Harvest/Yields 2020
- Thread starter Honest john
- Start date
- Location
- Dorset/Wilts
Maybe he used the same strategy with his wheat and barley400 quid off 12ac....
Maybe it ended with the same results. £33/A output and £30-£35/a combine costs!Maybe he used the same strategy with his wheat and barley
And just because it was weedy doesn't mean it didn't have any herbicides...
- Location
- East yorks
Problem seems to be sprouting round here this year
- Location
- East yorks
Well everything we have cut is pretty rubbish 2020 as a whole will be one to forget
- Location
- Dorset/Wilts
Absolutely, I was just hoping the farmer at least broke even after paying for the combine
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Finished 2020 harvest just as the rain started again. Last bit of wheat came in at 14% after starting at 17% yesterday at 2pm. Yield about 2 ton per acre. Ruined by spring drought and brackled by the storm last Friday. Lots of pink shrivelled grains but some good ones as well. Feed. Old John Deere 1085 has completed another season largely trouble free. Only expense was the diesel and a few knife sections. First year I have combined in third gear well up the range. Didn’t waste much time emptying! Best of luck to those with some still to do.
- Location
- North West
Got rained out of the last field of winter wheat with about 6 acres left , oh well nearly down to the spring barley, wheat, rape, linseed, oats and canary seed now 
, oh well nearly down to the spring barley, wheat, rape, linseed, oats and canary seed now Yorkshire wolds yielding well apparently. Land of milk and honey up there.
- Location
- East yorks
I think it will be the worst I can remember
4course
Member
- Location
- north yorks
crops improving in both yield and straw as we make slow progress,there is some not so good new year sown ww to do after we finish main wheat and then sp barley which is almost ready to go or will be when we are. the crop of skyscraper we have just been rained out of is doing almost twice as much as the crop of different variety that had a hard time we cut a couple of days ago, iIs going to be a mixed bag but maybe not the disaster I feared looks like weve got half good ww on the year a 1/4 not so good and a a 1/4 diabolical
- Location
- Darlington
Sprayed my wheat with liquid sunshine on monday..Hope to START my harvest in 2 weeks time
I've found liquid sunshine isn't working very well this yearSprayed my wheat with liquid sunshine on monday..Hope to START my harvest in 2 weeks time
Spencer
Member
- Location
- North West
Too liquid...?I've found liquid sunshine isn't working very well this year
Gave it a good ray , dry for a day afterwards
\The problem if yours is anything like mine is it will take several years for the bank balance to forget it
Breakthru
Member
- Location
- Scottish Borders
That's one from the archives. In the early 80's used to buy as much of it as I could and sold to the Belgians as malting barley. N content irrelevant just had to be big bold,clean and not over dried. Fantastic variety which with modern growth regs could still be here.
- Location
- Yorks
Does make you think hoq aome of those older varieties would perform with a bit of help from modern agrochemicals.