Harvest/Yields 2020

BigBarl

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
South Notts
did a 17 acre field of winter barley yesterday. i think i could just about fill a 29 ton lorry . It was so short in places that i was using the reel to sweep it onto the bed. Hopefully that's the worst field.

that’s not good silver fox, the pictures of your crops you post on here make me feel sick with envy so god knows what others will be like?
 

DRC

Member
that’s not good silver fox, the pictures of your crops you post on here make me feel sick with envy so god knows what others will be like?
I think it’ll be a very mixed bag this year. It’s been a long time since I had such a poor crop of barley.
I’m sure your crops are as good as mine, I just photograph the better ones . (y)
 

Auckland Blue

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Essex
Just finished our osr. I guess it yielded .8 ton/acre if we are lucky. Grew it on some sharp land and it just died off. Looking at my spring barley i would agree with some of the comments saying it looks good from a distance but in field there are not enough ears.
 

bankrupt

Member
Location
EX17/20
Not even "slightly disappointed"? :ROFLMAO:
:giggle: :giggle:

He shouldn't be, really - that's about double ours.

Fact is, I'm more than "slightly disappointed" here that my dire WB yield predictions should have turned out to be spot on - was actually hoping for something slightly better.

The words "shoot", "foot", and "oneself" now in the mind, in no particular order.

:hungover: :hungover:
 

DRC

Member
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 .
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