Mad year in Sweden.

[Acke]

After a normal spring it was no rain in May and June, we get 12 mm in 2 month.High temps.

Then it starts rain in July and August, 350 mm in 60 days. Yields is crap, winterwheat is harvest with no quality . High moisture i crops and ground . Weeds in springbarly and uneven mature.
Only crops looks good is springrapeseed. But late.
It is year like this I wish doing somthing else then farming.

 

[Badshot]

That's not far removed from the UK's experience so far this year.
Yields uninspiring and quality incredibly variable.

I still struggle to see why prices are currently so poor, unless the investors have been warned off/jumped ship into some other commodities to stop food inflation rampaging out of control.

All I read is how other parts of the world are struggling with yield and quality too.

It's all these rubbish reports and surveys that are invariably wrong.

 

[Yale]

Neighbour has relations farming in Sweden. If I remember correctly did you have a very dry hot summer last year?

 

[glasshouse]

After a normal spring it was no rain in May and June, we get 12 mm in 2 month.High temps.

Then it starts rain in July and August, 350 mm in 60 days. Yields is crap, winterwheat is harvest with no quality . High moisture i crops and ground . Weeds in springbarly and uneven mature.
Only crops looks good is springrapeseed. But late.
It is year like this I wish doing somthing else then farming.

Yes, its been bad
We got about 150mm rain in july which caused regrowth in barley but wheat is ok
hay season very difficuilt
Winter rape seeds are small.
Barley splitting

 

[beardface]

Be alot of feed grain about in the short term then, before the Mills realise quality is short and drop specs. Makes you laugh really as before mass produced bread etc. pretty much all wheat harvested would of been good for milling.

 

[Dave6170]

Sounds like here. Lots of green in oats and barley