warksfarmer
Member
Not sold forward for a few years now. Sell a bit every month and you get the best average or if you ever see £378/t again sell it all.
What % of winter crops not planted or destroyed
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Not sold forward for a few years now. Sell a bit every month and you get the best average or if you ever see £378/t again sell it all.
farmerm
Member
- Location
- Shropshire
I’m contemplating shutting the gate on what’s in and not looking again until summer when a decision will be made on desication and if it will be a combine or topper 🫤. Hardly any of it looks like if justifies any expense of fert or chemicals.
4course
Member
- Location
- north yorks
gearing up today ,currently rolling some grass paddocks sprayer full waiting for wind to drop so can spray off the remnants of a cover crop. Fert spinner at the ready to get the urea on and cultivator pulled out ready to move , ploughman booked for monday on some off land thats always been destined for sp barley but been too wet to travel up till now just needs another day . Heared it said god loves a trier so despite it being sunday we are trying to gain a day , " grandad" always said other than stock and harvest sunday was a day off for hosses and men , ( probably p down tonight ) but im getting to the f it stage
- Location
- Bedfordshire
Having a look around today, and our average yield will be our worst ever I believe. The good news is that I have a job to find blackgrass which after last year's mess id a relief. Best looking wheats are 3rd wheat on lighter ground following the plough, so not much hope there.
Just finished N1 on everything, nothing else done, but if we had a decent week we could be drilling, however forecast is sh!t.
I will be drilling 700 acres of spring cereals even if becomes late April, as I do not want to keep the seed in the shed and I'm not wasting £25k.
Just finished N1 on everything, nothing else done, but if we had a decent week we could be drilling, however forecast is sh!t.
I will be drilling 700 acres of spring cereals even if becomes late April, as I do not want to keep the seed in the shed and I'm not wasting £25k.
- Location
- Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos
I bet there are a lot of us been looking round our farms today equally distraught at what we are finding, wondering WTF to do and a dreadful weather forecast for the week ahead.
Where it is good, that if fine.
There is a lot of middle ground that I think will make it And has shown some signs of recover.
It’s the “WFT do we do with this bit/field?” that is the worry.
It’s still soaking on top with bugger all vigour left in the crop, even though it got some Nitrogen 2 &1/2 weeks ago.
I’ve changed my mind and now think that as I have got access to what isn’t officially seed, but could be planted if necessary, I’m going to have to do so, rather than let the soil suffer further by not growing something on it. Even if that means planting right up to the end of April.
My biggest question is how and what drill to use?
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yellow belly
Member
- Location
- south west lincolnshire
In 2013 I only had 4 fields of wheat 100 % wheat
a lot of fields with part wheat part barley
and a number with all barley where wheat at not thrived in the cold March and struggled in early April
black grass was a motive for fetching up some
back in 2001 contact bg sprays could save a crop from bg
now that rarely works
in 2013 did not start drilling till April 4
Since then been 100% no till so not looking any earlier better to plant a week or so later than into wet soil
Autumn cultivating can give a couple of weeks earlier in normal years but in wet years does not help
needs to stop raining for more than 3 days
- Location
- East yorks
Upon reflection I still think 2019/20 was worse. I would say this year has been more stressful as we had crops in the ground all winter but so far I still think it takes it
This is much worse imo , 2019 we didn't waste money sowing anything
- Location
- East yorks
I did in feb and it got fecked by the monsoons we got everything we had planned drilled, Went in as well as I have ever seen it. Then it rained for 6 straight weeks till the end of March
- Location
- Lincolnshire
No. This is worse than 2019/20. Psychologically, financially, and in actual soil conditions.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
I'd say 2007 was worse, but not in absolute pounds, shillings and pence.
- Location
- Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos
Or spraying it with über expensive Blackgrass sprays that stunted the crops, destroying its competitiveness and allowing the fecking BG to take hold again, after all!
You were lucky ... we had 4 hours sowing , end ....
- Location
- Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos
Maybe we should swap?
Not only am I pee'd off with all the wasted money we spent, but all that wasted time I spent doing it too.
And I have to explain this all this to my boss too. Or to be more precise, the son of my dead boss/my new boss.
What a year for the poor bloke to take over!
The problem being that as from 7th July 2023, it didn’t just rain (every 3 days), but it poured.
And it has continued to do so right through 2024 right up to now, with a similar forecast for at least the next fortnight!
The only good news is that the increased CS payments and new SFI income will help cushion the enormous inevitable loss, half the arable will make.
You wouldn't swap with me , believe me it's shite . in a dry year
- Location
- Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos
Nobody knows the land we individually farm more than each of us do,
It‘s easy to be flippant and look at somebody else’s farm and think he has made a mistake, when we almost certainly would have made an even bigger one.
Unfortunately though, it is within most of our natures to be extremely self-critical of our own actions.
The trick is to try not to allow it to destroy our self-confidence.
Even more so, when it is somebody else’s farm you are farming!
Take care all and pray for dry weather. (But maybe not too dry for @bobk !)
- Location
- Darlington
Still 2012 2013 for me, but agree, we had less in the ground in 19/ 20
- Location
- Darlington
The £200/acre + ,FBT guys.