Swathing Canola

rusty6 · Sep 21, 2019

Not me. My canola is all soaking in the rain soaked swaths. But the neighbours started cutting down their hailed canola this morning with two big JD swathers. Its a real challenge not to get stuck in the mud but they are getting along ok. Took a drone picture or two as the sun came out briefly this afternoon. Cool and damp so not much crop drying happening.

jddrawbar · Sep 21, 2019

Nice shot!

David G · Sep 21, 2019

What is canola?

Matt from Oz · Sep 21, 2019

Hi David

Canola is an oilseed crop. The plant is a member of the brassica family. It was originally called rape seed but that is not the best name so it was changed. Canada oil was shortened to canola. It is a broadleaf hence has a tap root and a great disease break for cereal crops like wheat etc. It is not a legume and likes nitrogen and sulphur. The story on the name is what I was told others may know a whole lot more.

Regards

Matt

David G · Sep 21, 2019

Thanks

fixerupper · Sep 21, 2019

A fella from Saskatchewan told me the same story about the name.

roy prins · Sep 21, 2019

Hey Rusty-- love Your pictures and udates on Your harvest -- I was wondering --I see water here and there -- is there any
fishing in them puddles? Just wondering! Roy

BillinCentralMO · Sep 21, 2019

Very interesting. Do you haul any Canola to a biodiesel company ?We have sold a lot of corn to the ethanol plant.

rusty6 · Sep 21, 2019

(quoted from post at 16:50:42 09/21/19) Very interesting. Do you haul any Canola to a biodiesel company ?We have sold a lot of corn to the ethanol plant.

No, mine all goes to the closest terminals and what they do with it after that I don't know. There is a crushing plant a couple of hours away where some guys haul. Not sure if it is used for bio diesel or not. I don't even know if we have that here. It might not handle the cold weather.

Bob · Sep 21, 2019

(quoted from post at 18:26:19 09/21/19) Hi David

Canola is an oilseed crop. The plant is a member of the brassica family. It was originally called rape seed but that is not the best name so it was changed. Canada oil was shortened to canola. It is a broadleaf hence has a tap root and a great disease break for cereal crops like wheat etc. It is not a legume and likes nitrogen and sulphur. The story on the name is what I was told others may know a whole lot more.

Regards

Matt

Mite as well tell the REAL story, for gosh sakes, "rapeseed" oil is loaded with ecrucic acid, and unfit for human consumption. (Potentially causes a heart condition called myocardial lipidosis.)

Enter the University of Manitoba and other plant breeders in the 60's, they developed "canola".

"Although they look similar, canola and rapeseed plants and oils are very different. Canadian scientists used traditional plant breeding in the 1960s to practically eliminate two undesirable components of rapeseed erucic acid from oil and glucosinolates from meal to create "canola," a contraction of "Canadian" and "ola." Canola oil is prized for its heart-healthy properties with the least saturated fat of all common culinary oils."

https://www.canolacouncil.org/canola-encyclopedia/crop-development/history-of-varietal-development/

grandpa Love · Sep 22, 2019

But......some conspiracy theorist
say that it's still not good for
humans and the government is
pushing it on us as healthy.
Personally we use Olive oil and
coconut oil.

Married2Allis · Sep 22, 2019

Nice -- looks like a 'plateau' that streches out into the horizon. Obviously canola needs a colder climate. Do you ever get enough heat up there to affect the canola crop?

rusty6 · Sep 22, 2019

(quoted from post at 16:48:56 09/21/19) Hey Rusty-- love Your pictures and udates on Your harvest -- I was wondering --I see water here and there -- is there any
fishing in them puddles? Just wondering! Roy

No fish but we raise a lot of ducks and geese.

rusty6 · Sep 22, 2019

(quoted from post at 07:07:50 09/22/19) Nice -- looks like a 'plateau' that streches out into the horizon. Obviously canola needs a colder climate. Do you ever get enough heat up there to affect the canola crop?

Actually it used to be considered to hot and dry in South Sask. to grow canola so it was more to the Northern parts of arable land. Seems to grow just fine in the South now but years like this makes it look like we won't get the chance to harvest it. Forecast is not good.

1948CaseVAI · Sep 22, 2019

Don't know how hot and dry it is in Sask. but I have a good friend who used to successfully raise quite a few acres of canola in south central Kansas. The problem here is the hauling distance to an elevator that will take it.

rusty6 · Sep 22, 2019

(quoted from post at 09:51:48 09/22/19)
Don't know how hot and dry it is in Sask. but I have a good friend who used to successfully raise quite a few acres of canola in south central Kansas. The problem here is the hauling distance to an elevator that will take it.

Surprising you can grow canola in Kansas. We have problems here if we get a real hot spell during blossom time. It will make a lot of flowers drop off and really hurt the yield. It needs cooler and damp conditions when flowering to get maximum yield.

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