Rain ☔️

[grefer]

I dont know if it qualifies for the rain lottery or not seeing we are still harvesting but we received between 7 and 8 tenths last night. Probably closer to seven if I fished out the fly that died trying to get a drink. It is a bit of a relief after all the hot dry weather. May lower the possibility of fires. Fives miles away nothing.

[Oliver88]

Easy to tell who's almost done. Only 20% around here.

Excactly. You won't ever hear me cheering on rain in September especially after what happened last year.

[Robertbarlage]

Guess some have never had to fight fire

[farming101]

Speaking of fire. Waterton fire went wild in a matter of hours.


Rain is a good thing. Some times

[ajl]

Easy to tell who's almost done. Only 20% around here.

Here too. Two crops in one field here as well. The one that is ripe and the one that is two weeks away. Rain currently falling does not help with that. The late crop was a result of too wet in mid June when the crop kinda seemed to die off and then it came back later after conditions improved.

[Guest]

Okay MB or who ever has been successfully adding water to dry canola, please describe how you did this. Hearing lots about this lately, but nobody has done it.

I have , weld a 1" collar to auger use a garden hose fitting in it . Use your sprayer truck . Get auger running , load a 100 bu . Test it. Use less or more . Cant even tell at truck thats its had water .May need a 1" hose for a 10"auger . Lots of ****ing around tho . Ok if your hauling your own in the summer or in fall when you have time. You get well paid. I always tell the buyer im doing it also

[shtferbrains]

2 in hose on a big auger.

Need to get 400 gal in a 40 te load.

Doesn't take long to load 40 te.

Garden hose takes 1/2 a day to fill 400 gal tank.

By the time you get to the pit it's just an extra 2 te of canola.

[Braveheart]

A local, clown actually, pumped water into his canola and bragged all over about doing it. Richardsons refused to take delivery citing food safety issues. No one here can guarantee the safety of their water supply. Hog barns everywhere and now wells show up with coliform and even ecoli.

No matter where you are, adding water to canola to bring up the weight is, IMO, risky. Canola is directly a human food. Water from a well, dugout, etc can't be assured to be safe.

If farmers are that desperate for an extra fifty cents, might as well pack it in now.

[sk_wheatking]

A local, clown actually, pumped water into his canola and bragged all over about doing it. Richardsons refused to take delivery citing food safety issues. No one here can guarantee the safety of their water supply. Hog barns everywhere and now wells show up with coliform and even ecoli.

No matter where you are, adding water to canola to bring up the weight is, IMO, risky. Canola is directly a human food. Water from a well, dugout, etc can't be assured to be safe.

If farmers are that desperate for an extra fifty cents, might as well pack it in now.

I get what your saying....but, maybe if the crooked bastards with the monopoly paid a decent price for canola which is an incredibly risky expensive crop to grow guys wouldn't have to resort to pulling bullshit stunts like this. This goes for all grains really. I have never done this myself but nice to see these grain buying crooked pricks have someone get one over on them, even if it's just a small amount.

[MBgrower]

Okay MB or who ever has been successfully adding water to dry canola, please describe how you did this. Hearing lots about this lately, but nobody has done it.

I know a few farmers that do it all the time to very low moisture canola and beans. they typically do it as they haul it from bin to the elevator or crusher. you have to do it slowly to give the water a chance to absorb.

obviously a little hard to do in the winter, some elevators know what they are up to when they see ice crystals in the prob sample