I still think it will get closer to wheat
Harvest/Yields 2020
- Thread starter Honest john
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- Lincolnshire
Me too. But right now more sellers than buyers. So it's back to holding the stuff!
Scouse eater
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Hiya Alwayshappy,Well done, the public doesn’t realise the stress we farmers go through to put cheep food on their table. Keep up the good work
I'm a "joe public" who found this forum by accident and i'm very glad I did! We also appreciate how much you farmers do to keep us fed, and how little you are appreciated for your work. People don't appreciate you because they've probably never tried to grow anything. We grow spuds, onions, carrots, peas etc, we've got a few apple trees, and tomatoes and strawberries in a little greenhouse in our back garden. I didnt really understand the concept of "yield" until the other year when our spuds were all tiny and we didn't know why (the heat stopped them growing apparently!) So we'd put all the effort in and got bugger all back. It was only then we realised that if we were farmers selling spuds by weight to get an income, we'd only be getting half the money we'd expected to get and not enough to live on.
We've sussed that WW is winter wheat and looked up "planet". We don't know what a "brackling" is or why percentages matter in wheat, but we're getting there!
So just to let y'all know, some of the public really appreciate your hard work and know you keep food on our plates! (Even if we haven't got a clue what a brackling is! )
Brackling is when the barley stems go weak halfway up. The percentages are moisture or water. All grain is sold on basis 15% moisture as this is the content that is safe to store without moulds etc forming. Above that it needs to be dried at great expense.....Hiya Alwayshappy,
I'm a "joe public" who found this forum by accident and i'm very glad I did! We also appreciate how much you farmers do to keep us fed, and how little you are appreciated for your work. People don't appreciate you because they've probably never tried to grow anything. We grow spuds, onions, carrots, peas etc, we've got a few apple trees, and tomatoes and strawberries in a little greenhouse in our back garden. I didnt really understand the concept of "yield" until the other year when our spuds were all tiny and we didn't know why (the heat stopped them growing apparently!) So we'd put all the effort in and got bugger all back. It was only then we realised that if we were farmers selling spuds by weight to get an income, we'd only be getting half the money we'd expected to get and not enough to live on.
We've sussed that WW is winter wheat and looked up "planet". We don't know what a "brackling" is or why percentages matter in wheat, but we're getting there!
So just to let y'all know, some of the public really appreciate your hard work and know you keep food on our plates! (Even if we haven't got a clue what a brackling is! )
- Location
- Mid Lincolnshire,UK
Brackling is where the straw or stalk of the barley plant gets so ripe it start to collapse because it cant carry the weight of the ear of barley. result is the ear gets too low to the ground for the combine to reach or in the worst case senario actually falls off and onto the ground.Hiya Alwayshappy,
I'm a "joe public" who found this forum by accident and i'm very glad I did! We also appreciate how much you farmers do to keep us fed, and how little you are appreciated for your work. People don't appreciate you because they've probably never tried to grow anything. We grow spuds, onions, carrots, peas etc, we've got a few apple trees, and tomatoes and strawberries in a little greenhouse in our back garden. I didnt really understand the concept of "yield" until the other year when our spuds were all tiny and we didn't know why (the heat stopped them growing apparently!) So we'd put all the effort in and got bugger all back. It was only then we realised that if we were farmers selling spuds by weight to get an income, we'd only be getting half the money we'd expected to get and not enough to live on.
We've sussed that WW is winter wheat and looked up "planet". We don't know what a "brackling" is or why percentages matter in wheat, but we're getting there!
So just to let y'all know, some of the public really appreciate your hard work and know you keep food on our plates! (Even if we haven't got a clue what a brackling is! )
Scouse eater
Member
Thanks for that explanation Flat10!
Scouse eater
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Chae1
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
2nd last field. Slightly flat. Got a great day for cutting it though.
WRXppp
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- Location
- North Yorks
Out with the cut throat razor today!
If I'd had a crystal ball last autumn, it'd have told me to put the whole farm into SOSR.
Isn't that the similar to fallowing the whole farm?If I'd had a crystal ball last autumn, it'd have told me to put the whole farm into SOSR.
You must have a very difficult farm @bankrupt , cos you certainly have better weather than us lotIf I'd had a crystal ball last autumn, it'd have told me to put the whole farm into SOSR.
Basically, yes - but considerably more expensive.
You may be right, but given the rainfalls I've posted here since this time last year, I doubt it.
You've had nowt ... my neighbour has moved to Devon , thinks it's like the french Riviera
Hopefully, they'll still be a good supply of acquisitional punters from your neck of the woods when our farm business here goes through its next regeneration - moving to Dorset.
4course
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- Location
- north yorks
thats exactly what our crop of sp osr turned into fallow plus seed and insecticide and sowing cant call it establishment costs as it never established
Come up here , then you're complaints will be validated .
Honest john
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- Location
- Fenland
Hiya Alwayshappy,
I'm a "joe public" who found this forum by accident and i'm very glad I did! We also appreciate how much you farmers do to keep us fed, and how little you are appreciated for your work. People don't appreciate you because they've probably never tried to grow anything. We grow spuds, onions, carrots, peas etc, we've got a few apple trees, and tomatoes and strawberries in a little greenhouse in our back garden. I didnt really understand the concept of "yield" until the other year when our spuds were all tiny and we didn't know why (the heat stopped them growing apparently!) So we'd put all the effort in and got bugger all back. It was only then we realised that if we were farmers selling spuds by weight to get an income, we'd only be getting half the money we'd expected to get and not enough to live on.
We've sussed that WW is winter wheat and looked up "planet". We don't know what a "brackling" is or why percentages matter in wheat, but we're getting there!
So just to let y'all know, some of the public really appreciate your hard work and know you keep food on our plates! (Even if we haven't got a clue what a brackling is! )
Hiya.
Brackling is where the straw bends in half & the heads ( grain ) hangs low & gets left in the field when the harvester comes along. ie lost yield.
Shedding is when the grain falls on the floor before the combine arrives.
Podded crops shedd easily ie Peas Beans Rape seed.
With Fruit a storm tends to arrive just as it is ready to pick.
With Potatoes it’s to dry to grow in July & to wet to harvest in October.
All that apart it’s a great job.