- Location
- MK43
Combining started 2015
- Thread starter Woodlander
- Start date
- Location
- West Suffolk
Cut our first bit of cassia today, guesstimate about 4t/ac. Not quite as good as Tower at around 4.5t/ac.
Not so much straw either. Local cattle man baled 14 ac of Tower straw and got 114 round bales!
Not so much straw either. Local cattle man baled 14 ac of Tower straw and got 114 round bales!
- Location
- North Yorkshire
Managed to get combine out without it raining today
cutting volume ,looks like the drought has spoilt a good crop ,very spindly seed , big heap of straw though which ties in with when rainfall stopped
cutting volume ,looks like the drought has spoilt a good crop ,very spindly seed , big heap of straw though which ties in with when rainfall stopped
spikeislander
Member
- Location
- bedfordshire
Done some osr. To many bloody buzzards where we have been the small birds don't stand a chance now the do gooders have protected all the predators! The sparrowhawks are scared off by the buzzards. Won't be long until the sparrow is a rare breed and we get the blame.
l'ordinary bonville
Member
- Location
- N Yorks
Nice yield there!
Hoping for similar but still a few days off.
Busy with pigs and building work to distract me from the combine
spikeislander
Member
- Location
- bedfordshire
How's the new combine going @Wheatonrotty I heard you on the go last night.
Douglasmn
Member
Looking good...but doesn't it drive you crazy when the combine gets wet!? So annoying.
- Location
- Leicestershire
I get more annoyed when the crop gets wet. Like it will today!
- Location
- MK43
Really well till I picked a rock up with it after less than an hour! Got back on the go once we'd replaced 2 fingers and removed a very bent elevator slat. Vario type header so much better than the old one in osr.
Well done. Don't think I'll read anymore harvest threads, as we can only dream of those sort of yields.
YorkshireAndrew
Member
- Location
- West / North Yorks border
My neighbour cut some barley yesterday , sprayed off & on lightish land though . It's an unwritten rule that he has to be first each year . [emoji11]
- Location
- Cirencester
Did some OSR in the evening, 4 different verities of Pioneer was pleasantly surprised on brash, combine weigher tallies with trailers out the field although no weigh bridge to confirm but average so far (field not finished) was 5.4t/ha at 10.5% moisture. in areas it was running well over 6.5t/ha. It's the best I've seen on brash, stalks still a tad green mind. One variety that was better than the rest was PT234, really meant for Northern growers but looked very good here all year, quick out the blocks, good into winter, didn't flea beetle spray it and planted at 2.4kg/ha, didn't chuck much at it either (due to price being so low)
- Location
- south norfolk
Pretty torrential here now
Nick...
Nick...
- Location
- Bedfordshire
Winter Barley all cut here. Yields ranged from 6.5t/ha to 12.5t/ha (plenty of muck).
Sadly average is about 7.5t/ha , not great compared to all these mega yields
Sadly average is about 7.5t/ha , not great compared to all these mega yields
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yep cut ours and baled and removed straw -now to sow grass seeds this is the best advantage of wb cant see any other in this expensive to grow disappointing crop.
- Location
- West Suffolk
Got one field left, wasn't really fit enough yesterday. Looks like it will be another week till we get it now. Some Skyfall won't be long after,probably towards the end of the 1st wk of August. Had two load of barley go this morning before the rain set in. Paperwork afternoon now!
Plants in thin areas will create more branches, therefore more pods and seed. Obviously it isn't practical to have really low plant populations in the winter, but I have seen areas with about 5 plants/m2 look similar to 'normal' areas by the time flowering occurs, and at harvest, yield wasn't too different. The main clear difference was the thickness of stems and number of branches