26 Aug Janel: Harvesting canola

North Dakota — We’ve been harvesting canola the past several days. It’s ripe and cutting nicely. It’s yielding more than 2,000 pounds per acre and is dry, around 5 percent moisture. We’ve been staying busy, and our forecast is mostly clear with highs in the 80s. The crops in this area will disappear quickly now “if” the weather stays good. Canola needs cut when it’s ripe because wind shatters the grain, and there is wind in the forecast.

We have two combines here and seven in Montana, trying to get finished up. The radar shows they got rain today in Montana. I don’t hear from them or even hardly call them because we’re all in no phone zones. We’ve got a full crew, but I’m looking to add more drivers for fall. If interested, please apply online at schemperharvesting.com. Thanks!

Janel Schemper can be reached at janel@allaboardharvest.com.

Thank you to our 2024 All Aboard Wheat Harvest sponsors: High Plains Journal, Kramer Seed Farms, Lumivia by Corteva Agriscience, Merit Auctions, Shelbourne Reynolds, Unverferth Manufacturing Co., and U.S. Custom Harvesters, Inc. 

It’s all so very pretty! I love being in the field!