- Location
- Devon
Hopefully finish harvest 2019 tonight, in last field of Lili wheat!
Harvest 2019
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spikeislander
Member
- Location
- bedfordshire
Done our wheat just on customers finishing up days
Very good harvest third wheat Siskin a star gleam disappointing tbh
Very good harvest third wheat Siskin a star gleam disappointing tbh
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Day four of the heatwave....still waiting. Wheat has finally got under 17 percent.
- Location
- cheshire
Maybe the clues in the name .
Started the day with a combine breakdown ?
Clutch went on farm pickup when fetching spares, needed RAC to recover it
Contractor cart drivers and trucks stood about costing me a scary ammiunt per hour just to “wait”
Blocked dryer conveyor which lost us time and means by mid afternoon I had wheat EVERYWHERE it shouldn’t be
But on the bright side we are cutting some bloody good wheat ! And it’s even coming in dry now
Clutch went on farm pickup when fetching spares, needed RAC to recover it
Contractor cart drivers and trucks stood about costing me a scary ammiunt per hour just to “wait”
Blocked dryer conveyor which lost us time and means by mid afternoon I had wheat EVERYWHERE it shouldn’t be
But on the bright side we are cutting some bloody good wheat ! And it’s even coming in dry now
jrss
Member
2019 harvest finished. Having been spoilt weather wise the last couple of years this one has been testing. We have got off lightly weather wise compared to a lot of you and I wish you all a speedy and sunny end to your harvests.
A year of good yields which as always is tainted by falling prices, still can’t have it all.
Good luck to all.
Hertfordshire.
A year of good yields which as always is tainted by falling prices, still can’t have it all.
Good luck to all.
Hertfordshire.
l'ordinary bonville
Member
- Location
- N Yorks
Combine not moved today
Still 2 days left in winter barley before the wheat.
Still 2 days left in winter barley before the wheat.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
It's being suggested that the wheat here really isn't fit. Cold. Combine cross. Going to go spraying instead. And await the heat.
Nice day here, move combine at 6 this morning, trip to Daventry to get belt for chaff spreader, find belt too long even though right part number, carried on without chaff spreader today, cracking on in 300ac spring barley.
Tired now need some sleep ?
Tired now need some sleep ?
Wilberforce
Member
- Location
- North Shropshire
After 2 days of faffing a dose of rad flush has cured all ills. Had a full day on the wheat decent yields of grain and straw. Happy to give Diego another year.
We didn’t have a dew this morning. Was combining at 10.30 this morning and wheat was testing 15.9, then down to 15.3 all day. No sun, but very windy. Missed all the showers luckily . Just had to come down and load some oats or could’ve kept going. Feeling tired now, so not going back out.
Feel much better now , thanks
Sorry. Just surprised the weather was so different when we aren’t that far as the crow flies . My continuous wheat isn’t doing anything startling if that makes you feel better.Feel much better now , thanks
Why, I don’t know, as it’s done well for a few years. Only difference is variety. Costello not Diego, and I didn’t plough it.
Bet you were really watching the cricket !!Feel much better now , thanks
- Location
- Lincolnshire
I'm never ever growing Gravity again, God forsaken variety!!!!
just as well its still 18°c out there.
- Location
- Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos
Everyone has big crops Clive, hope you've sold plenty forward as price only going one way. Don't think zero-till conservation Ag is the definitive component of your pleasing yields. Most of our wheat zero-till post osr and beans has been great, but one block after spuds, soil wrecked, was so heavy combine speed was limited by header auger feed (not worth raising for 50 acres) There will be folk with huge yields following a power harrow combi, strip-till, zero-till, at the end of the day its down to the weather and soil structure, whether corrected by machine or preserved via zero-till on the right soils.