Harvest/Yields 2020

bankrupt

Member
Location
EX17/20
For us the best yields have been on the fields which lay wet.
Anything lying wet here has had zero yield.

Normally, if it's a wet summer we get our barns filled by the bits on the shale, and in a dry summer from the bits on the clay.

This time the clay all failed in the winter, and the shale bits mostly all failed in the spring but with an impressive secondary crop, after the 6" of rain here in June, then coming through in the summer.

:hungover: :hungover:
 
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Steevo

Member
Location
Gloucestershire
Anything lying wet here has had zero yield.

Normally, if it's a wet summer we get our barns filled by the bits on the shale, and in a dry summer from the bits on the clay.

This time the clay all failed in the winter, and the shale bits mostly all failed in the spring but with an impressive secondary crop, after the 6" of rain here in June, then coming through in the summer.

:hungover: :hungover:

....and anything on the clay that survived only had half a root system developed so the dry spell didn't help that either!
 

Jo28

Member
Location
East Yorks
Anyone one else having a problem wheat. Full of green, the actual wheat tests below 15% but secondary tillers and other green mixed in tests 28%! Don't Want to spray off because we want the field for seed.
 

Honest john

Member
Location
Fenland
Anyone one else having a problem wheat. Full of green, the actual wheat tests below 15% but secondary tillers and other green mixed in tests 28%! Don't Want to spray off because we want the field for seed.

Yes
It’s painful.
Not sprayed off, Green Tillers a long way off even Gly timing, but the bulk is fit.
 

Sonoftheheir

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
West Suffolk
Anyone one else having a problem wheat. Full of green, the actual wheat tests below 15% but secondary tillers and other green mixed in tests 28%! Don't Want to spray off because we want the field for seed.

Yes, worst I’ve seen
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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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