harvest the good and the bad

[4course]

harvest over for us just some bales to lead and most round here getting well on so the good bits
yields well up and beyond our expectations
clean high bushel sample no laid or dropping out
suprisingly little to dry immediately, below 16.5 just blow
finished before bh monday not often done that
used nearly a third less diesel
very few mechanical hold ups
straw all baled dry
only one puncture
the bad bits
im knackered far too many long days
the price is poor and not a lot of short term hope
the price is poor not a lot of long term hope
what few spares that have been needed are an astronomical price eg 1 o ring £69
the weather forecasts have been wrong and totally unreliable
oh well it all starts again monday

 

[fudge]

Monday? Day off surely.

 

[4course]

Monday? Day off surely.

no thats today

 

[fudge]

Bloody capitalist.

 

[Brisel]

Good bits? Great yields in everything bar osr.
Bad bits? The incessant rain! 17 days of recorded rainfall. 176mm (7") since harvest started. Good crops are now bad ones with any quality lost due to sprouting. Straw buyers are even more miserable - the worthless straw is now getting trashed by the rain.
Prices - enough said about those already.

This year it's grim down south, not up north!

 

[Wombat]

Well

Spring barley was very good
Wheats are looking good although nothing special when u read on here
OSR was a disaster, just couldn't get the pigeons out of it

Just drilling OSR this aft

 

[tw15]

The sad thing is that there were some fantastic wheat crops around and about that have been trashed by the weather over the last 2 weeks. We were struggling to find wheat that had straw fit enough to cut but managed to get all the home farm done.
Wheat crops that we cut for a customer had straw that was as green as grass 2 weeks ago are now turning into a salvage operation by the day . Managed to get a bit of his J B Diago cut yesterday and glad we did as with tonight's rain forecast it would be flat as a pancake and now sprouting.

 

[ridger]

Rained every day this past 6 weeks, nothing ripening, barley getting hammered down by the rain, potatoes coming in 50% potato 50% soil, customers complaining about the potatoes being hard to wash .....

 

[Clive]

Been a straight forward harvest here, we seem to have been very lucky with weather compared to others on the forum

yields average, highs higher but lows lower (something i need to understand better)

Barley, OSR, s oats and 40% of wheat cut dry, nothing cut over 18% and protien / bushels are good

Gross and Nett margin feel like we have got things right, adjusting inputs to reflect current prices. realisation that its not all about yield stronger than ever this year

Combine has been great, 1 knife section the only part used so far, output impressive and driver happy !

managed to get cover crops and OSR drilled in good time into ideal soil conditions, have high hopes for them

Short term hire tractor and harvest labour only here for 2 weeks - half what we usually have so money saved there

It won't be over here really though until mid October I expect, winter and spring beans, lupins and millet still to cut but none of those crops are much more than a days work each hopefully

just a pity about rubbish prices or this job would be a real pleasure !

 

[TelesnaAg]

How far apart are spring beans and winter beans harvest normally?...I won't get my springs in till mid sept..the winter planted 3rd week of may...harvesting them at 14% moisture and below could be a challenge..

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