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Farma Parma · Jan 12, 2021

thorpe said:
try being bought up with metric & imperial my mind boggles somtimes. todays gen couldnt cope with selling fat beast to the 1/4 of cwt and i dont know how dad did !

It is crazy tho what ive mentioned surely most folks in the eastern side of the atlantic can see my reasons here.
we count things in multiples of 10 a 10yr old could just about manage this but in odd multiples whooosh stop thats A level fractions were at & i had little time for them.

yellow belly · Jan 12, 2021

but we still get a pint of beer

the conversion between different units is good for the mind
plenty of people cannot multiply by 10 yet those who learnt their 12 times table did not use calculaters

Farma Parma · Jan 12, 2021

Phil P said:
I bet when you’re in the workshop you still measure stuff in inches though

Actually use both but its on the same tape measure so its easy
where is the tape measure with bushles & metric tons on? there isnt one

Davylad · Jan 12, 2021

Anyone wish they never had to deal with forward selling?!!!.... or maybe even heard of it !!..... I think I might change strategy to keeping 50-60 % post Christmas! It’s not a knee jerk reaction as I’d been feeling this way past couple of years but haven’t followed through...

JCfarmer · Jan 12, 2021

Farma Parma said:
Actually use both but its on the same tape measure so its easy
where is the tape measure with bushles & metric tons on? there isnt one

How deep do you plough, how wide is your combine header and how wide is your power harrow?

yellow belly · Jan 12, 2021

Davylad said:
Anyone wish they never had to deal with forward selling?!!!.... or maybe even heard of it !!..... I think I might change strategy to keeping 50-60 % post Christmas! It’s not a knee jerk reaction as I’d been feeling this way past couple of years but haven’t followed through...

carefull changing stratagy can be more dangerous

i sell post harvest now but would not say wait till the new year especially in years when sheds are full after harvest

this year brexit clouded the waters

despite this we have known the harvest was going to be short since november 2020

Farma Parma · Jan 12, 2021

JCfarmer said:
How deep do you plough, how wide is your combine header and how wide is your power harrow?

Not wanting to canabalise this crop thread.
plough width & depth Inches as its on inches on the width scale & inches is easier on the aye on that dual scale Tape measure !!
Header is 24ft as the salesman said it was & i believed him.
PH 3 & 3.5m as that what there sold as.
Neither matter as once again all these measurements are crystal clear on every single TAPE measure since day dot.

goodevans · Jan 12, 2021

Phil P said:
I bet when you’re in the workshop you still measure stuff in inches though

More like bedroom

yellow belly · Jan 12, 2021

Grain Buyer said:
YB- I get the feeling consumers are buying hand to mouth, with plenty of cover Feb, but I bet there's still stuff to cover March, April and somewhere in the trade they will be very short physical wheat May-July. 6 months till UK combines role, and with little harvest pressure, I think we could still see a few little spikes yet.

will high prices reduce the number of chicken fed in the spring and summer
the broiler egg producers have been on reduced production since last march

or will the cheaper barley keep feed usage up till harvest

by which time pubs and restraunts will be back open

Davylad · Jan 12, 2021

Fair enough but with respect grain markets are driven by China , USA and Ukraine/Russia... I do wonder though ,what all the quantitive easing or money been pumped into markets to help economies during/post Covid is having... Feel it’s having some affect as all commodity-markets are rallying... I’m sure there’s people on here more learned with an opinion on that !

Renaultman · Jan 12, 2021

thorpe said:
try being bought up with metric & imperial my mind boggles somtimes. todays gen couldnt cope with selling fat beast to the 1/4 of cwt and i dont know how dad did !

Same here. I spend half my life trying to convert one to the other. I think I'm at the stage where I prefer Kg / ha to stones/cwt to the acre

Jerry · Jan 12, 2021

How’s the winter shaping up in the east?

(And by east I don’t mean Kent......)

teslacoils · Jan 12, 2021

There won't be much reduction in demand before harvest. Can't see a rush to flog beasts for the sake of a few £££ a ton. Fixed prices, contracts, lack of abatoir capacity etc.

Surgery · Jan 12, 2021

Davylad said:
Anyone wish they never had to deal with forward selling?!!!.... or maybe even heard of it !!..... I think I might change strategy to keeping 50-60 % post Christmas! It’s not a knee jerk reaction as I’d been feeling this way past couple of years but haven’t followed through...

Really , I’ve followed through quite a few times after a gut full of bitter !

Davylad · Jan 12, 2021

Green oak · Jan 12, 2021

Jerry said:
How’s the winter shaping up in the east?

(And by east I don’t mean Kent......)

Around our way quite a few sub 3tonne crops. Of wheat. All the vaddys were parked up. And mostly tine drilled in November!!

Jerry · Jan 12, 2021

Green oak said:
Around our way quite a few sub 3tonne crops. Of wheat. All the vaddys were parked up. And mostly tine drilled in November!!

I was thinking a few 1,000 miles further east.... like Ukraine!

4course · Jan 12, 2021

Jerry said:
I was thinking a few 1,000 miles further east.... like Ukraine!

due to the virus my annual road trip to the snow covered alpine meadows means I wont be able to judge the state of the winter cereals across holland and germany ( which has stood me in good stead in the past)nor from the snow depth will be able to judge snow cover towards the urals but now nearly every city has webcam footage for what its worth kiev has no snow cover and its freezing so a possibility of winter kill nb you heard it here first

Jerry · Jan 12, 2021

4course said:
due to the virus my annual road trip to the snow covered alpine meadows means I wont be able to judge the state of the winter cereals across holland and germany ( which has stood me in good stead in the past)nor from the snow depth will be able to judge snow cover towards the urals but now nearly every city has webcam footage for what its worth kiev has no snow cover and its freezing so a possibility of winter kill nb you heard it here first

Likewise I’m missing by annual road trip to the alps.....though mine is normally at Easter post lambing, so still a small touch of hope!

midlandslad · Jan 12, 2021

So many people have much left in store to sell at these prices?

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