Winter wheat yields

farmerm

Member
Location
Shropshire
No wheat drilled. The OSR failed on the starting line, then the weather turned before I got any further. The previous dry winters had left our fields in too good a condition to be worth damaging so shut the gate. Sheep are making a nice job of preparing the stubbles ready for a fresh start this year
Wiser man than me, I wish mine wasn't, I am not yet convinced I will harvest as much grain as I drilled. Just to rub the salt in the wounds my neighbours crops on lighter land look bloody fantastic :X3:
 

GeorgeK

Member
Location
Leicestershire
Wiser man than me, I wish mine wasn't, I am not yet convinced I will harvest as much grain as I drilled. Just to rub the salt in the wounds my neighbours crops on lighter land look bloody fantastic :X3:
Or luck, a stopped clock's right twice a day! No rent either, I won't have the luxury of being so relaxed about the situation when BPS is gone
 

DRC

Member
Best wheat is on lighter land after maize. It’s got potential , but needs a drink soon as it’s really barley ground ( wet winter suited it)
The rest is average with wet holes and poor headlands . I’ve less wheat than I’ve ever drilled though , with spring barley struggling in the dry .
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Brisel

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Midlands
I predict my wheat yields will be down 10-15% on last year. Too many holes in the clay patches and the healthy plants just won’t fill them in. 64mm rain in the last 4 weeks but I will need that every month until harvest of they will burn off on the gravels.
 

DRC

Member
I predict my wheat yields will be down 10-15% on last year. Too many holes in the clay patches and the healthy plants just won’t fill them in. 64mm rain in the last 4 weeks but I will need that every month until harvest of they will burn off on the gravels.
What I’d give for 64mm. We’ve had 19 I think .
 
These two are from 11 April. Hadn't really moved since then. Cereals drilled into moisture and rolled straight behind. We've had half an inch in six weeks. Temps in the 20s. My clover ley has cracks six inches deep in it. These fields couldn't be walked on in February, and had puddles on in January.

All cereals had full rb209 rates of digestate on post drilling.

I've 80ac of barley which I'd be pleased with 150t. 135ac oats of which if they don't buck up will either be used as a stake seedbed for grass, or ripped up for a nice mud September wheat drilling.

Half my farm tenancy ends this September, so not overjoyed that its final year output will by approx 1/2 a ton of barley per acre.

Do the numbers - it's not pretty. I am not the only one. Spring cereals into ploughed land look ok. Min till all patchy. My neighbour on kind land used a 750a to keep the moisture and it is not good.

We *all* know what it will be like when the rains return......
not good, it seems that min/low till systems have been unreliable both in the wet autumn and the dry spring? plough still king?
 

Wombat

Member
BASIS
Location
East yorks
I must be in the land of milk and honey ! Drilled all our wheat by 21st Sept. Looks fab. ( Sorry )
77mm of rain in April. OSR is OK, not much CSFB damage. Spring beans also looking good.
All direct sown with a seedhawk. I am SO lucky.

Sounds good it was the 660mm from Sept to March that screwed us (our average annual for the last 5 yrs is 580mm) then 21mm since.
 

Brisel

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Midlands
not good, it seems that min/low till systems have been unreliable both in the wet autumn and the dry spring? plough still king?

Right method used in the right conditions. A plough wouldn’t get all the work done in time on many farms now set up for non inversion tillage that has a far higher daily output in dry weather.
 
Best wheat is on lighter land after maize. It’s got potential , but needs a drink soon as it’s really barley ground ( wet winter suited it)
The rest is average with wet holes and poor headlands . I’ve less wheat than I’ve ever drilled though , with spring barley struggling in the dry . View attachment 876756View attachment 876757
what do you mean by "barley ground"? shallow stoney stuff?
 

DRC

Member
what do you mean by "barley ground"? shallow stoney stuff?
That field isn’t stoney, although I do have a field called the gravel hole and everything in between as this is glacial stuff.
That field is very light and sandy, especially on the bank . Good for barley, maize and rye . First time I’ve tried wheat on it ,but we done get a lot of pig muck, so I think the lighter land is getting better
 
Right method used in the right conditions. A plough wouldn’t get all the work done in time on many farms now set up for non inversion tillage that has a far higher daily output in dry weather.
In other words unless youve that much to do you wont have the time to plough it yourself/need staff/contractors etc iyour still better off just ploughing it?
 

fudge

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire.
Is this a "My disaster is worse than yours" post. Like the opposite of a pub yields survey. God you lot are depressing.
If you lot are to be believed the cereal harvest will be no more than 5m tonne.
I would imagine the wheat yield from this part of Lincolnshire will be 10 to 20% of last year’s harvest. Most has been replaced by spring barley which could produce a full crop if it rains. Had about 8mm since mid March.
I blame my neighbours who insist on entering and winning YEN yield competitions. God doesn’t like hubris and has decided to shaft them completely. When will they learn?
 

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