We had this in 2021. Use roundup and patience. It’s crop insurance anyway. Don’t bin it as you will loose it all. Don’t reglone as reglone regrows after a rain.

 

2 options.. both suck.
Glyph and wait * its only end of aug..and if its a podshatter variety then leave it be for 20 days and then look at it.
Or...
If you have enough bin space with air just get it done now and call it a day. The warm days we have coming will absolutely dry that green crap out.. its gonna be higher dockage no doubt but pffttt.. in 21 we combine swathed canola with blooming between the rows. Lots of yellow petals going into the bins .
Why throw good money at bad and waste time and chem?
If youre short production.. then youre short.. take the cheque and be done with it!

Dont bother with heat or reglone. Either 1 of those costs 0.75 to 1 bushel/ ac in chem cost alone.
You wont lose it in a bin. Throw an opi cable in there or turn on the fans for a week.

 

2 options.. both suck.
Glyph and wait * its only end of aug..and if its a podshatter variety then leave it be for 20 days and then look at it.
Or...
If you have enough bin space with air just get it done now and call it a day. The warm days we have coming will absolutely dry that green crap out.. its gonna be higher dockage no doubt but pffttt.. in 21 we combine swathed canola with blooming between the rows. Lots of yellow petals going into the bins .
Why throw good money at bad and waste time and chem?
If youre short production.. then youre short.. take the cheque and be done with it!

Dont bother with heat or reglone. Either 1 of those costs 0.75 to 1 bushel/ ac in chem cost alone.
You wont lose it in a bin. Throw an opi cable in there or turn on the fans for a week.

Yeah. I don’t want to spend any money on this crop if I can help it. I have all my pulses in the hopper bottoms with air to dry down the grasshoppers and was planning on putting my canola in big flat bottoms (3607/3907) with full floor air and filling about 1/3 full.

 

I think a Gleaner might sort that out almost by default? ( Seed acceleration rollers and high velocity air stream )

 

I don’t want to derail my own thread here but funny little Gleaner side story. My mother in law came out from BC to cook for us at harvest for many years. One day when she was delivering meals she saw some old silver combines cutting in the neighbours fields. She asked if they were homemade combines as they looked like a bunch of pieces of scrap stitched together.

 

That will be fine in an air bin. Have done way worse than that. To be safe rotate it to another bin in a few days. If in a drought you probably have the bin space.

 

If only you could arrange a -10 night.

 

I agree that aeration will probably do the trick. Will actually aerate better with that MOG in the sample that clean canola. If you wait and do nothing you may very well wind up with more green growth and a bigger problem. Could try cutting higher to leave as much of the green growth below behind.

 

If you do have to spray crop dividers on the sprayer help a bunch to avoid trampling losses in canola.

 

Canola is a great way to rip your crop dividers off if it’s any kind of crop. And if you’re lucky you won’t wreck a tire.

 

Swath it don’t use a roller let the wind take it and collect full crop insurance.

 

You’d never be that lucky.

 

That looks like good harvest conditions here a lot of years. The green material will try to turn into silage very fast without air. It keeps fine with air. But keep in mind that the green material will build up at the walls, where there is dead airspace and will never dry. So it does require turning eventually.
I'm not sure I would take a chance on filling the big flat bottom one third full, unless you have a way to level the peak out. You will have only a few feet of grain at the walls, and 20 ft in the center. The difference in static pressure from the walls to the center will be so great that no air will come up through the deepest mass of grain. If you can't level the peak, probably better off feeling the bins at least you will have more even airflow throughout.

 

Couple aluminum grain shovels are the leveling device.

 

I put it in that in the special bin marked “ get rid of this $hit”

one of the seldom mentioned benefits of roasting the pig in the fall .. weed control next year - if your looking for the bright side of spending a few dollars

spray it

 

Maybe on the last few loads I’ll hang out on the binroof and direct the spout to the the sides of the pile. That or call up the Hutts to come over. Bring the shovels boys!

 

The same sample that tested 11.5 last night tested 10 this morning and green stuff was starting to crisp up a bit.

 

Gotter by the ass on the downhill pull!

 

Had that in 21, just air and it held fine. Make sure has temp cables in bin. If you have a grain dryer, give it a sniff in there for a few mins

 

Haven’t ripped my dividers off yet …,guess I’m doing something wrong …

 

Wouldn’t you be doing something right? Why would you want to rip them off?

 

Done that in 21 I think. Canola was flowering a day after we harvested it. Sprayed it right away after. Dried down super quick in bin, I wouldn’t worry at all.

 

Sarcasm is difficult to properly convey via a keyboard......

 

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Lots of regrowth in 2021 here also. We cut just below the pods and sent it straight to the elevator off the combine. What I lost in price I made up for in peace of mind.

 

There’s definitely not enough green stuff in that sample to worry about. Air bin will get that easy.

 

Can also have a bunch of green leaves and yellow flowers in the sample when you swath it. Farming is so much fun sometimes. But, yes. I think you will be fine.

 

Farm ranch is that roundup ready or liberty link canola?

 

Roundup ready. In 2015 though. Prior to us having group 2, 4, and 9 resistant kochia. The good old days.

Didn’t rain all year. Somehow grew 15 bushel crop. Swathed them all and the day we finished swathing it’s rained 2”. Fertilized for a 45 bushel crop, so plants decided to give it another shot at growing. That was luckily our last field. Managed to get it off without too much trouble. Had the sense to take a few pictures the last day to remind me what farming is like sometimes. A few places you couldn’t find the swath.

 

If you have enough truck space, leave on the truck for at least 12 hours for the moisture to equalize between the green material and the dry seed.

When you unload the truck it will mix that moisture up so you have a more even mix in the grain bin and then turn the fans on.

Do not fill the bins very full. Air flow drops quick as grain depth goes up

 

My supplier tells me LI 700 is will make the round up work faster, has anyone tried to see if it makes a difference.

 

Your supplier is up selling you unless you’re buying the cheapest gly on planet without surfactant.
Add this, add that and your retailer starts making a lot of margin especially when they convince people to spray fungicide in a drought year.

 

We find LI700 helps some. No different than doubling surfactant with diquat.

 

Use Li700 with all glyph passes.
Have done some trial work with a fairly well known agronomist in northern alberta and also had great discussions re surfactant with Sprayer guru...
And generally it definitely helps. If you are adding it into the cheaper glyphs * startup..rt540..etc* it will usually increase surfactant load to a stronger rate than weathermax ( which may be the biggest scam on the plantet in regards to ag chem). I only say that because it comes with a " guarantee" but when i used to work for big ag and we had a customer complaint
..... monsanto ( owner at time) just left it with our retail. There is no guarantee.. use the cheapest glyph you can and add aftermarket surfactants. The chem company/ retail will sell u the high priced stuff but always always alllllwaysss find a reason that you screwed it up somehow.
Li700 is good but i would honestly look at using interlock instead. Its a new product but i think it does a better job as a wetting agent and drift control in adverse conditions.
Thats the key here.. adverse conditions ( which in western canada is 85% of the time)
On 25 degree calm mid to high humidity days in june... no surfactant is usually required. However, this time of year an added surfactant ( or weathermax if that tickles your fancy) can ABSOLUTELY help you attain whatever goal you are trying to achieve be it weed control or harvest aid.

 

I did a test earlier this year with some generic 4 lb gly and a couple different adjuvants. I used LI-700, Ag-Wet 41, and R-11. I sprayed strips of fallow from last years canola crop. Lots of volunteer canola, mustards, and prickly lettuce. The LI-700 and R-11 were pretty close in performance, and both totally out performed the Ag-Wet 41.

LI-700 has been my go to product for a few years now and my test only confirmed that. I run 24 oz per 100 gallons of water, which is enough to lower my pH to about 5.0. While LI-700 isn't cheap, I'm only applying 4 GPA of water so a little goes a long ways.