Harvest/Yields 2020

[ajd132]

True, but cutting green winter barley at the weekend in overtime is daft when it damages the combine and you spend a day unblocking it! There’s a compromise in there somewhere

Oh yeh there is a limit!

 

[Sals dad]

No that’s my neighbour . I’m a bit further along towards Cockshutt

I did see those fields cleared , I used to do a lot of spraying around there as a contractor to spunhill in the past

 

[Barleymow]

Cut Orwell winter barley under tad 3t/acre 150 round bales 4 ft off 37 acres

 

[DRC]

Cut Orwell winter barley under tad 3t/acre 150 round bales 4 ft off 37 acres

I think you win the FW barley grower of the year. Well done

 

[Two Tone]

Finished our Winter barley (Bazooka) on Friday. The highest ground we have got and yielding much better at around 7-7.5 t/ha. I even saw it flash over 10 on one occasion (for about a 10th of a second!). Makes up for the sub 5 t/ha earliest stuff on the lightest land.
It is very noticeable how the stubbles are greening up with grass since the rain s of June and early July. It won’t need a cover crop!

Ironically, as this land is very stony with some big lumps of Banbury Ironstone, I always give this block 25kgs Ha less N (125 on this bit) to make sure its doesn’t go down. Yet it yielded the best. I’m convinced that giving it too much N as in RB209 figures, actually goes over the N response curve and reduces yields. Especially in a drought year, which limits yields anyway.

 

[Wombat]

Finished our Winter barley (Bazooka) on Friday. The highest ground we have got and yielding much better at around 7-7.5 t/ha. I even saw it flash over 10 on one occasion (for about a 10th of a second!). Makes up for the sub 5 t/ha earliest stuff on the lightest land.
It is very noticeable how the stubbles are greening up with grass since the rain s of June and early July. It won’t need a cover crop!
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Ironically, as this land is very stony with some big lumps of Banbury Ironstone, I always give this block 25kgs Ha less N (125 on this bit) to make sure its doesn’t go down. Yet it yielded the best. I’m convinced that giving it too much N as in RB209 figures, actually goes over the N response curve and reduces yields. Especially in a drought year, which limits yields anyway.

Was the granddesigns farmyard yours and it was sold to be converted?

 

[Banana Bar]

My contention is this: normally if you aim to start early various things happen which means the start takes longer than expected so you end up starting on time. If you aim to start on time, and then something happens, then you end up being late at the end of harvest scooping stuff off the floor. I claim that more crops are spoilt by harvesting too late than too early. We have the facilities to condition grain when it's in store. I haven't yet invented a hoover big enough to get grain of the floor when it's brackled / shelled out.

Exactly this, I suspect most of the people saying it’s too early / not fit haven’t got any skin in the game!

 

[Banana Bar]

Had 10 days of that in 2017.

Finished all ours in the rain because the forecast was terrible and sprouting was imminent.

All of a sudden, out comes the sun and a week's drying took nearly a fortnight because ambient was too high for cooling every afternoon, whilst next door's was all 15% in the field.

And the hagberg was gone whilst yours made full milling with a decent spec weight. If it needs getting get it!

 

[Banana Bar]

I still believe that the ‘go on holiday for a week’ thing causes more harm than good. The sooner you crack on the sooner you can get ahead with osr planting, cultivation, mole draining etc etc
I doubt any farmers have gone bankrupt being early but they definitely have being late!

Not many farmers say that. It’s mostly people who CBA to work.

 

[Laggard]

True, but cutting green winter barley at the weekend in overtime is daft when it damages the combine and you spend a day unblocking it! There’s a compromise in there somewhere

Very true Brisel. Your assuming the saying is that a week early is better which it doesn’t. It just says the difference between a good and bad farmer is a week. The “good” farmer in this case would have the patience to wait a week until the barley is ripe.

 

[Brisel]

Very true Brisel. Your assuming the saying is that a week early is better which it doesn’t. It just says the difference between a good and bad farmer is a week. The “good” farmer in this case would have the patience to wait a week until the barley is ripe.

You're having multiple posts too. Thought it was just me!

I'd rather be a day early than a week late. My combine driver curses me for starting spring barley before it's properly ripe but we have a lot to cut and the last bits are brackling badly especially if we've been stopped by rain which often happens in August.

 

[Two Tone]

Was the granddesigns farmyard yours and it was sold to be converted?

The Estate owner’s daughter and son-in-law built it and lived in it for about 3 years then sold it. A Very nice family live in it now. It is ten years since it was on Grand Designs now.

 

[farmerphilly]

Didn't weigh in, first time I'd fished there and in those days that part of the river was still tidal, so during the course of the match the level on my peg fell about 4ft.
I didn't know wether to fish single maggot on a feeder or bang out a grip lead and worm for flatties, weird place to fish in those days.

It’s still a weird place yarm!

 

[bankrupt]

The highest ground we have got and yielding much better at around 7-7.5 t/ha. . . . . Makes up for the sub 5 t/ha earliest stuff on the lightest land.

Our highest, and thereby latest, is yielding worse than the earlier stuff on lower land.

Suppose it all depends upon your definition of high and low (900ft and 500, here).

 

[Hindsight]

Didn't weigh in, first time I'd fished there and in those days that part of the river was still tidal, so during the course of the match the level on my peg fell about 4ft.
I didn't know wether to fish single maggot on a feeder or bang out a grip lead and worm for flatties, weird place to fish in those days.

Goodness! I followed the match fishing in the Angling Times when I was young and did a bit of fishing around the Fens. But only small local matches 50 pegs or so. I watched a few of the big matches on the Ouse and Relief Channel back in the 80s. Quite fascinating.

 

[JCfarmer]

Just arrived home from a few days in a hotel in Devon about 10 days later than planned because of the virus and outdoor pools opening, with/for a youngster and me!
Anyway I didn't see a field combined down there which is very unusual, saw some fields of winter barley looking about ripe and afew of osr nearly there. Surprised how late you are down there compared to normal? I'm sure some has been done just didn't see any.
Always saw some combining done when we usually go down around the 5th July.
A couple of neighbours have combined what bit of winter barley they have around here, Bazooka. Not sure on yield yet. We haven't got any w barley and don't normally grow it anyway. What bit of osr we have left about 25 acres was sprayed off a week last saturday and if it comes to a lorry load I will be surprised!

 

[casper74]

Winter barley yields terrible here, 1.5 tonne/acre at best so far, 15% , the bit of grain there is is decent bold stuff, hardly any straw

 

[JCfarmer]

Winter barley yields terrible here, 1.5 tonne/acre at best so far, 15% , the bit of grain there is is decent bold stuff, hardly any straw ☹☹

Sorry to hear that, beyond your control. Chin up casper.

 

[Gedd]

Winter barley yields terrible here, 1.5 tonne/acre at best so far, 15% , the bit of grain there is is decent bold stuff, hardly any straw ☹☹

Pleased someone else yield is crap I've cut 45 acre of Orwell barley guesstimate 1.8 ton acre at 15 /18% for the most bin to feed cattle and straw baled at 50 small bales and 4 4 foot rounds good job I've a good bit of straw left over year(I'm not pleased your yields are down

 

[Milkcow365]

First 42 acres of winter barley done, it’s done about 3.6ton to acre at 17.6 % very happy,
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