Bloody hope not!
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- Thread starter Jerry
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Bloody hope not!
landslave the 2nd
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- Location
- near the zoo (m42 j11) east mids
I hope not too ....... but it's creeping up the list from the bottom
- Location
- Buckinghamshire
2018 is like 1975 and that is what made 1976 stand out .
A lot of the so called experts keep going on about 2018 is like 1976 it is not we had about 2 mounths of hot weather till the end of July.
A lot of the so called experts keep going on about 2018 is like 1976 it is not we had about 2 mounths of hot weather till the end of July.
Spot on, db9go.
Our yields were 40% higher in 1976 than in 1975.
All due to the superb autumn in 1975 , the like of which we've never had again, until 2018.
- Location
- Buckinghamshire
And ln 1976 nearly all spring crops failed and quite a lot of people lost a lot of money as they had sold forward and ended up with out any crop to supply.Spot on, db9go.
Our yields were 40% higher in 1976 than in 1975.
All due to the superb autumn in 1975 , the like of which we've never had again, until 2018.
Quite so, db9go.
And fortunately for us, given the exceptional autumn of 1975, we didn't have any spring crops in 1976.
Nor shall we have any in 2019.
I considered myself something an expert in 1976, db9go.
Sold 50% barley forward at £60/ton (£480 today) to lock in a profit, and then the balance on July 2nd, after harvest, at £70/ton (£560 today).
Been going downhill rather fast ever since.
I considered myself something an expert in 1976, db9go.
Sold 50% barley forward at £60/ton (£480 today) to lock in a profit, and then the balance on July 2nd, after harvest, at £70/ton (£560 today).
Been going downhill rather fast ever since.
You should have just retired there and then, rather than being greedy and continuing farming for even greater riches!
You should have just retired there and then, rather than being greedy and continuing farming for even greater riches!
- Location
- Cirencester
Surely with conditions as they are, some will be planting Spring Crops early, I am certainly going to be banging some SW in the ground if still dry in the next 2 weeks.
Steevo
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- Location
- Gloucestershire
The posts above made me think similar. I've only got spring barley to go in though and don't think that would survive the winter.
I remember 62/63 winter as a teenager. Had so much fun on ice. Fish frozen in ponds and and digging them out with a pick while stood on the stood on ice about a foot thick. Ground was frozen from boxing day to mid April without a break if I remember correct.
Crops I do not remember, less winter crops then but we would have had wheat I think. Did they survive and thrive?
Crops I do not remember, less winter crops then but we would have had wheat I think. Did they survive and thrive?
- Location
- Cirencester
Contractor drilled a load of SB early Jan this year and by all accounts it did very well indeed, where as the rest of us who eventually got planted up late Spring had a pants crop
I thought I was a more senior member on here and I was born in 1962 .
I’m younger than I thought
Farmer-George
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We have been drilling spring barley behind beet where conditions allow. Normally Jan/Feb time. It’s done us well for us it getting yield and lower N (for the gems at least) meaning we’ve been able to hit under 1.85 and make malting.
yellow belly
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- Location
- south west lincolnshire
If the spring is dry then I will be planting spring crops a lot earlier than the wet spring of 2018
Cover crops and notill give use an extra inches of usable moisture in a dry year
I have planted spring rape when its first rain was 5 weeks after planting
Yielded above average the weeds could not cope with the dry
Spring barley planted early in a dry spring also performs well better than a wet cold spring
Cover crops and notill give use an extra inches of usable moisture in a dry year
I have planted spring rape when its first rain was 5 weeks after planting
Yielded above average the weeds could not cope with the dry
Spring barley planted early in a dry spring also performs well better than a wet cold spring
Around £170 in Lancs delivered apparently