- Location
- Lincolnshire.
Anyone doing this?
- Thread starter fudge
- Start date
Yield maps would be a good start. It's not difficult to work out which bits are best from these. I've never done margin maps but I do work out production costs so for £129/t for last year's spring barley at 6.6 t/ha average yield a quick look at the yield maps shows where I'm in profit or loss. Gatekeeper (owned by RBI who owns Farmers Weekly 
) can generate margin maps from a yield map. Just add in a flat rate, or variable if you're really geeky, figure/ha for labour, machinery etc then a price for the grain and you're there.
A margin map would be more useful in this respect but if 1/3 of your land loses money you'd have to look seriously at how you alter your overheads to suit possibly taking 1/4 of your land out of production as you'll be concentrating those on a smaller area. I'll bet some of that loss making land is in the middle of a field not just the headlands - do you take an odd shaped patch in the middle e.g. the brow of a hill out, leaving an inefficient shape to keep farming?? Stewardship option ABCDEF paying £500/ha is great but there's a reason it is paying that - your costs of establishing that option and managing it including the paperwork will be £480/ha! For seriously underperforming land e.g. a wet corner behind 3 telegraph poles or a headland against a wood, CS is a no brainer.
This needs thought. If you have to sell 25% of your harvest off the combine because you lack sufficient storage or you're about to lose a member of staff then this might be a useful tool to adjust the scale of your business. Harder to do and work through when you're on a family farm where every acre needs to pay its way and maximise the use of your assets.
) can generate margin maps from a yield map. Just add in a flat rate, or variable if you're really geeky, figure/ha for labour, machinery etc then a price for the grain and you're there.A margin map would be more useful in this respect but if 1/3 of your land loses money you'd have to look seriously at how you alter your overheads to suit possibly taking 1/4 of your land out of production as you'll be concentrating those on a smaller area. I'll bet some of that loss making land is in the middle of a field not just the headlands - do you take an odd shaped patch in the middle e.g. the brow of a hill out, leaving an inefficient shape to keep farming?? Stewardship option ABCDEF paying £500/ha is great but there's a reason it is paying that - your costs of establishing that option and managing it including the paperwork will be £480/ha! For seriously underperforming land e.g. a wet corner behind 3 telegraph poles or a headland against a wood, CS is a no brainer.
This needs thought. If you have to sell 25% of your harvest off the combine because you lack sufficient storage or you're about to lose a member of staff then this might be a useful tool to adjust the scale of your business. Harder to do and work through when you're on a family farm where every acre needs to pay its way and maximise the use of your assets.
yellow belly
Member
- Location
- south west lincolnshire
If side headland that get no turning are lower yielding why
If the edge 1 m is lower yielding and the combine overlaps the edge by
A foot yield will be lower plus hedgecutter compaction
If the edge 1 m is lower yielding and the combine overlaps the edge by
A foot yield will be lower plus hedgecutter compaction
Colin
Member
- Location
- Perthshire
Depends on your cropping, what doesn't make money on wheat will be good for irrigated crops
- Location
- Bedfordshire
In some cases yes. In many, no.
Colin
Member
- Location
- Perthshire
More like, in all cases "here"
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