Harvest 2019

[bobk]

Knocked off , f**k it , having some beer .
Cut all the flat stuff on overlaps and headlands , so things can only get better , straw is rotten even though the grain is only just ready , tooooooooo much rain .

 

[Wombat]

Beautiful evening

 

[Clive]

Clive, everyone has had great yields, perhaps most know not to gloat. We should hopefully be finished tomorrow barring breakdowns with just 80 acres left. I have to say I am somewhat surprised by how anyone in your part of the world would be with the weather your have had. How many acres wheat/osr/oats etc do you actually cut? Good to hear you sold all your feed wheat forwards for a change.

I’m not gloating - just offering anyone interested a chance to come see us cutting some no till wheat - I think @Honest john took up the offer but I’ve bern so busy today I wasn’t in the field so didn’t see him myself

If it makes you feel any better our milling wheat yields were not good. I’m not sure it’s a great year for everyone ? I’ve heard @dontknowanything saying it’s his worst year ever and @Banana Bar say he had a few shockers - both those guys are top notch farmers, that dry spell early in did some damage to crops in some areas and on lighter soils us included I think

 

[Clive]

17.5 percent. It's like the magic never drying wheat.

Odd day here today - it was just over 15 yesterday afternoon / night

This morning it started at 16.5 and has stayed there all day despite breeze and sun etc

Make no sense at all

 

[Beowulf]

Odd day here today - it was just over 15 yesterday afternoon / night

This morning it started at 16.5 and has stayed there all day despite breeze and sun etc

Make no sense at all

High humidity?

Up here has been similar, but the breeze has just been pushing thick damp air around and the sun has been warming it up to make it even less pleasant.

 

[bobk]

High humidity?

Up here has been similar, but the breeze has just been pushing thick damp air around and the sun has been warming it up to make it even less pleasant.

You need patience , a commodity I have little of .

 

[Phil P]

Going to make the evening out in some wheat, 13.8% so keeping going ?

 

[teslacoils]

Humidity due to be in the 40s tomorrow.

 

[Tompkins]

Wheat going well and down to 14%, so of course we broke down. Thanks to incredible employees and a useful local dealer we were up and running in no time.

 

[fudge]

Finished our bit today. Another day another feed wheat crop @ 11t/ha. Different varieties different rotational positions, differing cultivation all about the same. Must be thousands of acres round here at that level. Thankfully all ours is dry and in the shed.

 

[Honest john]

I’m not gloating - just offering anyone interested a chance to come see us cutting some no till wheat - I think @Honest john took up the offer but I’ve bern so busy today I wasn’t in the field so didn’t see him myself

If it makes you feel any better our milling wheat yields were not good. I’m not sure it’s a great year for everyone ? I’ve heard @dontknowanything saying it’s his worst year ever and @Banana Bar say he had a few shockers - both those guys are top notch farmers, that dry spell early in did some damage to crops in some areas and on lighter souks us include I think

Thank you Clive.
Nice looking crops on a lovely estate.
I went for me yes but really for my son who is joining our team.
He may want to try other methods when I hang up my boots.

We had a look at the drying & new drill etc etc.

You must have been in the office making plans on how to spend the 1 mill capital allowance that nice mr Hammond allowed us.

Many thanks.

 

[bankrupt]

You must have been in the office making plans on how to spend the 1 mill capital allowance that nice mr Hammond allowed us.

 

[4course]

still going, moved fields just before dark as straw sold and guy wants to bale it over the weekend and grain still around 15% so will carry on until damp, mechanical failure ,or tiredness sets in or we cant fit anymore in the on floor shed. Already got a heap on some concrete, combine cuts quicker than our old bin system can cope, just hope it doesnt rain overnight as im yard man today, knackered and gone for food shower and bed leaving it to younger chaps

 

[bankrupt]

we broke down. Thanks to incredible employees and a useful local dealer we were up and running in no time

We set on fire yesterday evening (bearing failure)

Thanks only to an alert trailerman, the fire, which had entirely escaped my attention, was eventually put out

And thanks to a very resourceful combine engineer from our local dealer we were up and running again by 2.30 today.

Still a few optional extras not working due to burnt out cables ( like the forward speed gear selection and parking brake ) but we never ever had much of either of those two on a 780.

 

[Lincsman]

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

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1164503634979250176

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.

 

[Phil P]

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.

You may be in luck, @Clive has taken up recreational cultivation recently?

 

[Sonoftheheir]

We’re all too efficient nowadays, with the capacity farms have to cover ground quickly and get the crop in store. People willing to work all hours and pull out all the stops, prices will never be any good.

But Maybe I’m a bit peeved as our milling wheat is not a bumper crop and no we didn’t sell a thing forward this harvest!

 

[Honest john]

We’re all too efficient nowadays, with the capacity farms have to cover ground quickly and get the crop in store. People willing to work all hours and pull out all the stops, prices will never be any good.

But Maybe I’m a bit peeved as our milling wheat is not a bumper crop and no we didn’t sell a thing forward this harvest!

Think back to last season when you got it all right.
?

 

[radar]

Wheat sub 15%.

Diego second and continuous wheat doing close to 4 ton acre, mountains of lovely bright long straw and a nice bold sample. After reading all the stories on here about the super duper new varieties like gravity,gleam ECT I can't really see a need to change just yet.

I'd avoid Gravity! The name seems apt, as it is the only variety amongst Gleam and Kerrin that has fallen over.

 

[radar]

Glad we don't have to cross or drive down a major coast road (eg A17) this bank holiday weekend moving combines etc.