Finished the wheat, on with the winter beans now.
And surprise, surprise, a lovely sample, but only 2/3 of normal yields, because of the 500gm tgw instead of the usual 750.
No doubt bean prices will be up 50% to compensate.
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Finished the wheat, on with the winter beans now.
And surprise, surprise, a lovely sample, but only 2/3 of normal yields, because of the 500gm tgw instead of the usual 750.
No doubt bean prices will be up 50% to compensate.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Harvest finished. Winter wheat 2.8 t/acre but at least filled forward sold loads and one to spare.
Spring barley (Westminster) did 2.5 t / acre and a very nice sample making it a better payer than winter wheat with much least spend on inputs. For once it's all stood up and harvested easily. No ears on the floor and plenty of nice straw.
Spring barley (Westminster) did 2.5 t / acre and a very nice sample making it a better payer than winter wheat with much least spend on inputs. For once it's all stood up and harvested easily. No ears on the floor and plenty of nice straw.
- Location
- Dorset/Wilts
Crap harvest continues. Wobble box shaft sheared, now two unproductive days. Picked up a second hand one from local dealer.
Feldspar
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- Location
- Essex, Cambs and Suffolk
Sounds good!
Feldspar
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- Essex, Cambs and Suffolk
Very interesting to do a new block of land which has some quite light land over chalk and some heavier clay over clay. Best yields are coming from the lighter land. Another block of no-till Siskin had the lightest field with the best yield. Rather suggests that moisture was not the limiting factor and maybe the heavier soil was limited by the wet winter with slow early spring.
Sorry. I can’t like that. A local contractor lost a baler in a fire today.
2 small fires on mine yesterday. Luckily my sharp operator sorted them quickly so only minor damage.
Completely agree. Our heavy land is always pants unless it's a dry winter, of which we've had two in my memory. You can almost tell how it's going to do by January.
- Location
- Dorset/Wilts
I would take a break down over a fire any day, so I shouldn't complain to much.
What was the cause of your incidents?
Hindsight
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- Location
- Lincolnshire
We know from rain-gun experiments here, Hindsight, that where soil moisture is limiting in the critical yield-forming period, 20mm will add 1t/hectare.
So, add on 60mm or so for this season and, no disease, no lodging, yields would have been as good as, if not better than, last year's, rather than 3t or so light.
Had we actually had 60mm more rainfall here, however, as some not too far away did, the total would still only have been half the average - in fact, a moderate drought.
Q.E.D.
Sorry, only just saw your reply to my earlier post. I gather from this thread some pretty awful yields on light, non moisture retentive soils in the South and West. Same here in Lincs too. But we did benefit at end of June when you were roasting in 30C day and night with endless sunshine from some relatively cooler weather over the first part of Wimbledon fortnight - quite a few days with strong onshore breeze resulting in cooler days and nights coming quite a way inland. So on moisture retentive, good soils here it has been droughty but there are some individual very good fields about - as well as poorer ones before am jumped on. We need sun for high yields and that in UK is linked with drier weather - but preferably not quite so dry as this year. Hey ho.
Yes, I think this is likely to be the case. Can't expect miracles from land that was sodden until mid April, then didn't get a drop of rain from mid may, and was dead by early July.
Bennington a disappointment alongside VIscount, same field. Suspect it's been murdered by OBM which does not encourage me to keep any for next year. Seems to have that Alchemy trait of looking a million dollars and then having a mediocre sample off yellow straw.
Cut nothing good yet, but no disasters either looking like 3 ton or slightly less average here.
Though I accept that 3 ton/ac. is a disaster to many.
Cut nothing good yet, but no disasters either looking like 3 ton or slightly less average here.
Though I accept that 3 ton/ac. is a disaster to many.
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As has been pointed out on the other thread, one might have sold 3t forward at 140, thereby locking in a fairly useful profit.
In our case that would mean buying in 0.7t at 200, leaving us to load out our 2.3t at 122 net and looking at a very big loss.
Thank goodness I've stumbled on this thread. Was beginning to think I was the only one to have had the drought.....
Yields pish poor ( guessing, as haven't started yet ) , but saved by higher prices. If I can miss the rain forecast this week, and get it in the shed sub 16%, I'll be well chuffed.
Pub yields this year seem to be about straw rather the grain yields. Pity social media has shafted the straw market, could have been quite profitable this year, otherwise.
Yields pish poor ( guessing, as haven't started yet ) , but saved by higher prices. If I can miss the rain forecast this week, and get it in the shed sub 16%, I'll be well chuffed.
Pub yields this year seem to be about straw rather the grain yields. Pity social media has shafted the straw market, could have been quite profitable this year, otherwise.
Chopping wheat straw in a breeze on a hot day. Both fires downwind of the turbo and exhaust manifold.
- Location
- Dorset/Wilts
As has been pointed out on the other thread, one might have sold 3t forward at 140, thereby locking in a fairly useful profit.
In our case that would mean buying in 0.7t at 200, leaving us to load out our 2.3t at 122 net and looking at a very big loss.
Similar scenario here.
. Father thought he was Warren Buffett when prices got to around 165. Thank God I reeled in his yield expectations.......not sure if I reeled him in enough tho .Into some real sh!t at the moment - sample looks ok/Good, just not enough
Tompkins
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- Location
- NE Somerset
Fir st block of spring barley was horrendous, 1.5t/acre. Looked a lovely even crop but just didn't get the moisture. It was in the ground 15 weeks[emoji26]
Quite so, Hindsight.
In 2012 we had 85 times this year's rainfall here in June, and what good did that do us?
Farmer T
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- East Midlands
Utter garbage here.
Winter malting barley retentions are ridiculously high.
Spring barley has had the lowest yield ever.
OSR was useless- yet it’ll be my ‘best’ crop this year.
The wheat (esp second wheats) just disappeared in June/July.
The Sugar Beet is holding on...... just but I imagine it’s carrot size- if I could dig one out of the ground!
Tough year. There’s always next year.......
Winter malting barley retentions are ridiculously high.
Spring barley has had the lowest yield ever.
OSR was useless- yet it’ll be my ‘best’ crop this year.
The wheat (esp second wheats) just disappeared in June/July.
The Sugar Beet is holding on...... just but I imagine it’s carrot size- if I could dig one out of the ground!
Tough year. There’s always next year.......