Harvest 2019

Vitu

Member
Location
Hampshire
Around 5 t/ha of 38 kg/hl needles here! I haven’t measured the heaps yet so can’t give a better answer.
Glad to see I’m not the only one with spring oats with a bushel weight in the 30s
5th year of growing spring oats. 1st year they did well into the 50s, been going down every year since.
May be I’ll grow them one more year to see if I can get them down in the 20s
 

Cowcorn

Member
Mixed Farmer
Started cutting Doubleshot spring wheat Saturday 82 kph at 20 mc so will push into it at the weekend when the good weather shows up Early indications are of a very good yield but in the absence of yield meter on the combine will have to wait till its cut to see .
 

Flat 10

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Fen Edge
Mental health.

I found running a business which had high working capital requirements, while at the same time the main factor in the success being the weather, to be quite a mental drain. Heavy land, a working window that had me working every hour I could physically be in the seat and awake.

My eldest son has a September 2nd birthday. He started secondary school this year and this is the first year I've been to his birthday.

Costs of keeping "in the game" with machinery etc were just getting silly. We'd figured the farms were in decent order, and have been taken on by another local outfit, and could do it with time so neither the new contractor nor customer were inconvenienced.

I'm 40 this Christmas, although to look at me you'd think I was closer to 50. It was never really planned to get as big as it got, and although I've enjoyed having the big gear and all that, it's time to try a different approach. I'm staying farming my bit, and in agriculture generally. But much lower intensity, and hopefully something a bit more manageable.

Anyway, nice to have ended it with some nice heaps of wheat.......even if I have most of it left to sell. Oops.
I believe you’ve said that your dad and brother are involved in the business, are they carrying on?
 

lloyd

Member
Location
Herefordshire
Mental health.

I found running a business which had high working capital requirements, while at the same time the main factor in the success being the weather, to be quite a mental drain. Heavy land, a working window that had me working every hour I could physically be in the seat and awake.

My eldest son has a September 2nd birthday. He started secondary school this year and this is the first year I've been to his birthday.

Costs of keeping "in the game" with machinery etc were just getting silly. We'd figured the farms were in decent order, and have been taken on by another local outfit, and could do it with time so neither the new contractor nor customer were inconvenienced.

I'm 40 this Christmas, although to look at me you'd think I was closer to 50. It was never really planned to get as big as it got, and although I've enjoyed having the big gear and all that, it's time to try a different approach. I'm staying farming my bit, and in agriculture generally. But much lower intensity, and hopefully something a bit more manageable.

Anyway, nice to have ended it with some nice heaps of wheat.......even if I have most of it left to sell. Oops.

Good luck with your future and sharing this openly .
Always like reading your inputs and your straight talking.
 

Honest john

Member
Location
Fenland
Mental health.

I found running a business which had high working capital requirements, while at the same time the main factor in the success being the weather, to be quite a mental drain. Heavy land, a working window that had me working every hour I could physically be in the seat and awake.

My eldest son has a September 2nd birthday. He started secondary school this year and this is the first year I've been to his birthday.

Costs of keeping "in the game" with machinery etc were just getting silly. We'd figured the farms were in decent order, and have been taken on by another local outfit, and could do it with time so neither the new contractor nor customer were inconvenienced.

I'm 40 this Christmas, although to look at me you'd think I was closer to 50. It was never really planned to get as big as it got, and although I've enjoyed having the big gear and all that, it's time to try a different approach. I'm staying farming my bit, and in agriculture generally. But much lower intensity, and hopefully something a bit more manageable.

Anyway, nice to have ended it with some nice heaps of wheat.......even if I have most of it left to sell. Oops.

If you feel up for it, it would be good to have a thread on this.

Not in any personal way but in a business way.

Best Wishes
 
Location
N Yorks
If you feel up for it, it would be good to have a thread on this.

Not in any personal way but in a business way.

Best Wishes
Was thinking the same myself.

We probably all go through the full range of emotions every summer. It's certainly not the idyllic harvest that I reflect on as a child. I remember Dad would knock off sooner and take more Sundays off. My family already accepted that since its harvest they won't really see me.

@teslacoils I have always looked forward to your honesty over the challenges you have faced with cropping. Some good could come out of such a thread :)

By the way I prefer your old avatar
 

teslacoils

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
I'm also very grateful for all the kind words I'm getting from a variety of sources. In a way, it's not been a massive change to make but it feels like a big decision. But that was really another example of how "the farm" becomes your life, rather than letting you live your life. As I've spoken to a variety of people in related industries it's been very much of a "me too" - there seems to be an awful lot of people, mostly the self-employed, in trades allied to farming who are sick of either the antisocial hours; the paperwork (making tax digital is not for many); staffing; or the lack of their power to increase their earnings as those in the public or service sectors see their free incomes increase.

Attached is a picture to show that, despite the prices, I'm still going to "have another go".

It's like heroin isn't it...........
 

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Cowcorn

Member
Mixed Farmer
I'm also very grateful for all the kind words I'm getting from a variety of sources. In a way, it's not been a massive change to make but it feels like a big decision. But that was really another example of how "the farm" becomes your life, rather than letting you live your life. As I've spoken to a variety of people in related industries it's been very much of a "me too" - there seems to be an awful lot of people, mostly the self-employed, in trades allied to farming who are sick of either the antisocial hours; the paperwork (making tax digital is not for many); staffing; or the lack of their power to increase their earnings as those in the public or service sectors see their free incomes increase.

Attached is a picture to show that, despite the prices, I'm still going to "have another go".

It's like heroin isn't it...........
It most certainly is to succesfully kick the crop habit would require abstaining from the TFF otherwise its like getting of the gear in a squat full of junkies !!!
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

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    Votes: 79 42.5%
  • Up to 25%

    Votes: 65 34.9%
  • 25-50%

    Votes: 30 16.1%
  • 50-75%

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 75-100%

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

    Votes: 6 3.2%

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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