Harvest/Yields 2020

[Fish]

After avoiding most of the rain yesterday, I did rather hope we'd get a chance today, but nope, heavy over night has screwed that.
If we lose another week, I'm not sure where we'll stand but I think we'll have to start making decisions on future cropping and crops we grow.

 

[Nitrams]

i reckon the drought will cost me circa 3-4t/ha or 1/3rd of my output this year - offset a bit by lower costs and higher prices

we coped with the wet autumn and winter, it was hard work but we coped.

fortunately years like this ate nit the normal !

Hopefully not as farming land with this potential will eventually be a waste of time as the job continues to rationalise.

 

[David.]

@David. Looks like you need an Avatar update!

Might leave it as it is as a mark of respect, bit sorry to be moving on actually, I was like a dog with two noses when we got her.
But the way harvest usually is now, with everything ready the same day, need quicker.

 

[Clive]

Hopefully not as farming land with this potential will eventually be a waste of time as the job continues to rationalise.

its climate more than land that limited my potential

Maybe UK farners will be the first victims of climate change ......... or maybe we afapt and change if this is the new normal

 

[Hindsight]

its climate more than land that limited my potential

Maybe UK farners will be the first victims of climate change ......... or maybe we afapt and change if this is the new normal

Cost structure as well - even / equally important to inherent yield capacity Your business system has enabled survival at these yields in this year - with I presume from earlier posts a break even result at worst, and possibly a small profit!! A more expensive system would have resulted in a loss and thus a hangover financially into the next year. Fascinating stuff.

 

[Hindsight]

Hopefully not as farming land with this potential will eventually be a waste of time as the job continues to rationalise.

Please see my post 1525 - interested in your comments on my observation. Regards.

 

[7610 super q]

Scraped some SB off the floor yesterday. Started at 19%, down to 17% at the end. Probably be about 2t / acre after drying. 4 bales/ acre ( round ) of straw.
Don't think I'll bother contacting the Farmers Weekly.

 

[Clive]

Cost structure as well - even / equally important to inherent yield capacity Your business system has enabled survival at these yields in this year - with I presume from earlier posts a break even result at worst, and possibly a small profit!! A more expensive system would have resulted in a loss and thus a hangover financially into the next year. Fascinating stuff.

i‘ve learnt from other businesses that risk management should be any managers key aim

no business is more risky than farming imo with so many variables beyond human control so it’s even more important we limit our exposure accordingly


Although as farmers we all know we are surrounded by high risk it’s not something many actually acknowledge or do anything about as far as I can see

 

[Bramble]

Spring wheat averaging under 2t/ac with me, just as well it was cheap to grow

 

[David.]

Mulika?

 

[Honest john]

Please see my post 1525 - interested in your comments on my observation. Regards.

With Hindsight we should have fallowed & popped the Cashflow into Gold, sold out last month ready to farm again in 2021 or brought Dollars From the gold sale, & fallowed again in 21 ready to cash in on the 22 farming year.

 

[Zippy768]

Rain again this morning and decidedly dull. Now worried

 

[bankrupt]

With Hindsight we should have fallowed & popped the Cashflow into Gold, sold out last month

Good trade, that.

Shame he didn't confide in the forum earlier.

 

[teslacoils]

Harvest 2020: Lincs wheat crop hits bumper 15t/ha-plus yield - Farmers Weekly

Tim Lamyman has just cut a bumper 15t/ha-plus wheat crop by encouraging rooting and keeping his crop green for as long as possible, which helped counter a

www.fwi.co.uk

Sigh. Always one.

 

[Zippy768]

Harvest 2020: Lincs wheat crop hits bumper 15t/ha-plus yield - Farmers Weekly

Tim Lamyman has just cut a bumper 15t/ha-plus wheat crop by encouraging rooting and keeping his crop green for as long as possible, which helped counter a

www.fwi.co.uk

Sigh. Always one.

Maybe undried weight?

 

[YorkshireAndrew]

Maybe undried weight?

Including the weight of the trailer ? [emoji6]

 

[DrWazzock]

Fast losing enthusiasm for this harvest. It really is a corker.
At least 66 hours of putting it through the grain dryer ahead.

 

[Farmer Fin]

Any Scots lads having issues with skinning in the malting barley? Samples coming back at 4%.

 

[MrNoo]

Mulika?

That's what I'm cutting or trying to, outyielding the WW so far but then not hard as we averaged 2.24t/ac sold, doing between 2.6 and 2.8t/ac so far.

 

[Northernlights]

Any Scots lads having issues with skinning in the malting barley? Samples coming back at 4%.

Yes hearing reports of skinning from Nairn north