Farmers weekly yield reports 17t/ha wheat

[Chap]

What a bunch of dicks

Extreme season prompts early start to wheat harvest - Farmers Weekly

The winter wheat harvest kicked off across the UK this week, with combines rolling into fields up to two weeks earlier than normal because of the extreme

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[PSQ]

I'm surprised he didn't say he's "a bit disappointed" with only harvesting 17t/Ha of milling wheat (FFS), but he has forward sold it all for £200 a tonne.

 

[Chae1]

Grown it with zero cultivation. No nitrogen, sprayed it once.

 

[Chalky]

I cannot obviously confirm the facts behind the article, but I do remember seeing excess rainfall maps for the UK and thinking to look at Kent trials for a relatively 'average'/normal result come harvest(they were brown showing lower than average/expected rainfall). Do not immediately write it off-loads of sun(records for May I believe), alluvial soils, drier than most of the rest of us in the further North & East through autumn & winter...Plus looking like a cxxx when their lads say they are fibbing and in the press(lets face it, nothing is a secret in farming very long). Mate of mine did 15T/Ha + in Kent in 2015-dont just write it off through jealousy-as inconceivable to you as it may seem-for the record, I do not expect to cut 17t/ha crops. If we average 9t/ha from winter 'sowings!!!' and spring of wheat I will be more than happy.

 

[Clive]

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ag media needs to stop treating it’s readers like idiots and milking them like cows

 

[ZXR17]

As with the above comments , it is perfectly possible with such varying localised conditions .
I have just finished my winter barley and am delighted to tell you that it averaged 11 t/ha , well it did for about 50 metres in one field .
Unfortunately the reality was that it averaged 5.7 t/ha over 37 ha with poor straw yields , the worst yield I've had here .

 

[melted welly]

whats the bets they’ve got a fully established following crop of osr with zero flea, beetle, pigeon or slug damage by the next issue. Seedrate of 15 seeds/sq. To be grazed off over winter coz it’s so thick and lush.

 

[Gong Farmer]

a 10ha area of his Crusoe wheat yielded 16-17t/ha,

So it's not 17 t/ha, it's 16-point-summat and only on a selected area.

Nothing to see here.

A Cambs farmer with only 8 t/ha is more realistic and interesting.

 

[Chae1]

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Just don't buy it. We haven't bought farmers weekly for years. Surely that will make them change it if sales keep dropping.

 

[farenheit]

These are all really early combined wheat. Eg crops that have run out of steam early through lack of moisture. Surely these are not going to be the better crops??

Or are they supposedly the crops that were drilled earliest and therefore were the most competitive?

 

[Badshot]

He must be going for the record pub yield.

 

[Farmer T]

I am amazed at the anger about this on social media and on here.

I seriously wonder about people’s mental health at the moment. Some people seem so wound up pounce on everything with such strong emotions.

 

[# Robin]

Their crops look absolutely amazing, full credit to them they are some boys. I admire how they defy the weather and hit it right to get good establishment. They must throw the kitchen sink at them and but so what - it’s a pleasure to look at the crops

 

[4course]

ive spent a fair bit of time this last few months tying to work out my forward budgets and survival strategy based on what I figure would be our tonnage of grain to sell over the farm.It would appear I could be wrong . Am now planning on putting in an irrigation system just so I can apply a an inch or so of water over normal rainfall totals every 3-4 days through the months of october to march to replicate this last year and whilst there is still a market for the grain will look in to selling forward the extra tons based on the published harvest reports I can now expect to pay for it. This will be after getting fast track planning to double the size of the grain store and build it in the next fortnight. there again if we end up with an average 1/2 as much as reported will be delighted and amazed

 

[Surgery]

Total twunts

 

[ajd132]

Their crops look absolutely amazing, full credit to them they are some boys. I admire how they defy the weather and hit it right to get good establishment. They must throw the kitchen sink at them and but so what - it’s a pleasure to look at the crops

They can certainly grow big crops on Sheppey but is it possible to grow 17t/ha with 14% protein? I drove past that farm last June and they had more blackgrass than me, which is going some.

 

[Surgery]

They can certainly grow big crops on Sheppey but is it possible to grow 17t/ha with 14% protein? I drove past that farm last June and they had more blackgrass than me, which is going some.

No

 

[7610 super q]

The biggest crime of all is reporting yields in t/ha. I have to chuckle at those who obviously work in t/ acre, then convert it, then try and round it up or down to come out with an understandable figure.

I will be disappointed with my 3.705034 t / ha of SB this year.......

 

[Surgery]

Curse of the yellow mag , neighbour near here put up yields in fw last week cutting rape , 2cwt more than he told locals.

 

[Chris F]

This sort of ridiculous headline so far from a “normal” farm can only serve to damage the mental health of farmers.