Record harvest?

DeeGee

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Location
North East Wales
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Ah, you are following the same plan as me. Everything can’t go t*ts up at once.👍

I wasn’t brave enough to cut my very young, green hay though, so that’s not spoiling if it rains, just the Winter Barley. Crows are already starting on it, so I guess they’d appreciate it made easier for them.😡
In hindsight, I should have cut the lightest 5ac field of hay, but likely to get more heat yet. It’s only June.
 

Pilatus

Member
Location
cotswolds
In 1986, after I had lost my father, at just 29, a wise old farmer gave me one of the best pieces of advice I was ever given.

‘If half the decisions you make turn out to be right, then you are doing bloody well.’
After making some decisions that turned out to be wrong in my life( so far), my saying is , “ you only do what you think is the right decision to make at the time”, only history will tell you whether the decision you make was the correct one or not.
Ok as with all social media there will
without doubt be some smart ass’s on this forum that have never made a wrong decision in their life, because they
have never had to make a decision . ;)
 

teslacoils

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
Well, all T3s are on now, so theres really sod all we can do about it until the combines roll.

I had a cup of tea with a non farmer and explained the length of time between thinking about cropping, buying fert, planting, cutting, storing, selling and finally getting the £££.....and the few things we can do to alter the results.
 

Flat 10

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Fen Edge
Well, all T3s are on now, so theres really sod all we can do about it until the combines roll.

I had a cup of tea with a non farmer and explained the length of time between thinking about cropping, buying fert, planting, cutting, storing, selling and finally getting the £££.....and the few things we can do to alter the results.
Did he question your sanity?
 

Pilatus

Member
Location
cotswolds
It's certainly not something you'd pitch on dragons den is it!those who are on the panel and the participants
I expect those on the panel and participants of that program very rarely think about where there food comes from!!!
Think the world would have starved to death by now , if had to rely on those self centred Ruthless lot for food production as so little money in it relative to capital investment and working capital.
 
But the sun as few days been good. How about I trade five days bright blue sky for 15 hours against your two hot days! But your right to talk the market up!
grain fill is a fixed length in day degrees
every hot day above 25 c reduces the grain fill this loss cannot be recovered
every day with low light levels reduces grain fill

up to thursday we had good grain fill days to day very dull and rainy the rain may help but the dullness will not

if grain fill is 30 odd days now lost parts of 3 days fortunately we here have got plenty of moisture but we usually have too much in most years
an inch a month from februarry to july 1996 gave use vert high yields
hot days and dull days with warm nights do the most yield reducing in grain fill
 

7610 super q

Never Forgotten
Honorary Member
Somehow missed out on the torrential rain forecast for today. Had about an hour. Won't be record breaking yields here. Just hope for an easy harvest..........🙏
 

E_B

Member
Location
Norfolk
Looked bad since April here in South Norfolk. All the promise coming out of winter evaporated, literally.

On the light land, winter barley looks like it'll set a record, for worst ever. Shortest straw ever is assured.

Triticale looks alright but could have been way better, again looks thin.

Forage rye did well.

Spring barley is so so, bit sparse.

Maize is alright so far, at least it all germinated this time.

Little bit of wheat on lighter stuff was spiking up before the rain in late May, could be worse but it will be light.

On the heavy land, wheat looks alright but not a thick enough crop. Slow to get away as I drilled it too deep in hindsight. Would be surprised to get 8t/ha.

Beans look so so.

Winter oats look to be the crop of the year so far. Let some BG in though as usual.

Grass was below average. Herbal ley did alright, more of that going in this year.
 

Steevo

Member
Location
Gloucestershire
Fair amount of pretty heavy rain here today which is very welcome, albeit possibly a bit late for some fields.

I still see harvest '22 wheat as being underpriced. Not that I can see it changing until November when most of the harvest "glut" has been moved.
 

Steevo

Member
Location
Gloucestershire
Yes. The last three years my DD fields have suffered from the wet winters. The 10 years before that was much more reliable. Limited rooting structure from the wet ground over winter, followed by a dry spring where crops cannot get the moisture they need as they haven't been able to develop a deep enough root structure before the spring arrives.

I even have ploughed fields this year that are struggling, especially where they need drainage and heavy rain caused herbicide run-off or springs to pop up.
 

Wombat

Member
BASIS
Location
East yorks
Well this year doesn't seem any drier than the last 2 but for the look of the crops, it's certainly the worst of the three, despite all those frosts last April.
Lot wetter here this spring than the last 2. We had rain in April for a start. Late May and June been drier than last year though so hopefully less crap bushels this year if we don’t have the wet July we had last year
 
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