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• Tips for drying tough and damp canola

  All canola should be conditioned after it goes into the bin to ensure safe long-term storage — especially if it goes into the bin warm. For tough and damp canola, the spoilage risk without cooling and drying is much higher.

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• Companies that buy high-green canola

  Got canola with high green seed counts or that has heated? Here’s a list of companies bidding on lower grade canola.

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• Canola heating

  Canola is heating up. That’s good news if we’re talking prices. But it’s bad news for canola in the bin. “We’re getting regular reports this month from growers who have lost whole bins to heating. Some have lost multiple bins,” says Jim Bessel, Canola Council of Canada senior agronomy specialist in Saskatchewan. “Periods of warm [...]

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• More heated canola than usual

  There’s an old saying in the canola business: “Sell it or smell it.” According to some crushers, they’ve been “smelling” more canola than usual this year. Higher green counts can encourage more rapid spoilage, which may be a factor in higher rates of heating. But even No.1 canola can start to heat as temperatures warm [...]

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• Know your options for high-green canola

  Canola grades for 2010 are lower than average due to high levels of green seed. Through most of Alberta and in Northeastern Saskatchewan, for example, less than 70% of canola achieved No.1 grade, based on Canadian Grain Commission analysis. See the CGC map below for the percentage of No.1 canola in your region. Across the [...]

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• Check bins, avoid costly surprises

  Think canola is safe when it’s cold outside? Not always. Many bins of canola have been lost already this year because canola went in hot or damp and was not conditioned adequately. As outside temperatures drop below zero and stay there, another moisture cycle begins within the bin. (See the graphic below.) A pocket of [...]

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• What is “distinctly green”?

  Rules for “distinctly green” and other grading factors October 19, 2010   Growers with canola downgraded for green and other factors may benefit from knowing the grading rules. •    No.1 canola may contain up to 2% distinctly green seeds and a maximum of 5% damaged seed (including green). •    The allowable limit for No.2 is [...]

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• Brush up on green-seed counting

  With uneven maturity and later canola crops, this will be another year to watch green counts. Here are some tips to follow when testing for green seed: Rather than start up the combine to take a sample, insert a scoop shovel underneath the swath and use your hands to thresh pods near ground level into [...]

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