Getting concerned

Manny

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Mixed Farmer
Location
In the middle.
Were not quite as bad as the welland valley but were now over 19 inches of rain in 18 and a half weeks. Finally managed to make room to get the cows in today and fetching the feeders out of the field they have been in for less than two weeks i had to put the tractor into front crawl or is that 4wd as I'm not sure which is more true.
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fermec860

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Location
Warwicshire
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!!!
We're south of u and we've had130 mm so we're lucky if you can call it that
 

colhonk

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Arable Farmer
Location
Darlington
What`s all the fuss about?.................Do we not have a farming union that is national and that looks out for farmers above all else?................They will shortly be petitioning Her majesties Government to help out all of its Farmers that are unable to sow crops due to the unpressidented wet weather ?.........................Won`t they???????????????
 

E_B

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Location
Norfolk
I take it back, looks like next week is the week. Perhaps if we don't have too much rain over the weekend we can force some in during the second half of next week. The weather models seem to suggest it will be a brief respite, from Simon Keeling:

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Renaultman

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Arable Farmer
Location
Darlington
What`s all the fuss about?.................Do we not have a farming union that is national and that looks out for farmers above all else?................They will shortly be petitioning Her majesties Government to help out all of its Farmers that are unable to sow crops due to the unpressidented wet weather ?.........................Won`t they???????????????
Have you been trying the mushrooms on the other thread ;)
 

Boysground

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Wiltshire
The prevent plant payment will kick in soon, after our swift admission to the United States.

I have a Uncle who farms in Nova Scotia Canada. He was over here a couple of weeks ago. Soya harvest at that time was late and not been done. He wasn’t worried about the harvest but the following wheat crop, for him to be able to insure the 2020 wheat crop it had to be planted by 10th October. This was not going to happen this year. Not a huge problem for him as he has other options, others don’t.

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farmerm

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Location
Shropshire
Just had another shower this morning, more for the weekend.. but weather is teasing me with 4 dry days next week... will I try puddle in Barley or at this point do I forget the Barley and crack on with some wheat.. :scratchhead: Though it is probably a moot point as no doubt it will start raining as soon as I hitch up the plough and my drill contractor is a few thousand acres behind where he normally is at this point o_O...
 

DrWazzock

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Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
Drill next week? No way here.
A good year to leave it and do something completely different.
If I didn't have beet to harvest and load I would be. It's a right nuisance.
Last year it went perfectly. This year it's the opposite.
I can't even get the muck far enough up the field away from the watercourses to clean my cattle shed out.
Fiasco.
 

Hindsight

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Location
Lincolnshire
I take it back, looks like next week is the week. Perhaps if we don't have too much rain over the weekend we can force some in during the second half of next week. The weather models seem to suggest it will be a brief respite, from Simon Keeling:

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So lovely autumn weather. Light breezes, overnight mist and possibly fog. Ideal weather for retired folk to walk the dogs along the coast and retire for tea at 6 as the sun drops away. Clocks change next weekend.
 
Just had another shower this morning, more for the weekend.. but weather is teasing me with 4 dry days next week... will I try puddle in Barley or at this point do I forget the Barley and crack on with some wheat.. :scratchhead: Though it is probably a moot point as no doubt it will start raining as soon as I hitch up the plough and my drill contractor is a few thousand acres behind where he normally is at this point o_O...
Forget the barley I would say, unless you can get it into a spot on seedbed. Better off trying to get some wheat in well. That’s what I’m trying to do anyway!
 

farmerm

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Location
Shropshire
Forget the barley I would say, unless you can get it into a spot on seedbed. Better off trying to get some wheat in well. That’s what I’m trying to do anyway!
Just had a chat to the contractor and I got the jump on most of his other clients for a potential slot next week... but if we do get something drilled it will likely have to be barley else war may break out in mid Shrops :dead: They are, under instruction trying to plough and drill on a farm today.. 250hp had to be swapped for 300hp and still struggling to pull a 6 furrow plough, the 250hp tractor is now on a 3m drill and barely moving 3km/hr and half the seed isn't getting covered. :wtf: :stop: :scratchhead:
 

DRC

Member
Just had a chat to the contractor and I got the jump on most of his other clients for a potential slot next week... but if we do get something drilled it will likely have to be barley else war may break out in mid Shrops :dead: They are, under instruction trying to plough and drill on a farm today.. 250hp had to be swapped for 300hp and still struggling to pull a 6 furrow plough, the 250hp tractor is now on a 3m drill and barely moving 3km/hr and half the seed isn't getting covered. :wtf: :stop: :scratchhead:
just spoke to my agronomist, who reminded me that Mr Gwilt at Baschurch, always drilled barley after lifting beet, often in december. very light land and it did well. Also that our best yields usually come from october 20th drilling onwards.
 

Zippy768

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Dorset/Wilts
Just had another shower this morning, more for the weekend.. but weather is teasing me with 4 dry days next week... will I try puddle in Barley or at this point do I forget the Barley and crack on with some wheat.. :scratchhead: Though it is probably a moot point as no doubt it will start raining as soon as I hitch up the plough and my drill contractor is a few thousand acres behind where he normally is at this point o_O...
Forget the barley. Easy switch to spring.
W barley fields here MAY - weather permitting ?? - now get the 2nd wheat seed that was destined for some heavy ground that is now waterlogged.

Its great having a Crop Plan than a Crop Rotation nowadays.

Have done absolutely no Autumn field work yet. Thinking its now time to roll the dice and see if some ground will plough tomorrow :nailbiting:
 

farmerm

Member
Location
Shropshire
just spoke to my agronomist, who reminded me that Mr Gwilt at Baschurch, always drilled barley after lifting beet, often in december. very light land and it did well. Also that our best yields usually come from october 20th drilling onwards.
His lorry drivers where always willing to help shovel wheat at the bottom of the bins too, before the days of us having a sweep auger. A lot of drivers these days wont sweep or help with the last few shovel loads from the corner of the shed. :rolleyes:
 

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