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Pushed Canola Harvest in Pictures- Part Two
Mon, 07 Jun 2010 4:59:17 CDT
Winter Canola Harvest is underway- and a big fan of this alternative crop for wheat producers is Canadian County Extension Educator Brad Tipton. Tipton believes that this crop has the potential to save wheat production in the state of Oklahoma, as it allows farmers to finally break an escalating problem with competing weeds that are showing up in the wheat fields more and more each growing season.
In part two of our pictures of canola being harvested north of El Reno on Highway 81 on the Zum Mallen Farms, the top picture shows canola feeding up nicely onto the header platform. This image demonstrates it is better to use the same width pusher as you have combine header length. This field was pushed with a 30 ft. pusher but is being cut with a 36 ft. header.
The middle picture is a view of 30 foot wide pushed canola different color shades are canola pushed in opposite directions. Notice the gaps in the pushed canola are where the pusher's vertical cutters laid the canola open for the tractor tires to avoid crushing canola during the pushing operation.
The third and bottom picture of this group is the combine operator keeping the end of the header in an area cut by the pusher's vertical cutters. If you try to move over and take a full 36 ft. swath, the canola tangles, pile up and start wrapping up around the reel.
First Picture is of Pushed Canola being fed into the header, with pictures two and three showing different angles of the canola lining up into the combine header.
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