36 years tomorrow my daughter was born and i was cutting winter barley 38 years last week i was married and winter barley was still to harvest wheat harvest was always into september when i was a,kid is it the seasons or earlier varieties that are making harvest earlier every year
Harvest gets earlier
- Thread starter Gedd
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When I was a teenager the guy my father got our straw from would cut his winter barley at the very end of August, if we got the last wheat home by begging of October we thought we had done well, we then bought from a different farmer who was always doing his barley by 25th July, that was late 1970's just different farmers with different abilities and type of land
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- Lincolnshire
Isnt it nice, though, to have it done dry and baled while its nice and warm and light? Wheat was always August bank holiday week, and without roundup and this recent bit of strong sun it probably would be this year too.
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- Bucks
He was that keen to get out if the house was he??
I had this same thought yesterday. Wheat definitely seems to ripen earlier.
alomy75
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100% disagree. Wheat is actually ripe in September
I think you are both right, but think twice as much is over-egging it.
Less dew both ends of day in a dry spell in July, and the nights have already lost an hour now.
But wheat dries much quicker, and cuts easier when it is actually properly ripe.
Thr frustrating aspect is that everything is ready for the combine the same day, nowadays. It didn't used to be.
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Hilly
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- Scottish Borders.
Earlier is great !! I just about have all the wheat straw lead home , used to be riving on in october which was miserable.
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- Sedgefield
Well we haven’t started wheat yet. Probably start today. Only have 250 acre wheat so it won’t take long. We do seem to have a late farm, always seem to be later than everyone else round here
Devil's advocate
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- Posh side of Barnsley
I share your pain.
Nearly
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- North of York
It's still storing starch.
solo
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- worcestershire
Farming light land does mean crops go to senescence earlier due to lack of moisture. They don’t do as well as heavy land crops, but can perform financially well with the right management.
Less harsh winters are also allowing crops to keep growing rather than becoming dormant like they used to. Modern varieties are adapting to this warmer winter trend which we are by default selecting for in our trials.
Less harsh winters are also allowing crops to keep growing rather than becoming dormant like they used to. Modern varieties are adapting to this warmer winter trend which we are by default selecting for in our trials.
Granted when it’s really fit it will go better but I was thinking in w barley time you can sometimes start combining 9am til midnight and beyond you get a lot cut in a day. When you get into September it’s more often after dinner starts and it starts going damper again at 8pm. That’s twice the hours combining a day but I do love a bit of September combining as long as it’s somebody else’s while ours is sat waiting for the drill
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- East yorks
Yeah and this week has gone a bit shower now as well
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