The wheat we have combined this year is in the best condition for combining I have ever known (40 years) The ears are firm and crisp and shed the grain readily. The crazy dry conditions means there is no damp at the bottom and everything is stood bolt upright and combine losses are minimum and the early harvest takes advantage of longer August days. The settings given in the Claas handbook seem to be ideal with no tweaking. After many years of variable conditions when we have struggled to with threshing issues and getting a clean sample 2022 will go down as a vintage harvest year. I should say yields are reasonable but not spectacular. I have not made these comments to be smug because I am well aware that these dry conditions are becoming a nightmare for some people but as a testimony to a heavy land farm that struggles in the wet but comes into its own in a dry year. My Father is not here to make a comment but 1976 is the comparable year I believe.
I should also say when the 1976 dry weather broke round here in the autumn it would not stop raining. Bricks to mortar in a week. (Mid Lincs)
I should also say when the 1976 dry weather broke round here in the autumn it would not stop raining. Bricks to mortar in a week. (Mid Lincs)