Video Highlights

0:03 Key to increase your crop profitability

0:29 Tips to avoid crop contamination

1:33 What to do with seeds on hot days

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Getting The Best Seed From Your Harvest
Increasing your profitability starts with good quality seed. Note that germination and establishment rates are vastly improved when you save the BIGGEST and PLUMPEST seed.

Leave The Edges Of The Paddock For Sale
It is important to remember that there is a great chance that weeds from the neighbours and road sides can contaminate your seed. Another reason to keep seeds away from the edges is that trees at the margin reduce moisture needed for the growth of crops.

Take Note Of Any Disease That Has Occurred Throughout The Growing Season
Let’s apply the concept of the saying “prevention is better than cure” in looking after our crops. Things like Loose Smut can re-infect your crops the next season if you don’t take any precautionary action like putting treatments.

Understanding Crop Rotation
When going barley to wheat or from cereal to durum, you need to fill and empty your header box several times to avoid any contamination from other paddocks or varieties.

Legumes Have a Higher Germination Rate When Reaped Earlier
A higher than lower moisture content of grain actually adds a buffer to cracking and slitting of seeds.

Weed Seeds Easily Hide in Peas and Beans
To avoid weeds from growing with your peas and beans, you need to do a proper and thorough check, or better yet, just do seed cleaning. The cost of sprays and weed competition can easily outweigh the cost of cleaning.

For Best Protection, Only Give Your Seed Registered Products As Treatment
Again with the expression “Prevention is better than cure”, you have to take note of any issues in your crop’s health for planning next year’s crop. Using registered and trusted products for your seed provides better protection for your crop and your investment.

Stored Seed Should Be Kept Cool
Note that when reaping on hot days, stored heat in a bin will reduce the germination rate of the seed, so you need to keep the lids of the silos open where possible. You can also move the grain when the ambient temperature is cool specially when storing before seed grading.

Storing Seeds For More Than a Month
In storing seeds for more than a couple of months before grading and treating, use a registered IGR (Insect Growth Regulator) insecticide to dress your seeds against weevil.

When Using a Seed Grader
Always use a professional seed grader with a proven reputation guaranteeing improved results and return on investment.

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Key takeaways in this video

0:13 Cleaning capacity

1:10 How many products can be processed

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Hi! It’s Kurt, Walco Seed Cleaning. Another question I get asked is, how long is it going to take to clean my grain?

0:13 Essentially, that’s how many ton an hour can we do through the machines. Basically, we’ve got two machines that we use for seed grading. We got a combination of other machines to help us clean as well. We’ll show you in another video.

0:26 Predominantly, two machines, the one behind me you can see in the video, that’s our semi cleaner. That one has a capacity of generally around about 15 ton an hour on doing seed work. We can harvest clean then we can run it through it at about 20 ton an hour.

0:45 The other machine, the Westruck, we call it, that one has a capacity of about 23 tons an hour for harvest cleaning and doing seed work. We generally run around 15, 16, 17 ton an hour depending on the sample. Both of them do a good job. We pickle at the same time about the very end of the process for doing your seed.

1:10 We can apply a combination of pickles as well, not just the one product but anything up to about five even six products we have at some stages. Basically, if you work on that sort of capacity, the cleanout time is generally around about probably 10 minutes roughly, 15 minutes, depending if we need to change grains between – that’s going from one silo to the next.

1:36 Generally, on average if you’ll allow 10-12 tons per hour doing wheat and barley, that’s sort of the time speed that we’re working on.

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Video Highlights

Hi! It’s Kurt, Walco Seed Cleaning. Thanks for watching again. Seed storage is a big question that always keeps getting popped – popping up every now and again.

0:14 The why and how you should be doing it, basically, harvest time most people don’t have a lot of time to actually put their grain back in their yards so generally it get to stay out in the paddy.

0:29 But there’s – before you even start thinking about storing grain you want to pick out the best part of your paddy for seed and I’ll explain that in another video a bit more detail.

0:43 So basically, if you store grain and as you can see behind me, we’ve got two silos there at the moment, but if you got a whole row of silos, then what we can actually do is clean from one silo directly into another one even with the silos all in one line, which saves a lot of headaches, and you guys don’t need to worry about trucks all that sort of thing.

1:07 So basically, essentially we need to keep the full one on my left shoulder. That’s right there so we can clean into the one on the other side on my right shoulder. That’s the order that we do it and we can basically just start from one end work all our way down, and of course that means as long as we empty the bins out completely. We haven’t cleaned the bins out as we go we’ll give it a sweep a whole lot for you.

1:37 So, if you need any more information and want to know a bit more detail or situations that you might get stuck into or anything at all, feel free, give us a call. Details are on the page. Even throw a question on Twitter, not quitter, on Twitter. We’re on Facebook as well and feel free, give us a ring if you like. Thanks for tuning in and we’ll catch up with you later. Thanks.

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