Grain yields 2022

JCfarmer · Jul 28, 2022

Campus averaged 3.8t/ha including bare areas/ pigeon damage.
Happy with that and certainly the lowest input osr I have grown in a long time.
Drilled with Claydon and 30kgN in the autumn
160kg/ha N urea/sulphur bought earlier on at £365t.
Kerb, couple of fungicides, glyphosate and Zipod

warksfarmer · Jul 28, 2022

Update again: I can’t quite believe it but it’s over a weighbridge that was ministry tested 2 weeks ago but we’ve had a 40ac field (very heavy black clay) do 4.9t/ac at 17.2% moisture. So adjusted after drying that’s 4.77t/ac.
It only had 100kg N and 35kg/ha S. Then we used a biological N (soil N bacteria) at 20l/ha and a foliar N & K at 17l/ha.

Brings our average yield so far to 3.5t/ac which considering the lack of water I’m happy with especially as we’ve used 125kg/ha less N we normally would. Massive savings in input costs and is it proof we’ve all been using to much? I suspect we won’t make group 1 but we’ll see over the coming days.

Field on the 22nd June pic attached. Drilled with a Triton.

SilliamWhale · Jul 28, 2022

warksfarmer said:
Update again: I can’t quite believe it but it’s over a weighbridge that was ministry tested 2 weeks ago but we’ve had a 40ac field (very heavy black clay) do 4.9t/ac at 17.2% moisture. So adjusted after drying that’s 4.77t/ac.
It only had 100kg N and 35kg/ha S. Then we used a biological N (soil N bacteria) at 20l/ha and a foliar N & K at 17l/ha.

Brings our average yield so far to 3.5t/ac which considering the lack of water I’m happy with especially as we’ve used 125kg/ha less N we normally would. Massive savings in input costs and is it proof we’ve all been using to much? I suspect we won’t make group 1 but we’ll see over the coming days.

Field on the 22nd June pic attached. Drilled with a Triton.

My gut feeling is this has been a year where sunshine and and a dryer colder spring have combined to produce good yields with less use of nitrogen.

SilliamWhale · Jul 28, 2022

Adeptandy said:
Hope that’s not Frontier, I thought I’d done that until it was less than the tonnage they’d allowed for sales and got penalised

Always found United Oilseeds decent for that sort of thing

Sandy · Jul 28, 2022

warksfarmer said:
Update again: I can’t quite believe it but it’s over a weighbridge that was ministry tested 2 weeks ago but we’ve had a 40ac field (very heavy black clay) do 4.9t/ac at 17.2% moisture. So adjusted after drying that’s 4.77t/ac.
It only had 100kg N and 35kg/ha S. Then we used a biological N (soil N bacteria) at 20l/ha and a foliar N & K at 17l/ha.

Brings our average yield so far to 3.5t/ac which considering the lack of water I’m happy with especially as we’ve used 125kg/ha less N we normally would. Massive savings in input costs and is it proof we’ve all been using to much? I suspect we won’t make group 1 but we’ll see over the coming days.

Field on the 22nd June pic attached. Drilled with a Triton.

What’s biological N and foliar N&K?

Iben · Jul 28, 2022

warksfarmer said:
Update again: I can’t quite believe it but it’s over a weighbridge that was ministry tested 2 weeks ago but we’ve had a 40ac field (very heavy black clay) do 4.9t/ac at 17.2% moisture. So adjusted after drying that’s 4.77t/ac.
It only had 100kg N and 35kg/ha S. Then we used a biological N (soil N bacteria) at 20l/ha and a foliar N & K at 17l/ha.

Brings our average yield so far to 3.5t/ac which considering the lack of water I’m happy with especially as we’ve used 125kg/ha less N we normally would. Massive savings in input costs and is it proof we’ve all been using to much? I suspect we won’t make group 1 but we’ll see over the coming days.

Field on the 22nd June pic attached. Drilled with a Triton.

Brave enough to do same treatment again over half your acreage?

glasshouse · Jul 28, 2022

SilliamWhale said:
My gut feeling is this has been a year where sunshine and and a dryer colder spring have combined to produce good yields with less use of nitrogen.

Dry winter means lots of n in soil in spring
Wont happen every year

warksfarmer · Jul 28, 2022

SilliamWhale said:
My gut feeling is this has been a year where sunshine and and a dryer colder spring have combined to produce good yields with less use of nitrogen.

Not so sure as we’ve also grown 2.6t/ac over the same weighbridge.

warksfarmer · Jul 28, 2022

Iben said:
Brave enough to do same treatment again over half your acreage?

We did anyway. Only used 100kg N across the board. Bought it early at £237/t and only used half so we’ve got the other half for next year.

JCfarmer · Jul 28, 2022

warksfarmer said:
We did anyway. Only used 100kg N across the board. Bought it early at £237/t and only used half so we’ve got the other half for next year.

I can smell something........?
Can't quite put my finger on it and don't want to put my finger in it particularly.

ajd132 · Jul 28, 2022

JCfarmer said:
I can smell something........?
Can't quite put my finger on it and don't want to put my finger in it particularly.

Triton drills add 4t/ha to yield

warksfarmer · Jul 28, 2022

JCfarmer said:
I can smell something........?
Can't quite put my finger on it and don't want to put my finger in it particularly.

All factual and can be backed up by our agronomist if you require it.

warksfarmer · Jul 28, 2022

ajd132 said:
Triton drills add 4t/ha to yield

Triton drilled where we’ve yielded 2.6t/acre as well.

ajd132 · Jul 28, 2022

warksfarmer said:
Triton drilled where we’ve yielded 2.6t/acre as well.

I was just jesting. Good drills.

David. · Jul 28, 2022

Bugger, you've wasted some money over the years..

JCfarmer · Jul 28, 2022

warksfarmer said:
We did anyway. Only used 100kg N across the board. Bought it early at £237/t and only used half so we’ve got the other half for next year.

George Useless reads this and we are all fooked.
I'll buy the other half off you for £437 because you won't need any for next year!

SilliamWhale · Jul 28, 2022

warksfarmer said:
Not so sure as we’ve also grown 2.6t/ac over the same weighbridge.

Fair enough I'm just finding I was definitely on the parsimonious side with the N this year and yet yields still seem decent.

warksfarmer · Jul 28, 2022

JCfarmer said:
George Useless reads this and we are all fooked.
I'll buy the other half off you for £437 because you won't need any for next year!

Didn’t say we didn’t need any N did I.

glasshouse · Jul 28, 2022

Lets face it, Nitrogen fert has done farmers no favours. Its consumers who benefit.
Better to ban it and let the famine roll
Bagged N means that any fool can farm, and they do

Days of thunder · Jul 28, 2022

Can’t wait to do my wheat in Warwickshire. It doesn’t look that promising had the usual inputs. But will find that weighbridge to cheer myself up.

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