Canola School: Reducing Canola Left in the Field Increases Your Revenue and Lessens Volunteers- Deni

[ProFarmer]

bull, if the seeds exceed plant stalks i will adjust. 5 bushels would be solid seeds on the ground.

[bgmb]

I am not saying you are throwing 5 bu but no way it is 5 lbs. point is how would you know by just looking on the ground canola seeds fall into little cracks, and guess what they are black just like the soil so pretty hard to see all of them.

Get a screen, collect all your straw and chaff you will freak out the first time you do it.

[shaney]

There is no way you would ever be leaving just 5lbs in the field.

[mcfarms]

Thats what I'm saying though , If I was throwing 250 lbs !!!!! there aint enough Prepass for that. they are saying between 30 and 50 times normal seeding rate! Even @ 1% loss its 50 lbs and thats more along the lines of what I would say average is..

This said the problem of volunteer canola is a real one and the game plan here now is rotate rr one year and the next rotation LL that way we can be 6 years between rr and should drop the number of dormant and sleeping seeds that show up as weeds (effectively. Down by quite a margin. And if I was really wacky ( which is open for discussion) you could through Clearfield in there every 4th time or something.

[mcfarms]

Oh and thank you shaun we is all experts....LOL

[Hopperbin]

One thinks can keep under planting density. Another thinks its 3 to 5 bushels per acre. Should we add shattering loss before swathing, loss at swathing loss from pick up, hail loss, Saskfarmers frost, drown out, too wet loss, mudded in loss we could be up to total loss and how come were still getting 40 bushels to the acre.

This is how I learned from Dad and experience to harvest canola, don't swath until you can see some shattering. I set my IH on max wind and alter the sieve if needed. Watch the monitor and the ground to see if things change. Other than that its whatever can go in the front at max. ground speed.

[silverback]

Max Wind in canola? Really? My kids have never tried that. How about concave?

Will that be taught at the canola school?

[shaney]

By the sounds of it this might be a great future episode to focus on actual combine setting strategies.

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[Hopperbin]

Max wind works on my 2188 and 1680. Nice sample not much adjustments ever needed, I think mostly lighter seeds blown out anyway. Concave open and rotor speed as slow as can get away with. I would sure like to see how the canola school gets their 5 bushels maybe they just tested gleaner.

[hedgehog]

what a load of nonsense, 5lb an acre of spilt seed will give a full crop.
you can never cut volunteers to zero.
sounds like some wil get a crop where none was seeded, bettter than nothing.
volunteers are ok.