Harvest/Yields 2020
- Thread starter Honest john
- Start date
its.... only me
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- Location
- sh!t creek
Neighbours just got back from having a nibble in spring barley = 17.8%. + = tooooooo wet. There is another neighbour that is cutting spring barley this p.m.,................... but he has “rather a lot” to do (not a lot of dust from the combine) & has a decent drier.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Winter wheat 20.5% at half past two. Leaving it today.
- Location
- South Lanarkshire
Just been down your neck of the woods for a couple o days seems a hellava lot to combine take its a bit late ?
average farmer
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- Location
- North Notts
Think we’ll have a go in the peas shortly. Got a drying floor to tip them on and want to get them done before forecast rain on wed/Thursday
sensiblefarmer
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Ah an old MF "Drainingboard"29 XP on that takes me back, I had one. A so & so to work on but using it's secondary cleaning system you could get a sample that would pass for recleaned seed. Mine caught fire (build up of chaff and dust under the turbo).
We had trouble with the clean grain elevator to bubble up sprocket (sod to do as bubble up out in tank), the nylon bushes on the sieves (listen/feel for vibrations and change ASAP as it will chuck sieves), steering ram track rods break (keep a spare).
In those days it was quite to drive and I think you had to have the threshing system running to run the unloading auger, we had trouble with the header reel solenoid sticking open causing the reel to run when connected (driven direct from main combine pump. Great Hydro drive system (two gears).
- Location
- East yorks
Got started harvest 2020 with some crazy flat barley with once round after the dye had finally gone then it lunched the big drive belt I preventively changed last year 
4course
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- Location
- north yorks
got going mid afternoon 18%, was still drying the bit we cut yesterday at 21 but have had to stop due to bulldosing and even though we are on stone less soil the few there are have risen to the surface or rather been exposed by the rain and have caused a few knife sections and fingers to bear the brunt but progress made and will be glad to see the back of this particular field this year, lets just say the yield is not going to improve the long term average
- Location
- the brecks norfolk
Got going this afternoon at about 3.30 moisture 17.5% but with a unsettled forecast for the middle of the week onwards it's better in the shed. One trailer load got down to 15.6 before going back up to 17 by which time it was bulldozing and lumping throught the drum.
Grain is slightly shot but yielding reasonable well and the straw is still quite bright and long.
Grain is slightly shot but yielding reasonable well and the straw is still quite bright and long.
Wuffler
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- Location
- Northumberland
It would seem my spring wheat is yielding like an absolute star in this utter dogsh*te of a harvest...way better than its winter counterpart. Farming eh!
- Location
- In the middle.
Managed to get going by 3pm at 17%, but got held up in slow going flat barley that just wanted to bulldoze. By 6.30pm it was down to 13%, but just finished the second field by 8pm and the last run didn't want to feed as the dew came in and I could of got lost in the thick clingy dust. That's the last of my spring barley, off to the neighbours tomorrow to cut winter wheat that is shedding already then back to triticale tomorrow evening if all goes well.
- Location
- Dorset/Wilts
Cleared a good chunk of Spring Barley today. Light land yielded well. Onto the Heavy land which is a little thin, hoping for 2ton/acre . Having to cut a bit higher than I'd like, the header is just not gliding over the clay. I give it three chances, if it continues to want to plough it goes up a notch.
Certainly soft under foot
Certainly soft under foot
casper74
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- Location
- North Yorkshire
Started in the wheat yesterday, 18% - 17% 74-76 bushel this field did 3.2 tonne/acre , half was 2nd wheat kerrin, other half after fodder beet a mixture of what seed I had left. Very little straw
Northernlights
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- Location
- NE Scotland
- Location
- Mid Lincolnshire,UK
Misty/foggy here at 5.30am. Heavy dew and 6 degrees. Short cutting days now.
4course
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- Location
- north yorks
its been short cutting days here all harvest i.e 5 weeks hardly 24 hours in all that time apart from one 8 hr day murdering a field of wheat destined for osr
- Location
- Darlington
Are you a bit nearer the coast than us? We seem to have had good days with nothing ready, and bad days with lots to do.
The end is in sight though.