2017 , rapidly turning in to....

[glasshouse]

Tho

It's just as bad in the east of Scotland as well trying to bale straw behind a 40 ft tracked lexion today was a nightmare , the field resembles the Somme now .

those monstrosities are a fecking disaster

 

[glasshouse]

This harvest is an exact re run of 1987.
Harvest finally finished on dual wheels on nov 4th in the frost, and i boarded a flight to sydney next day.
I didnt intend coming back.

 

[glasshouse]

2 harvests in 6 months?

 

[IHA]

This harvest is an exact re run of 1987.
Harvest finally finished on dual wheels on nov 4th in the frost, and i boarded a flight to sydney next day.
I didnt intend coming back.

We've had so many wet harvests I've lost track of the memorable years good and bad, I'm sure this harvest will be affecting the mental state of folk unfortunately!!

 

[simmy_bull]

08 I remember been a bad year. 12 was utter crap but I got some good silage very early that year. This year the least said about the silage the better. Me thinking it always rains in June when I want to get on. I'll graze it once and cut in July. Cue the most perfect silage making weather around here in June and all of July and most of August a wash out. Silage turned into a salvage job of two crops in one. Can't wait to see how it analyses I'm sure it will be rocket fuel

 

[YorkshireAndrew]

I cant even get the grass seed on my new lawn right now !

A serious matter that is way more important that autumn cereal drilling (according to my wife !)

I'll lend you my low ground pressure fiddle drill if that would help . [emoji849]

 

[Bill dog]

Half my cows n calves are in , rispoval 'd clipped etc! Going to be a long time till spring . Was up at the pens fluking ewes in the afternoon, and was watching my neighbour baling his hay! It 's only been cut at least 3 weeks !

 

[Bossfarmer]

Try farming in the west of Scotland, it's been a total disaster this summer, some people still struggling to get single cut silage & most of the cattle in this area are already in the sheds....

@Pasty thinks you dont deserve any subsidies you can do 1000 different types of farming on your land apparently!

 

[Bossfarmer]

Half my cows n calves are in , rispoval 'd clipped etc! Going to be a long time till spring . Was up at the pens fluking ewes in the afternoon, and was watching my neighbour baling his hay! It 's only been cut at least 3 weeks !

@Pasty thinks you dont deserve any subsidies you can do 1000 different types of farming on your land apparently!

 

[Bossfarmer]

We've had so many wet harvests I've lost track of the memorable years good and bad, I'm sure this harvest will be affecting the mental state of folk unfortunately!!

most the grain seems to be cut in fife tho? i was there last week

 

[Bossfarmer]

why dont more folk just do one big cut and split the fert timings?gets all the silage out the way before harvest & lots off fuggage to shift them on this time of year

 

[Pasty]

@Pasty thinks you dont deserve any subsidies you can do 1000 different types of farming on your land apparently!

Maybe cattle isn't one of them......

 

[Bossfarmer]

Maybe cattle isn't one of them......

any suggestions?coconuts?mangos?

 

[Bill dog]

Rice?

 

[Bossfarmer]

Rice?

is that profitable though?

 

[Bill dog]

Doubt it! Rather like spring barley in Ayrshire this year !

 

[Bossfarmer]

Doubt it! Rather like spring barley in Ayrshire this year !

do you get it away for malting down there?

 

[Pasty]

any suggestions?coconuts?mangos?

Whatever works on the land. If cattle sink most of the year then.................don't do cattle. I don't because I don't have any sheds at the mo. It's easy. You just don't do it. Then they don't sink. Get something that won't sink.

 

[Bill dog]

Very little grown in this neck of the woods for malting. Can think of only 3 farms in the area that have commercial quantities of grain , as in the majority of their business is grain. The rest would be stock farmers supplying their own feed n straw !

 

[milkloss]

2 big bags tied on the back of the tractor and towed around the fields.

We have an old Range Rover bonnet turned upside down.......shame we shot at it a few times: made it a bit rough and spiky to sit on.