Harvest/Yields 2020

[Chae1]

Started spring barley again this morning.

Coming off at 23%. Already a fair bit on ground so want to crack on before Tuesdays wind and rain

 

[Fish]

I don’t know what I have done!
The sun seems to have completely disappeared here for the past 10 days and just as the Spring Oats and Spring Wheat are becoming ready they’re is no decent weather forecast for the next 2 weeks!
The bloody weather forecast seems to change on an hourly basis and it looks like the Combine will have stood still for a month before it gets used again.
I even turned its battery isolator off this morning!

Similar problem here, been stopped for 12 days now, just wet every night and very little sun to dry the crops during the day.
Still 95% to harvest, looking like an October finish

 

[Vader]

Gravity ww done 2.2t/acre.
Was Jan drilled

 

[jh.]

Started spring barley again this morning.

Coming off at 23%. Already a fair bit on ground so want to crack on before Tuesdays wind and rain

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Sod drying malting at that . Took some at 25% one year and halved the daily batches through an opico.

 

[Clive]

Moisture?

cutting at 20% yield is adjusted for losses

thankfully we have good dryer !

 

[Clive]

So, is that 6.5t from the stuff that was good as dead? If so, then a great result.

yes - REALLY looked terrible and big areas were as good as dead, very thin / low tiller numbers

long way to go yet though, still 60% of our wheat to cut yet

 

[Fielder]

It would be helpful to include your area Please.

Cambs, Essex, Herts Boarders

 

[4course]

20 mins ago just about to set off after a non drying night and a couple of minor showers morning and about 1pm to hold us up ,as we stepped out of the farmhouse door it has had a 10 minute stair rod absolutely p-------g down episode ,so hard the roof gutters couldnt take it so thats it for today and more than likely tomorrow and now its sunny ,

 

[Honest john]

20 mins ago just about to set off after a non drying night and a couple of minor showers morning and about 1pm to hold us up ,as we stepped out of the farmhouse door it has had a 10 minute stair rod absolutely p-------g down episode ,so hard the roof gutters couldnt take it so thats it for today and more than likely tomorrow and now its sunny ,

Turn the BBQ on & crack a beer.

 

[4course]

Turn the BBQ on & crack a beer.

chocolate buttons now, that are meant to be for the grandkids but right now my need is greater than their s and they are not here so no sharing this extra large full bag , beer or wine or gin later or possibly all three in moderation of course , no bbq as mrs 4 course preparing sunday dinner which I can assure all will be superlative ,cheers

 

[bankrupt]

in moderation of course ,

Given up here trying to set the weather a good example, 4course - hasn't worked all year.

 

[Zippy768]

Turn the BBQ on & crack a beer.

Who wants to have a bbq in this weather??
The beer(s) is a given tho, take the edge off

 

[DrWazzock]

Cut a 10 acre field of January drilled firefly away from the farm in a village. My best bit. Might have done 3 t/ acre. The rest will be 1 to 2 t./ acre.
Just got finished that field before heavens opened at 4pm. Moisture started at 17% this morning down to 16 when finished. Not a drying day. Forecast rubbish.

 

[Farmer Fin]

Started spring barley again this morning.

Coming off at 23%. Already a fair bit on ground so want to crack on before Tuesdays wind and rain

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Couldn’t do that here today. Rained all night through to about 8 this morning. Then showers most of the day.

 

[Chae1]

Couldn’t do that here today. Rained all night through to about 8 this morning. Then showers most of the day.

Just finishing up here. Been light drizzle for last half hour. Wanted field finished.

 

[John Slejpner]

So, is that 6.5t from the stuff that was good as dead? If so, then a great result.

An Act of God i would say.

It is inconceivable to me that a farmer of Clive's standing cannot tell the difference between alive and dead wheat. Although IIRC 10t/ha last year appeared out of somewhere that was on deaths door two months previous, so......

QED

 

[DrWazzock]

Funny how wheat that rubs out badly in the ear by hand often does better than expected when combined. It’s always shite when there aren’t many heads per square metre though.

 

[John Slejpner]

Finished wheat today and set a record for the worst harvest we have recorded here ie since 78.(glass half empty).

Got about 2.4 t/ ac in old money and it will have to do. A lot of it will make close to full milling. Glad to be done. (glass half full)


Laboured thru 10 acres of barely fit SB doing about 2t/ac before showers stopped play at 4 pm today.

 

[SilliamWhale]

Had a bit of flying start and hardly turned a wheel for two weeks since. Back on wheat today which has shed a bit. I've got a lot of shitty rotting straw on the ground got knows when I can deal with that - wish I chopped it as is scuppering my osr plans - any opinions on latest date for OSR seeding for some farm saved in the west? Looks crap for another 10 days at least

 

[Northern territory]

Cut a 10 acre field of January drilled firefly away from the farm in a village. My best bit. Might have done 3 t/ acre. The rest will be 1 to 2 t./ acre.
Just got finished that field before heavens opened at 4pm. Moisture started at 17% this morning down to 16 when finished. Not a drying day. Forecast rubbish.

You are lucky to get that weather, no chance here since Friday and that was a showery day. Very little chance since the last of that hot spell 10 days ago. North York’s.