State of your crops?

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4course

Member

Location

north yorks

• Aug 6, 2021

• #1,481

finished the osr yesterday mid afternoon going by trailers im very pleased with the yield ,then murdered some wheat as merchant rang with good price if we can load a couple on tue so will be drying over the weekend so can sell it on mon

 

Renaultman

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Arable Farmer

Location

Darlington

• Aug 6, 2021

• #1,482

4course said:

finished the osr yesterday mid afternoon going by trailers im very pleased with the yield ,then murdered some wheat as merchant rang with good price if we can load a couple on tue so will be drying over the weekend so can sell it on mon

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Snap on the wheat wheat. OSR was still to wet

 

Brisel

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Arable Farmer

Location

Midlands

• Aug 6, 2021

• #1,483

4course said:

finished the osr yesterday mid afternoon going by trailers im very pleased with the yield ,then murdered some wheat as merchant rang with good price if we can load a couple on tue so will be drying over the weekend so can sell it on mon

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Frontier offered me £210/t yesterday

 

Worsall

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Arable Farmer

Location

South Oxfordshire

• Aug 7, 2021

• #1,484

Frontier offered me £184/t yesterday !!!!!

 

Renaultman

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Arable Farmer

Location

Darlington

• Aug 7, 2021

• #1,485

Worsall said:

Frontier offered me £184/t yesterday !!!!!

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Local merchant was £185, maybe Frontier have now got enough to cover their shortfall, shame really as will have another couple of loads ready by tomorrow

 

Worsall

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Arable Farmer

Location

South Oxfordshire

• Aug 7, 2021

• #1,486

How are your yields of wheat? Around here it seems to be about 15% lower than we had hoped a month ago.

 

Renaultman

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Arable Farmer

Location

Darlington

• Aug 7, 2021

• #1,487

Worsall said:

How are your yields of wheat? Around here it seems to be about 15% lower than we had hoped a month ago.

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I've only cut one feed of 2nd wheat, looks like 4t so happy. Not sure on the rest, driving around a would guess similar to you, about 10% ish below average.
Edit, 2nd wheat was on one of my better fields and has been well looked after

 

Brisel

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Arable Farmer

Location

Midlands

• Aug 7, 2021

• #1,488

Worsall said:

Frontier offered me £184/t yesterday !!!!!

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Probably more wheat available in the South. I’ll bet that by Monday that offer will have gone. I haven’t cut any wheat yet anyway though will start next week. Ensus has just had a boatload delivered so they have coverage.

 

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4course

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Location

north yorks

• Aug 9, 2021

• #1,489

Brisel said:

Frontier offered me £210/t yesterday

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not quite there today but sold 2 load of f wheat cut thur dried today , movement next couple of days a good start to the new season

 

teslacoils

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Arable Farmer

Location

Lincolnshire

• Aug 9, 2021

• #1,490

Been to look at the gleam and the Graham. Not very pretty. The Graham has a lot of grains like rice. And the gleam a lot of secondary tillers. Sigh. Not going to get any cut this side of the weekend, and the gleam may be another week after that. Feels pretty heavy, if thin.

 

bankrupt

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Location

EX17/20

• Aug 10, 2021

• #1,491

Update -

Extase I Exsept


Too close to call, currently.

 

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DrWazzock

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Arable Farmer

Location

Lincolnshire

• Aug 10, 2021

• #1,492

Started the spring barley after tea to try the combine. 17% moisture. Mostly dead fit but a bit damp after the rain this morning and an annoying amount of green heads due to clay patches and regrowth due to dry sand burn off patches. Needs getting soon though. Going down. 3t /acre based on twice round the 25 acre field estimate looking like 6 ton in the treijer. Westminster. Nearly felt pleased and happy.

 

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4course

Member

Location

north yorks

• Aug 10, 2021

• #1,493

teslacoils said:

Been to look at the gleam and the Graham. Not very pretty. The Graham has a lot of grains like rice. And the gleam a lot of secondary tillers. Sigh. Not going to get any cut this side of the weekend, and the gleam may be another week after that. Feels pretty heavy, if thin.

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the gleam we cut the other day now dried has a v good bushel but not the best looking ,dont know final yield though now tested am a lot happier as lorries wont need as many buckets to fill

 

Pan mixer

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Mixed Farmer

Location

Near Colchester

• Aug 10, 2021

• #1,494

A lot of very flat wheat here and in my neighbours fields, this weekend and an inch of rain yesterday haven't improved it.

I would have taken a picture of rooks walking across the flattened crop but wanted to look away.

 

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Oliveau

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Location

Indre et Loire, France

• Aug 12, 2021

• #1,495

Neighbour has finished wheat harvest, but disappointing yields @7t/ha - Cold spring, dry April, wet June/July, flat crops, disease.

Reporting that winter linseed is very difficult to combine, so stopped for a while.

 

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Chalky

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• Aug 12, 2021

• #1,496

Very mixed bag wheat as far as I have been told. Disappointed(though not surprised) with last week sept Firefly. Thin, 40% of grains I would estimate, septoria came in post flag spray. Cougar gene failure. 8.5t/ha so 15-20% down on that land. Crops sown few days later on higher land look better. Early sown 22/9 Saki looks similar to the early firefly-we will see. Later sown-early Oct Saki looks better. Specific GS timings and weather at the time playing a big part eg. later sown stuff got hit flowering with cold & wet so less septoria, more fusarium/michrodochium. To add to the mix, early finishing wheats after a late flowering= less grainfill period-stem & root fusarium fairly evident throughout. 17th October on, generally a lot better visually.

September(22rd on) sowing here has exacerbated a compound of issues. Later sowing BG land may be faring much better??

Varietal selection ongoing now more tricky. Have Illuminate & Prince seed that are better foliar, but got hit with fusarium in later flowering despite heavy duty seed head spray. Skyscraper is what it is, but even that has suffered with curtailed grainfill.

Do I need to go back to farming school....??!!

Really would be interested in how kitchen sink every year approach does this year. Likewise presence of any 'old cans' and what their use may have done. GS32 1L Aviator + Teb, GS39 1L Revysol GS59 Teb +/-PTZ when the weather turned


Who to blame? Me for picking 6.5 & 6.8 Septoria rated vars that have crashed when put under pressure. Learn a lot from years like this(unfortunately)-which in the east we have not had for a while. Danger, after having seen what 'can' happen when its bone dry & no sign of 4 inches of rain in May, is that you spend more every year 'just in case' and adopt an Irish approach.

Hence the interest how 'kitchen sink +' approach every year-you know who I am referring to-get on.

 

teslacoils

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Arable Farmer

Location

Lincolnshire

• Aug 12, 2021

• #1,497

Kitchen sink plus applied here. Will let you know when combines start.

 

EddieB

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Arable Farmer

Location

Staffs

• Aug 12, 2021

• #1,498

Just finished our winter oats, ok yield for our ground, c. 7.2 t/ha. If they make the grade for seed will be worth good money.

Started in our Planet spring barley, again despite being only just ripe has brackled badly with heads touching the floor. Not sure if it’s a varietal trait but third year in a row this has happened.

 

DairyGrazing

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Mixed Farmer

Location

North West

• Aug 15, 2021

• #1,499

DairyGrazing said:

Winter wheat Mid October sown 12 inches high, has 40 units last monthpppView attachment 952479

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So this was a 4th wheat, KWS Kerrin 4.8t/arces roughly from dumping a tank in the Keenan. From seeing how much of the shed its taken up it may even be a touch more. Interesting it never grew very high.

Little less from a 1st wheat but probably three times the straw.

 

EddieB

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Arable Farmer

Location

Staffs

• Aug 15, 2021

• #1,500

Made a start to our wheat on Friday night then rained off yesterday and today.
Gleam was at 14% moisture with initial yields around the 10 t/ha mark which is fairly top end for us on sandy ground. Nice bright sample with specific weight around 76kg/hl.