Harvest/Yields 2020

Daniel

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I see several large farms and estates with very large Lexions have already finished.

Have farms been investing in too much capacity, what will all the staff do now? Or is it sensible insurance for a wet year?
 

Adeptandy

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Arable Farmer
Location
PE15
I see several large farms and estates with very large Lexions have already finished.

Have farms been investing in too much capacity, what will all the staff do now? Or is it sensible insurance for a wet year?
Maybe it shows there's not the crop there, I'm jogging along at 5-6kph when I'd normally be 3-4Kph, less unloading and clearing fields quickly with my old machine.
 

teslacoils

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
Early! Although if ours was all ripe we'd be finished by early next week, as it is spring wheat is a fortnight away.

Lol. Everyone I know round here finished osr and barley (ie not much ) last week. Now a three week gap for many until the huge and predicted clash of everything being ready at once. There will be cereals being cut in late September for sure. Then a lot of maize that looks ace, but on very not maize ground, to get too.
 

Renaultman

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Arable Farmer
Location
Darlington
I see several large farms and estates with very large Lexions have already finished.

Have farms been investing in too much capacity, what will all the staff do now? Or is it sensible insurance for a wet year?
Like last year, we're all finished, taking the hire trailers back for my day job employer. Here's a load of old boys with this old Claas and Claysons cutting really fit wheat at what looked like it was lovely and dry. No drying or stress.
 

Badshot

Member
Location
Kent
Bought the land and had late access to it. Sumoed the lot but never got the winter barley drilled. Looked a picture earlier in the year, so I'm rather surprised it was so poor. Agronomist was too.
Ah, well I've known of a few who have now tried leaving bean volunteers, and there's not been a good result yet.
But my spring planted winters might not be any better..........
 
Started spring barley today pleased to say it’s yielding nearly as much as the ww

We've nibbled a bit of Feb drilled Siskin treated as a spring wheat and spring barley doing about 1ha of both. Best field of spring barley probably, so not entirely accurate picture, but 7.5 t/ha on the 1ha cut. 8.1 t/ha on the Siskin. Bodes well I think. Spring oats I think will be relatively much poorer because they looked to really suffer with the dry spell.
 

carbonfibre farmer

Member
Arable Farmer
Started wheat yesterday. Just the headlands.
Into the main block today.
Very poor, lots of bare patches :(

Yield wise, I dread to think. Will know tomorrow when we finish it and tally up the trailer loads. But well down.

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