I wouldn't use FW as a source of accurate yields
@Guy Smith @Two Tone - you two had a great guide to "pub yields" Would you mind posting it in here so we can all calibrate what we see in the media?
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I wouldn't use FW as a source of accurate yields
@Guy Smith @Two Tone - you two had a great guide to "pub yields" Would you mind posting it in here so we can all calibrate what we see in the media?
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- Darlington
I was wondering if the barley harvested had already been brewed?I wouldn't use FW as a source of accurate yields
@Guy Smith @Two Tone - you two had a great guide to "pub yields" Would you mind posting it in here so we can all calibrate what we see in the media?
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- Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos
I’ve sort of given up on FW, because most of what I see in it is so depressing. But I do like @Guy Smith ‘s and @Charlie Flindt ‘s articles and reading the Farmer Focus articles.
For more accurate yields, I’d choose TFF.
Not surprisingly, most of us seem to get about the same yields in the same parts of the country that we farm.
I haven’t got a good “pub yields” story, more of a “grain store yields” story.
Back in the 70s and 80s, because we had a dresser in our grain store, our neighbour would get us to dress his beans, to take out the fat hen for him.
Every year he would ask us what our wheat yields were and no matter what we said, his was always a cwt/acre more.
So in1984 ( a very good year) he asked us as usual and my father replied 77cwt/acre. Of course the neighbour said his did 78.
“Ah” my father said,”I lied. Ours did 79 this year.”
We didn’t dress his beans ever again from that year on!
For more accurate yields, I’d choose TFF.
Not surprisingly, most of us seem to get about the same yields in the same parts of the country that we farm.
I haven’t got a good “pub yields” story, more of a “grain store yields” story.
Back in the 70s and 80s, because we had a dresser in our grain store, our neighbour would get us to dress his beans, to take out the fat hen for him.
Every year he would ask us what our wheat yields were and no matter what we said, his was always a cwt/acre more.
So in1984 ( a very good year) he asked us as usual and my father replied 77cwt/acre. Of course the neighbour said his did 78.
“Ah” my father said,”I lied. Ours did 79 this year.”
We didn’t dress his beans ever again from that year on!
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Fw is just full of sh!t isn't it. Why anyone reads it now is beyond me.
Cancelled mine when I joined on here, far more knowledge better banter only down side is nothing to read while sat on the toilet.
- Location
- East Essexshire
Sat in the garden with a beer?
Guess what I'm doing right now
Chae1
Member
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Was a 11.25t/ha crop being reported on isle of sheppey!
- Location
- Darlington
Just an FWI targeted article on tablet.
Chae1
Member
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Wearing a pink shirt and short trousers down Newbury way?
Guess what I'm doing right now
Quick, somebody mention a grain price before we get a b0llocking
First rule of pub-yields - never declare first.
I suspect we are all prone to pub-yield syndrome and as long as we all enjoy the game it’s not worth getting up-right about.
It’s a bit like having to declare the size of your manhood - you are not going to get your neighbour to check your measurements.(Unless your neighbour is one of those farmers featured on the Phwoar! thread.)
Thanks for the kind remarks about my FW column - most appreciated. By chance my column next week is all about the new pub-yield syndrome - Twitter Yield syndrome.
Wishing everyone a good harvest.
Guy
I wouldn't use FW as a source of accurate yields
@Guy Smith @Two Tone - you two had a great guide to "pub yields" Would you mind posting it in here so we can all calibrate what we see in the media?
As said my ten rule guide to Pub/Twitter/Instagram Yield syndrome will be in next weeks FW. I’ll put it on here once the hard copy is out - but I’ll bet you lot could probably second guess or improve it by then.
- Location
- north yorks
pub yields are much like the growing season the longer it takes to ripen the greater the yield same with the pub at 9pm its about 3.5t by 10 its almost4 t and by chucking out time its up there with mr lamyman
Charlie Flindt
Member
What a nice man.
actually I think last year we saw a new phenomena - "inverse pub yield boasting" I recall several threads where many seemed to compete to claim t have been the worst grain fill drought affected
This year I predict a lot of TFF / Twitter boasting about who has the lowest CSFB affected OSR yield
I’ll await your posts with interest.
Thankfully we seem less affected by CSFB this far west ...........so far
I don't think we are looking at a vintage year on OSR however even so
@dontknowanything has opened the batting already on Twitter