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Effect of Swathing or Direct Combining on Yield, Seed Losses and Costs of Camelina

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Effect of Swathing or Direct Combining on Yield, Seed Losses and Costs of Camelina 

Abstract: Camelina is an interesting crop and producers must adopt cultural practices to achieve
the highest yield and oil content possible. Considering the size of the seed, the harvesting phase is
crucial to reduce losses and maximize income. Furthermore, in recent years, with the worsening
of climatic conditions due to global warming, crop management can no longer follow the classic
seasonality but must adapt to new climatic conditions. The possibility of double cropping, that is
the process of producing two crops in a single season, allows multiple advantages such as weed
control, greater remuneration, and less exposure to bare soil which determine greater resilience of
the production system. To enable this, especially in recent years, even a few days of difference in
the cultivation phases can guarantee the success of double cropping. For these reasons, the authors
compared two different harvesting strategies: direct combining at full maturity (DC); swathing +
combining at full maturity (SW). The working performance, cost, and seed losses associated with
each harvesting method were calculated. The results highlighted how SW reduced the crop cycle
length by 11 days, did not influence seed losses and crop yield but showed lower performance and
higher cost with respect to DC.

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