Rain

[bucket]

Advice needed....canola is dry but green count is 5 to 6 percent. ...it was shelling when swathing it....anyway will rain hurt it?


Wheat is tested 18 standing ....lots of green and puffy kernels ....will I lose a grade?

[fjlip]

Any rain better be DARN slow, still dealing with spring/spraying RUTS cursing hard fast flooding rains! Cost us grain, potential.

[fjlip]

Advice needed....canola is dry but green count is 5 to 6 percent. ...it was shelling when swathing it....anyway will rain hurt it?


Wheat is tested 18 standing ....lots of green and puffy kernels ....will I lose a grade?

Canola usually fine, it does sprout if seed is very dry when it rains and stays humid for a week. Hopefully not warm AND wet.

Wheat, combine and dry/aerate, been doing the green puffy kernels, where drowned in June, ALL HARVEST!

[farmaholic]

Advice needed....canola is dry but green count is 5 to 6 percent. ...it was shelling when swathing it....anyway will rain hurt it?


Wheat is tested 18 standing ....lots of green and puffy kernels ....will I lose a grade?

Bucket, green as in lime green or distinctly green? I think when they say green they mean distinctly green throughout the seed. Distinctly green would be dark green to me.

[farmaholic]

Canola usually fine, it does sprout if seed is very dry when it rains and stays humid for a week. Hopefully not warm AND wet.

Wheat, combine and dry/aerate, been doing the green puffy kernels, where drowned in June, ALL HARVEST!

fj, I'm not against harvesting tough here.... but feel you have to at least get those puffy ones out of the head. If its dry enough to do that and you have a way of dealing with the tough grain.... go for it.

[bigzee]

At least this rain won't drag down the prices anymore than they are. Sorry grain companies, and traders this won't add to production.

[pourfarmer]

Someone should post a snippet from Drew's forecast? One year I'll quit being a tightwad and subscribe. Environment Canada, and weather network show a ugly amount of rain for the next 2 weeks.

Anyone have advice on the following:
I have a few hundred acres of malt barley I'm trying to decide whether to swath or not. Its ready to go, 92 days on Tuesday, but has clover in it so I can't straight cut. I'm wondering if it may be safer in a swath then standing, especially if it rains for 2 weeks and starts dropping heads? Either way, Im guessing she won't be malt quality after this rain event.

[fjlip]

Someone should post a snippet from Drew's forecast? One year I'll quit being a tightwad and subscribe. Environment Canada, and weather network show a ugly amount of rain for the next 2 weeks.

Anyone have advice on the following:
I have a few hundred acres of malt barley I'm trying to decide whether to swath or not. Its ready to go, 92 days on Tuesday, but has clover in it so I can't straight cut. I'm wondering if it may be safer in a swath then standing, especially if it rains for 2 weeks and starts dropping heads? Either way, Im guessing she won't be malt quality after this rain event.

That is why Malt Lottery is off my list, been there, ruined it, sorry. In 2005 all standing barley sprouted in head! Good luck

[Klause]

Latest model runs decreased the rain amounts already

[bucket]

The elevator said the hopper I took there was 5.5 green count.....


As for the wheat it's green and puffy overnight they reduce but the moisture could be a problem...

Not enough air bins I have been lucky not to worry about that....this might bite ....