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Harvest loss
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Canola producers can lose up to five bushels per acre – perhaps even more – 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… -
Fields that attract a lot of geese this time of year could be fields with a lot of harvest losses. Are your harvest losses so high that you’re attracting geese?…
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Here are some common questions from canola growers who are wanting to measure their losses at the combine…
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Want to know your canola combine losses? PAMI is doing a survey this fall and if a farmer volunteers a field for loss measurement, PAMI will share its results. The farmer may also get a first-hand lesson in how to measure losses… -
The Canola Council of Canada (CCC) has released a new seed cost feature for canolacalculator.ca to help canola growers set seeding rates that balance agronomy and economics… -
Combine settings can be a big factor in reducing canola losses during harvest. So how well do you know your combine and its best settings for canola harvest? And do…… -
How many days delayed am I going to be with straight combining versus swathing? It depends on your expectation of “ready"… -
Combine losses vary throughout the day. If using the same combine settings all day long, losses in the morning and evening could be significant if the combine is set for easy-threshing afternoons. Or losses in the afternoons could be higher if the combine is locked in for those tough-swath times of day. Checking for combine losses under various conditions will…
