It might be dry but it sure isn’t ripe!
Harvest/Yields 2020
- Thread starter Honest john
- Start date
Glad I’m not the only one with the combine wiggle, trying to take a pic.
Feldspar
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- Location
- Essex, Cambs and Suffolk
I'm constantly told that! My response: you won't know until you try. Or, in the words of someone you might know, JFDI. It rubs out nicely btw.
It’s not ripe. Harvestable maybe ?. Good advice btw ?
- Location
- the brecks norfolk
My dads uncle used to be so impatient at harvest and his saying was " well, if that isnt fit to go. I am, get the combine going"
Daniel
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- Location
- Mildenhall, Suffolk
I'm having a weeks holiday 24-31st, couple of fields of earlier drilled wheat might be ripe, they can make a start if they want to!
Most of it is looking like 1st-2nd week of August at the earliest.
Most of it is looking like 1st-2nd week of August at the earliest.
Feldspar
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- Location
- Essex, Cambs and Suffolk
My contention is this: normally if you aim to start early various things happen which means the start takes longer than expected so you end up starting on time. If you aim to start on time, and then something happens, then you end up being late at the end of harvest scooping stuff off the floor. I claim that more crops are spoilt by harvesting too late than too early. We have the facilities to condition grain when it's in store. I haven't yet invented a hoover big enough to get grain of the floor when it's brackled / shelled out.
- Location
- Darlington
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Although I agree entirely there is nothing worse than drying wet grain when you're neighbours, who are more patient than you are cutting and tipping straight in the store. I fully accept that this will never change though.
Had 10 days of that in 2017.
Finished all ours in the rain because the forecast was terrible and sprouting was imminent.
All of a sudden, out comes the sun and a week's drying took nearly a fortnight because ambient was too high for cooling every afternoon, whilst next door's was all 15% in the field.
- Location
- Bedfordshire
Why is anybody surprised the early yields are low? The best crops are still green now and will be cut in August.
- Location
- East yorks
Round here with never ending cloud and drizzle a lot of the good crops will be cut in Sept
- Location
- Lincolnshire
It's the idea that they are lower than expected. And there is no shortage of folk on decent land cutting below normal barley and osr.
That's exactly what happened here in 1974, David.
Had to help next door with a tow finally to pull out of his badly-sprouted winter wheat Christmas Eve, and he then set fire to it all Easter Monday 1975, taking several acres of mature Douglas with it.
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- Location
- Mid Lincolnshire,UK
Nothing wrong with that. Sept often less humid and fresher and drier - old timers always referred to Sept as the harvest month.
Often not.
Had some good Septembers down here but days are shorter and the dews are heavier. Massive combine outputs though in black sooty crops!
shakerator
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- Location
- LINCS
google phantom yield loss for us corn !
Some think it’s a moisture meter issue of measurement , but many start their corn at 20-24% !