Harvest/Yields 2020

[Lincsman]

Abed Deba was quite good.

And Westminster not bad.

or Deba Abed even.

 

[bobk]

Cut some today , shite . pita .

 

[bankrupt]

or Deba Abed even.

Abed was the breeder, Deba the variety.

So, saying Deba Abed is like saying Extase KWS.

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[robbie]

All done. 14.5% from lunchtime when we started.
Just some green oats to bale when/if they're ever dry enough, and various bits of 2nd/3rd cut to do but it's all for others so not as bad as your own.
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[richard hammond]

its been short cutting days here all harvest i.e 5 weeks hardly 24 hours in all that time apart from one 8 hr day murdering a field of wheat destined for osr

This must be late for drilling date for The OSR waste of time crop!!

 

[DRC]

Finished this afternoon . Spring barley yielded better than expected at a conservative 3 ton/ acre, despite being pretty flat. Funnily enough, I noticed heads on the floor where it was standing, so the brackling had held it up, so to speak.
much better and cheaper to grow than the winter barley. Baler man doesn’t seem so busy this year, so was following me , with everything in the barn this evening .
harvest report
winter barley , the worst I’ve ever grown at less than 2 tons/ acre
winter wheat , very happy considering the year. Very good in parts with poorer headlands and flooded patches. I’d guess averaged 3. 25 t
spring barley . Better than expected . Av 3 ton
OSR grown here, 1.5 t / acre
Hoping for a nice sept/ October as have 100 maize and some beet to harvest
Hope everyone gets finished soon. I’m sure there’s a good week coming now we are done .

 

[Renaultman]

Finished yesterday with some spring barley. Propino. Sprayed a fortnight ago then rained for 12 days. About 30% of ears dropped off on the floor . 15% moisture at 11am though. A disappointing end to a poor harvest. Bulldozing, stones, and brackled, flat. Good riddance to 2020 season, what a year it has been, View attachment 904853 roll on 2021.

If it makes you feel any better, I've been combining unsprayed, barely fit spring barley today and there was a lot of that on the floor too. The other downside is I had to pull out of one field as it had to many green heads

 

[Two Tone]

Five fields done today - every one needed the header off and on!

 

[Lincsman]

Abed was the breeder, Deba the variety.

So, saying Deba Abed is like saying Extase KWS.

Abed Plant Breeding Station

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Only heard Dad call it Deba abed!

 

[Wombat]

Had to change a belt so managed a bit today . Try and get all the barley that’s fit tomorrow then just wait for the bit of wheat

 

[WRXppp]

Tell me a spring barley which can stand the weather?

or Deba Abed even.

midas, triumph, atem?

 

[4course]

This must be late for drilling date for The OSR waste of time crop!!

the osr was sown 3 weeks ago following the murdered wheat

 

[David.]

Started Irina sp barley this afternoon, about a foot tall, some brackling and slow going. Trying to shave it off puffy soil that wants to cleave to the bottom of the header is not being much fun tbh.
Having to cut and cart myself, so consequently only managed 4 loads before it came down tough like rags.

 

[Grass And Grain]

midas, triumph, atem?

Grew Atem for years here. It could yield 3t+ without fungicide and only 95kgN/ha. Stopped growing it about 10 years ago because it was leggy and prone to falling over. Shame.

 

[Adeptandy]

First bit of my own S Whest this evening, if the bushels ok it just scraped in at 2t/acre. Loads of straw, just nothing on the top

 

[4course]

Had that here - so many false starts that no one ever thinks they have to turn up promptly when you actually need them.

eventually got going finished a p poor wheat then moved across road and pleasantly surprised in some gravity wheat before another move into some gleam which has smaller but more ears seems to doing similar but forced to stop at 9pm just not flowing into combine . Baler men catching up should have combine caught up.As im yard man , tommy out ,store and drier man ,extra trailer driver , wide load escort driver,general dogsbody and spare part recquisition source guy, plus books to finish as vat 1/4 its been a long hard day as ive pointed out to combine driver who has just knicked the last can out of the fridge and thinks there is f all else to do to other than drive from one end of the field to the other while acting like god and ringing up to say wheres the trailer from his air conditioned dust and sweatless seat

 

[Northernlights]

Can"t understand the problem with oats shaking as it was always a crop suitable for Scotland with its wild autumns as when it brackled over the heads would not catch the wind.In the sixties and seventies have seen quite a few late fields of oats cut when the first hard frosts and maybe a dusting of snow occured in November as ground was hard and crop dry. Very acceptable samples too. Modern varieties seem to ripen too soon and get the wet damp weather without any dry windy spells.

 

[Manny]

Does anyone know if triticale moisture reads the same as wheat on a protermeter or do I need a different calibration?

 

[Zippy768]

Started Irina sp barley this afternoon, about a foot tall, some brackling and slow going. Trying to shave it off puffy soil that wants to cleave to the bottom of the header is not being much fun tbh.
Having to cut and cart myself, so consequently only managed 4 loads before it came down tough like rags.
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I know that feeling . Been battling the combine wanting to plough for the last day and half.
Tiresome and getting more impatient about it

 

[JCfarmer]

There is something to be said for sowing Spring Barley and oats 'THICK' if you like with a reasonable amount of N or muck. They go over flat but not flat to the ground, don't brackle and drop the heads on the floor or blow out.
I have combined some standing spring barley for a neighbour which did 2t and then some of our own (this field has been drilled 3 times!). It had muck on in the spring after the 2nd drilled wheat drowned and rotted.
Spring Barley was flat but not out, 80 ton off 20.5 acres, other field did 3.7t. Not many heads on the floor.
Reality check was combining 2nd wheat standing and brackled a bit,drilled in Feb doing 2t!