Harvest 2018

[T Hectares]

Crops generally look well on the Downs around here, but with the lack of rain and dry weather in the forecast this could all change...

WW looks as good as last year, but more bg this year, so will have an effect
WBean and OSR look good
S Barley looks OK but hasn't quite got the lower biomass for top yields

But, there's a long way to go yet !!

 

[Clive]

Wheat and OSR look great, current SAR (beta) predictions say average 4.6t/ha OSR and 9.7t/ha average milling wheat which if correct I will be over the moon with, the wheat yield would be a new farm record by a margin !

Rye looks ok but nothing special, Winter and spring barley on contract farms look good

Spring Oats look good

Bit more rain soon would be nice now though

Winter beans look absolutely terrible though this year ................. there is always something that lets the side down I guess !

 

[franklin]

Azores high building. What wet we get tomorrow looks to be the last for a while. The field of oats that was drilled after the first dollop of May rain is half the crop of the other two.

Straw is going to be......interesting.

On the other hand, fungicide spend is way, way down.

 

[Daniel]

Azores high building. What wet we get tomorrow looks to be the last for a while. The field of oats that was drilled after the first dollop of May rain is half the crop of the other two.

Straw is going to be......interesting.

On the other hand, fungicide spend is way, way down.

Abandoning T3 altogether?

 

[bankrupt]

Winter beans look absolutely terrible though this year ................. there is always something that lets the side down I guess !

Winter beans crop of the year here.

Everything else ran out of moisture some time ago.

Probably should've tried ploughing the cereals in 6" down.

 

[franklin]

Abandoning T3 altogether?

No. All milling. But dealyed T2 on a lot and caught the ear. Will go on with some teb but not this week.

 

[Clive]

Winter beans crop of the year here.

Everything else ran out of moisture some time ago.

Probably should've tried ploughing the cereals in 6" down.

winter beans have been great for the last few years here - luck has to run out eventually though, they will wash their face but I can't see a margin in them

 

[Wombat]

I think things looks ok here, looked very good early on despite the higher than average winter rain fall. Then we had March, early April which I don't think I will be able to talk about ever again without counciling which really buggered everything up but it's recovered well.

Limited rain fall since May has checked the spring crops though. As you drive about the Humber region there seems some excellent crops and a fair few mediocre ones, i think due to it being a 6months of extremes

 

[bankrupt]

6months of extremes

You can say that again, Wombat.

Most difficult January/April I can remember since 1975, and now the driest May/June since, er . . . . . . 1975.

In 1975 we averaged 4.5t/hectare from winter cereals, and 2.6t/hectare from the springs.

edit:- not counting some land we took on with standing crops late in the season which did 1.9t/hectare.

 

[Mr Charisma]

W Wheat all looks well and is hanging in there ,,,,,,, just ,
W Rape is all looking well , rain has to help but I have a feeling it won't see any to help but is deep rooted so time will tell
W Beans look to good but they looked good this time last year but never produced
S Barley , if it does 2 ton I will be over the moon
Linseed , might struggle to get to the combine

 

[Flat 10]

Why do you think you might not harvest the linseed?

 

[Mr Charisma]

Why do you think you might not harvest the linseed?

It's just dieing on its feet at the moment , looked well 2 weeks ago albeit very small but just hasn't got it's roots down , it's the risk you take with spring crops and the one reason why I will never take to much notice of those advocating late Nov drilling because I would then have to have too many spring crops and as usefull as they are for keeping on top of BG I don't think I would survive farming very long being 100 % spring cropping as 2013 harvest showed us

 

[DRC]

Crops here generally looking better than last year, when we had no rain for months and were combining on 5th July , unheard of here.
One field of winter barley on a wet heavy field , doesn’t look so good and the wheat looks fantastic to average depending on variety as much as anything.
Maize, which struggled to germinate last year , with a few acres never growing, looks the best and most even I’ve ever seen it.

 

[franklin]

Some local late drilled linseed is only just in the row. No beet here will meet in the row by Lincs show. If you drive down the cliff road there are fields of beans you won't get the header low enough, and one of a spring cereals with perhaps 15 percent emergence at best.

Barley is turning now, and some OSR getting sunburn on the top.

 

[gone up the hill]

No idea on yield but a combine was cutting Winter Barley in Devon yesterday! ( 15th June )

 

[franklin]

Eagerly awaiting first linseed flower.

 

[glasshouse]

No idea on yield but a combine was cutting Winter Barley in Devon yesterday! ( 15th June )

FOR CRIMPING?

 

[DRC]

No idea on yield but a combine was cutting Winter Barley in Devon yesterday! ( 15th June )

Saw pictures on Facebook. It’s more like foraging than combining in the traditional term. Wasn’t much of a swath of straw considering how green it was either .

 

[DRC]

FOR CRIMPING?

 

[Renaultman]

our crops have certainly improved in looks, .Ear size ,generally ok but not massive though flowering in sunshine will help final yield/bushel weight. Maybe not as many tillers as normal but being short tends to give a look of not such full crops( will have to measure a few quadrats so will have a better idea then) , no disease ,heavy moisture retentive land cracking but still moisture if we dig .Its the patches that struggled in the wet and cold that will pull final yield down as nearly every field has a poor 5% cant see us breaking any records nor will it be the disaster it looked like a couple of months ago .Thinking harvest will be earlier showing plants are trying to make seed sooner rather than later .With luck can see us getting somewhere near our running average which will mean less grain to sell than the last couple of years .better grain prices will help but straw yield will be well down and cant see the straw buyers being able to make the price/ton match the output in £s/acre of last year on the bit we sell

Pretty similar to me, lucky in that my heavy land should hold enough moisture to see most crops through. As I said a month or so ago harvest will be made or broken by mother nature in these few weeks. Luckily she has smiled on me, to date.