wellingtonfarmer
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- Herefordshire
Had a load of oats rejected with sawtoothed grain beetle, what's best way to get rid of them? I sprayed shed out with k obial before harvest but they seem hard to get rid of.
We used to use Reldan in the open stores and Actelic smoke bombs in the bins once they had been hoovered out and allso sprayed with reldan
We had three 80tn bins with mesh drying floor ,just to make sure we got everything ,we lit a couple of bombs infront of the fan and let it run for a a few seconds ,anything under the floor was sorted and anywhere else they might be hidingAbsolutely right. Spray floors and walls up to head height, bomb the rest. Smoke sorts out anything high up- drops to ground, gets whacked with reldan.
Not convinced K-obiol has the same staying power as reldan. Doesn't smell as much though.
If I had a big heap of high value stuff, I would definitely get a contractor to gas it.
We find an asperator seems to suck them out ok. Put the oats back through the Combine if you haven't got one.
We have made a small hopper for the front elevator. We auger the grain in to it and the elevator takes it back through the concave and on to the sieves. It worked well after the 2012 low bushel weight harvest, improved the wheat bushel weight by blowing the rubbish out of it at 50t an hour.Sorry for being stupid but how do you go about putting them back through combine?
I totally agree with you, but will the buyers take grain with dead bugs in it? When I had some milling wheat with Beatles in it, I was told by our buyer that if they found dead bugs in it, they will still regect it.Fumigation only costs between £1 and £3 a ton depending on the tonage. It's a no brainer. It costs a lot more to move and mess about with it.
Had some in a load of barley, I was advised to use K-Obiol as Reldan has a 90 day withdrawal period whereas K-Obiol can be delivered straight after application. Sprayed mine onto grain flow coming out the trailer shoot.