Anybody planting wheat yet?

[farmbrew]

I didn't get much planted last season, don't want to get it wrong again
Mine is ready to go, thinking I'll go after the weekend,16th Sept at 100 kg.
Choice is Dawsum, Skyscraper, Champion.
Toying with the idea of blending and adding some Gleam in too.
Kind-ish land, good seedbeds, 1st wheats???

 

[suffolksmallholder]

Not yet around me in E Suffik. Ploughed & lumpy as f**k right now or just subsoiled.
The fifty year wheat rotation will continue in some areas but in others it is nice to see the rotation and out of OSR
SS

 

[B R C]

No, you didn’t get it wrong, the weather was just an arse. First week Oct is my target, that could go either way weather dependant.

 

[alomy75]

IT’S THE TENTH OF SEPTEMBER PEOPLE!!!! I know more than one farmer who hasn’t started harvest yet around south lincs!! IMO it’s too early for barley let alone wheat

 

[Chae1]

Been a few people sowing wheat in NE Scotland.

Planning to put ours in next week once caught up with harvest.

 

[colhonk]

If it will ever stop raining, I would get combining finnished, never mind start sowing.

 

[farmbrew]

If it will ever stop raining, I would get combining finnished, never mind start sowing.

To be fair I have a bit of harvesting for a neighbour to do....it was late planted so obviously late harvest and weather not conducive to September cutting.

 

[Hesstondriver]

Neighbour has 160 ac to combine. But there will be plenty not wanting to get caught like last year . I think they’ll be telling agronomists to shove their delayed drilling where the sun doesn’t shine!

 

[Fish]

I am tempted, got about 60 ha that would drill, but still harvesting, I think, if we can’t cut, we’ll drill.

 

[Optimus]

Neighbour put 130 acre in nearly 2 weeks ago.

 

[Sam Partridge]

I didn't get much planted last season, don't want to get it wrong again
Mine is ready to go, thinking I'll go after the weekend,16th Sept at 100 kg.
Choice is Dawsum, Skyscraper, Champion.
Toying with the idea of blending and adding some Gleam in too.
Kind-ish land, good seedbeds, 1st wheats???

go lower seedrate if that early? or are you talking hectares already

 

[farmbrew]

IT’S THE TENTH OF SEPTEMBER PEOPLE!!!! I know more than one farmer who hasn’t started harvest yet around south lincs!! IMO it’s too early for barley let alone wheat

I have a neighbour putting barley in now...it was the right decision last year!

 

[farmbrew]

go lower seedrate if that early? or are you talking hectares already

Yes,100kg ha, its about 1cwt ac

 

[farmerm]

IT’S THE TENTH OF SEPTEMBER PEOPLE!!!! I know more than one farmer who hasn’t started harvest yet around south lincs!! IMO it’s too early for barley let alone wheat

My best yield of wheat by a long mile was drilled 7th September... today, 9th of September and I still have an unharvested wheat crop standing in that field today, this one is no record breaker, more heart breaker, its only about 4ac, our total wheat crop for 2024!

I am targeting 20th September for both wheat drilling and wheat combining! If we get a repeat of last Autumn unkind weather and the entire arable area will be 100% nectar pollen and I shall do nothing but take a lot of holidays and a bit of topping. Growing flowers has been much less stressful than growing crops this year!

 

[teslacoils]

Not yet. Ive some land after grass that I will power harrow this weekend, but nothing has really grown and I want to move it again to encourage any birds to come eat the grubs.

 

[4course]

Nature is hardly ever wrong ,go find a few stalks of wheat from a harvested ww field ( not roundupped or laid )have a look see if the seeds have fallen out and which ones % they are either top bottom or middle then look on the ground and see how many have germinated . none then hold of ,empty ears your too late. An old boy told me this years ago and its not been a bad guide just wish id followed it last year !!

 

[john63]

Still got spring barley, oats, beans and some very late drilled winter wheat to combine. Planning to drill slightly earlier than last year - normally don't start until 15th October, aiming to start on about 5th this time.

 

[CPF]

We are going start next week , the weather still unsettled things are changing,
I can remember someone telling my late father it was to early to drill wheat in September got to wait until mid October the weather broke and drilled it in march . So now I will drill in September.
Bit like this year , we was lucky enough to get drilled early last year at home.

 

[Jsmith2211]

Hoping to get the hybrid rye in soon (once it dries out) then barley then wheat. Aiming for end of september wheat, 3rd week for barley. All this delayed drilling worked so well last winter didn't it... would rather be worried about it being too thick than too thin!

 

[alomy75]

Hoping to get the hybrid rye in soon (once it dries out) then barley then wheat. Aiming for end of september wheat, 3rd week for barley. All this delayed drilling worked so well last winter didn't it... would rather be worried about it being too thick than too thin!

I guess it all depends on blackgrass. If you’re grass free then it’s probably not a bad idea to go early. If you have even a smattering of grassweeds it is probably the worst thing you could do.