Harvest/Yields 2020

[bankrupt]

wheat in July .

Winter oats is the next job, here - half ready now, the other half, still very green, sometime in August, after the wheat.

And, due to our interestingly eclectic mix of soil types, the ripe and the green are all randomly mixed up in each and every field.

 

[Chae1]

3 weeks min here assuming the sun starts shining

Wheat?

 

[Wombat]

3 weeks min here assuming the sun starts shining

It hasn’t for the last month so what makes you think it’s going to start now

 

[balerman]

Just done my first field of California barley pleasantly surprised 6t/ha not much straw tho

 

[robbie]

Just done my first field of California barley pleasantly surprised 6t/ha not much straw tho

The lack of straw is my biggest concern, if I haven't got much corn in the shed I can tighten my belt and get by but a shortage of straw for the piggies really pinches.

 

[Clive]

It hasn’t for the last month so what makes you think it’s going to start now

if the weather doesn’t sort itself out soon i think we will have to start accepting that climate change has happened and the uk is no longer suitable to grow the crops we traditionally have !

 

[bankrupt]

if the weather doesn’t sort itself out soon i think we will have to start accepting that climate change has happened and the uk is no longer suitable to grow the crops we traditionally have !

Similar effect noticed in the 70s.

Then, due to a run of years of unusual weather, spring crops suddenly became much reduced and the proportion of winters doubled and trebled.

For a couple of decades or so up to that point all the best farmers' optimal 5-yr rotations were widely thought to have been based upon SB,SB,SB,SB, Bermuda, with the occasional fallow to reduce tax.

 

[Gedd]

Had a go at winter barley today last year couldn't get 1st time around a 9 acre field today got nearly twice around not a lot of straw either

 

[Renaultman]

Had a go at winter barley today last year couldn't get 1st time around a 9 acre field today got nearly twice around not a lot of straw either

What moisture was it?
2 neighbours are on but think mine needs another day or two.

 

[4course]

What moisture was it?
2 neighbours are on but think mine needs another day or two.

think mine needs another week and then another to make the job easier all round ,but will we be patient, doubt it

 

[Renaultman]

think mine needs another week and then another to make the job easier all round ,but will we be patient, doubt it

I will probably have a nibble next Tuesday ish, break something then go back a few days later when it's fit.
Spraying the first bit of OSR off tomorrow.

 

[MrNoo]

Locals were on OSR here today, no news re yield but didnt see a shortage of trailers

 

[Ivorbiggun]

Into some better barley this afternoon . Sown later after maize , but on a field called the gravel hole, so it never yields very well .
Glad I’ve only got 30 acres of winter barley this year .

Gps not working then.

 

[Gedd]

What moisture was it?
2 neighbours are on but think mine needs another day or two.

18% going into a moist harvest store for the cattle

 

[Fish]

if the weather doesn’t sort itself out soon i think we will have to start accepting that climate change has happened and the uk is no longer suitable to grow the crops we traditionally have !

O come on Clive, that's a bit dramatic, the weather has always been all over the place. In 2009 we didn't cut a stick of wheat until September, 2000 saw us still cutting wheat in October.
In 1976 when I use to match fish, went to fish a winter league match on the Tees at Yarm and there was a combine trying to cut s barley and that was in December.

In the few short years I have been farming, we have finished harvest any where between August bank holiday and bonfire night.
It is what it is.

 

[redsloe]

Gps not working then.

Harsh ?

 

[DRC]

Harsh ?

Trying to drive and take pics with an old combine with play in the steering

 

[redsloe]

Actually thought @Ivorbiggun meant the drilling.......! ?

I mean, who has GPS on a combine? ?

 

[Suffolk Serf]

The lack of straw is my biggest concern, if I haven't got much corn in the shed I can tighten my belt and get by but a shortage of straw for the piggies really pinches.

We got 50 bales (quadrant 120x70 8ft) off a sixty acre field yesterday!

 

[Lewis821]

We got 50 bales (quadrant 120x70 8ft) off a sixty acre field yesterday!

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