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What month is it to beat the grain

The beating of the grain is generally in August-September, the specific time is related to the variety, climate, sowing time, ripe and harvested to beat the grain.

For example, in Jiangsu, three lines of hybrid medium indica rice area rice is generally harvested in early October; the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River plains area early rice is generally harvested in late July, late rice harvested in late October to November; the northern region of the double-season rice is generally harvested in early August and early November.

Harvesting rice should be done row by row, with sharp sickles and quick movements. After the grains are cut and thrown directly into the threshing machine, the grains and straw are separated. After all the grains are beaten, the stalks are bundled into haystacks, which can be dried in the sun and used as grass for feeding cattle or as firewood. When the threshing is finished, the grains are loaded home and tumbled, sifted through the straw and spread evenly for drying to evaporate the water vapor.

The method of beating grain

1, beating grain can be utilized to beat grain barrels, mostly by hand with a wooden stick, with a foot pedal, etc., so that these grains can be threshed, which is the traditional method, and now can be thrown directly into the threshing machine, the grains and straw are separated.

2, the threshing barrel can be used for rice, wheat, soybean, rapeseed and other crops harvested threshing. In the rice, wheat and other grains harvesting and threshing, both hands behind the crop stem, first to the right up, and then to the left side of the barrel to beat the left side of the barrel to beat the moment of completion of the hands also need to be slightly shaken, for the threshed grains have been all sprinkled in the barrel, to prevent grains in the uplift in the situation of the scattering.