Harvest date prediction?

Wombat

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BASIS
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Or just harvest a crop when it's ready

I think a lot is location and soil type. If it’s not ripe it’s not ripe not a lot you can do about it. Clay always takes a while in spring to warm up and get the plant moving. We were stilling popping tillers out in May on all variety’s here and it’s quite normal. Even in 2018 we only started skyfall on the 4th august.
 

AndrewM

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Devon
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Spring barley almost ready, bit green in the tramlines. Seems early to me
 

4course

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Location
north yorks
too windy today to apply liquid sunshine to ww destined for osr so put back another day , w barley not yet ripe mid week next week osr mon tue at the earliest ,hopefully we will be clearing the seeds with the combine and not hail some rain damage but thankfully not too bad
 

DRC

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Well, that changed fast. Liquid sun in the tramline nozzles next couple of days - this is the late variety!
Looks a better sample than any I’ve rubbed out here. Very disappointing looking samples, regardless of variety .
im not the only one , as friends are reporting the same
 

DRC

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Firefly this evening
 

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benny6910

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Kerrin 1st wheat still 2 weeks away here, the weather might settle down when it’s ready to cut.
 

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Oscar

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Livestock Farmer
Hope to get back to W Barley tomorrow. Cut some two weeks ago in that very hot weather but none other ready however we have had frequent showers for days so the rest is now extremely fit, leaning badly and other than tomorrow and Wednesday back in to showers . Not sure we can get it all done by wed night even with 3 combines as one is on OSR.
Wheat now ready and first S Barley job came in today but they will have to wait !!
 

DRC

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Tested some wheat at 17.5% today. Could’ve had a nibble, but combine wouldn’t start due to me forgetting to switch off the isolation switch ( the radio is wired in that it stays on if you don’t isolate.)
 

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