Combining 2016
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There got to be a witty response to that
perhaps we can have a TFF contest to find the best onegot to be one of the funniest bits of telly ever, well if youre a mad farmer that has wanted to do that to kit before it is, I have to admit to tapping my flat eight every time I go baling to tell it to behave or I will get the gas axe out to it
More to life
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- Location
- Somerset
Popped out with the meter at 5 wheat was 26%
Colin
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- Location
- Perthshire
Cut two trailer loads yesterday, 27%
RmfJ
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- Location
- Pembrokeshire
Different world down here. Neighbour cut some wheat today at 28%, then moved on to scrape up some flatish barley. Warm very humid air so limited drying out of standing crops.
- Location
- West Suffolk
What can anyone do with wheat at 28%?
- Location
- Darlington
if you stick it in a masters drier you can watch it disappear to nowt
- Location
- West Suffolk
if you stick it in a masters drier you can watch it disappear to nowt
I don't know how they can farm like that? We're finished by the 2nd wk in Aug all full spec (I hope) no drying and there's still hardly any profit in it!
"Linseed sprayed off at long last."
My sunflowers are now not a pretty sight, Brisel.
I should like to harvest them, but it's not always been possible every year.
One time we thought smart and left them until the first really exceptionally hard frost - overhead and underfoot conditions then being absolutely perfect - only for my combine to refuse to start.
My sunflowers are now not a pretty sight, Brisel.
I should like to harvest them, but it's not always been possible every year.
One time we thought smart and left them until the first really exceptionally hard frost - overhead and underfoot conditions then being absolutely perfect - only for my combine to refuse to start.
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- Location
- Darlington
I'm pretty sure they get a better price up there, there must be at least £15/t transport differential between there and here and £20/25 to you.
I don't reallly get that. East Anglia has more supply than demand but there are lots of mills & maltsters there too. None of us are much more than £10 from the nearest port either.
Edit; Just looked up some old notes. BOCM (as they were then) claimed to be coughing up to LIFFE + £2 for feed wheat ex farm in Wales/Shropshire but could pay LIFFE - £7 in the East or South East.
That difference pays for a fair bit of drying in the wet west...........
shakerator
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- Location
- LINCS
Sometimes basis will widen from an exchange. It has done last few years. Eg France a few years ago poor quality meant MATIF spec was meaningless. Almost same this year?! Year before last Yorkshire homes paying £4-5 over LIFFE. Likewise some think LIFFE may rally not only due to weaker sterling but also UK better quality - despite it being a standard feed contract. It should t happen, but is a symptom of something not quite right. The dislocation from futures is something I think will only increase going forward.
£200/t by 2018 end as inflation bites !!
Selectamatic
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- Location
- North Wales
Finished Combining Last Night!
Only 50 odd acres cut this harvest, combine performed fine, other than routine maintenance and having to change a bearing that was squeaking as it was on the way out.
It's nice to see the combining time coming, but it's nice to get finished too.
Only 50 odd acres cut this harvest, combine performed fine, other than routine maintenance and having to change a bearing that was squeaking as it was on the way out.
It's nice to see the combining time coming, but it's nice to get finished too.
- Location
- Cirencester
Going to have a sniff this afternoon on our remaining 10 acres of WW and then shoot over to a customer who has his last 20 acres to do. Was testing at 18% late yesterday afternoon. Trying to not use the drier at all this season but fear the last 10 acres will thwart my cunning plan!!!!