Harvest/Yields 2020

[SilliamWhale]

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.

What will you be no tilling into this?

 

[Renaultman]

I run a 22 yr old combine. It was alright to cut, as no volume of straw going through it this year. I had sprayed it off, which is unusual for me, but it didn’t get any autumn herbicide so it was like I’d under sown it with grass .

I've just finished mine, sprayed off too. What was good was very good but there wasn't enough of it .
Threshed really well but hammered the meagre swath of straw a bit. Best guess 8t/ ha 66bw 17 - 18% MC not too unhappy about that.

 

[Daniel]

My spring sown Skyfall 2nd wheat is barely waist high to a 3 year old!

 

[ImLost]

View attachment 895487First 42 acres of winter barley done, it’s done about 3.6ton to acre at 17.6 % very happy,
Scotland’s most southerly point in background View attachment 895488

I've heard that the yields are that bad this year, that it's just being dumped at the side of the fields.

 

[Feldspar]

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

More of a general post rather than a reply:

Had a good discussion with @Flat 10 about this earlier. I will concede that our wheat is not fit (defined as being at the best possible time to combine it). However, I think we agreed that can still be rational to combine it before this point. I think there's more to go wrong after this point than before. Before is grain heating up (manageable if looked after), getting a not great sample, and too high losses out the back (cutting stubble high helps a lot with this). After is loss of bushel weight, hagbergs going, going flat, sprouting, loss of low humidity days to dry grain, fusarium building, shedding etc. Particularly as I want to no-till a lot of this wheat stubble post fallow, if I can cut fields when the ground is dry and it'll take the traffic, this is also a big plus. Also, opening up land earlier if you do want to cultivate means more weathering, which on heavy land can be worth a lot.

With the rape again I was told it was not fit. We blocked the combine elevator chains twice and this comment appeared again despite seed moisture tumbling down towards 5% at the sight of the sun. In the end it turned out a dog clutch wasn't done up tight enough and we did all the rest without another blockage. That wind knocked out probably 5% of the crop. If that had turned up a week later (and it easily could have done) pushing on to start promptly could have been very valuable indeed.

 

[Feldspar]

195 ha of rape done (2.5 to go). 197.5 drilled hectares were cut (and therefore counted to the yield), which given the year is lucky. Looking like an average of 3.3 t/ha at combined weight (cut a lot around 5-7% so should get a bonus for this). Yield meter not calibrated since last year so handle with caution (will update when we get a calibration), but from shed space occupied it's probably 5% out either way. At today's prices it'll give a decent margin. Getting ready to roll the dice again for next year.

 

[Chae1]

View attachment 895487First 42 acres of winter barley done, it’s done about 3.6ton to acre at 17.6 % very happy,
Scotland’s most southerly point in background View attachment 895488

Is that your aftershave on top of the dash!?

 

[T Hectares]

I like the illustration this photo gives about waiting around for things to be "fit"
We started cutting this field of wheat in the evening as the SB was getting tough at around 8pm and the weather was very unsettled, a week later and we returned after finishing the SB and taking more rain and the result is the losses to the right from shedding and header losses
This was taken first week of March and was the single glypho application.

 

[Milkcow365]

Is that your aftershave on top of the dash!?

That’s the turbo gives an extra 40hp

 

[ajd132]

I like the illustration this photo gives about waiting around for things to be "fit"
We started cutting this field of wheat in the evening as the SB was getting tough at around 8pm and the weather was very unsettled, a week later and we returned after finishing the SB and taking more rain and the result is the losses to the right from shedding and header losses
This was taken first week of March and was the single glypho application.

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Leaving spring barley to be fit can be a disaster. Especially with a variety like propino which turns to dust in about 2 days.
Big area of spring barley here this year like many we will probably start cutting when it’s 19-20%. Can also then get on with muck spreading and drilling the osr

 

[teslacoils]

We needed to cut spring barley dry last year. As a result, we left about 1/3 in the field. Very upsetting. Heads everywhere.

 

[redsloe]

Plan is to crimp the S barley here, short ant not overly thick so I don't want it brackling. Timing is the tricky part, some is turning and some is fairly green.

 

[Wombat]

We needed to cut spring barley dry last year. As a result, we left about 1/3 in the field. Very upsetting. Heads everywhere.

It’s that balance for me as I have to pay the drying charges so its finding the sweet spot

 

[teslacoils]

Was no choice. No drying facilities where it was.

 

[David.]

Just had good look at our winter barley, it doesn't look over fit, and still plenty of green at bottom of straw.
Maybe look later in week if next weeks forecast is still for unsettled or wet.

 

[Wheatonrotty]

Made a start on the osr this afternoon, might scrape 15cwt/ac glad we haven't got much of it.

 

[JCfarmer]

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Made a start on the osr this afternoon, might scrape 15cwt glad we haven't got much of it.

15cwt to the acre?

 

[Wheatonrotty]

15cwt to the acre?

Yes, just edited it to make more sense, although the first trip round the field felt like it might be 15cwt total!

 

[spin cycle]

I've heard that the yields are that bad this year, that it's just being dumped at the side of the fields.

someone is pulling your plonker m8 i reckon......more like just dump it on ground then go round with teleporter and lorry collecting

 

[ImLost]

someone is pulling your plonker m8 i reckon......more like just dump it on ground then go round with teleporter and lorry collecting

??? Did I sound that serious?