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Four questions on the topic of loss: Soil moisture loss, storage loss and combine loss – with tips to prevent all three…
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Canola seeds sprouting in pods is called “precocious germination”. It can occur with heat stress, re-wetting of pods and aster yellows…
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All canola should be conditioned immediately after combining to cool it down, even out the temperature throughout the bin and remove any moisture released through natural seed respiration that occurs in the first hours to weeks after harvest…
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Green seed, high moisture and other factors can increase the storage risks for canola. Take the quiz to test your knowledge and pick up a few management tips…
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Any canola in storage should be checked – just to make sure it's safe. Reports of heating bins are trickling in this week… -
Still have tough canola in the bin? Warm air has good capacity to dry. For example, at 22°C and 60% relative humidity, canola will trend towards just below 8% moisture content with natural air drying. Therefore, these warm days are ideal for natural air drying…
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Farms harvesting overwintered canola may face some challenges with marketing and storage. Here are a few tips…
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Even the recent three or four days with highs near 20°C might not have been enough to completely dry the grain, and now cooler weather is coming. What to do?…
