Daniel
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This doesn't sound great, I agreed to grow 30ac or so next year.
This doesn't sound great, I agreed to grow 30ac or so next year.
Think you’ll need more than 30ac to make a load up, although it may just be a poor year.This doesn't sound great, I agreed to grow 30ac or so next year.
Think you’ll need more than 30ac to make a load up, although it may just be a poor year.
Don't recall any cap load fees anyway.
As long as it doesn’t take money it’s not to bad, I’ll just put it down to experience. The only saving grace is we have a buyer for the straw so that my just pull it back a bit. It was cheap to grow apart from the seed.That's a pretty good sample. But won't pay at half s ton.
£360/t but to be honest I’m not sure it stacks up! If it yielded like they state when doing the hard sell would probably be ok but as it stands it’s probably marginally better than leaving it fallowwhats it worth per tonne phil if you dont mind me asking neighbour has grown it just trying to get an idea of how it stacks up to 30cwt of OSR
Yes walker combine, lexion 560, I started with the linseed settings then went from there.That was a good sample straight from the combine @Phil P . Was that from a straw walker combine ? What settings did you end up using.
Mine is ready now but the weather is very overcast and almost damp in the air. I was going to try cutting today or would it cut better with the sun on it ?
£360/t but to be honest I’m not sure it stacks up! If it yielded like they state when doing the hard sell would probably be ok but as it stands it’s probably marginally better than leaving it fallow
No idea, it’s my first year on it. It’s seems most people only grow it for one or two years then give up. But with not many profitable combinable break crops about we needed to try something in our rotation so thought we’d give it a go.Do their printed yields ever occur! Has any seed or this kind of contract ever paid!
No idea, it’s my first year on it. It’s seems most people only grow it for one or two years then give up. But with not many profitable combinable break crops about we needed to try something in our rotation so thought we’d give it a go.
We already have spring barley in the rotation, it’s getting ground into wheat after barley that’s the problem, we’re using an over winter cover to try and improve soil quality and retain N then canary seed then two wheats, hopefully.Spring barley does ok if you want a cereal. Not the easiest combining it but we are getting towards 3t/ac with very little input spend. Can’t get malting though. With the straw this year we should be looking at a gross margin of around £600/acre.
Spring barley can be good but the fact that it’s not a break crop is the main problem.......Spring barley does ok if you want a cereal. Not the easiest combining it but we are getting towards 3t/ac with very little input spend. Can’t get malting though. With the straw this year we should be looking at a gross margin of around £600/acre.