Yeah things are slow. Some was harvested dry before the snow so that’s trickling in but otherwise we’re all waiting for the sun.
2018 Harvest snow causing problems on Canadian Prairies.
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Don’t know the term crimping. There are grain bags if bin space has run out.
Whole cropping is another UK term that isn’t used here. You mean like silaging?
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Everyone’s got their preference. Standing crop will dry faster and sprout slower than swathed. Swathed is only a protection against serious lodging which doesn’t happen too often luckily.
d williams
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Yes wholecrop is like silage crimping is crushing the wheat barley
Putting a additive on then sealing up
Silage is silaged. Or hailed out crop. Right now there’d really be no nutritional point, it’s all mildewy straw they’d use better for bedding than silage.
Crimping I’ve never heard of. I can’t think of any other year anyone would even attempt to harvest grain above 17% mst let alone into the ideal listed crimping zone. They don’t want to harvest feed wheat, so why harvest it and apply junk to it that means that’s all it’s left to be?
Fish
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Different country, but same sh*t.
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- S. Staffs
Most wheat grown in the UK is grown as animal feed, some used for biscuits, and high protein varieties for flour for various uses, bagels, pizza bases, and bread usually blended often with Canadian Red wheats.
Crimping or treating wheat with proprionic acid (Propcorn) is just an alternative to drying it when it’s going to be fed to stock.
Crimping or treating wheat with proprionic acid (Propcorn) is just an alternative to drying it when it’s going to be fed to stock.
That’s about the exact opposite to here then. Most of the wheats are grown to be milling quality. They can and do get downgraded to a feed, but they aren’t grown to be a feed.
Even with all this moisture the samples we are seeing are still hovering as 2s and 3s so they will bring more than feed grade. Wouldn’t make sense to apply a chemical to something milling grade that would make it only good for a feed.
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I’d never heard of crimping till I came on here. Also didn’t know about wholecropping!
We are in an arable area though.
Forecast for the next week looks promising?
There’s no little rain drops or snowflakes for most days at least. Hopefully the temperatures keep going up and the sun sticks around, there might be combines going by the beginning of next week.
Fish
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glasshouse
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Are you near red deer?
Yes. South east of it. Was just there today actually.
glasshouse
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Friends of mine emigrated there in 96
glasshouse
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Visited them twice
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Lots of standing stuff seems pushed down and tangled up so that might do ok. Not sure how the swaths will fair, I've seen a couple spots blown away already before today and it hasn't been that windy at all.
Fish
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Just seen that they have almost 20" of snow in some parts of North Dakota.