Harvest 2019

snipe · Aug 15, 2019

lloyd said:
How much is being chopped now that previously to this
dodgy weather might have been baled?
Weather events seem to balance things out in the end!

We normally bale all our wheat(290ac) 90 chopped out of 200 so far, unless things improve there will have to be more. We spent around £9000 on combine tyres and can run at 15psi, hardly makes a mark. Then the people getting the straw undo all the good work. Super singles, not keeping to tramlines, making stacks in fields instead of putting them straight on trailers, starting to load trailer by the gate so they are full at the far end of the field then screwing the round to come back, balers. Then to top it off complain about the price.

Brisel · Aug 15, 2019

snipe said:
We normally bale all our wheat(290ac) 90 chopped out of 200 so far, unless things improve there will have to be more. We spent around £9000 on combine tyres and can run at 15psi, hardly makes a mark. Then the people getting the straw undo all the good work. Super singles, not keeping to tramlines, making stacks in fields instead of putting them straight on trailers, starting to load trailer by the gate so they are full at the far end of the field then screwing the round to come back, balers. Then to top it off complain about the price.

You know what to do

DrWazzock · Aug 15, 2019

snipe said:
We normally bale all our wheat(290ac) 90 chopped out of 200 so far, unless things improve there will have to be more. We spent around £9000 on combine tyres and can run at 15psi, hardly makes a mark. Then the people getting the straw undo all the good work. Super singles, not keeping to tramlines, making stacks in fields instead of putting them straight on trailers, starting to load trailer by the gate so they are full at the far end of the field then screwing the round to come back, balers. Then to top it off complain about the price.

I can't believe some trailer drivers, grain or straw. At least turn the rig round before you load it up and as you say start empty furthest from the gate and keep travelling to a minimum. People just don't think about the soil.

lloyd · Aug 15, 2019

Brisel said:
You know what to do

Put up a straw shed under permitted development

Manny · Aug 15, 2019

Sandy said:
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Those abp sections have been very good the last few year but the set I've had this time are made of toffee compared to the normal.

polly tunnel · Aug 15, 2019

Spring barley down to 15%

average farmer · Aug 15, 2019

Got my first load of wheat at 14.5%

glasshouse · Aug 15, 2019

Sandy said:
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the ones on right look ancient.
Like sections from the eighties

David. · Aug 15, 2019

Managed to polish off field of oats this evening, can now get binder home tomorrow am.
No idea moisture, but due to oat millers taking the pi ss on collection timing, they will have to be polished up through drier anyway to keep safely until perhaps April.

l'ordinary bonville · Aug 16, 2019

MX7 said:
Hopefully not a blocked combine!!!
Good luck

Not too bad a result

Got about 18 acres very flat w barley done before the sun went down

Then onto rape and another 20 acres there but it's still hard and sharp so had to knock off 2.30

Unblocked back of walkers about 6 times which is telling me the crop isn't fit so will resume after it dries up on Saturday or Sunday

Bust the plastic guard on end of header on a fence post

KennyO · Aug 16, 2019

Chae1 said:
Started spring barley today concerto doing around 2.7t acre, 2.5 hesstons to the acre, baling behind combine due to irresponsible use of liquid sunshine.

Wet again this morning Chae?
We tried some winter oats yesterday tea time. Straw was still too wet. Possibly could have done one field of SB but left it.

bankrupt · Aug 16, 2019

Just started raining again.

Yet another day in the pub.

Chae1 · Aug 16, 2019

KennyO said:
Wet again this morning Chae?
We tried some winter oats yesterday tea time. Straw was still too wet. Possibly could have done one field of SB but left it.

Yes. Forecast looks decent for a few days after this passes though.

Brisel · Aug 16, 2019

lloyd said:
Put up a straw shed under permitted development

I like your thinking! I was thinking more of the health of the soils & was suggesting they chopped it instead. Start adding up the cost of remedial cultivations to repair the damage by the straw crews and the loss of OM and K and straw needs to be a good price.

lloyd · Aug 16, 2019

Brisel said:
I like your thinking! I was thinking more of the health of the soils & was suggesting they chopped it instead. Start adding up the cost of remedial cultivations to repair the damage by the straw crews and the loss of OM and K and straw needs to be a good price.

I agree with your concerns.
Selling standing straw can be like letting someone
borrow your tractor.Most wont take the same care
as yourself.

Cowcorn · Aug 16, 2019

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was that you laughing over the ditch at my auld banger of a massey ??. How did the old girl perform in what looks like a good crop of wheat .

glasshouse · Aug 16, 2019

lloyd said:
I agree with your concerns.
Selling standing straw can be like letting someone
borrow your tractor.Most wont take the same care
as yourself.

Since its bash the straw men day, how about knocking the idiots who run 40ft rotary combines that leave a trail of basically sawdust behind them, dont cut a big enough headland so the baler breaks its axles everyturn on the headland tramline, dont reverse at a blockage, dont have gates big enough go get a lorry in etc etc etc

bankrupt · Aug 16, 2019

lloyd said:
Selling standing straw can be like letting someone
borrow your tractor.

Wish we'd sold all the straw standing, this year.

Selling by the bale, or by the ton baled, with us still responsible for all the baling, has made this weather into a triple whammy instead of just the inevitable double (the combines and driers).

yellow belly · Aug 16, 2019

just sell to a straw merchant who respects your wishes father than the highest cowboy bidder

snipe · Aug 16, 2019

glasshouse said:
Since its bash the straw men day, how about knocking the idiots who run 40ft rotary combines that leave a trail of basically sawdust behind them, dont cut a big enough headland so the baler breaks its axles everyturn on the headland tramline, dont reverse at a blockage, dont have gates big enough go get a lorry in etc etc etc

You could always tell the idiot with the 40 foot rotary combine that you don’t want the straw. I’m sure he will have had to cut at least twice round the field so that’s an 80ft headland, how big do you want, and he has managed to get a 40ft header and tractor into the gateway so a wagon and drag should manage, which was my point to start with about people damaging the soil carting straw with super singles.... sorry just having a bit of fun with you. ??

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