Crops Prospect 2015

[Fuzzy]

How are your crops looking?
How do you think yields will compare to last year?

For me
Winter Wheat and Spring barley all looking good, yields better than last year.
Spring Beans are looking poor.
Winter Beans and Winter Barley both good but maybe a bit less than last year.

 

[Iben]

How are your crops looking?
How do you think yields will compare to last year?

Yields will be down, primarily as last year was high. Spring crops look average at best, sand land suffered in dry spell and heavier land has struggled all year. Wheat all looks good from the road, but since we have hardly seen the sun in last month, could be quite disappointing.

 

[Fuzzy]

Yields will be down, primarily as last year was high. Spring crops look average at best, sand land suffered in dry spell and heavier land has struggled all year. Wheat all looks good from the road, but since we have hardly seen the sun in last month, could be quite disappointing.

Where are you located?

 

[Iben]

Where are you located?

North fife.

 

[warksfarmer]

How are your crops looking?
How do you think yields will compare to last year?

For me
Winter Wheat and Spring barley all looking good, yields better than last year.
Spring Beans are looking poor.
Winter Beans and Winter Barley both good but maybe a bit less than last year.

Winter Milling wheat 3.3-3.5t/acre
Spring Milling wheat 2.8-3.0t/acre

Same as normal really. Good moisture in the soil now after getting a bit dry. Sunshine and heat so it'll be an average year.

Heavy soils winter wheats are still green while the lighter soils have started to die off for sure now. No osr ourselves but looking around they do not look tremendous crops and looking at 20 fields the other day as a judge for a farms competition about 30 miles away from us told me nothing as they all looked identical which was ......... average. The winner was the guy who gave me a cup of tea and a biscuit.

 

[JNG]

Winter Milling wheat 3.3-3.5t/acre
Spring Milling wheat 2.8-3.0t/acre

Same as normal really. Good moisture in the soil now after getting a bit dry. Sunshine and heat so it'll be an average year.

Heavy soils winter wheats are still green while the lighter soils have started to die off for sure now. No osr ourselves but looking around they do not look tremendous crops and looking at 20 fields the other day as a judge for a farms competition about 30 miles away from us told me nothing as they all looked identical which was ......... average. The winner was the guy who gave me a cup of tea and a biscuit.

Wow your easy to buy off, I hope they were chocolate biscuits?

 

[warksfarmer]

Wow your easy to buy off, I hope they were chocolate biscuits?

A selection in fact which sealed the deal

 

[Fuzzy]

Winter Milling wheat 3.3-3.5t/acre
Spring Milling wheat 2.8-3.0t/acre

Same as normal really. Good moisture in the soil now after getting a bit dry. Sunshine and heat so it'll be an average year.

Heavy soils winter wheats are still green while the lighter soils have started to die off for sure now. No osr ourselves but looking around they do not look tremendous crops and looking at 20 fields the other day as a judge for a farms competition about 30 miles away from us told me nothing as they all looked identical which was ......... average. The winner was the guy who gave me a cup of tea and a biscuit.

What do you have as your third crop ?

 

[warksfarmer]

Potatoes and its to early to tell. Early planted ones not so good I'd say where as the later ones are going full bore at the present time but are being watered.

 

[bobk]

I'm thinking less wheat more straw.

 

[Clive]

Things look exceptional here - best I have ever seen the farm I think

that means it's bound to disappoint when we get a combine in the field !

crops grown to a cost so as long as we achieve averages budgeted which are never over optimistic things will be ok and any more should we be so lucky will be a bonus

 

[Feldspar]

Things look exceptional here - best I have ever seen the farm I think

that means it's bound to disappoint when we get a combine in the field !

crops grown to a cost so as long as we achieve averages budgeted which are never over optimistic things will be ok and any more should we be so lucky will be a bonus

What was your rainfall like throughout the spring / summer growing season? Driving down from Scotland I didn't see that many crops that were obviously burnt off by drought. In fact some of the crops very close to home look some of the worst even though the land is not that light. I think the lack of rainfall in our area could have been quite influential.

 

[Clive]

What was your rainfall like throughout the spring / summer growing season? Driving down from Scotland I didn't see that many crops that were obviously burnt off by drought. In fact some of the crops very close to home look some of the worst even though the land is not that light. I think the lack of rainfall in our area could have been quite influential.

it's been dry at times but crops held on ok - anecdotally I think you have been dryer in the east though ?

total rainfall this year totals about 230mm here I think so far, as you have seen some of our soil is VERY light

 

[Feldspar]

it's been dry at times but crops held on ok - anecdotally I think you have been dryer in the east though ?

total rainfall this year totals about 230mm here I think so far, as you have seen some of our soil is VERY light

This is our rainfall for 2014 and 2015 which is a bit drier than you to the end of June but not stupidly so. We'll see what happens when the combine goes in the field but I think our slightly lighter bits have been affected. Certainly our spring beans look considerably worse than last year. If your crops have held on well then that's not at all bad given your soil type.

 

[Clive]

This is our rainfall for 2014 and 2015.

your only just over an inch behind then and we are far lighter soil so little different I guess - however he total maybe doesn't reflect the timings and we have been lucky in that just when things did seem to be running low we have had a bit to keep things growing

 

[MrNoo]

No wonder wheats £1-50 down today with threads like this!!
Distinctly all average here, do have a nice block of rape (although we all know looking nice and yielding are often not related)
SW looking good on heavy clay, WW on brash dying off in places, SB on the whole looks ok so far, seemed to have escaped the heat/dry quite well.

 

[Feldspar]

your only just over an inch behind then and we are far lighter soil so little different I guess - however he total maybe doesn't reflect the timings and we have been lucky in that just when things did seem to be running low we have had a bit to keep things growing

There were definitely a few lots of rain a few weeks ago which I think got the Midlands pretty well that we almost entirely missed.

 

[DRC]

Last year broke records for us here, with wheat doing 3.85t/ acre average, including a higher proportion of second wheat on light land. This year is looking mixed. Winter barley looks good, wheat on heavier ground ok, spring beans good, but lighter land wheat after maize has been burning up for a while now and spring barley also burning up.
I've got a field of Belepi spring sown, that looks like a two ton waste of time. Never really got going despite having a good dose of pig muck under it.
Maize is variable, depending on soil type and potatoes , non irrigated, have large areas where the tops are now dying off.
It's been too dry and cold here, and I'm expecting a very average harvest!

 

[Warp Land Farmer]

Wonder if folks 'average' spring bean crops (due to weather / drought) will bump the price up or offset the expected low price due to 3rd crop planted acre increase??

 

[Farmer Dod]

Winter Barley was looking exceptional- but not nearly enough sun over last month so bushel weights may be an issue so unlikely to fulfil its potential. Sadly June/ July is very similar to 2012- and that didn't turn out well at all.