Combining 2016

[brick]

Certainly do , Certainly not a very late stage when the crop is rye for an AD plant.

 

[nick...]

Surely before mentioning "certain" farmers starting you should be certain they have started ?
Are you certain you can tell the difference between a combine and a forager ?
I am certain that a certain farmers combine still sits in a certain shed, and that he has certainly had certain fields at Morley foraged

I was told by a friend who lived next door to the field in question but i guess it could have been a forage harvester but the person who told me works in agriculture so id like to think she knows the differance
Nick...

 

[Gormers]

Spied a field been cut at Whitley Bridge when passing on M62.
Started swathing around abouts today.

 

[radar]

Saw some rape stubbles around Rauceby in Lincs yesterday, and a baler in another baling the rape straw. Also a baler working on barley swaths near Cranwell, probably Mr Andrew Wards.

 

[franklin]

Was cutting OSR.......2 years ago.
Not dessicated it yet this year.

 

[Fuzzy]

I cut some Carat Winter Barley yesterday (started @15.3 % finished at 13.9%) and sample is poor and yield not good. The rooks and pigeons have now moved onto the spring barley! The companion crop of blackgrass exceeded all expectations !!!!!! unlike @Clive the rain has really hurt this crop badly, back in April it looked quite good.

 

[marshallfarm]

I cut some Carat Winter Barley yesterday (started @15.3 % finished at 13.9%) and sample is poor and yield not good. The rooks and pigeons have now moved onto the spring barley! The companion crop of blackgrass exceeded all expectations !!!!!! unlike @Clive the rain has really hurt this crop badly, back in April it looked quite good.

Yes. It's awful here. Not enough sun and too much rain.

 

[JWL]

I see a few round here north of Hereford have been out dessicating rape, some of the fields done are out of character for the owners as it's not their usual practice.
Saw some harvesting yesterday morning, no it wasn't silaging it was blackcurrents

 

[Bongodog]

Two big Lexions cutting just North of Cambridge today. Barley green as grass in the tramlines

 

[Sonoftheheir]

I saw a combine and header on the road today.

 

[DrWazzock]

Only just got the hay in. Winter barley at least 2 weeks away from being ready. Combine about 3 weeks. That reminds me I was supposed to pressure wash the rad as it was overheating last year and possibly quite a few other jobs that needed doing when we put it away thanking God it had made it to the end of another season.

 

[MrNoo]

Kemble farms OSR all been sprayed, turning well, guess they'll be off as soon as it's dry enough. A lot of very flat winter barley about too. Will spray off my OSR this weekend.

 

[4course]

combining way off wont be until august for barley some wheat still to get last lot of foliar, milky ripe, flag leaves loveley and green

 

[Fraserb]

Got my combine out and going today, to take it to the dealer for its winter service.

 

[4course]

Got my combine out and going today, to take it to the dealer for its winter service.

whats the rush !

 

[hedger7050]

Kemble farms OSR all been sprayed, turning well, guess they'll be off as soon as it's dry enough. A lot of very flat winter barley about too. Will spray off my OSR this weekend.

Spoke to farm manager yesterday there planning on whole cropping some wheat next week and hopefully starting combining barley next week also. Rape still green underneath canopy.

 

[Fraserb]

whats the rush !

Exactly, no point panicking

 

[E_B]

Winter barley looks to be at least a week of sunshine away to me, which is just as well as I'm laid up with vertigo and have been for over a week, still need to get the combine home, give it an oil change etc

 

[Cambridgeshire]

I saw a big lexion combining the little plots left over from cereals 2016 today! What's that all about?

 

[Fuzzy]

Kemble farms OSR all been sprayed, turning well, guess they'll be off as soon as it's dry enough. A lot of very flat winter barley about too. Will spray off my OSR this weekend.

Mine was mostly flat, cut it last 2 days and it was sampled this morning and it then loaded on lorries this afternoon heading for Kings Lynn.
The spring barley is also mostly flat !!!