Is this the wettest Autumn you have had to cope with?

[Pilatus]

It’s wet, but not as bad as 2012, the whole year was a total sh#te from late March to September it was constantly wet with only 3 weeks in September offering any respite, it was a dismal harvest that we didn’t endure this year.

Yes we at least had established OSR that year, but most of it we couldn’t get Kerb or Fox on or Slugs off of, and areas were written off and the bg in the OSR affected the next years Wheat, wheats drilled without rolling and pre em all suffered with slugs and bg

It’s very wet, but I only had 30% of my wheat drilled this time last year, with good yields from end of Oct drilled wheats

I might not be quite so relaxed if nothing is drilled for another 10 days !!!

Do you farm some north facing downland that ideally needs to drilled sooner than later?Here on the Cotswolds north facing banks do not like been drilled late especially if we get hard frosts Jan/Feb along with cold east winds and no snow cover. May the weather soon turn dry for everyone.
It can pee down in London on Extinction Rebellion ??

 

[Muddyboots]

Here in the dry east its pretty bad at present and still pishing it down as i write but still not as bad as 2000. The thing that year was that it turned wet from 7th October onwards and we were half way through. That year we didn’t drill another seed till Christmas eve and then it was into mud and thats on boys land. So at least that year we had done something but alas so far around here nothings been drilled and many acres of rape have been written off!!

 

[michael N123]

No it’s just normal are people forgetting it’s October

 

[T Hectares]

Do you farm some north facing downland that ideally needs to drilled sooner than later?Here on the Cotswolds north facing banks do not like been drilled late especially if we get hard frosts Jan/Feb along with cold east winds and no snow cover. May the weather soon turn dry for everyone.
It can pee down in London on Extinction Rebellion ??

No, I'm only talking from my own perspective, i am at 850ft on exposed cold downland however, but nothing north facing

 

[goodevans]

I think the difference with this autumn is it has taken us by surprise from a very nice starting point.i think complacency took over better judgement and the new thoughts will be impatience in the autumn and patience in the spring,whether it worked or not the loss of deter dressing has cost us planted acres this year for sure

 

[DRC]

I think the difference with this autumn is it has taken us by surprise from a very nice starting point.i think complacency took over better judgement and the new thoughts will be impatience in the autumn and patience in the spring,whether it worked or not the loss of deter dressing has cost us planted acres this year for sure

Took me by surprise on this field or I was just lazy. Ran out of seed, it was late, pitch black and furthest field from the farm. Thought I’d pop back in the morning!
The only 30 acres of wheat I’ve done .

 

[nick...]

That’s 30 acres more than me.have we become victims of adverts in the press saying hold of wheat drilling till mid to late October for the black grass.many of us will start early next year as we mostly have done in the past,me included
Nick...

 

[Wombat]

That’s 30 acres more than me.have we become victims of adverts in the press saying hold of wheat drilling till mid to late October for the black grass.many of us will start early next year as we mostly have done in the past,me included
Nick...

The thing is it’s been raining since the 22nd sept and we have barely turned a wheel since so if we have to be drilled up by the 22nd every year we are buggered. Some years we are still cutting wheat around then

 

[T Hectares]

The thing is it’s been raining since the 22nd sept and we have barely turned a wheel since so if we have to be drilled up by the 22nd every year we are buggered. Some years we are still cutting wheat around then

Yep, and its not just black grass that drives later drilling, there's also bydv...

 

[Barleymow]

1987 was a lot wetter started before harvest to turn wet .The hurricane that year did dry a couple of fields up enough to drill.My Concern if it keep wet will be for straw next harvest

 

[puppet]

I think if many of you were in the west then it would seem like an average year. Cattle still out, wet hollows have dried again, silage rows did not disappear under water and the quad not leaving many tracks.

 

[Green oak]

This photo always bring me back to reality.

 

[7610 super q]

View attachment 838213This photo always bring me back to reality.

I wonder what that drilling outfit weighs....2.5 ton ?
I wonder what that drilling outfit costed .....?
I wonder how much wheat was per ton back then ?

 

[haymaker80]

Took me by surprise on this field or I was just lazy. Ran out of seed, it was late, pitch black and furthest field from the farm. Thought I’d pop back in the morning!
The only 30 acres of wheat I’ve done .View attachment 838166View attachment 838166

Travelling from Newport across to welshpool on Friday, there were loads of fields that were part drilled or part cultivated, and quite a few of the fields that had been drilled had patches where the wheat had drowned on headlands or in hollows

 

[Brisel]

I wonder what that drilling outfit weighs....2.5 ton ?
I wonder what that drilling outfit costed .....?
I wonder how much wheat was per ton back then ?

Less than 2.5 tonnes
A lot less than today's equivalent even after you remove the air con, twin beacons etc
A lot more than today if you price the wheat in real terms!

 

[texelburger]

View attachment 838213This photo always bring me back to reality.

I can remember riding on a drill like that,iron wheels too.Im not sure of the years late sixties to mid seventies I would guess,Dad would have me on there checking how much seed was left in the hopper.Used to catch my fingers on the cogs when spreading the seed along the hopper so Dad could get to the end of the run.Remember one autumn when,for whatever reason,we were drilling into a sticky seedbed late in November and it was freezing stood on the drill.I think the tractor pulling it was a MF 135.

 

[bobk]

I can remember riding on a drill like that,iron wheels too.Im not sure of the years late sixties to mid seventies I would guess,Dad would have me on there checking how much seed was left in the hopper.Used to catch my fingers on the cogs when spreading the seed along the hopper so Dad could get to the end of the run.Remember one autumn when,for whatever reason,we were drilling into a sticky seedbed late in November and it was freezing stood on the drill.I think the tractor pulling it was a MF 135.

Would do 6 acres an hour easily , combi may do 3

 

[yellow belly]

Since we last drilled a field had 168 mm rain
3 weeks

 

[Renaultman]

Travelling from Newport across to welshpool on Friday, there were loads of fields that were part drilled or part cultivated, and quite a few of the fields that had been drilled had patches where the wheat had drowned on headlands or in hollows

I don't think I have ever seen wheat die off so quickly when it gets its feet wet than this year, also first drilled Kerrin is looking very stressy, went in well on a good draining field

 

[Dog]

I don’t think it’s the wettest, but it’s been the most prolonged just at the beginning of the peak drilling period.