Two years ago I cut some Cordiale at about 14% protein and 13% moisture. The grains go a kind of flinty hard, and deep golden colour. These look very similar. Drilled 22nd April. Cut end August. Fairly inexpensive to grow in terms of nitrogen and infact all but seed. Will only really know when we get the samples back. Yielded simlar to a good crop of rape - about 3t/ha in the very dead sand bits to 5t/ha in the more bodied land. Hoping for 4.4t/ha average. But profit depends entirely on hitting the spec. First time growers. Would make a decent margin if it yielded 4.5t/ha each year.
Harvest 2013
- Thread starter Clive
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Two years ago I cut some Cordiale at about 14% protein and 13% moisture. The grains go a kind of flinty hard, and deep golden colour. These look very similar. Drilled 22nd April. Cut end August. Fairly inexpensive to grow in terms of nitrogen and infact all but seed. Will only really know when we get the samples back. Yielded simlar to a good crop of rape - about 3t/ha in the very dead sand bits to 5t/ha in the more bodied land. Hoping for 4.4t/ha average. But profit depends entirely on hitting the spec. First time growers. Would make a decent margin if it yielded 4.5t/ha each year.
- Location
- Gainsborough, Lincolnshire
And so it begins...........
First load came in at 14.5% moisture - so worth waiting!
First load came in at 14.5% moisture - so worth waiting!
Mixed bag here, none of it very special...s osr still to come, early drilled wheats that got away from the slugs varied from 3 to 3.5t/a, later mullahed wheats more like 2t/a, sb a bit over 2t/a average, s wheats (cut in where the slugs cleared the ww) 2.5t/a (at 13.5% protein and 79kg bushel weight, not that it's worth a lot more than biscuit at the moment). But at least it was relatively easy to get in, we haven't yet had to dry anything
First load came in at 14.5% moisture - so worth waiting!
Good week too forecast, which will be nice.
- Location
- Gainsborough, Lincolnshire
l'ordinary bonville
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- Location
- N Yorks
Still some winter OSR to do. Not ripe today yet.
Only 3 days spring barley and 15a rape left.
Wheat was a disaster, should have ploughed more up and sown with spring barley.
Hindsight, eh?
Only 3 days spring barley and 15a rape left.
Wheat was a disaster, should have ploughed more up and sown with spring barley.
Hindsight, eh?
2 days wheat left here at the most, spent last week making mostly slow progress in oats and peas (short days) and have stood the combine a bit to get more cover cops in
Wheat has not been good at all, hope what's left lifts the average a bit, blame firmly on the dry spell for our light soils
Wheat has not been good at all, hope what's left lifts the average a bit, blame firmly on the dry spell for our light soils
- Location
- Gainsborough, Lincolnshire
I'll be glad to get into my first wheats!
Seconds look like doing 2.5 - 2.75 ton/acre. (They were thrown on and harrowed in though - so wasn't expecting too much!).
- Location
- Shropshire
Cutting spring barley (planted in April). Grain is fit but the straw is still very green - yielding quite good and coming of at about 13.5%. Total bugger being totally flat. Last of the wheat is some way off being planted in November.
Colin
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- Location
- Perthshire
All wheat done now 7t/ha but dry, odd load over 20, lots under 17, some at 16 today. That's dry for here! Quality good, all over 72, suffered in the drought, where there was moisture crop was doing much better up to 3.8/acre in two fields. Still barley to finish and oats to do. Very well ahead for this area. Start spuds tomorrow, need to get sowing also.
- Location
- the brecks norfolk
iv been thinking the same 3 ton acre is an almost mythical yeild for us. i just cant see how its physically possible.
warksfarmer
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Had you min tilled last backend then it would of been worse wouldnt it? Direct drilling all your crops must of retained moisture so has it worked and would it of been worse?
Don't think establishment method has has any major effect upon yield yet really, it will be a few years before I start to see the surface mulch and higher OM levels that I hope might help our soil retain moisture better.
Zero till might have helped with moisture I guess and some of our lightest soils did seem to hang on better in that dry spell that they previously might have but I can't quantify it, it saved me cash and got my crops in the ground though which were probably its biggest pluses this season
Colin
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- Location
- Perthshire
I was along looking at a 770 working and he was cutting 3.5 t/acre of odyssey barley, high n though as lots of dung.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Not sure it does, at seeding time in a drought yes, but later on the voids you create hold water. This principle is used in construction jobs, soil stockpiled is pounded to death by compactors to remove voids to keep it dry for later use, think of how much water a freshly rotovated soil holds.. like a rice pudding!
- Location
- Nr Malvern... SW Worcestershire
Cut some March sown Invicta today...nothing very special yield-wise 6.8 tons/ha but only had: 95 kgs/ha N. One fungicide (at ear emergence) and a broad leaved herbicide so very little expenditure...might just be the most profitable crop we have grown for a number of years (Direct drilled after winter OSR)..