I’m thinking more of the cost of the holiday
Harvest Start Date
- Thread starter Fragonard
- Start date
Bournemouth how about going there Sounds like the in place these days?
That's a real shame for the farmer and for the vendor, doubly so if they're one and the same.
With hindsight, the best time ever to market a farm round here would have been this time last year, with completion on September 23rd!
Funnily enough, the first field we have ready to do here has the worst crop ever seen in it since I had the pleasure of walking all round with its then vendor this very week way back in 1976.
I've cut barley a lot greener than that! Will you have a go early next week?
- Location
- Foothills of the Quantocks
We'll see. It's a contract job so ultimately not my decision, and it's still a little wet round the edges.
A few days of wet/dry coming up so that will bring it on nicely. It's a toss up whether or not to have a nibble at our OSR first, which has really crisped up in the last couple of days
Did you desiccate your osr?
- Location
- Foothills of the Quantocks
Nope.
And at the risk of royally peeing off half the forum:
And at the risk of royally peeing off half the forum:
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Average Farmerboy
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Apologies for going off topic.
Actually it is nice farm , just typical thin Cotswold Brash, slightly undulating, no main roads.Over the centuries I think most farms and estates on the Cotswolds, have been bought with non farming money for the sporting aspect and a nice area to live. The farming potential of the land of no particular importance, as long as it breaks even . If no mortgage to pay that might not be to difficult to have achieved in the past, but times are a changing.
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2wheels
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- Location
- aberdeenshire
looking good
Chae1
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Hope it still does after this weekend! Its absolutely hanging. Think it will go down if we get forecast thunderstorms.
- Location
- Cirencester
Well, a chap I know was spraying of WB today with glypho, couldnt quite see why, he said owt about greens in the tramlines but I find it often tends to even out ok. It's only July FFS
Perhaps its the younger generation, patience sadly lacking and as soon as harvest starts they want to join in the race to be finished, as with drilling the next crop.
Must be a fine line to "being efficient to avoid ear losses at harvest", relative to how much money invested in combine and drying facilities to avoid those ear losses.
To be fair ,if you havent got a sense of urgency of getting harvest etc done when you are young I guess you will not be going to get very far in your farming career, as timeliness makes such a difference to yields etc, but at what economic cost(as above machinery investment etc relative to extra yield from the investment) ????
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- Location
- Essex/Herts Border
June!! Just seen a picture on twitter of someone spraying off a lovely even looking crop of barley, another 2 weeks of sunshine and it would be ready anyway and only mid July, ridiculous!
Been on the sherry, it's still only June in Suffolk.
It’ll get it banned eventually .
I’ve noticed in farming that these days many folks just aren’t happy unless they are spraying something . Pushing the seasons forward . Normally I’d be going on holiday now, and the barley would still be there when I’d returned ..
puntabrava
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- Location
- Wiltshire
Farmer at Okehampton Devon said yesterday that nearby they cut WB a week ago as half the grain was shed to the floor through drought stress.