Devil's advocate
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- Location
- Posh side of Barnsley
If I don't get all my spring barley in. Maybe reseed some & put sheep there whilst I reseed their usual grazing area, it needs mole ploughing, after this winter.
How much isn’t getting planted
- Thread starter Surgery
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- Location
- Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos
Pretty much the same except it hadn’t started drying up here.
Everything saturated again and tramlines full to the brim with water on anything flat.
No chance whatsoever of getting any spring drilling done here until it stops raining for 10 days to a fortnight.
If April remains as wet as the forecast suggests, that will be the 10th month in a row of well in excess of expected rainfall here!
Planted SB here on 30th April after similarly wet springs in 1966 and 1975.
Cut 4.8t/Ha in 1966 which was profitable and 1.8t/Ha in 1975 which was not.
46% not planted here. Managed to rent a bit out for early potatoes so it’ll end up at 32% earning us nothing this year. That’s now gone into SFI to make up for the lost income.
Martyn
Member
- Location
- South west
All waiting nothing planted at all🫣
Nothing?
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Tbh, I bet there are plenty who wish they'd planted nothing.
Drove up to Kirton Lindsey today for the first time in a couple of months. There's a big field just to the south that was being drilled back I think in January. It looks a real patchy state. If I could have the seed and spray back in the bag / can, I'd have that instead of my fields.
What the hell are they going to do if nothing gets planted this spring in time for worthwhile yields.
- Location
- East yorks
Hope the bank manager is agreeable
I have now roundupped of 48% of what i drilled in October. We managed to get our first bit of barley in yesterday. One field was quite nice one was crap but it won’t get much better with the forecast. There will be 35% of our area with just a cover on as it stands
Martyn
Member
- Location
- South west
Spoke to combine driver today, he’s cut better yielding crops drilled mid May than some early drilled crops around here, does need heavy feeding if drilled later, we will umbilical ours if conditions allow
Easy go and apply for a job on another farm. Use you skill somewhere else.
You wouldn’t want much machinery on finance and rent to pay that’s for sure.
I know someone who is a very good operator. Tractor man. Everything he can put his hand too. £20 hour after tax. Doesn’t know the price of grain or Fert. Never had done. He said that’s not my job.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Might not have a choice. I can't exactly go and say "sorry, won't be paying the mortgage or the rent this year".
I've got a job to help, and will use previous years profits to get through it. Hopefully 5 year averaging will get me a big tax rebate.
But I'll not be buying new bean seed to get a 2t/ha crop in October, when I could have it moled, ploughed, and drilled with wheat second week in September.
I haven’t got any spring beans in yet and don’t look like doing but it’s years like this I’m glad to have some livestock about and not have all eggs in one basket.
average farmer
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- Location
- North Notts
Nothing in here yet (spring crops) got around 500 acres to put in. Planted 350 acres winter crops but only 300 will make it . Rest of it landlords are taking off of us to put into sfi… can’t decide if that’s good thing or bad but it’s there’s to do what they want with .
- Location
- East yorks
Yeah but give me a sh!t harvest and sfi or sheep and I would take a sh!t harvest and sfi everytime
That’s entirely up to you but cattle and sheep prices are through the roof and look what state the arable jobs in.
- Location
- East yorks
Cattle yes we have some, sheep you are welcome to every penny of those retarded animals