cut off date for combinable crops

[sussexboy]

what is the cut off date in your experince for combinable crops vs where you farm in the country, my experience is end of march here in the south east for any decient yield. one week to go here....

 

[franklin]

Mid April for linseed and beans. But we will be drilling after that, make no mistake. But that was before these big prices. It is looking like the combine will have a very quiet August.

 

[jon9000]

The day after I've finished drilling

 

[Brisel]

Depending on weather post drilling, April sown crops can out yield March sown ones.

Given how cold seedbeds are at the moment "Cuckoo corn" may be the better bet this season. At least it might germinate and get going quickly unlike what has been forced into cold wet ground in Feb/March.

I don't justify abandoning drilling just because it's 1st April, especially in Sussex.

 

[fingermouse]

Looking at our ground with all this snow on it , Cuckoo corn is a dead cert here .Just hope he aint started singing before its all in

 

[multi power]

i can remember dad drilling barley in june

 

[Tim G]

i can remember dad drilling barley in june

And what came of it?

 

[multi power]

it done fine, not our barley, dad just drilled it for somebody, we planted his spuds not long before that. that was in northern ireland dont think much barley would be in before mid march there, i do remember dad combining in october, never before 1st september

 

[sussexboy]

jon9000, perfect answer! june drilled, multi power, Now i am intrested in that combining date and yield!!

 

[multi power]

jon9000, perfect answer! june drilled, multi power, Now i am intrested in that combining date and yield!!

at a guess it would have been combined on one of the last dry days of the season, would have been a disaster in a bad autum, yeild i would expect 30cwt/acre

 

[sussexboy]

multi power, can you remember why your dad was drilling in june? bad weather, short of grub?? etc......

 

[multi power]

he drilled it for a neighbour, he had only just ploughed the field, the farmer in question was quite laid back n would not have been in a rush, to be fair i think he had pulled out a few hedges so that would have delayed things a bit

 

[Stoxs]

certainlly going to be an interesting harvest even if the SUN shines.
My prediction is there will some low cutting going on , short crops!
stop n start

 

[fingermouse]

certainlly going to be an interesting harvest even if the SUN shines.
My prediction is there will some low cutting going on , short crops!
stop n start

+ 1 Think were going to have to keep our bottoms clean or theres goin to be some peed of combine drivers

 

[Jim Bullock]

Don't give up yet...in recent years our top yielding crop of spring wheat was drilled on April 16th (better than earlier drilled crops) and a field of spring rape driled on the May bank holiday out-yielded crops drilled 6 weeks earlier in March....but I have a feeling this year is gong to be different...!!!

 

[Barleycorn]

Don't think we have much choice, just carry on till its all in. Although cold it looks drier here for a few days, so we will start making a mess! Still got 40 acres to plough....

 

[Wombat]

I am not worried yet, the winter wheat we drilled at the start of the month has just roots on it,but as we don't normally start wheat till the 20th August it's still got 5 months of growing season. As for barley, no rush yet, drilled a lot early last year and the rain and cold in April hammered it so hopefully next week we might start

 

[franklin]

The more I look at the weather, and the more I look at the date the happier I am to have a wodge of fallow land to have a crack at this summer. Wit the exception of a small bit of OSR, I can see a good % of my wheat drilled before there is much ready to cut. Infact, now we have started loading lorries with grain I am happier than I was three months ago.

 

[Clive]

i think when i does warm up it will all soon catch up

might even end up being a cheap crop to grow ??

 

[Bluetooth]

me dad was on about this the other day, think he said one year in the early 80's they were planting tatties spring barley and doing silage in the first week in june.

 

[willy]

i think when i does warm up it will all soon catch up

might even end up being a cheap crop to grow ??

Are you talking spring or winter crops?

 

[Clive]

Are you talking spring or winter crops?

both - everything will grow super fast given some warmth - it will go through growth stages faster than we can spray and fertilise it I reckon !