Harvest 2015 progress

[Devon James]

50 acres of beans starting tomorrow arvo and 25 of Millet which was sprayed on Saturday. Drilling flat chat

 

[gone up the hill]

50 acres of beans starting tomorrow arvo and 25 of Millet which was sprayed on Saturday. Drilling flat chat

Drilling flat chat??

 

[Tompkins]

Sorry Oscar! I couldn't believe it really as it looks really fit, going to have another nibble Fri/Sat.
I've dried every other crop to some extent and it seems the linseed will be no different! Not sure I can be bothered with it anymore, but I always say that!

 

[JCfarmer]

Cut 21 acres of spring beans tis afternoon at around 16% moisture yielding over 2t to the acre which I'm happy with as its marginal land and had less spring wheat off it last year after a shite load of muck on it! Another 44 acres to do and will cut those in the afternoons this week from 2 till 6 all being well, just a part time farmer!

 

[franklin]

12 th August was our last dry day of August and we did some spring Oats while a few people were just into wheat in the area but a lot of ours was still only turning !
Apart from the weather and the delays that caused we have had good yields but everything has been dried which is obviously a cost and a big effort to do. In my case, all 710t has been trucked 24 miles to central storage @£7/ t and cost is £10.25- £15/ t drying/storage and 6/7% weight loss.I was hoping at least half would be sub 16% as I could get that away on a small claim but nothing cut less than 17%. I will get £2.50 back for a haulage allowance but @ £105/t for September I m back to £88/t nett for the 19% stuff.Including straw which was good this year and a average yield of 10.65t/ha dried weight my COP[without BPS] is £112.65/t for this year so basically all my wheat has been a waste of time.
Problem is what to do as I m a National Trust FBT tennant [on a reasonable rent,not stupid] so can t sub let to Swede man who pays £200 ac and I m too far for AD man also. Grass is a possibillity but the haylage job is balanced in the area so no ready market and hay is a huge gamble, great if its horse quality but if not then back to low value crap.
Have to say that in the 32 years I ve been farming I ve never been so depressed about where I am at the moment and the next few years. Can t see anything to look forward too.

Have to say that harvest here has been exactly the same. Great yields but after storage and drying we are below COP, probably including BPS. This is for wheat - all the stuff we were stupid to be growing like soring oats and linseed will have made a bit. My brother's response has been to say "sod off" to the normal arable crops and is growing something called canary seed. There is no OSR on the farm here, and most will be a spring crop the thoughts being that if we are going to break even then we may as well do so with a crop that has cost £300 to grow than £500/ac.

There is no fun to be had when your farmer hat says great year, but your business hat says terrible.

Straw has been cack with some fields being cleared on Sunday which had been cut almost 6 weeks before.

 

[SilliamWhale]

On the beans now. They were sown too thick so I've been a bit concerned about them but it looks like over 2t acre at about 19%. Lots of the tops half of the plants didn't pod. On the flipside they are very clean.

Tomorrow will be spring sown winter beans and it will be interesting to see how they compare. It will probably be the same.

Then it will be drilling wheat straight into the stubble on Thursday and roundup on Sunday. I'm sure it won't all go to plan though...

Beans were sold in a CMG pools no idea what they are paying but if it was near £150 plus human consumption bonus I'd be satisfied for this year

 

[Flat 10]

Sorry Oscar! I couldn't believe it really as it looks really fit, going to have another nibble Fri/Sat.
I've dried every other crop to some extent and it seems the linseed will be no different! Not sure I can be bothered with it anymore, but I always say that!

Did you use R up or reglone? Do the stems look light or dark brown? Was it cutting ok at 26%?

 

[Flat 10]

Would I be right in thinking from the number of people still struggling to harvest beans worth eff all now that next year less people will be using them for greening?

 

[stel]

Cut 21 acres of spring beans tis afternoon at around 16% moisture yielding over 2t to the acre which I'm happy with as its marginal land and had less spring wheat off it last year after a shite load of muck on it! Another 44 acres to do and will cut those in the afternoons this week from 2 till 6 all being well, just a part time farmer!

 

[stel]

Part time farmer! Join the club.

 

[Steevo]

Would I be right in thinking from the number of people still struggling to harvest beans worth eff all now that next year less people will be using them for greening?

Are there really that many more beans around? I certainly haven't seen as many fields as I expected around about.

 

[Tompkins]

Did you use R up or reglone? Do the stems look light or dark brown? Was it cutting ok at 26%?

Round-up 3 weeks ago last Friday. Previous experience of Reglone was not good on Linseed. Theres still a few green bottomed stems but mainly they are tea coloured.
Surprisingly it was going through the combine easily, the premium flow header on the combine is a godsend!

 

[Brisel]

Drilling flat chat??

With the pedal to the metal,
giving it death,
flat knacker
on her knees...

 

[General-Lee]

Drilling flat chat??

Very pioneering is James although the fancy new crop doesn't sound very good from a combining perspective!![emoji53][emoji57][emoji38]

 

[franklin]

Are there really that many more beans around? I certainly haven't seen as many fields as I expected around about.

LOADS of beans here. Like you wouldnt believe. Everywhere. Not as many left to do as last week, but everywhere. Folk buying new seed to still be cutting in October, to sell a crop for sod all? Can see a big drop in area next year.

 

[Chae1]

Finally finished spring barley today.

 

[capfits]

Finished spring barley Saturday and wheat today. Hurrah!
Latest in my working life, but not a patch on 1985....

 

[gone up the hill]

Fhinshed Spring Barley tonight still a few acres of straw to bale and a few hundred bales to move

Combine driver said the last field that he cut today was the worst field he had every combined!!

 

[DRC]

Trying to sell

LOADS of beans here. Like you wouldnt believe. Everywhere. Not as many left to do as last week, but everywhere. Folk buying new seed to still be cutting in October, to sell a crop for sod all? Can see a big drop in area next year.[/QUOT
Trying to sell them isn't easy at the moment. Buyers covered for October and only a pound premium for human consumption over here in the west. Wish I'd fallowed it .

 

[Iben]

Have seen two mostly stock places not started harvest yet today.