Temperature and Canola

[sumdumguy]

Is it safe to store at 28 degrees?

[farmaholic]

That seems pretty hot to me. How big is the bin, what's the moisture? Can you aerate it? If not it might be worth pulling a load out after a while. Google "safe storage of canola chart".

[biglentil]

Stuff we are doing now might be warm but at a well cured 7% moisture shes fine to sit warm until we get some low single digit nights. Then we can run the fans and start to cool it down to 4 degrees C. Everything on the farm infact.

[Guest]

Is it safe to store at 28 degrees?

NO, it's not

[farmaholic]

We've been cooling/aerating ours.... just good practice. I've read it is also better to take the temp down in stages so it isn't alot cooler than the ambient air temp outside the bin. aka... try not to get it to 8 degrees when average temps are alot warmer than that. I would think fifteen degrees would be a good target for this time of year.(?)

[furrowtickler]

Yes farma , that is a very good way to air "condition" warm canola 👍👍

[fjlip]

Canola has a harvested sweat after binning, good idea to blow cool air and remove that too.
The bigger the bin, more risk.

[biglentil]

We've been cooling/aerating ours.... just good practice. I've read it is also better to take the temp down in stages so it isn't alot cooler than the ambient air temp outside the bin. aka... try not to get it to 8 degrees when average temps are alot warmer than that. I would think fifteen degrees would be a good target for this time of year.(?)

Good advice moisture migrates from the centre of uncured seed and creates sweat. Run it for a few nights after binning and a few nights a couple weeks after. Then cool er right down for winter. Better safe then sorry. Dont forget to run garden hose to auger when hauling in.