Harvest/Yields 2020

[T Hectares]

Cut 10ha of Organic Mulika @ 3.5t/ha yesterday for a neighbour, ending the cereal harvest.
Beans cut this week, very poor... at least a speedy end with beans going in the combine at 6.5kph and the organic wheat at 8kph
Just the delights of SOSR to go next week.

In review, a good cereal harvest, a pants break crop harvest, could be a lot worse

 

[Breakthru]

Does make you think hoq aome of those older varieties would perform with a bit of help from modern agrochemicals.

Up here consort ww continues to either be top or in the top 3 in variety trials.
Not that you will be told that . Friend of mine who I persuaded to grow it cancelled seed order after third year as his agronomist was slow on the septoria control, looked terrible. Combine driver reported 5t/ac yields round the headrig so he very quickly phoned to order more.

 

[thorpe]

Gave it a good ray , dry for a day afterwards

sb had ru 14 days ago dead as a dodo!

 

[Wombat]

\The problem if yours is anything like mine is it will take several years for the bank balance to forget it

Yup on my soils in my area I think if you wanted to come up with the worst year of weather possible you couldn’t have put cropping year 2020 together but hey ho

 

[glasshouse]

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.

Was it very tall?

 

[Breakthru]

Was it very tall?

Taller than Golden promise and Goldmarker but without overdoing the N and seed rate, was excellent. Seed the size of bullets. Remember yield is number of heads/m2 X number of seeds / ear X TGW of seeds.

 

[FarmerBruce]

Up here consort ww continues to either be top or in the top 3 in variety trials.
Not that you will be told that . Friend of mine who I persuaded to grow it cancelled seed order after third year as his agronomist was slow on the septoria control, looked terrible. Combine driver reported 5t/ac yields round the headrig so he very quickly phoned to order more.

Where can I get some seed from? Used to grow it years ago and it was great. No idea why we stopped! No merchant round here interested in sourcing any for me.

 

[DRC]

I've found liquid sunshine isn't working very well this year

I agree with that . Don’t normally do it and wondering what the fuss is all about .
ok that it eventually takes the greens out, but the claim that it reduces drying seems flawed to me. If it’s ripe and the suns out, it’ll drop on it’s own.

 

[Breakthru]

Where can I get some seed from? Used to grow it years ago and it was great. No idea why we stopped! No merchant round here interested in sourcing any for me.

I will ask around but the commission on that variety is zilch compared to the new ones that are all so much "better".

 

[Fuzzy]

I've found liquid sunshine isn't working very well this year

Same here, it is working ok on a few blw in the bottom of the crop but not on the wheat !! My last couple of fields had a lot of green strips (wheelings from when it was late rolled) and anywhere the T3-4 fungicide was double dosed (headands on odd shaped fields etc) But with some of it chitting in the ear and a lot dropping out of the ear (skyfall) i decided to cut it around 19% and put it through the drier !!!!!! Yield will be around 2.8-2.9 t/acre once dried so well happy with that for March drilling.

 

[DrWazzock]

We have had about 35 useful combining hours during the month to date in this locality .i.e when it was below 20%. We have managed to grab our 110 acres of cereals during that time by the skin of our teeth with what is a very high capacity combine for our small acreage.(JD1085). There are thousands of acres round about here still to be harvested. It’s now hosing it down yet again and blowing a strong wind: If this sort of weather is going to be the norm then there is going to need to be a rethink in cropping or combine capacity ratings in this area. It feels like the Scottish border has moved down to Boston from where I’m sitting weatherwise. Just been round my grain store drains to make sure they can cope with the present torrential downpour.
It’s climate change good and proper and we are going to have to adapt.

 

[teslacoils]

This last three weeks has been similar to a fairly gash early October.

 

[DrWazzock]

Everything is arsey facey.

 

[Cowcorn]

We have had about 35 useful combining hours during the month to date in this locality .i.e when it was below 20%. We have managed to grab our 110 acres of cereals during that time by the skin of our teeth with what is a very high capacity combine for our small acreage.(JD1085). There are thousands of acres round about here still to be harvested. It’s now hosing it down yet again and blowing a strong wind: If this sort of weather is going to be the norm then there is going to need to be a rethink in cropping or combine capacity ratings in this area. It feels like the Scottish border has moved down to Boston from where I’m sitting weatherwise. Just been round my grain store drains to make sure they can cope with the present torrential downpour.
It’s climate change good and proper and we are going to have to adapt.

Unreal rain here last night, looks like it will be next week at the earliest before harvest 2020 resumes . Got sixty acres of wheat cut and straw baled but barely got started on the barley. No doubt the weather will levy the yield again . Why couldnt it rain in April when it was needed . Everything about this cropping year has a trial .

 

[teslacoils]

Two weeks of not crap weather, or its 150ac of DD ryegrass and a month in the sun. Got my "what's today's f**king problem" t-shirt ordered.

 

[fieldfarmer]

Was dreading cutting this but it went like a dream and yielded very well, full rate growth regulator but loads of fym and a storm was to much for it.

 

[Flat 10]

Was dreading cutting this but it went like a dream and yielded very well, full rate growth regulator but loads of fym and a storm was to much for it.

Nice to be pleasantly surprised

 

[7610 super q]

Better than being unpleasantly disappointed.

 

[Adeptandy]

Managed to fit a 16 acre field of S Barley on a 16 ton trailer yesterday, and by the looks of it the next 84 acre won’t be any better

 

[7610 super q]

Record breaking highs and lows all from this small Island. Amazing.