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Hello!
I'm farmer from Finland and new in this forum and my english isn't fluent.
I have queston about swathing wheat which is done at least in Canada.
This summer in Finland has been coldest for last 30 years. Usually we harvest in august and september, but this year we have just started because grain isn't done yeat. I have 600 acres to harvest and just 100 of it is done and this last week it was raining every day. Even before the rain humidity of harvested grain was about 30%. Whit that I can work out eventhought the drying is expensive.
We have grain dryers, but swathing isn't done here. If I would try to swath wheat, how long would it take to dry and what will happen if it rains? I would assume that the moisture of wheat is now something like 40-50%. Temperature is here is now 8-15C during a day and 4-11 at night. I assume that reason why swathing isn't done here with grain is because in a fall it's raining here more than in North America. I hope that it stops raining later this month. Ray and barley is done and we can harvest those, but wheat is still too green and it's changing very slowly!
If you have any tips I would be clad. This is harvest is getting desperate here in Finland.
I'm farmer from Finland and new in this forum and my english isn't fluent.
I have queston about swathing wheat which is done at least in Canada.
This summer in Finland has been coldest for last 30 years. Usually we harvest in august and september, but this year we have just started because grain isn't done yeat. I have 600 acres to harvest and just 100 of it is done and this last week it was raining every day. Even before the rain humidity of harvested grain was about 30%. Whit that I can work out eventhought the drying is expensive.
We have grain dryers, but swathing isn't done here. If I would try to swath wheat, how long would it take to dry and what will happen if it rains? I would assume that the moisture of wheat is now something like 40-50%. Temperature is here is now 8-15C during a day and 4-11 at night. I assume that reason why swathing isn't done here with grain is because in a fall it's raining here more than in North America. I hope that it stops raining later this month. Ray and barley is done and we can harvest those, but wheat is still too green and it's changing very slowly!
If you have any tips I would be clad. This is harvest is getting desperate here in Finland.