Shelly said:
Good for you! We are close. We would've been done last week, but it HAD to rain and the combine HAD to break down! It's in town getting fixed, we picked up a loaner today. Tomorrow we're going to do the last of the oats and the one swath of barley with it. When we get ours back on Thursday or Friday, we're going to put the little bit of canola through it and hopefully that'll discourage the mice from moving into it over winter. I'll be glad to say "we're done FINALLY"!
It's always the "Little Things" that seem to make a difference in businesses, and one of the "little things" that I have observed on these posts is "putting a little bit of canola through the combine to discourage mice during the winter". How long have we known about this little trick? How much is a little bit? What did you use before the "Canola Chicanery" to fool the mice? If that works, that is a great idea!
A little bit is a little bit! 2 or 3 acres is enough, it's just to clean out the insides of the combine. Mice don't care much for canola, but they love oats and barley. We NEVER put the combine away after doing either of those crops. Peas work as well as canola but ours are all in the bin. We've been pretty lucky so far with the mice not getting into the cab. Only piece of machinery they haven't gotten into lately!
DOC HARRIS