[Don Boles]

So, harvesting canola this afternoon, losses completely different and way lower than from most of the rest of fall.
Hmm.
Why, what changed?
Well, the day before we got, while, showered out, double sidewalk wetter sort of thing. Then, 6 ish this morning another very light shower.
Fired up at 3, the canola itself was abut 4% higher than previous same crop/same field, moisture and the straw, which was pretty much locked at 10% previously averaged about 15% moisture.
Night and day difference, rotor covers made the more normal action balancing rotor and shoe loss and both much lower.
Oh, yes, straight cutting.

 

[fjlip]

Wetting canola plants, swath or standing ALWAYS helps! Been same for 50 years!

 

[Don Boles]

Wetting canola plants, swath or standing ALWAYS helps! Been same for 50 years!

We all know that but the point I was making is combines are getting blamed for a heavy crop, temperatures 25 to 30°’s and 20% humidity.
Ideally, if you could control one thing, 80% (swag) humidity harvesting would be best for mature canola.
That would suck for everything else.

 

[NWsask]

We all know that but the point I was making is combines are getting blamed for a heavy crop, temperatures 25 to 30°’s and 20% humidity.
Ideally, if you could control one thing, 80% (swag) humidity harvesting would be best for mature canola.
That would suck for everything else.

High humidity helps to to a certain level i guess....

 

[bad altitude]

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High humidity helps to to a certain level i guess....

On the positive side, don't really have to do a kill stall to see where the material is flowing.

 

[Don Boles]

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High humidity helps to to a certain level i guess....

Snow?!

 

[NWsask]

Snow?!

85 percent humidity, unsprayed standing canola with green leaves still on the plants. Grain at 7.5

 

[Don Boles]

The red marked 15% is straw moisture. 10% appears to be default least number.
Says (swath) but it’s the only canola choice, it was not swathed.

To get to 20t/hr was an accomplishment in this crop, even though losses were very low the grumbling from threshing internals from the small plant count made them like putting little trees through.

 

[Don Boles]

85 percent humidity, unsprayed standing canola with green leaves still on the plants. Grain at 7.5

Definitely ugly combo of conditions.

 

[phantom970]

85 percent humidity, unsprayed standing canola with green leaves still on the plants. Grain at 7.5

Holy crap that must be tough going

 

[Slip clutch]

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The red marked 15% is straw moisture. 10% appears to be default least number.
Says (swath) but it’s the only canola choice, it was not swathed.

To get to 20t/hr was an accomplishment in this crop, even though losses were very low the grumbling from threshing internals from the small plant count made them like putting little trees through.

I believe you on the small trees part. But your combine can Measure straw moisture? That would be nice to have a gauge to feel the capacity of the combine in tough conditions

 

[Don Boles]

I believe you on the small trees part. But your combine can Measure straw moisture? That would be nice to have a gauge to feel the capacity of the combine in tough conditions

Claas protyped the feeder moisture sensor in ‘21, it’s been standard on all units since ‘22.
They use it as another parameter in the setting auto threshing and auto straw chopping.
It has no dampening to the reading, if you go into a green straw draw, any crop, the reading will rise with almost no lag time.
Seen as high as 60% but this year 10% 95+% of the time. Unbelievable harvest year, ****, unbelievable year in general!

 

[dookiller]

Looking at how hard people try and avoid owning a swather makes me chuckle lol. At what point does fighting to harvest green canola make no sense. Looks like a slow operation and great for your combine and fuel consumption. Can imagine the losses with sieves like that. Yes it would be nice on a good yr to straight cut but when is everything ideal every yr. Combine running at 47% load here last week in dry swaths with 0 green crap in your sample that can heat is far easier to swallow for me than banging it thru your poor combine at heavy load strains on everything. Straight cutting saves you so much time? The only thing being combined is flax or straight cut canola here. Everyone else has been done for almost 2 weeks. I got flax yet myself but only 140 and it too is swathed. Be damned if i will wait to straight cut grren flax too .

 

[SW Sask Grain Farmer]

True that swathed a bunch of cereals this year where nothing had to be the last few years , took the flax straight which was a timely situation straw tough as heck aswell with some of the canola. Definitely pays to have em around even though you don’t need them some years!