Farmers weekly yield reports 17t/ha wheat

[Yellow Trousers]

Fellas...calm down. world record yield attempts never make any money and are done as a hobby, rather like playing golf or making model aeroplanes.
Personally, I spend my disposable income getting pee'd and lazy, watching England teams losing at sport

 

[ajd132]

it’s probably one of the highest numbers they can. find this year Adam !

if they really wanted to reflect most uk farms this they should be reporting someone who ripped most of it up !

i expect the article will include lots of very important juicy detail such as the new lexion you are cutting it the variety etc with etc and a page worth several thousand somewhere near will have been sold on the back of the accociation to you ........ you are the product !

Wait and see!

 

[Clive]

Ring FW and tell them about it. Your boy will never speak to you again!

if i told them that despite that extraordinary high area the field averaged more like 10.5t that year being one of the better fields on a farm that averaged maybe 9t that (decent) season and that was just one of several farms i harvested some of which were not as good as that ............. i wonder which number they would print !

reality and integrity seem to have gone missing from this industry sadly !

 

[chaffcutter]

My point was, that it is possible, but it was a very small area and exceptional circumstances. FW say that yield over 10ha, 25 acres, so in the right circumstances it may e correct. But if this farm suffers with black grass and ne apparently has a lot of wheat to cut, an average over the lot will show a different picture.

FW agenda means it has to go for the sensational headline.

 

[Suffolk Serf]

My point was, that it is possible, but it was a very small area and exceptional circumstances. FW say that yield over 10ha, 25 acres, so in the right circumstances it may e correct. But if this farm suffers with black grass and ne apparently has a lot of wheat to cut, an average over the lot will show a different picture.

FW agenda means it has to go for the sensational headline.

Yes, I would disagree with those who say that I was only journalists reporting what they were told, I think it is more like journalists using a casual remark about spot yields to create a sensational headline.

 

[Daniel]

Fitted one of these to our combine yesterday, if it's as good as the one Claas put on a Lexion, then it guarantees 12t/ha minimum?

 

[robbie]

Fitted one of these to our combine yesterday, if it's as good as the one Claas put on a Lexion, then it guarantees 12t/ha minimum?

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@Daniel is that the one that was mentioned in the farmers weekly a few weeks back. It costs about 1200 quid and uses a iPad and app. I'd love to hear how you get on with it and what it was like to fit

 

[roscoe erf]

its just the same as m.p.g figures rolling down hill I can get to 45mpg in my lorry

 

[Daniel]

@Daniel is that the one that was mentioned in the farmers weekly a few weeks back. It costs about 1200 quid and uses a iPad and app. I'd love to hear how you get on with it and what it was like to fit

Yeah. Dad saw it in the FW. £1895 for the basic system, £2500 ish including a moisture meter. Includes a years subscription to the cloud. It saves all the data on a little box in the combine, which is then sent via bluetooth to your phone or tablet app. Which then sends it up to their server where they process it and make the pretty maps.

In theory anyway, we shall see how well it works.

It took all afternoon to fit, mainly due to pulling the cab lining out in order to route the cable up into the fuseboard to permanently wire it. Would have been much simpler to just take 12v from the lighter socket but I thought i'd do it properly.

 

[Clive]

Yeah. Dad saw it in the FW. £1895 for the basic system, £2500 ish including a moisture meter. Includes a years subscription to the cloud. It saves all the data on a little box in the combine, which is then sent via bluetooth to your phone or tablet app. Which then sends it up to their server where they process it and make the pretty maps.

In theory anyway, we shall see how well it works.

It took all afternoon to fit, mainly due to pulling the cab lining out in order to route the cable up into the fuseboard to permanently wire it. Would have been much simpler to just take 12v from the lighter socket but I thought i'd do it properly.

who owns the data in the cloud ? call me sceptical but given the only recent ex ownership of FW is a data company who make millions out of selling our every detail I would be cautious to say the least !

 

[Daniel]

who owns the data in the cloud ? call me sceptical but given the only recent ex ownership of FW is a data company who make millions out of selling our every detail I would be cautious to say the least !

Fair point, you don't have to subscribe or upload the data if you don't want the maps? You can just use it as a regular yield meter I think.

Anyway, as I said, i'll know more when we use it.

 

[Clive]

Fair point, you don't have to subscribe or upload the data if you don't want the maps? You can just use it as a regular yield meter I think.

Anyway, as I said, i'll know more when we use it.

Be aware of this data ownership thing ........ its a question we all need to get used to asking more, especially where FW's old owners are involved !

 

[Daniel]

Be aware of this data ownership thing ........ its a question we all need to get used to asking more, especially where FW's old owners are involved !

How do the Claas or JD systems make the maps, can you be sure they aren't harvesting the data?

 

[Clive]

How do the Claas or JD systems make the maps, can you be sure they aren't harvesting the data?

if you don't have telematics then the data is local, in the case of claas so is the software so its going nowhere


with telematics / cloud systems I would suggest there maybe questions that some manufacturers and precision farming companies / app providers would rather not answer about this .............

 

[graham mc]

We kept getting things from frontier about having to pay for claas mapping but i just bin them

 

[Daniel]

if you don't have telematics then the data is local, in the case of claas so is the software so its going nowhere


with telematics / cloud systems I would suggest there maybe questions that some manufacturers and precision farming companies / app providers would rather not answer about this .............

Found this on their Twitter feed: https://www.farmtrx.com/blog/who-owns-my-yield-data/

Looks ok to me?

 

[B'o'B]

doing so would would make us as bad ! TFF was founded on independence of knowledge transfer

fill out that survey - that’s the kind of things used to decide where ad budget is spent, that’s the way to get the message across !

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Who is actually paying for this survey? I looked up who’s running it, but would like to know who’s actually paying them to do it before I fill it in.

 

[Clive]

Who is actually paying for this survey? I looked up who’s running it, but would like to know who’s actually paying them to do it before I fill it in.

McCormack media are an advertising agency, they are paying/donating to the charity - I believe it's for their own use so they can advise their customers where they should best spend their budget

Pretty harmless really, and no personal or contact detail is asked (we won't allow that !) so an easy way to earn £5 for RABI while making the point about what a load of rubbish modern ag print media has become !

 

[bankrupt]

what a load of rubbish modern ag print media has become !

The "Farmer and Stockbreeder" was always very good value every Tuesday.

Can't remember now if was Arthur Street or John Cherrington who held it all together, possibly both.

"In 1971 the magazine merged with British Farmer, the official organ of the National Farmers Union to become British Farmer and Stockbreeder (by this time it was fortnightly), until loss of advertising revenue forced its closure in March 1984."

Farmer and Stockbreeder Photograph Collection - University of Reading

Farmers Weekly Photograph Collections

www.reading.ac.uk

 

[snarling bee]

The "Farmer and Stockbreeder" was always very good value every Tuesday.

Can't remember now if was Arthur Street or John Cherrington who held it all together, possibly both.


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"In 1971 the magazine merged with British Farmer, the official organ of the National Farmers Union to become British Farmer and Stockbreeder (by this time it was fortnightly), until loss of advertising revenue forced its closure in March 1984."

Farmer and Stockbreeder Photograph Collection - University of Reading

Farmers Weekly Photograph Collections

www.reading.ac.uk

Is that a spy photo of the next generation Lexion or CR?