Harvest/Yields 2020

teslacoils

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Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
is there an echo , keep the ship tight , ive never been so glad of the cattle , weve never had the numbers at this time of year.

You always think you're running a tight ship. But until you start shoving your possessions on eBay to make sure you've enough working capital ...... Tbh never thought my container full of crap would be "retro cool". Can always drill an extra notch in the belt.
 

DrWazzock

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Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
You always think you're running a tight ship. But until you start shoving your possessions on eBay to make sure you've enough working capital ...... Tbh never thought my container full of crap would be "retro cool". Can always drill an extra notch in the belt.
Or I advertise my surplus equipment on TFF classifieds and realise it’s so old I might as well cut it up for scrap as I’d get more for it.
To me 1983 feels like yesterday but it suddenly dawned on me that it’s 37 years ago. I feel like I’m living in an Amish time warp here... but I kind of like it.
 

thorpe

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You always think you're running a tight ship. But until you start shoving your possessions on eBay to make sure you've enough working capital ...... Tbh never thought my container full of crap would be "retro cool". Can always drill an extra notch in the belt.
our belts running out of room for more notches, but i will say we will still be here next year. have t20 fe 35 mf 35 mf 575 if they go its getting bad there not eating anything.
 
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glasshouse

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Location
lothians
High profile contract farmers can just say "I did 10T/ha barley" with no backup, and it is free advertising. By high profile I mean 'people who tweet a lot' - seems they are now are the same names that pop up as AHDB monitor farms, in advertising pamphlets, on the board of the Oxford Farming Conference etc. Either they are desperate for these types of roles, or the people that are trying to fill them have got exceedingly lazy in where they look.

(Spoiler alert: the best farmers are probably not on twitter, nor are they calling - or being called by - the FW when they get great yields. I dare say Tim Lamyman's yields have been broken several times by farmers who would rather just get on with the job and not show their hand...The British wheat yield record is really "the highest self-pronounced wheat yield")
And the land agents think everyone gets ten ton and force the rent up accordingly
 

Farmerdunk

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Location
Hertfordshire
Photos 1 & 4 from our 25ft straw walker, 2 & 3 from next door 35ft rotor combine. I’d estimate twice as much behind the straw walker
 

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quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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