Getting concerned part 2

[Mr Charisma]

A glimmer of hope for us is that our local long range forecast which at the beginning of the week was for a very showery one has now changed to a more settled one, I didn't start of with a normal harvest as we have a fair bit of fallow, also my main contract combine customer decided to not plant anything so my normal 1100 acre harvest is down to 400, a very shrewd move it seems as I also have a very poorly father, but a memory I will carry with me for ever was the smile on his face as we managed to get him up the combine steps on Monday afternoon , his consultant would of flipped his lid if he knew but dad thoroughly enjoyed his 2 hrs with me

 

[B'o'B]

A glimmer of hope for us is that our local long range forecast which at the beginning of the week was for a very showery one has now changed to a more settled one, I didn't start of with a normal harvest as we have a fair bit of fallow, also my main contract combine customer decided to not plant anything so my normal 1100 acre harvest is down to 400, a very shrewd move it seems as I also have a very poorly father, but a memory I will carry with me for ever was the smile on his face as we managed to get him up the combine steps on Monday afternoon , his consultant would of flipped his lid if he knew but dad thoroughly enjoyed his 2 hrs with me

No doubt it would have been a better medicine for him than anything available on the NHS, and good for you too.

 

[Brisel]

It'll come right, a dry week and it will all be over.

Some of us need a bit more than that but a good week would knock a good hole in the workload. Good to meet you yesterday - you obviously got home ok

 

[PSQ]

Some of us need a bit more than that but a good week would knock a good hole in the workload. Good to meet you yesterday - you obviously got home ok

Heading down through Northumberland, Tyneside and Teeside there was an awful lot of dark, wet and obviously 'ready' wheat; but thankfully I didn't see anything that looked remotely 'blackened'. The conundrum will be where to put the first cut higher moisture fields when we start, without tying up the wet intake and drier with too much sodden slow drying wheat, before the dust really starts flying.
It was very nice to meet you and Mrs Brisel last night, and great to see you well settled into a lovely part of the world.
Junior reached his destination in Wales, but not before two drunken neighbours had accidentally smashed the back window of his lifts car, while fighting in the street at 1.30am.
- Welcome to the North East!

 

[Breakthru]

Follow the sun. Forecast was for more extreme electrical activity and correspondingly rainfall due to Zero sunspots this year for first time since 1835.
The follow on to that is for a hard winter. See the pics of snow in Oz.

 

[ajd132]

Whose drilling earlier this year?

 

[bankrupt]

conundrum will be where to put the first cut higher moisture fields when we start, without tying up the wet intake and drier with too much sodden slow drying wheat, before the dust really starts flying.

That's been the big problem here for decades, PSQ, and never really solved it until this time when :-

(1) the dust never started flying, and
(2) the entire tonnage cut failed to overflow the wet intake store.

 

[T Hectares]

Whose drilling earlier this year?

I'll still be looking to go from Oct 10th
Not saying that's right for everyone but for several reasons I'll be sticking to my guns here.

 

[nonemouse]

Whose drilling earlier this year?

Chance would be nice, zero fields harvested at home, any land cleared on the farm I contract drill has been sown with stubble turnips.

 

[bankrupt]

Whose drilling earlier this year?

We're still sticking to finishing by 30th Sept.

If this year's anything like last year, that'll mean finishing by the 23rd.

 

[ajd132]

I'll still be looking to go from Oct 10th
Not saying that's right for everyone but for several reasons I'll be sticking to my guns here.

I’m going to spread the risk more this year. We have got well on top of blackgrass now and no till drilling helps. Probably do winter barley last week of September then wheat through the first couple weeks of October (apart from a couple of dirtier blocks I will leave until after beans) then beans around mid oct.
first year in a while we will mostly be winter cropping (provides the osr doesn’t keel over)

 

[4course]

Whose drilling earlier this year?

we will start the day the first field is are cleared ,probably sometime in october or november

 

[T Hectares]

(QUOTE="ajd132, post: 7110670, member: 4612"]
I’m going to spread the risk more this year. We have got well on top of blackgrass now and no till drilling helps. Probably do winter barley last week of September then wheat through the first couple weeks of October (apart from a couple of dirtier blocks I will leave until after beans) then beans around mid oct.
first year in a while we will mostly be winter cropping (provides the osr doesn’t keel over)
[/QUOTE]
Sounds like a sensible plan, I don't have any WB and have ample drill capacity and I'm on chalk so the plan remains the same!!

 

[bankrupt]

"I'm on chalk so the plan remains the same!!"


Can't fault that.

Problem here, T Hectares, is that we didn't actually manage to get done by our erstwhile target date, last year.

Where we did, yields were well up to our 10yr average, but where we didn't they were not, not by a long chalk.

My conclusion- stick to the usual old plan but try a tad harder to make it work this time.

 

[ajd132]

"I'm on chalk so the plan remains the same!!"


Can't fault that.

Problem here, T Hectares, is that we didn't actually manage to get done by our erstwhile target date, last year.

Where we did, yields were well up to our 10yr average, but where we didn't they were not, not by a long chalk.

My conclusion- stick to the usual old plan but try a tad harder to make it work this time.

One thing I learnt is don’t force it, especially in a dd situation. Leave it for the spring.

 

[Manny]

We've just hit the 8 inches of rain for august and its still got time to get to 9. There wont be much hope of any early drilling around here with most land drains running well and most fields still to harvest.

 

[ffukedfarmer]

We've just hit the 8 inches of rain for august and its still got time to get to 9. There wont be much hope of any early drilling around here with most land drains running well and most fields still to harvest.

Cripes. I doubt we've had much more than 1" this month.

 

[Mr Charisma]

Cripes. I doubt we've had much more than 1" this month.

Problem is that the land that Manny and myself farm isn't easy draining land , it will be quite some time till we can tread on stubbles without damaging soil structure

 

[bankrupt]

Leave it for the spring.

Leaving it for the spring always guarantees disaster here, as it did again this time.

Getting done by 30th September generally worked well for us here for fifty years or so, but we've now been caught short by exactly a week twice in the last eight.

So new target is 23rd September.

- only 25 days to go!.

 

[MrNoo]

We've just hit the 8 inches of rain for august and its still got time to get to 9. There wont be much hope of any early drilling around here with most land drains running well and most fields still to harvest.

Yup, ground conditions are marginal here currently, next door had two tractors on a lorry and drag getting a load of straw out the field yesterday, a right mess. I very nearly got the combine stuck moving it to another block this morning, drove onto some fallow ground to put header on and in she went, only just got out with diff lock.
We had another inch here yesterday although did get combining in the morning for an hour at 19% before the rain started.
So fed up I'm going to drill some OSR this afternoon just to compound any issues or worries!!!! It cant get any worse!