Harvest 2019

[David.]

Thick fog here at 0600 today.
Tested some grain from last bit of partly laid Viscount to finish off yesterday's job, at 1400 and it was still 17.8%. Plenty of Bambi bumbles in heap though, suppose when rewilding takes off we shall have only to worry about wolf turds.
Into some Mascani oats, straw tough but doable and reckon had 31ton off 4ha. That would be as good as I have ever cut. Oats having quick pass through Mecmar to remove dust and to help them keep sweet.

 

[Clive]

Do you have any split fields cultivation wise for comparison?.. if you have half a field ploughed and combi drilled I really would like a look.

Afraid not - if I kept all the kit to run a ploughing combi system as well I would make no fixed cost savings

 

[Sprog]

Into first wheats yesterday. Pleased with the Bennington that’s done about 4.7t/ac.

Considering on 1st June SMD was so high that areas of field were starting to look like this, very pleased.

 

[chipchap]

Hoping to finish wheat today. Mostly Crusoe. Nowhere near the record harvest of 2011, but pleasing all the same.

 

[Phil P]

Early combine move, hopefully beet the bank holiday traffic. Heavy dew this morning as well.

 

[Steevo]

Early combine move, hopefully beet the bank holiday traffic. Heavy dew this morning as well.
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[teslacoils]

I think we can all safely say that a dry year tends to benefit us more than a wet one. When crops yield like this with around half a normal years rain, and even folk on lighter soil with almost dead crops do well, I propose a blanket ban on anyone requesting rainfall ever.

 

[Hampton]

I think we can all safely say that a dry year tends to benefit us more than a wet one. When crops yield like this with around half a normal years rain, and even folk on lighter soil with almost dead crops do well, I propose a blanket ban on anyone requesting rainfall ever.

I’ve always said we yield better in a dry year, and as I say often to my father when he moans about a lack of rain
“We’re not growing Spuds!”

 

[4course]

I think we can all safely say that a dry year tends to benefit us more than a wet one. When crops yield like this with around half a normal years rain, and even folk on lighter soil with almost dead crops do well, I propose a blanket ban on anyone requesting rainfall ever.

I think its fair to say some of us me included moaned about the weather last back end, then lack of a winter, then not enough rain then too dry and then wet and then slow progress once we started harvest are having what in our case looks like we will have more grain and some record crops than thought likely a while ago, This will be my50th working harvest so im happy to say I know fa about growing wheat as I thought harvest would be reasonable but wasnt expecting what its doing

 

[Hindsight]

I must have a look for the academic paper from several years ago that above-average UK national wheat yield is loosely correlated with years of moderate (note that is moderate) drought, as that is also correlated to higher than average incidental radiation during grain fill.

 

[Two Tone]

Afraid not - if I kept all the kit to run a ploughing combi system as well I would make no fixed cost savings

We’d lend it to you, just so that you could prove your point (or not!).

 

[Sonoftheheir]

I’ve always said we yield better in a dry year, and as I say often to my father when he moans about a lack of rain
“We’re not growing Spuds!”

We definitely do better in a dry year, we have irrigation for spuds.

 

[Clive]

We’d lend it to you, just so that you could prove your point (or not!).

if someone want to start funding the "clive research farm institute" then i'm up for it

actually in most other countries where conservation ag is more established that's exactly what they have supported by the likes of the Buffet foundation etc

 

[Drakey]

Finished harvest last night , grew J B Diego and Kerrin with good results. It was my Dads 66th completed harvest !

 

[robbie]

I think we can all safely say that a dry year tends to benefit us more than a wet one. When crops yield like this with around half a normal years rain, and even folk on lighter soil with almost dead crops do well, I propose a blanket ban on anyone requesting rainfall ever.

Most of all it just goes to show that despite what the marketing boys say the weather is what decided a good crop or a bad one.

You can do what ever you like, be it zero till/conservation ag or whatever the "in" name for it is at the moment or you can apply trace elements by the bucket full or chuck on big doses of the latest and greatest chemistry but at the end of the day it's the weather that makes the big difference and not what we do. We only really play around at the edges.

 

[teslacoils]

I can't find it but I have a picture of heavy land siskin after grass that in may looked like a field of needles. We said two ton of rice. Drilling to harvest we have had approx 400mm of rain, of which 1/3 came done that week of downpours. Four and a bit ton of milling wheat. It's just crazy. Certainly our best overall yielding year I've had in 15 years of farming, and nice to be ending on a 1984 high, even if it's 1984 prices.

 

[teslacoils]

Could be this one . 21st may. This and reports of bobbins USA conditions are why I didn't sell any. Ah well.

 

[teslacoils]

14.5 last night. 17.5 today. May as well go back to bed until 3pm.

 

[Wombat]

Can tell it’s a bit of a weird year when I am disappointed with 3t/a in a bit the rabbits got into in spots

 

[Wombat]

14.5 last night. 17.5 today. May as well go back to bed until 3pm.

13.5 last night and first trailer load just gone so should have that back in half an hour