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Canola Harvest Has Begun- Swathing Underway of the 2012 Crop
Thu, 03 May 2012 15:14:46 CDT
The 2012 winter canola harvest is underway, with fields in southwest and central Oklahoma being swathed and getting the canola into windrows which will be picked up in a matter of days. The earliest report we have of swathing the crop came on Sunday, April 29 in the Walters area of Cotton County. Josh Bushong, OSU Extension Canola Specialist, told us on Thursday morning that he had reports of fields in several locations either already swathed or were ready to be swathed. Our conversation with Josh can be listened to by clicking on the LISTEN BAR at the bottom of this story.
Traveling back to the Oklahoma City area from the Lahoma Canola Field Day, where we talked about harvest starting up with Bushong, we found one of the locations he mentioned to us as being ready for harvest. Three machines had swath heads from MacDon on them and were running across the field on the west side of Kilpatrick Turnpike just north and west of State Highway 3.
The picture here is of the swath head, and the roller being pulled behind the header to help knock the canola down so the pods will be lower to the ground and less subsceptible to shatter.
We have over 30 pictures of the process that we encounted in Canadian County- and you can see them by clicking here for our 2012 Canola set of photos on Flickr- scroll down to the bottom of the set of pictures to see those of May 3rd and the swathing
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