Is harvest 2019 getting desperate in Scotland??

How much of your crops are going down

  • none

    Votes: 23 31.5%
  • 1/4 of fields

    Votes: 25 34.2%
  • 1/2 fields

    Votes: 10 13.7%
  • 3/4 of fields

    Votes: 6 8.2%
  • every field is going down

    Votes: 9 12.3%

  • Total voters
    73

Wombat

Member
BASIS
Location
East yorks
It’s not been a easy harvest so far - about 30% though the wheat now, odd bits flat but not too bad.

Not panicking just yet but we are nowhere near as wet as some seem to be

Yields seem reasonable, quality seems to be there and prices are decent enough really (maybe with the exception of oats !)

Think since that lovely day of 34 deg we have had 4 days with no registered rainfall according to the local wunderground station 1km away
 

e3120

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Northumberland
Not quite scotland but this picture is common after a fortnight of wet/dry/wet and a weekend of wet/wet/wet.

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Farmer Fin

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Aberdeenshire
OSR probably another week away yet but all still standing. Some of the swathed stuff around looks terrible. First of the SB will be sprayed off tomorrow. The only bits down are the overlaps. Not sure if it’s going to be a glorious harvest or a salvage job.
 

puppet

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
sw scotland
1985 was mid-October harvest and the last one for many round here. Lashings of Propcorn and spread a foot deep around 30% moisture saved it for feed. Not to be repeated
 

DRC

Member
Was going to have a tickle tomorrow , until just now ...
Rained after dinner here, enough to stop everyone locally, now it’s at it again . My son is combining wheat in Ludlow at 17%( unsprayed). It’ll be September before this settles down
 
Location
Devon
Ground is dry but plenty of wheat crops around me are as flat as a pancake, move 50 miles to south devon where they have had less rain its all still standing proud!

I would guess harvest is about 30% complete here!

Local farmer cutting wheat tonight after heavy rain yesterday and overnight, he didnt know the moisture content when I spoke to him but had told his combine driver to keep cutting regardless of how high it is!
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

  • 0 %

    Votes: 80 42.3%
  • Up to 25%

    Votes: 66 34.9%
  • 25-50%

    Votes: 30 15.9%
  • 50-75%

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 75-100%

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 100% I’ve had enough of farming!

    Votes: 7 3.7%

Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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