Drilling anyone?

[teslacoils]

I'm hoping 2t at £200.00

On that basis my carrying over 500t of crop into next year will cover my lack of crop on the ground.

May planted oats will do me 2.5t of grain easy.

 

[4course]

I'm hoping 2t at £200.00

im hoping for 3 at 175 ever the optimist !!

 

[Renaultman]

On that basis my carrying over 500t of crop into next year will cover my lack of crop on the ground.

May planted oats will do me 2.5t of grain easy.

I could very well be wrong. I think I will end up carrying some over too but will sell some new crop at £170 if I see it again.

 

[Renaultman]

im hoping for 3 at 175 ever the optimist !!

I'm hoping for a 3 average, must say though the earlier drilled stuff will have to drag the average up.

 

[4course]

I could very well be wrong. I think I will end up carrying some over too but will sell some new crop at £170 if I see it again.

may 21 almost there esp if allowing for the northern ensus effect

 

[Chae1]

I will drill winter wheat into first week of March rather than have 100% spring barley. If it doesn't vernalise it will be silage. The arable job here has been impossible since October and doesnt show much sign of improving. Every time we make a move or plan to do something we are snookered by the weather. Fortunately half the farm is grass and a pleasure to walk over it. Walking the arable is soul destroying and brings me out in a cold sweat thinking of the financial side. Last week I was optimistic but not so much now. I am normally an optimistic person and will make things work if there is the slightest chance but this year has me at a complete loss. Never mind.

At least you don't have a fortunes worth of machinery sat in shed.

What did you say you farm 200 acres? So 100 acres to drill if half in grass.

An afternoon's drilling for some guys on here with 12m drills.

There's always somebody worse off.

 

[principal skinner]

Do you really think £200/t is on the cards? Are we talking feed wheat?

I personally think £160 is about the max feed wheat will get to, I've done 3/4 ton an acre at £150 feed base plus milling premium as yet unfixed.

 

[teslacoils]

At least you don't have a fortunes worth of machinery sat in shed.

What did you say you farm 200 acres? So 100 acres to drill if half in grass.

An afternoon's drilling for some guys on here with 12m drills.

There's always somebody worse off.

Spring 2018 we only got 165ac of spring crops in. That's with a lot of hp and three drills. In the end it was a cat 55 and free flow that saved the day.

Since I started in 2004, we get complete shitters like this one year every five, and usually the year following doesn't perform either fixing knackered soil.

 

[teslacoils]

Do you really think £200/t is on the cards? Are we talking feed wheat?

I personally think £160 is about the max feed wheat will get to, I've done 3/4 ton an acre at £150 feed base plus milling premium as yet unfixed.

I can see them taking as much wheat as possible into milling grists of various otherwise bobbins feed wheat, with much more domestic barley in feed mixtures.

Less wheat acres, lower wheat yield.

 

[Renaultman]

may 21 almost there esp if allowing for the northern ensus effect

Yeah could have had 2021 but wanted 2020 I may yet regret it.

 

[Renaultman]

Do you really think £200/t is on the cards? Are we talking feed wheat?

I personally think £160 is about the max feed wheat will get to, I've done 3/4 ton an acre at £150 feed base plus milling premium as yet unfixed.

In all honesty,....... No I do know big buyers are worried though. It all will depend on global issues, Ensus and how well the massive late drilled acreage does.

 

[4course]

Spring 2018 we only got 165ac of spring crops in. That's with a lot of hp and three drills. In the end it was a cat 55 and free flow that saved the day.

Since I started in 2004, we get complete shitters like this one year every five, and usually the year following doesn't perform either fixing knackered soil.

2004 chr---- I now feel old

 

[4course]

I'm hoping for a 3 average, must say though the earlier drilled stuff will have to drag the average up.

nah ,ive just drilled into the best seedbeds ive drilled ww into in feb so cant see a problem ,oh but then i again ive never in over 50 years man and boy drilled ww in feb ,last time was jan years ago and that to be fair did ok but it wasnt the acerage/% weve just done

 

[Renaultman]

2004 chr---- I now feel old

Me too.

 

[teslacoils]

I too feel old. Sigh.

 

[4course]

I too feel old. Sigh.

ah well night night all its past my bedtime , monday tommorrow game on

 

[le bon paysan]

Where is Harry's farm?

In 1 video he said that the 3Fs and B ploughing match was local to him.

 

[Jo28]

26mm so far

I have a stream that’s diverted across a wood and 20 acres of newly drilled wheat of mine so I need to see what’s blocked in the neighbours

What a crock, might as well have gone to the pub this week, may have been more productive

We did the same drilled as much as we could, was okay until a huge deluge around 11.30am. More letting off water tomorrow. However if I had the choice again I would still drill it. No luck this year at all. At least if I try to let it off and it dries a bit during the week there is a chance of a crop. If we hadn't drilled it would have been fallow anyway.

 

[Brisel]

In 1 video he said that the 3Fs and B ploughing match was local to him.

Faringdon, Filkins, Fairford & Burford? He's obviously not on Oxford Clay beside the River Thames! Even hovercraft don't want to got here at the moment. He must be up on the brashy Cotswold limestone.

 

[Mr Charisma]

Felt a bit pee'd off last week, a few drills on the go around us on better ground but I felt it was still to wet underneath and I would only damage the soil structure. After yesterday's rain I'm glad I haven't drilled anything last week

Nephew did plough some of our better ground last week tho