Devon James
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50 acres of beans starting tomorrow arvo and 25 of Millet which was sprayed on Saturday. Drilling flat chat
Harvest 2015 progress
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gone up the hill
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Drilling flat chat??
Tompkins
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Sorry Oscar! I couldn't believe it really as it looks really fit, going to have another nibble Fri/Sat.
I've dried every other crop to some extent and it seems the linseed will be no different! Not sure I can be bothered with it anymore, but I always say that!
I've dried every other crop to some extent and it seems the linseed will be no different! Not sure I can be bothered with it anymore, but I always say that!
Cut 21 acres of spring beans tis afternoon at around 16% moisture yielding over 2t to the acre which I'm happy with as its marginal land and had less spring wheat off it last year after a shite load of muck on it! Another 44 acres to do and will cut those in the afternoons this week from 2 till 6 all being well, just a part time farmer!
Have to say that harvest here has been exactly the same. Great yields but after storage and drying we are below COP, probably including BPS. This is for wheat - all the stuff we were stupid to be growing like soring oats and linseed will have made a bit. My brother's response has been to say "sod off" to the normal arable crops and is growing something called canary seed. There is no OSR on the farm here, and most will be a spring crop the thoughts being that if we are going to break even then we may as well do so with a crop that has cost £300 to grow than £500/ac.
There is no fun to be had when your farmer hat says great year, but your business hat says terrible.
Straw has been cack with some fields being cleared on Sunday which had been cut almost 6 weeks before.
SilliamWhale
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On the beans now. They were sown too thick so I've been a bit concerned about them but it looks like over 2t acre at about 19%. Lots of the tops half of the plants didn't pod. On the flipside they are very clean.
Tomorrow will be spring sown winter beans and it will be interesting to see how they compare. It will probably be the same.
Then it will be drilling wheat straight into the stubble on Thursday and roundup on Sunday. I'm sure it won't all go to plan though...
Beans were sold in a CMG pools no idea what they are paying but if it was near £150 plus human consumption bonus I'd be satisfied for this year
Tomorrow will be spring sown winter beans and it will be interesting to see how they compare. It will probably be the same.
Then it will be drilling wheat straight into the stubble on Thursday and roundup on Sunday. I'm sure it won't all go to plan though...
Beans were sold in a CMG pools no idea what they are paying but if it was near £150 plus human consumption bonus I'd be satisfied for this year
Did you use R up or reglone? Do the stems look light or dark brown? Was it cutting ok at 26%?
stel
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Cut 21 acres of spring beans tis afternoon at around 16% moisture yielding over 2t to the acre which I'm happy with as its marginal land and had less spring wheat off it last year after a shite load of muck on it! Another 44 acres to do and will cut those in the afternoons this week from 2 till 6 all being well, just a part time farmer!
Steevo
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Would I be right in thinking from the number of people still struggling to harvest beans worth eff all now that next year less people will be using them for greening?
Are there really that many more beans around? I certainly haven't seen as many fields as I expected around about.
Tompkins
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Round-up 3 weeks ago last Friday. Previous experience of Reglone was not good on Linseed. Theres still a few green bottomed stems but mainly they are tea coloured.
Surprisingly it was going through the combine easily, the premium flow header on the combine is a godsend!
General-Lee
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Very pioneering is James although the fancy new crop doesn't sound very good from a combining perspective!![emoji53][emoji57][emoji38]
LOADS of beans here. Like you wouldnt believe. Everywhere. Not as many left to do as last week, but everywhere. Folk buying new seed to still be cutting in October, to sell a crop for sod all? Can see a big drop in area next year.
Chae1
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- Aberdeenshire
Finally finished spring barley today.
gone up the hill
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Fhinshed Spring Barley tonight still a few acres of straw to bale and a few hundred bales to move
Combine driver said the last field that he cut today was the worst field he had every combined!!
still a few acres of straw to bale and a few hundred bales to moveCombine driver said the last field that he cut today was the worst field he had every combined!!
Trying to sell