Grain yields 2022

ajd132

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Arable Farmer
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Suffolk
Poly N has made no difference to spec weights here, 80-84 kg in Wheat, SB 72kg

I think it’s more to do with wall to wall sunshine during grain fill coupled with a moisture retentive soil that can sustain it

But it is a big part of where the yield comes from, this years Barley is similar to last years wheats !!
It’s interesting the variations around the country, whilst this year our yields are fairly solid, they are not as good as last years.
 

T Hectares

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Berkshire
It’s interesting the variations around the country, whilst this year our yields are fairly solid, they are not as good as last years.
The wheats have ranked 3rd best after ‘19 and ‘15 which is interesting when there is a view that wheat yields have stagnated
Certainly better than last year which was the second worst in my time here and well below the average

The most bizarre yields are from the Spring Barley, there was a point were we were sat on our hands waiting for rain until we spent anymore on them, they looked awful at that point struggling with manganese and drought
We’ve only cut 17% so far but the yields are best ever by some margin, it’s also the first year since ‘18 that we haven’t lost yield through brackling after big summer storms which is helping
 

Jon 3085

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Worcester, UK
The wheats have ranked 3rd best after ‘19 and ‘15 which is interesting when there is a view that wheat yields have stagnated
Certainly better than last year which was the second worst in my time here and well below the average

The most bizarre yields are from the Spring Barley, there was a point were we were sat on our hands waiting for rain until we spent anymore on them, they looked awful at that point struggling with manganese and drought
We’ve only cut 17% so far but the yields are best ever by some margin, it’s also the first year since ‘18 that we haven’t lost yield through brackling after big summer storms which is helping
Spring barley was the best crop for us this year too,wheat and winter barley were poor.Not a light land year 🙁
 

tw15

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Location
DORSET
Planet s barley coming of well tad dry @11% 72 kg hl yeild wise very good and safe to say it is going to break farm records was only 16 ha and its half filled the shed we ear marked to put 55 ha worth of crop in . Mind you we do have some on some poor ground that will struggle i recon to do 5 ton ha .
Yep on crap ground it did just about 5 ton ha a lot of Sb around here has smashed the incredible 10 t ha and thats no FW bulls**t .
 

4course

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Location
north yorks
cut an only just or more likely sub 3t ww crop late last night, annoying thing is it used to be one of our wetter fields due to standing water and occassional ponding so it was tile drained a few years ago and it was the only one sub soiled to help drainage last year, not proving to be such a good idea as its droughted off and you could see the worst yielding lines smack over and either side of the drains .
Another unseen consequence of global warming...............

Then moved into a heavier field hard to make a seedbed without making little clay men to take the headlands of before night and much better and its what we call the worst field on the farm
 
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snarling bee

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Arable Farmer
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Bedfordshire
We are thinking about having a MacDon a 35ft on a new CR8.90 how long have you had MacDon on your CR
Be brave and go 40ft.

We demoed a Macdon last year in flat peas. Amazing. Not sure it makes much difference on standing wheat until you get into damp evenings. If I bought a new combine I would definitely have one instead of standard header
 

bankrupt

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Location
EX17/20
its droughted off and you could see the worst yielding lines smack over and either side of the drains .
Mostly the same here, except on the very wettest bits where you could see the best yielding lines smack over and either side of the drains.

Have to agree absolutely with tw15 and T Hectares this time - there's nothing to beat the chalk in a dry year like this (and nothing easier to mitigate in a wet one).

:D :D

btw - don't yet seem to have heard from former mainly chalkland operator Brisel, now somewhat further oop north apparently, in Grain Yields 2022. Might be a good year for him, too, hopefully?
 

4course

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Location
north yorks
Mostly the same here, except on the very wettest bits where you could see the best yielding lines smack over and either side of the drains.

Have to agree absolutely with tw15 and T Hectares this time - there's nothing to beat the chalk in a dry year like this (and nothing easier to mitigate in a wet one).

:D :D

btw - don't yet seem to have heard from former mainly chalkland operator Brisel, now somewhat further oop north apparently, in Grain Yields 2022. Might be a good year for him, too, hopefully?
think brisel has left us oop north for sunnier climes and as for which land in a dry year other than the particular field I mentioned above the rest is doing fantasmaglorious, that is apart from one the water board put a sewer through a while back but even it has done better than the last few years. So wheres that leave us some saying chalk done better others like me saying heavy is doing fine im starting to think its the milder drier winter thats done most good
 

Phil P

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Arable Farmer
Location
North West
Started on our spring barley today, 2.6-2.8t/ac seems to be the average so far. Coming of at around 14.2% moisture so happy with that.
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Steevo

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Location
Gloucestershire
Think everyone is doing 4t....either per acre if you put the fert on and your land doesn't mind s drought, or to the ha if you skimped on the muck or bagmuck.

I think the drought did a lot of damage here on the lighter soils which have performed fairly badly but even some of the clays have suffered too - I think the plants struggled to get their roots down in the wet winter and then droughted off later on.
 

teslacoils

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Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
I think the drought did a lot of damage here on the lighter soils which have performed fairly badly but even some of the clays have suffered too - I think the plants struggled to get their roots down in the wet winter and then droughted off later on.
We had a comparatively dry winter. Which has helped. And long breaks. Grass, digestate.
 

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