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<blockquote data-quote="Bignor Farmer" data-source="post: 7324323" data-attributes="member: 4405"><p>Got away with it really. Not a complete disaster but below average!</p><p></p><p>Hardly anything planted this time last year and didn’t get sowing until the end of March. Made a lot of decisions to mitigate a dry spring (thankfully!!) and harvest yields ended up being Okay considering.</p><p>A relatively cheap harvest to get into the barn and saved by rising prices. All spring I thought we would struggle to average £130t for 5t/ha of malting barley and have probably averaged £150/t for 7t/ha.</p><p></p><p>Lots of lambs away early for decent money but we’ve pushed a lot of creep into them (glad we did)</p><p></p><p>Lost out on fat cattle through COVID that we’d fed hard through Jan/Feb/March.</p><p></p><p>Winter crops setup quite nicely for 2021 with some decent forward prices...</p><p>Last of the lambs munching through turnips with a Brexit deal now in place (phew!)....</p><p>Scanning in 10 days time....</p><p></p><p>Diversification (museum, campsite and small tearoom) interesting times! saved by furlough and a huge effort through the summer. How we operate in 2021 completely depends on COVID and government.</p><p></p><p>Lots of decisions made to improve future resilience for weather and falling BPS.... plenty to get on with!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bignor Farmer, post: 7324323, member: 4405"] Got away with it really. Not a complete disaster but below average! Hardly anything planted this time last year and didn’t get sowing until the end of March. Made a lot of decisions to mitigate a dry spring (thankfully!!) and harvest yields ended up being Okay considering. A relatively cheap harvest to get into the barn and saved by rising prices. All spring I thought we would struggle to average £130t for 5t/ha of malting barley and have probably averaged £150/t for 7t/ha. Lots of lambs away early for decent money but we’ve pushed a lot of creep into them (glad we did) Lost out on fat cattle through COVID that we’d fed hard through Jan/Feb/March. Winter crops setup quite nicely for 2021 with some decent forward prices... Last of the lambs munching through turnips with a Brexit deal now in place (phew!).... Scanning in 10 days time.... Diversification (museum, campsite and small tearoom) interesting times! saved by furlough and a huge effort through the summer. How we operate in 2021 completely depends on COVID and government. Lots of decisions made to improve future resilience for weather and falling BPS.... plenty to get on with! [/QUOTE]
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