We've had buyers at a straw auction taking one look at the cut crop, then bitterly complaining about having been done over in such a bad deal, only to come back asking for the loan of some shear bolts.
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Harvest/Yields 2020
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Farmerdunk
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- Hertfordshire
Our straw is 5x the length of the other. The baler is going to pick up more long straw than short stuff I would have thought. Also we get a lot more bales.
Chae1
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Interesting. We run a rotary but i have never baled behind rotary and walker machines in same field.
The straw is as important as barley to us. We would definitely not run a rotary if we thought we had 50% less straw as a result.
@AndrewB You run straw walker and rotary combines if I remember correctly. What do you find?
Chae1
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- Aberdeenshire
I've been the inexperienced idiot horsing into the "little rotary swath" then spend half an hour unblocking pick upWe've had buyers at a straw auction taking one look at the cut crop, then bitterly complaining about having been done over in such a bad deal, only to come back asking for the loan of some shear bolts.
- Location
- Berkshire
Finished OSR yesterday, into some Planet today.
Was a bit surprised at 13.5 % mc as it's got green tramlines and tillers, but it's really nice to cut Spring Barley and not see ears laying on the ground !!
The chalk has done it's stuff again as yields are pretty good..
Was a bit surprised at 13.5 % mc as it's got green tramlines and tillers, but it's really nice to cut Spring Barley and not see ears laying on the ground !!
The chalk has done it's stuff again as yields are pretty good..
AndrewB
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- Location
- Kincardineshire
picture from yesterday ( first day of harvest)
18ft straw walker on left 25ft rotary on right.
the only disadvantage is if bouts get wet they take a lot more time and effort to dry behind rotary.
Generally we don’t get the very dry harvests up here where straw smashes up.
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Rotary combine swaths are definitely more broken and take longer to dry out. I sympathise with straw consumers who don’t put the bales through a chopper and want a nice loose bed in the sheds. A nice narrow swath behind a combine bigger than 30’ is very tall and you need good grain cart drivers to avoid knocking them about. And the right length combine spout!
- Location
- Spilsby Lincolnshire
Not me !! just follow people on the forum!!
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- Spilsby Lincolnshire
By the way who is Shaun??
- Location
- Spilsby Lincolnshire
Is he independent?? as well??
Warp Land Farmer
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- Location
- Hazzard County
Cambridgeshire
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Have just finished some Kerrin and I lay claim to it being the highest yielding Wheat in this County @Chickcatcher 
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18 tons / ha ?Have just finished some Kerrin and I lay claim it to being the highest yielding Wheat in this County @Chickcatcher
Northernlights
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- Location
- NE Scotland
Cambridgeshire
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Not quite..
- Location
- Darlington
I see Harry`s Farm`s linseed has no yielded very well
Daniel
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- Location
- Mildenhall, Suffolk
Good yields/bad yields, the kids still enjoy a trip to the field! Well, one of them did.
- Location
- Berkshire
Watch out, the H&S keyboard warriors will be along in a minute...
Warp Land Farmer
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- Location
- Hazzard County
Crikey.... what size is his farm??? Curious as he suggested his budget was to make a £16k profit before machinery finance or drawings... doesn’t sound like a lot....