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Canola producers can lose up to five bushels or more per acre if the combine isn’t adjusted properly. Here are tips to measure combine losses and make adjustment to limit those losses, putting more canola in the bin and reducing the volunteer canola seedbank in your fields…
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Canola binned hot, even if it has low moisture, low dockage and low green, should still be put on aeration. This will even out the temperature throughout the bin and help remove moisture from respiring seed. Even at low moisture, convection currents within the bin could concentrate this moisture. For safe, long-term storage, canola should be conditioned with aeration to…
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Pod splitting or pod drop due to tissue damage from the heavy frost usually starts within a day after the frost event. If the canola crop is still sound after that time, growers can probably stick with original plan – whether that be swathing at 60% seed colour change or straight combining…
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Ideal timing for post-harvest jobs varies from right after combining to just before winter. Here is a list of post-harvest field operations and the ideal times to do them…
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Canola producers can lose 5 bu./ac. or more if the combine isn’t adjusted properly. Here are tips to measure combine losses and make adjustment to limit those losses…
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Here are few swathing situations and what to about them…
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Canola storage experts recommend that hot canola be put on aeration for cooling – even if it’s dry. That's because air currents within the bin can concentrate moisture at the bottom of the central core — creating a possible start point for heating…
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Fan capacity is an important consideration in a canola bin. Airflow of 0.1 to 0.2 cfm/bu is needed to condition (cool) a bin of canola. If adding supplemental heat to dry canola, airflow of at least 0.75 cubic feet per minute per bushel is recommended. If fan size is insufficient for the job, fill the bins part way to improve…
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This is what a 5 bu./ac. loss looks like. There's nothing to see. That's why you need to follow these steps to find out how much you're really throwing over…
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