Here in Australia we're losing a lot of canola out of the back of our harvesters
and in Western Australia alone I've estimated that we're losing 90
million dollars a year worth of canola, that equates to about $70 per hectare
over our 1.2 million hectare crop. This canola grain or any grain that's left
on the ground after harvest is your profit and in some cases it might be all
of your profit. Canola is a high-value crop it might be twice the value of
wheat and we're losing more canola than we are wheat out of the back of a
harvester. So we're losing a lot of a high-value crop so we need to measure it.
We need to measure it because we want to at least have these canola harvest
losses around Australia. We're in a farm in the northern wheatbelt of Western
Australia where the grower has swathed and then harvested and as you can see
we've got a narrow window here and somehow in this lot we've got to find
our canola harvest losses. It's like finding a needle in a haystack. We're
looking for a very small seed in a large amount of material. We really believe
that there's almost no point in looking on the ground looking for canola because
the seed is so small. I've personally been a bit vocal about getting the
harvesters to slow down to minimize losses. That's one level that we can pull
but that's the last resort we really want to maintain capacity and keep the
losses at an acceptable level. So what is acceptable loss?
Well 1% is the internationally accepted figure we want to be below 1% for most
crops cereal crops however canola often it's in that 2 to 3
percent range. I think we can do better than that in the long term but if your
canola losses are below 2 to 3% you've got it about right. As part of this
project that I've been working on with GRDC investment I've created a
twitter handle for you to come and share your experiences. It's called @ harvest
loss. What we want to do is measure our harvest losses, get on that Twitter
handle share experiences, we'll put our heads together and work out
how to halve the canola harvest losses in Australia. To measure it there are some
new tools that you can use that it make it really easy and we're going to show
you those tools because as the old adage says if you don't measure it you can't
manage it.
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