Harvest blues

bankrupt

Member
Location
EX17/20
This harvest has been most unsatisfactory.

At one point we were well on for breaking the record low yields of 1976.

We've got very close to this with the barleys and the wheats, only for the oats to have let us down by exceeding expectations.

I put this down to the rather unsatisfactory experience we had on them with the first triazole in 1976.

Furthermore, having been three days ahead of 1976 throughout, until now, starting everything three days earlier and finishing everything three days earlier, we've now lost three days work due to the rain so it now looks like a tie, at the best.

:banghead:
 

bankrupt

Member
Location
EX17/20
you tell a different story:scratchhead:

One can only tell it straight as it is, spin cycle.

On land with little in the way of soil moisture reserves, and in districts with not much useful rainfall since April, yields are hardly more than half what they were last year, if that.

Other members have posted to confirm this

And if I eventually turn out to be the lowest yielding farmer on this forum, then so be it.
 

spin cycle

Member
Location
north norfolk
One can only tell it straight as it is, spin cycle.

On land with little in the way of soil moisture reserves, and in districts with not much useful rainfall since April, yields are hardly more than half what they were last year, if that.

Other members have posted to confirm this

And if I eventually turn out to be the lowest yielding farmer on this forum, then so be it.

respect your honesty
 

jondear

Member
Location
Devon
Well I've started feeding silage bales to cows milk dropping like a stone .Thought I'd found a heap to buy .Turns out there double sold !! Now that's depressing!No grass what so ever now and not enough rain to do much good !
 

willy

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Rutland
Too little too late (rain) about 8mm, grass is brown and now I fear it will be too late for a recovery in time as the forecast looks hot and dry going forward. I do wonder what sheep will eat once all the hay and silage is gone
By October/ November. I am luck that we are arable as well so plenty of straw and corn. But still expensive and not ideal for a grass based system. God only knows what dairy boys are thinking.
 

Jerry

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Devon
Well I've started feeding silage bales to cows milk dropping like a stone .Thought I'd found a heap to buy .Turns out there double sold !! Now that's depressing!No grass what so ever now and not enough rain to do much good !

I’ve hit a few spare bales at moment but like many locally I dare not sell just in case I need them. I am the rate of 100 ewes eating a bale a day at the moment.
 

Jerry

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Devon
This is what I’m greeted with when I put a bale out.....
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Adeptandy

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
PE15
One can only tell it straight as it is, spin cycle.

On land with little in the way of soil moisture reserves, and in districts with not much useful rainfall since April, yields are hardly more than half what they were last year, if that.

Other members have posted to confirm this

And if I eventually turn out to be the lowest yielding farmer on this forum, then so be it.


I might challenge you for that position, dreading starting the Wheat :nailbiting: :depressed: :(
 

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