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robbie · Jul 13, 2022

Bugger the ordinary yields, the heat, the drought and all the sillyness that's in the at the minute.
The first chippy tea of the season, with 3 generations all stopping to eat together

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ollie989898 · Jul 13, 2022

robbie said:
Bugger the ordinary yields, the heat, the drought and all the sillyness that's in the at the minute.
The first chippy tea of the season, with 3 generations all stopping to eat togetherView attachment 1049125up

That is an impressive and very neat muck heap you have there.

MultimaxDirect · Jul 13, 2022

robbie said:
Bugger the ordinary yields, the heat, the drought and all the sillyness that's in the at the minute.
The first chippy tea of the season, with 3 generations all stopping to eat togetherView attachment 1049125up

This is great!

Wombat · Jul 13, 2022

robbie said:
Bugger the ordinary yields, the heat, the drought and all the sillyness that's in the at the minute.
The first chippy tea of the season, with 3 generations all stopping to eat togetherView attachment 1049125up

At least it’s a cracking looking stubble as well for anyone driving past

Phil P · Jul 13, 2022

Knocked a bit more off this afternoon and I’ve come to the conclusion there’s definitely not going to be any records broken this year! At least it’s coming off dry

Wombat · Jul 13, 2022

Phil P said:
Knocked a bit more off this afternoon and I’ve come to the conclusion there’s definitely not going to be any records broken this year! At least it’s coming off dry View attachment 1049134

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That and your wheat in the background looks green

Phil P · Jul 13, 2022

Wombat said:
That and your wheat in the background looks green

That’s a field of spuds in the background, I think someone would be really stressing if they where dying off

. My Spring barley to the right of the pic is still green but the neighbours next to the spuds is burning up badly now though!

bankrupt · Jul 13, 2022

Phil P said:
there’s definitely not going to be any records broken this year!

Fairly certain here we're going to break all our records for Specific Weight on WO.

Gedd · Jul 13, 2022

Phil P said:
Knocked a bit more off this afternoon and I’ve come to the conclusion there’s definitely not going to be any records broken this year! At least it’s coming off dry View attachment 1049134

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Glad its not just me thats slightly disapointed that the barley isnt running as well as it looked lean grain think its died rather than ripened and this is on pretty heavy land rape is turning wheat looks as though its giving up

redsloe · Jul 13, 2022

Phil P said:
Knocked a bit more off this afternoon and I’ve come to the conclusion there’s definitely not going to be any records broken this year! At least it’s coming off dry View attachment 1049134

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Your trailer is looking as tired as the telegraph poles

And before anyone says, I know it still does the job!!

bankrupt · Jul 13, 2022

Gedd said:
barley isnt running as well as it looked lean grain think its died rather than ripened and this is on pretty heavy land

Problem here in years when soil moisture deficits increase all the way through to harvest is that WB often turns out, retrospectively, the crop of the year and anything ripening later is even worse.

Phil P · Jul 13, 2022

redsloe said:
Your trailer is looking as tired as the telegraph poles

And before anyone says, I know it still does the job!!

They are getting ready for replacing and I got prices to swap them a couple of years back but 1, they where silly money 2, all my land it’s within 4 miles or less of the yard so can keep up with them in barley, 3, as you say they still do the job and 4, I think they’re big enough for my 71 year old dad to back into the store. I’ve started getting a contractor to come and help when we get into the wheat so I gained a driver, tractor and decent size trailer.

CPF · Jul 13, 2022

ajd132 said:
He’s still at the top of the leaderboard even with the seed destroyer !
It’s working really well, you cannot find a single grain on the field. His losses could be 10% and you wouldn’t know.
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How are you getting on with the seed destroyer ,would you be kind enough to post some pictures of it working?

Two Tone · Jul 13, 2022

The Winter Barley field I was combining yesterday was conventionally drilled Bazooka
This is what it was yielding

Today we were in a Direct drilled rather hilly field. We don’t attempt to unload on the move on this field.

As it is dangerous to do so.

The difference between this and the last field apart from the drilling technique is that the straw was maybe 6” shorter.

But look at the yield

And then tell me that Direct drilling yields are lower!

ajd132 · Jul 13, 2022

Two Tone said:
The Winter Barley field I was combining yesterday was conventionally drilled Bazooka
This is what it was yielding
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Today we were in a Direct drilled rather hilly field. We don’t attempt to unload on the move on this field.
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As it is dangerous to do so.

The difference between this and the last field apart from the drilling technique is that the straw was maybe 6” shorter.

But look at the yield
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And then tell me that Direct drilling yields are lower!

Direct drilling done well is a huge financial gain, unfortunately there is a lot people doing it very badly, simply to save a penny to lose a pound. Gives it a bad name.

ajd132 · Jul 13, 2022

CPF said:
How are you getting on with the seed destroyer ,would you be kind enough to post some pictures of it working?

Will do when it’s going again at the weekend. Not much to see really, apart from how incredibly noisy it is

CPF · Jul 13, 2022

ajd132 said:
Will do when it’s going again at the weekend. Not much to see really, apart from how incredibly noisy it is

It must be coping well with all the chaff, we get in the Uk.
Yes I could told you they was noisy I don’t wanna put anyone off because it would’ve been another negative assumption of them .

capfits · Jul 13, 2022

Winter Barley coming off at 13.5%. Will need to wet it for cattle rations.

Two Tone · Jul 13, 2022

ajd132 said:
Direct drilling done well is a huge financial gain, unfortunately there is a lot people doing it very badly, simply to save a penny to lose a pound. Gives it a bad name.

Please can I ask your advice and opinion on something Adam?

Having finished the W Barley today, my harvest helper Steve, who is me, but a 10 year older retired version and Expert on growing and harvesting Linseed, says my W Linseed is fit and we should start combining it tomorrow.
Like Rape. It can be too dry and he reckons the ideal time to start is now.

Last year we tried chopping the straw which wasn’t actually difficult, but it end up looking like a 3’ mat of cotton wool on the surface. A friend of a friend recommended that we get a straw merchant to bale it and he would sell it to a Power station, but we received no money. I was ok with that and he cleared it very quickly.
However, he doesn’t want it this year because, believe it or not, the Power stations still have a hell of a lot of last year’s straw to use and one of them is broken down anyway.

If any other straw merchants are interested such as @Derrick Hughes or @puntabrava, they can have it this year for free. I can bale it in up 5’ rounds if necessary or could get a large square bale contractor in. Obviously, the baling won’t be for free and there would be a nominal loading charge, but the straw itself would be free.

My question to you @ajd132 , @Warnesworth or anybody else is: You know we use an Angled Disc type Weaving GD drill.
Do you think I could successfully establish a Wheat crop in September into that chopped Linseed straw?
I’m fairly certain that I can get the penetration to drill the seed, but am slightly concerned about hair pinning

There may be some advantages with weed suppression under that cotton wool mat. However, there may be a disadvantages on Pre-ems not working. I’d also be interested in your thoughts on this point @ollie989898 please.

Alternatively. I could bale it, without net and burn it. But in this day and age, the thought horrifies me to waste all that unused energy into the atmosphere.

ajd132 · Jul 13, 2022

Two Tone said:
Please can I ask your advice and opinion on something Alex?

Having finished the W Barley today, my harvest helper Steve, who is me, but a 10 year older retired version and Expert on growing and harvesting Linseed, says my W Linseed is fit and we should start combining it tomorrow.
Like Rape. It can be too dry and he reckons the ideal time to start is now.

Last year we tried chopping the straw which wasn’t actually difficult, but it end up looking like a 3’ mat of cotton wool on the surface. A friend of a friend recommended that we get a straw merchant to bale it and he would sell it to a Power station, but we received no money. I was ok with that and he cleared it very quickly.
However, he doesn’t want it this year because, believe it or not, the Power stations still have a hell of a lot of last year’s straw to use and one of them is broken down anyway.

If any other straw merchants are interested such as @Derrick Hughes or @puntabrava, they can have it this year for free. I can bale it in up 5’ rounds if necessary or could get a large square bale contractor in. Obviously, the baling won’t be for free and there would be a nominal loading charge, but the straw itself would be free.

My question to you @ajd132 , @Warnesworth or anybody else is: You know we use an Angled Disc type Weaving GD drill.
Do you think I could successfully establish a Wheat crop in September into that chopped Linseed straw?
I’m fairly certain that I can get the penetration to drill the seed, but am slightly concerned about hair pinning

There may be some advantages with weed suppression under that cotton wool mat. However, there may be a disadvantages on Pre-ems not working. I’d also be interested in your thoughts on this point @ollie989898 please.

Alternatively. I could bale it, without net and burn it. But in this day and age, the thought horrifies me to waste all that unused energy into the atmosphere.

*adam.

yes I think it will be fine especially if drilled early in good conditions.

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