What % of winter crops not planted or destroyed

What % of winter crops not planted or destroyed

  • Less than 2%

    Votes: 100 17.0%

  • Between 2 and 5%

    Votes: 40 6.8%

  • Between 5 and 10%

    Votes: 63 10.7%

  • Between 10 and 20%

    Votes: 103 17.5%

  • More then 20%

    Votes: 70 11.9%

  • More than 35%

    Votes: 66 11.2%

  • More than 50%

    Votes: 146 24.8%
  • Total voters
    588
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sahara

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Somerset
Had a brief look at some wheat today. This is I reckon our best field of wheat, sadly its also our smallest!
Some Palladium after Spring Oats,
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Unfortunately there are large areas of this!
Typhoon after OSR
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Green oak

Green oak

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Essex
There have been Conversation’s about BYDV with agronomy groups. barley and wheat going very yellow over the last fortnight. Everything is going backwards. has the tillering stage gone now. It is what in is i suppose.
 
britt

britt

Member
BASE UK Member
Location
leics/warks border
Talking to my agronomist yesterday, we decided that the wheat that's thin and patchy which I thought was worth nursing through to harvest would be best sprayed off to start again with something else, even if it's a summer cover crop. There is a lot of brome and other grass weeds there which are now past the optimum time for a contact herbicide and with poor crop competition in much of it, spraying would be even less effective.
He says that he has many such crops. Mostly black grass infested, which will be best destroyed, rather than multiplying weed seeds for the sake of a poor crop.
A lot of what looks like a crop from the road now will not be taken to harvest.
 
yellow belly

yellow belly

Member
Location
south west lincolnshire
Are we heading for 1.3 million ha average yield 6.8 in wheat under 9 million tonnes
plus 1million xtra carry over so about 4 million one short fall

defra recon on 880000 ha of spring barley but will that turn out to be nearer 700000 ha
with the biggest area of fallow(stewardship/Sfi ) this century
 
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warksfarmer

Member
yellow belly said:
Are we heading for 1.3 million ha average yield 6.8 in wheat under 9 million tonnes
plus 1million xtra carry over so about 4 million one short fall

defra recon on 880000 ha of spring barley but will that turn out to be nearer 700000 ha
with the biggest area of fallow(stewardship/Sfi ) this century
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7-8 million tonnes.
 
teslacoils

teslacoils

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
yellow belly said:
Are we heading for 1.3 million ha average yield 6.8 in wheat under 9 million tonnes
plus 1million xtra carry over so about 4 million one short fall

defra recon on 880000 ha of spring barley but will that turn out to be nearer 700000 ha
with the biggest area of fallow(stewardship/Sfi ) this century
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I think the yield will be closer to seven. But area more like 1.2 once folk start silaging the blackgrass.

Already had three farmers looking for straw next autumn.
 
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warksfarmer

Member
teslacoils said:
I think the yield will be closer to seven. But area more like 1.2 once folk start silaging the blackgrass.

Already had three farmers looking for straw next autumn.
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Straw market is in a hush hush panic already. Had two merchants wanting to book as much as possible at £110-£120/t for harvest 24.

I think grain harvest 23 still in store is a keep till May 25 when it’ll really kick in. Family in canada are saying stocks are low. Same coming from family in the states. Where’s it all going to come from because Russia can’t feed the world.
AHDB are without doubt talking the market down and the grain merchants aren’t helping as they are quietly buying up as much stock and forward sales as possible citing a falling market.
 
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4course

Member
Location
north yorks
warksfarmer said:
Straw market is in a hush hush panic already. Had two merchants wanting to book as much as possible at £110-£120/t for harvest 24.

I think grain harvest 23 still in store is a keep till May 25 when it’ll really kick in. Family in canada are saying stocks are low. Same coming from family in the states. Where’s it all going to come from because Russia can’t feed the world.
AHDB are without doubt talking the market down and the grain merchants aren’t helping as they are quietly buying up as much stock and forward sales as possible citing a falling market.
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im assuming you havnt sold any grain or straw harvest 24 ,interestingly re grain dont know many that have other than bits to pay fert bills
 
Two Tone

Two Tone

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos
yellow belly said:
Are we heading for 1.3 million ha average yield 6.8 in wheat under 9 million tonnes
plus 1million xtra carry over so about 4 million one short fall

defra recon on 880000 ha of spring barley but will that turn out to be nearer 700000 ha
with the biggest area of fallow(stewardship/Sfi ) this century
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That could be optimistic.
For the first time in my lifetime, I’ll not plant/replant about 15% of the farms arable area.
Just cannot see the point in doing so.
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

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  • Up to 25%

    Votes: 105 37.8%

  • 25-50%

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  • 50-75%

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