have noticed barley respires a lot right after storage similar to tough canola. I heard one story where , my neighbour had his barley grow a golf green on top of bin. |
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Post by garyfunk on Dec 1, 2023 19:09:44 GMT -6
Nice to see frosty tops on the non aeration bins.  |
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