motrac3a
Member
- Location
- North Yorkshire
Marvelous
Getting concerned
- Thread starter Mr Charisma
- Start date
- Location
- Limousin/Charentes toad land
When this thread was started, I was reminded that it was Mark under one of his previous user names on a previous forum that first pointed out that all was not well with the wheat in May/June 2012, when the rest of us were thinking we were in for a bumper harvest...
Mr Charisma
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- Location
- stratford on Avon
No offence taken. I have the skin of a elephant as well as the physique.
When I started this thread we had just had 60 mm of rain, on the back of a wet August I was slightly concerned, we do not yield well with a wet planting , I was just clinging onto the hope that as the marl had dried out fairly well it would soak up a fair bit with out to much drama, but the rain has kept on falling and we are now 8 inches + since Sept 22, some of you have told us that you have had a lot more and then 2 days later on the plough combi drill thread they are plough over their heavy stuff but still amazingly enough drilling into a lovely seedbed , some folk do just not know what stiff land is, just because you have padded it down with a tatty harvester and it has ploughed up with a shine does not make it terrible horrible clay, I'm lucky I'm generally farming red marl which kis not as bad as some of the awful stuff which some of my friends farm not far away from me, skims only go on the plough in a drought and come of as soon as its sticky, if you've never had to take skims off then in my books you don't farm difficult land!!!
Mr Charisma
Member
- Location
- stratford on Avon
Don't please remind me of 2012, ?
But at least this year we are on the back of a very good harvest, more in our grainstore from this harvest than 2012 and 2013 combined
- Location
- Limousin/Charentes toad land
- Location
- North Wiltshire
My house is on quite an elevated spot.
I'm not sure whether it's good or bad that I can see from the yard, that a 3rd of my ww ground is under water :-(
I'm not sure whether it's good or bad that I can see from the yard, that a 3rd of my ww ground is under water :-(
- Location
- North Wiltshire
Worked, but not drilled.
I can see alot of my neighbours in the same.
Can see a fair bit of uncut maize too
- Location
- Limousin/Charentes toad land
Ha ha, I was just discussing this with my wife. My son sent a picture of flooded fields and I said well it’s definitely better it’s not sown
- Location
- Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos
It comes to something when it is even too wet to put slug pellets on!
Miraculously I have now got all bar 1 field of wheat drilled. The last one I drilled last Thursday.
We know that there will soon be slugs on the wheat and there is some light grazing on the Winter barley that was finished 22 September.
I have the pellets to do all the wheat and just went to take a look to make sure it would travel without making too much of a mess behind the quad wheels.
NOT A CHANCE!
Can’t even be sure I wouldn’t get it stuck in several places.
The only saving grace that this is a precautionary program, knowing full well that they will be there soon.
Edit:
The last time this happened was in 2012.
FW was full of agronomists saying be patient, the is plenty of time, wait until it dies up to drill it.
In 44 years of farming, I have never once known it to dry up enough to do any worthwhile drilling of Winter crops, once land gets this wet!
Miraculously I have now got all bar 1 field of wheat drilled. The last one I drilled last Thursday.
We know that there will soon be slugs on the wheat and there is some light grazing on the Winter barley that was finished 22 September.
I have the pellets to do all the wheat and just went to take a look to make sure it would travel without making too much of a mess behind the quad wheels.
NOT A CHANCE!
Can’t even be sure I wouldn’t get it stuck in several places.
The only saving grace that this is a precautionary program, knowing full well that they will be there soon.
Edit:
The last time this happened was in 2012.
FW was full of agronomists saying be patient, the is plenty of time, wait until it dies up to drill it.
In 44 years of farming, I have never once known it to dry up enough to do any worthwhile drilling of Winter crops, once land gets this wet!
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- Location
- Hereford
Seen a few on ploughing and drilling up close today .
Tompkins
Member
- Location
- NE Somerset
Ploughing and drilling light land today. Still a few wet spots but generally going in well.
Very slow progress though and more rain on the way[emoji29]
Very slow progress though and more rain on the way[emoji29]
- Location
- Limousin/Charentes toad land
- Location
- Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos
Thanks for that. Feel much better now! Where is that?
- Location
- Buckinghamshire
You should be alright unless you have those scuber slugs.
- Location
- Limousin/Charentes toad land
farmerm
Member
- Location
- Shropshire
Apparently Pershore and a few other places have had 23 consecutive days of rain. I don't think we have faired much better... 2 weeks left in October and it looks like it will be washed out now.