Harvest 2013

[Boysground]

Finished the main cereal harvest here yesterday, still have 30ac of triticale to do which is at least a week away and then the maize. No weighbridge so just the combine and some educated guessing on the yeilds but I am happy. The wheat drilled in good conditions in mid september (panorama) did well pushing 4t, then as drilling went on the yeild went down. The most significant thing is that the wheat after maize (scout, diego) was let down by poor headlands where we tried to force it in, I will have to look at that in the future as it cost at least 0.5 ton/ac on the effected areas. The feb planted wheat (Invicta) has probably only done 2.5t or so, which considering we spent little on it was quite good, there were times when I thought it would be nearer a ton an acre. Half of the sb has gone (tipple) 1.65n but has gone for feed for quick movement, I think when the rest has gone we may be over 2.5 t/ac which will be good for us, some was direct drilled after failed osr. The OSR has stood out as being the worst I have ever seen, we have produced the grand total of 30t from 140ac planted. The combine travelled over 45 acres but it was a leasurly stroll for the afternoon mostly chopping weeds.

All of this was grown on chalk soils with a little clay cap, much as my name suggests.

BG

 

[Daniel]

2 fields of Tuxedo were a whisker from being ripped up as it looked like there was nothing there middle of Feb did truely brilliant considering and achieved 3.2t and 3.5t (est).

I wonder how many people ripped out poor looking crops yet if they'd just left them they'd have been better off?

 

[rob1]

Done here except a small bit of w/s wheat mess, SW on the rest did a tiny bit under 3tonne over weighbridge and SB did a tiny bit over three, looking at the ground in the third wk of March when we put some lime on I never thought we would get anything in so all in all while not record breaking I cant be too unhappy plus lots of barley straw and a decent bit of wheat straw to sell to my horsey customers, and at least the ground is in good nick to drill next years crops, onwards and upwards.

 

[fingermouse]

Gallant 1st wheats 3.3 t/acre average @ 15% moisture and just about 76 bushel
Cordiale 2nd and continuous wheats 2.7 t/acre average @ 16,5% moisture and bushels anywere from 70-80 everything over weighbridge and both tested with good proteins and hagbergs, All in all considering how we mauled most of it in last autumn with resulting poor establishment , massive slug pressure, and a spring when it did,nt want to wake up can,t complain really. About halfway through SB looks like its going to do 2.5t/acre with loads of straw(now very wet) cracking yield for us but it aint going to pay for its self and the ripped up OSR it replaced .SW mulika only cut a bit yet yield owt from 1,75t/acre to 3t all bushels in low 80,s. Think it will be a long time before we get in the yellow peril for record breaking yields

 

[DieselRob]

I wonder how many people ripped out poor looking crops yet if they'd just left them they'd have been better off?

That's the question isnt it... we were all ready to rip it up, there looked to be absolutely eff all left, it was only when we spoke to our agronomist that we decided to leave it and in the end it out performed the SW (est)

There have been a lot of lessons to be learnt from this last year, hopefully we will not see these conditions again but if we do then we will have a better understanding of how to tackle them!

 

[Northdowns Martin]

Managed to grab another 4ha of linseed this afternoon, wished I had started a bit earlier. Moisture 11.5%.

 

[Fraserb]

Ours all done apart from 25 acre of spring drilled wheat.

S Barley excluding the undersown field finished up at 7.8 T/ha which is a bit lower than normal for us, the undersown field only managed 4.8 T/Ha as the grass took over.

1st wheats all after grass were 11.8 T/HA

2nd & 3rd wheats 8.8 T/HA

Continuous wheat 9.7 T/HA

total wheat area was 9.8 T/HA

 

[Colin]

The power of stock!

 

[Fraserb]

The power of stock!

Yeah, probably should have mentioned that every field gets muck and slurry every year.

 

[JCfarmer]

Finished today! 10 acre field of Conqueror WW drilled on the 1st of march yielding 3.4t acre, headland run or 2 by the hedge really let it down other wise it would have done towards 4! This field was drilled in October and failed so redrilled in march, technically a 1st wheat or 2nd?

 

[Andy26]

Finished today! 10 acre field of Conqueror WW drilled on the 1st of march yielding 3.4t acre, headland run or 2 by the hedge really let it down other wise it would have done towards 4! This field was drilled in October and failed so redrilled in march, technically a 1st wheat or 2nd?

Well done, I would imagine your cheapest to grow too, if you discount the October drilling?

 

[Steevo]

Finished ours yesterday too @JCfarmer so you're not alone! 10 days time hope to have everything drilled up weather permitting.

 

[Wombat]

Almost finished but with about 5 acre of crap spring OSR to do a bolt that holds the straw chopper drive on sheared and don't have a tap to redo it tonight so will have to wait while Monday. Forgot the reasons I don't grow spring OSR when i thought about planting the damed stuff. Only doing about 0.6t/a too dry for 2 long in April and May.

 

[Boysground]

Finished last 9ac of triticale yesterday. Very wet but fed up looking at it. Not that that is really finished 120ac grass on the ground for bales then 180ac maize to go then harvest will be properly finished.

BG

 

[yellow belly]

finished spring beans to day planted third week april should have planted twice as many acres

 

[Brisel]

finished spring beans to day planted third week april should have planted twice as many acres

Isn't hindsight a wonderful thing?

 

[Badshot]

Isn't hindsight a wonderful thing?

I just wish I had a time machine so I could make use of it properly.

 

[JCfarmer]

Well done, I would imagine your cheapest to grow too, if you discount the October drilling?

Yes it was pretty cheap to grow, 2 fungicides, 180kg N, it was ploughed the first time but just ran springtines through second time around and drilled. Another 11 acre field of conqueror drilled on 23 feb did 2.8t/acre but this was a second wheat with the field originally destined for maize.

 

[Baling Hay]

Yes it was pretty cheap to grow, 2 fungicides, 180kg N, it was ploughed the first time but just ran springtines through second time around and drilled. Another 11 acre field of conqueror drilled on 23 feb did 2.8t/acre but this was a second wheat with the field originally destined for maize.

Maybe we should all opt for spring planted winter wheat if it wasn't for the frost requirement!

 

[JCfarmer]

Think we were a bit lucky with the frosts this year. BUT bugger all else before that!