Bumper harvest?

[Paul Gosling]

Driving round the country crops look very well and now the rain has removed fears of drought are we looking at a record harvest this year?

 

[Fish]

Driving round the country crops look very well and now the rain has removed fears of drought are we looking at a record harvest this year?

No,
many a slip, an all that.

 

[Wombat]

We need some sun to get a bumper one

 

[Lexion1000]

Feel as though we headed for a 2012 scenario where everything looked great and yielded nothing. Need some sunny days!

 

[Gong Farmer]

A week or two of sunshine without too much heat and it's 2015.

More of the current yeuch and it's 2012.

 

[jed]

Would agree with you there lexion it all looked great even better than our record breaking harvest of 2011 .
Then the rain came and the fusarium took hold ended up been a very disappointing harvest compounded by the 15 odd quid deductions for the low bushels.
I hope your right Paul but don’t count the chickens before they hatch!

 

[teslacoils]

Only has to look good once, and that's when the money gets into the bank.

 

[Brisel]

Driving round the country crops look very well and now the rain has removed fears of drought are we looking at a record harvest this year?

The drought has already damaged spring crops - in places there are very few tillers and short main stems. Oilseed rape ravaged by cabbage stem flea beetle and the gaps in the crop now full of weeds and pigeons. Definitely not a bumper harvest for these. Wheat looks ok but now needs sunshine without too much heat to fill the grains.

 

[Still Farming]

Rain effects will soon tell.

 

[teslacoils]

Osr looks highly variable. I've put in 4t/ha over the whole block as a guesstimate. Baring in mind a lot of poor osr is now spring barley. I'd like to say the crops in general look good but will wait and see. All potential at the moment.

 

[Steevo]

The drought has already damaged spring crops - in places there are very few tillers and short main stems. Oilseed rape ravaged by cabbage stem flea beetle and the gaps in the crop now full of weeds and pigeons. Definitely not a bumper harvest for these. Wheat looks ok but now needs sunshine without too much heat to fill the grains.

For once I think my spring crops will be a bumper harvest. Never known it possible to plant spring barley in February before. Pretty thick cover and reasonable length straw too. Beats the last few years where we've had a drought as soon as it was planted....in April/May.

 

[Andrew K]

Was out stewarding the local farms competition yesterday, and generally well farmed crops looked well, but there are issues with variable germination in spring crops and the usual blackgrass in winters to temper the enthusiasm.
We did not see any light land crops, but I gather some of those suffered irrepairable damage earlier this year.

The potential is there, no doubt ,but we are still some way from the finishing line...

 

[Michael S]

Remember 2012?

 

[Neddy flanders]

rain has saved a disaster on light land, not created a bumper.

heavy land will yield well only if unbroken sun til end of July

 

[Chae1]

Remember 2012?

Yes. Its nothing like it so far, apart from last 2 weeks been wet.

This will probably jinx it but potential there for a bumper harvest.

Took 21 bales/acre off a 27 acre silage field yesterday! It won't win any prizes for quality, was 2 weeks late being cut. If anyone else told me that I'd call BS!

 

[7610 super q]

I'll wait till it's in the shed, and down to 14% before commenting.

 

[bobk]

Plenty of flat crops around .

 

[Clive]

Satellite yield prediction here suggesting a near 10t average for wheat which would be a farm record if it happened

Shows lower potential for OSR of 3.6t despite it looking ok and no bare bits etc so disappointing there, lower than the last 5 years

Beans look like crop of the year potentially

Oats look poor and suffered through the dry spell

All depends upon weather between now and harvest though, cool but sunny days required now

 

[gone up the hill]

Will be a golden harvest after todays standing straw sale prices, WB to £110 acre..

See price tracker thread in livestock for more prices.

 

[bobk]

Satellite yield prediction here suggesting a near 10t average for wheat which would be a farm record if it happened

Shows lower potential for OSR of 3.6t despite it looking ok and no bare bits etc so disappointing there, lower than the last 5 years

Beans look like crop of the year potentially

Oats look poor and suffered through the dry spell

All depends upon weather between now and harvest though, cool but sunny days required now

Can't see spring sown crops breaking any records , winter crops need some sun .