Here we we go again................

B'o'B

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Rutland
If your after C1 Skyfall they are not completely sold out as I still have about 15t left to be picked up.
375t have already been taken.
 

DrWazzock

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
Hope he has a hydraulic roll over sheet!
Would you prefer it to turn up on a nice sunny day when you were planning to make an early start drilling?
I have only about two days drilling to do, if the seed ever turns up. Not having a go at the transport firms, it's just that sod's law seems to have been prevalent this year!
 

Lincsman

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
I have only about two days drilling to do, if the seed ever turns up. Not having a go at the transport firms, it's just that sod's law seems to have been prevalent this year!
No- one has ever managed to increase moisture loading a lorry in the rain, give the driver a sample out the shed to test if they find moisture.
 

snarling bee

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Bedfordshire
We raised the moisture of OSR a few years ago by running a half inch hose into a conveyor running at 30tph. It lifted the moisture 1.25%.
You need a lot of water.

Roughly speaking 1% of 29t is 290kg, which is 0.29m3 water, if a lorry body is 12mx2.4m that is 29m2, .29/29 = 0.01m rain which is 10mm.
IE you need 10mm of rain whilst loading the lorry to raise the moisture by 1%. The problem being the rain will not be evenly distributed within the 29t.

The biggest perceived problem with loading in the rain is the grain sticking to the lorry body and then not get fully emptied at the tip, but probably only a few kg. Cost more to hang around waiting for the rain to stop.
 
And yet our fathers and grandfathers wouldn’t drill wheat until well into October , with November being seen as the optimum date .
What’s gone so wrong that people are panicking at the end of September .
I suppose they had livestock to look after as well. All arable farming gives you too much time to think and worry .
My father on 15 September was telling my son that we should have been half drilled up he has said it every year since he retired in 2001
we have had the 4 wettest summer in the last 30 years thankfully April and May and most of September were dry
now drilled up
had an inch in the last week
heavy land that takes a week to dry enough to drill properly unless it is ploughed early and left to dry out ( but when it’s dry and stays dry nothing emerges till mid November )
 
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nick...

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
south norfolk
had close to 5inches here in last 10 days.bit soggy everywhere
nick...
5 inches here would need 2 blowing dry weeks to dry out ploughed land
it would also fill the rivers to the top of the bank
bad black grass land is drilled in mid April no earlier And given a double or triple spring crop
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I’m suprised land is not wetter.it is wet but no where near as bad as I’d think.having said that one of my collies went in up to her knees on Wednesday,about 4 inches when looking at some barley
nick...
 

ajd132

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Suffolk
We have had 20mm less compared to last year when it started raining in September. Only had 10mm in the last 3 days so far here but will get more later I’m sure. Further south In essex an hour drive they have had 60mm.
 

JACK F

Member
Location
Essex
Tipped out 75mm this morning in mid essex and still raining. 12mm couple of days ago as well. It is beyond wet here. More rain on way but don't think it will make much difference as saturated already. Still only 3rd October so trying not to worry too much yet. Won't be so relaxed in another 10 days time though.
 

Wombat

Member
BASIS
Location
East yorks
We have had 20mm less compared to last year when it started raining in September. Only had 10mm in the last 3 days so far here but will get more later I’m sure. Further south In essex an hour drive they have had 60mm.

We had had 100mm last year by this time from the 23rd sept and it was already close to game over. So far for the same period we have had 32 so much much more manageable
 

farmerm

Member
Location
Shropshire
debating with myself if untreated wheat broadcast though the fert spinner at a generous rate might be the least worst option to establish 2nd wheats... can surely not be any worse than our disastrous attempt at feb drilled wheat was this year! 2T with low establishment cost has to be better than 1T having cultivated and drilled :unsure:
 

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

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