Harvest Start Date

[farmerm]

For us its looking like middle of July, 2021... This must be the first year in 100 years this farm hasn't had a crop of barley! At least that means we can get off on holiday as soon as schools break up.... oh wait...

 

[Chae1]

Seeing as the sun has been on strike for 10 days, with a return to normal service not expected until next weekend, I reckon we're back to normal: last week of July/turn of the month.
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Cassia as 4th cereal after grass. 140 units, nothing else from bag. My partner agronomist always reckons Highland show week to be peak risk for lodging - when would that have been?

Crafty beggar has me well stitched up - just when the need for advice twindles, he gets to supply me with gas to try to chase the crows on.

I do hope that this doesn't become a 2019 repeat, where excellent crops on 1st June showed their disgust at weeks of dull & damp at harvest.

Highland show would have been next week.

We're normally end of July for winter barley too, same weekend as local show.

 

[e3120]

Highland show would have been next week.

We're normally end of July for winter barley too, same weekend as local show.

Kelso show is the target here - you aren't a proper arable farmer if you haven't chewed through a headland beforehand. I don't mind being tardy; I usually just give the headlands a helping hand. Want this cleared to get back to grass, though.

 

[Chae1]

Kelso show is the target here - you aren't a proper arable farmer if you haven't chewed through a headland beforehand. I don't mind being tardy; I usually just give the headlands a helping hand. Want this cleared to get back to grass, though.

Remember phone going off on Sunday morning after drinking all day at show, somebody wanting me to go and bale straw somewhere!

Going to put forage rape/stubble turnips in after in one of our fields.

 

[david ll]

Looks like we will be a month away usually around 18-20th July

 

[Goggles]

Looks like we will be a month away usually around 18-20th JulyView attachment 887910

That’s a very busy and interesting background, do you mind me asking what it is?

 

[tw15]

That's the fleet on chisel beach over the furthest gravel bank is the shoreline , drove past it last week . Going down to try to get some mackerel this next weekend at West Bexington . When I was down last it looked well and truly dry down that way .

 

[Still Farming]

Wosr looks coming fast around here.

 

[david ll]

That’s a very busy and interesting background, do you mind me asking what it is?

It is Pembroke Power Station 2000mw gas fired. My ground surrounds it on 3 sides sea on the other.

 

[sahara]

Took this earlier this morning. It always takes a bit longer to fully ripen than we think. My reckoning is the 2nd week of July.

 

[bankrupt]

It always takes a bit longer to fully ripen than we think. My reckoning is the 2nd week of July.

Same here, sahara.

My take is that all the rain, for those of us fortunate enough to get any, will do very little to delay the WB harvest and absolutely nothing for yields - damage already done.

Might make it easier to get the awns off but, given the big understorey of green now rapidly coming up through the crops, much more hard work for the knives and some really bad days for the sieves.

 

[bankrupt]

Couple of machines going with WB on the sandstone, yesterday.

Intent upon getting it wrapped up, straw cleared and all ancient history well before the pub opens up again, apparently.

 

[teslacoils]

Pea Viners are nearby. Woohoo!

 

[Wombat]

Think we will be 3rd week of august at the earliest, Sping barley and Jan drilled wheat. Got used to not having august bank holiday on the combine this year might be different

 

[bankrupt]

this year might be different

Still on for 10th July, here.

The difference this year is WB will be only 40% of last year.

? ?

 

[MrNoo]

On Twatter someone said someone cutting OSR direct in Norfolk this morning

 

[Wombat]

Winter barley harvest under way in Somerset - Farmers Weekly

Harvest 2020 has begun at Higher Woodlands Farm, near Taunton, Somerset, where the Lucas family started cutting their winter barley crop, ready for

www.fwi.co.uk

 

[bankrupt]

"now being harvested at 25-35% moisture, with yields averaging an impressive 12-13t/ha of wet weight, which they assume is about 10t/ha dry."

There's been many a disappointment here this year.

Thank goodness the yellow 'un's still bucking the trend.

 

[Shutesy]

On Twatter someone said someone cutting OSR direct in Norfolk this morning

I saw that, think someone has mistaken a swather for a combine?

 

[Muddyboots]

My take is that all the rain, for those of us fortunate enough to get any

How much rain have you caught in June?