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Hi Brandi, some of these trails were for 50” machines and we ran down them by accident for awhile and had no issues as long you pay attention because it did get tight! Definitely a good mix up there and you’ll have a blast

I think it depends on the variety of canola they plant. Snow was a factor for laying down the wheat so that it wasn’t all matted down from snow.

@@JohnJenkinsfarmmedia What is your growing season like? I was raised in east central Illinois, and we were in the field from around 3/15 to 12/1 depending on weather.

There was no choice! Haha yeah this is near Bacchus Marsh in Victoria.

The 90’s are good because they can be converted to high speed units where as the 120’s can’t. But on conventional row units it all depends on field size

​@John Jenkins there are a handful of high-speed 120s out there

Must be using a narrow row planter with a wide row picker .

Sure is!

Let’s it dry longer days to weeks

So yeah for the pods to break open easily when combining canola it has to be desiccated, you can either rely on chemicals for this such as glyphosate or swath it like this and leave it for a couple weeks. Swathing generally means you can be a little earlier with your harvest.

With grain it also lets it dry faster so the combine does not plug up and you do not have to burn expensive fuel in a grain dryer to get it to the proper moisture level. The growing season is shorter in Canada so we have to swath it and speed up the drying process and harvest B4 it gets too cold or snows.

@@yurizhivago4848 I've heard it also helps with feeding into the combine better?

Christian Gierach You swath it for a whole bunch of reasons. Biggest reason is most varieties of canola, including the most widely grown one, round up ready, will shell out way too bad and you will lose a very large amount of the crop on the ground as the reel on the straight cut header hits it. It also helps it dry lots, as soon as its cut it stops requiring moister and starts to dry out. Swathing also is very important because if you are planning to straight cut it there may be some of the crop left that is still green and it will have green seeds mixed in and cause it to spoil. Also for farmers like my family, we only have 1 30 foot straight cut header but we have 2 combines with pickup headers, so if you go along with our 25 foot swather it does not take very long at all and you are combining 50 feet at one time instead of 30 with one combine. For most farmers swathing is the most economical thing to do.

Just cause you don't doesn't mean the rest of the world it has followed. I've seen straight cut canola fields shelled out like crazy from a freak wind. And a swathed field beside it almost untouched in comparison. And vice versa.

I swath everything

Had 2500 acres this year all straight cut and our average was 57 bpa, nothing wrong with that 🤷🏼‍♂️

Clearly, you don’t know what you’re talking about. I farm very close to this guy. I swath every acre of every crop I have. Straight cutting simply does not work well here, especially canola. Don’t mock what you clearly don’t understand, because you just come across as an ignorant numpty, which you clearly are.

COVolcom It was an open area where we could go off trail and ride a bit

@@JohnJenkinsfarmmedia I don't believe it. Stuff like that gets our trails closed in Colorado. Just saying

Dan Van Hoose thanks for watching

If you star in central Queensland in an AVG season you could be doing sorghum. Sunflower and wheat and barley at the same time. In around July or August.around Moree middle to the end of October for barley wheat first of November unless early sown then it can be as early as September or October.

Ken Scallion Look up US custom harvesters on Facebook or google. I think they have job postings on there or can help you find the right crew. If you have a CDL you should be able to get on almost any crew. I got hooked up with these crews through junior college. Good luck! Let me know if I can help