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Home / Canola Watch / Top 10 tips to reduce combine losses

  • Harvest and Storage
  • Harvest loss
  • August 28, 2013 - Issue 22
August 28, 2013

Top 10 tips to reduce combine losses

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Growers can lose up to 5 bu./ac. of canola during harvest, with many of those losses occurring as canola enters and exits the combine. Combine losses should be less than 1 bu./ac., and hopefully more like half a bushel.

Please see the updated article on how to measure loss and how to reduce loss.

If you really want the old Top 10, here it is!

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