Harvest/Yields 2020

[4course]

What we've done is to realign the runoff of our mortgage repayments exactly with the runoff of the BPS.

This means that in 2027 we shall finally be mortgage free, first time since 1963.

And hopefully, my successors will certainly all be far too sensible than ever to want to buy another farm.

doing similar with a farm loan ,however my successors are hell bent on growing the business( which I secretly applaud) though thankfully they are not stuck in pure combinable farming mode. The other thing ive come to realise as a saviour is staying alive as my and mrs 4 course will /are now in receipt of the queens shilling as per pension plus others which will or does go a fair way to replace the payment so long as weve got good health and our marbles. Others have suggested reducing fc but as ours are relatively in line there is not a lot of scope there . suppose we could reduce drawings and work longer hours to cut labour costs but why t .f .should I after a lifetime of graft and after the last 24 hours with only 5 hours rest helping to keep the drier going am not going down that route

 

[DrWazzock]

To some extent with BPS its a case of if you have it, you spend it. When I look back at how the farm ran in the 1970's is was on a much tighter regime. No pick up truck, less sheds, less machinery generally.
And I am surprised by how much Covid has reduced our expenditure.

 

[bankrupt]

the last 24 hours with only 5 hours rest helping to keep the drier going

Same here, 4course.

Hardly has the drier been sorted for the day (it's supposed to run itself) than now it'll be time to grease up the combine again.

And, funnily enough, those 10 or 11 hours every day actually driving the combine are usually the most restful of the 24.


edit:- and often the most satisfying - but not this time,

 

[redsloe]

It's a good point, Clive, often not understood, and supports my latest plan to buy new combines and tractors this autumn when machinery sales may well be unusually sticky.

I agree, how many shall we buy?

 

[teslacoils]

Don't worry folk, the chap on the wolds has cut his osr at three times the yield of the rest of Lincolnshire. As I don't pay for the Yellow Comic, perhaps someone will tell me what the secret is. I suspect it's a kidneys worth of foliar feed.....

 

[glasshouse]

Don't worry folk, the chap on the wolds has cut his osr at three times the yield of the rest of Lincolnshire. As I don't pay for the Yellow Comic, perhaps someone will tell me what the secret is. I suspect it's a kidneys worth of foliar feed.....

Its only the grain trade that read the yellow comic. They think we all make fortunes at a disappointing 13t/ha

 

[Norfolk Olly]

Its only the grain trade that read the yellow comic. They think we all make fortunes at a disappointing 13t/ha

A free subscription to FW when you purchase mustard/salmon cords

 

[DrWazzock]

Don't worry folk, the chap on the wolds has cut his osr at three times the yield of the rest of Lincolnshire. As I don't pay for the Yellow Comic, perhaps someone will tell me what the secret is. I suspect it's a kidneys worth of foliar feed.....

They will always find somebody who has been lucky probably to encourage people to keep chasing the rainbow.
Lucky he’s got a wold farm.
Lucky he drilled at the right time.
Lucky he didn’t get wave after wave of CSFB.

Last year I was lucky to get 4t an acre of Crispin wheat off 10acres post sugar beet drilled in January. It was a flash in the pan though. This year we will be “lucky” to get 1.5 ton per acre off same land albeit with a different variety that I have my doubts about and the sample is so poor it’s embarrassing.

I’m not interested in luck and boom and bust any more. I’m interested in consistency and resilience nce and tolerance and robustness and low spend and sleeping at night and keeping it simple.

 

[Steevo]

A free subscription to FW when you purchase mustard/salmon cords

Like they'd ever do anything FREE!

They'd want you to pay to sign up to their cord colour management software (so you remember which colour you wore on each day, at what times and what the weather was at the time for when the Red Rolls inspector comes along). They'll then use that data to sell on to the fashion retailers.

The magazine and farmer articles are just a mere front to this shady underworld...!

 

[bankrupt]

Drying up well here, now.

Wheat which was 18%, only 24hrs ago, now down to 32.

Lucky escape, yesterday - we had 20mm, next door had 29.

 

[farmerm]

Drying up well here, now.

Wheat which was 18%, only 24hrs ago, now down to 32.

Lucky escape, yesterday - we had 20mm, next door had 29.

If you feel left out we have had 77mm this week...

 

[robbie]

Nothing apart from an hours drizzle this morning, we could really do with good rain.

 

[Will 1594]

Nothing apart from an hours drizzle this morning, we could really do with good rain.

Same here robbie ,got 2 inch of dry dust ,on the flinty shite ,
The boy put subsoiler through an ex spud field which is fallow ,took a set of points off in 9 acres ,
Put 60 acre of stubble turnips in ,needs water

 

[Sprog]

Got a field of spring barley done yesterday afternoon when the sun came out. 17/18% moisture following Wednesday ‘s 35mm rain but will treat with Alkagrain home and dry pellets for cattle/ sheep feed. Probably about 2.5t/ac dry weight.

 

[Sprog]

Looking over the hedge it looks as though the Mascani spring oats will be ready when this coming wet weather goes by.

 

[Simon Chiles]

Don't worry folk, the chap on the wolds has cut his osr at three times the yield of the rest of Lincolnshire. As I don't pay for the Yellow Comic, perhaps someone will tell me what the secret is. I suspect it's a kidneys worth of foliar feed.....

I don’t pay for the Yellow Comic either but read the article online. Personally, apart from soil type etc, I think most of his success was down to the fact that the land hadn’t grown OSR for 20 years, obviously the article didn’t concentrate on that bit much but chose to elaborate on everything he’d spent on it.

 

[Hereward]

Don't worry folk, the chap on the wolds has cut his osr at three times the yield of the rest of Lincolnshire. As I don't pay for the Yellow Comic, perhaps someone will tell me what the secret is. I suspect it's a kidneys worth of foliar feed.....

I'm glad he didn't keep this most recent triumph to himself.

 

[fieldfarmer]

I don’t pay for the Yellow Comic either but read the article online. Personally, apart from soil type etc, I think most of his success was down to the fact that the land hadn’t grown OSR for 20 years, obviously the article didn’t concentrate on that bit much but chose to elaborate on everything he’d spent on it.

Did it say how many insecticideds it had?

 

[Hereward]

I'm glad he didn't keep this most recent triumph to himself.

And for the record in 2019 where the old muck heap was, my WW yielded 25 t/ha, I was going to keep that to myself, but thought the world would be a better place if I shared my success of having an area of land with incredible productive potential, sorry I meant I'm really really clever.

 

[T Hectares]

Finished wheat on Monday and have some test results back.

GP3 Barrel, Basset, Firefly and Elicit
10.25.t/ha av
79 - 81 kg/hl
180 - 230 hagberg
10.4 - 11 % Protein

Will be planting Firefly and Elicit next year, definitely a step up from Barrel and Basset.