OSR YIELDS 2014

[tw15]

Did a bit of (20 acres )swathed quartz / hybrid mixed in . done about 30-32 tons of the whole field 8.1 % moisture . Really wanted another couple of days as some bits still a bit not quite there especially the fert in and out bits. Hope the rest does better.

 

[Clive]

Did a bit of swathed quartz / hybrid mixed in . done about 30-32 tons of the whole field 8.1 % moisture . Really wanted another couple of days as some bits still a bit not quite there especially the fert in and out bits. Hope the rest does better.

Don't forget to add that to the benchmarking forum, although how many acres that was off might make the result more useful

 

[Shutesy]

Did a bit of swathed quartz / hybrid mixed in . done about 30-32 tons of the whole field 8.1 % moisture . Really wanted another couple of days as some bits still a bit not quite there especially the fert in and out bits. Hope the rest does better.

How many acres was the field?

 

[AlfM]

Done some Astrid last week. Will have accurate figures on Monday but around 1.8 ton/ac which is about normal. Oil never great though. Hopefully the Quartz will be better.

 

[Brisel]

Did a bit of (20 acres )swathed quartz / hybrid mixed in . done about 30-32 tons of the whole field 8.1 % moisture . Really wanted another couple of days as some bits still a bit not quite there especially the fert in and out bits. Hope the rest does better.

How do you measure yield? Size of the heap x specific weight?

 

[tw15]

It is just the guesstimate weight as just over half filled a bay that normally holds 60 tons of barley . We will be puting all swathed rape in that side of 4 bays then another will have all direct cut rape in about the same acreage of each give or take a couple of acres.
All is booked to go as available to go to united oilseeds and can price anytime till june 2015. So will know the final weights soon.

 

[snarling bee]

24ha cut, 3.75 t/ha over weighbridge 8% mc. About average for us. Disappointed to be honest. Extrovert and PR46W21.

 

[Tompkins]

I must be doing something wrong. Cut 70 acres of PR46 W21 today, not much more than 70 tonnes.
All between 7 and 9% so at least it won't cost anymore!

 

[spikeislander]

Just combine weigher but rarely more than 2%out, but done 20 acre and is doing 1.5 t/a tops. Got some that looks better but some that looks worse so I think this is the yield we will end up with. As above a bit disappointed variety camelot and cabernet both autocast

 

[jon9000]

christ…. if all my osr does 1.5tons to the acre id be very pleased indeed….

last year we did under a ton

 

[dontknowanything]

Avatar 3.22t/ha, disappointing

 

[franklin]

Catana has done about 4t/ha. Good on the good soil, poor on the waterlogged wet bits. Ranged from 5.2t/ha in my own seed crop, to 3.5t/ha in (annoyingly) my largest and worst field.

The yield maps as pretty much a replica of where the river bed used to be before it was redirected into ditches.

last year we did under a ton

Vexingly, the crap I ought to have roundupped much earlier in the season last year went on to produce 1.4t/ac, and a heck of a lot of BG seed return.

 

[T Hectares]

I haven't cut any osr yet, but hope to start next week.
I have been realistic about it this year, wet winter, poor roots, extended flowering, then dry periods and falling prices, so it's interesting to hear these initial reports.
But..due to a good flush of growth early on people have been duped into spending (once again ) into extra late N and fungicides/insecticides/trace elements, separate pod stick etc, I have allways thought the big spend was over optimistic as there are mixed crops out there with lots of Charlock and cleavers too, a lot of disappointment out there maybe but osr is a distributors dream, there is scope to spend an enormous ammount of money, but it can be grown a bit more sensibly, and it will be next year as the flea Beatle risk has calmed down expectations and may lead to a more realistic aproach going forward imho !!

 

[Centre]

I haven't cut any osr yet, but hope to start next week.
I have been realistic about it this year, wet winter, poor roots, extended flowering, then dry periods and falling prices, so it's interesting to hear these initial reports.
But..due to a good flush of growth early on people have been duped into spending (once again ) into extra late N and fungicides/insecticides/trace elements, separate pod stick etc, I have allways thought the big spend was over optimistic as there are mixed crops out there with lots of Charlock and cleavers too, a lot of disappointment out there maybe but osr is a distributors dream, there is scope to spend an enormous ammount of money, but it can be grown a bit more sensibly, and it will be next year as the flea Beatle risk has calmed down expectations and may lead to a more realistic aproach going forward imho !!

That is easy to say in retrospect, but look at it another way, if crops look like they have good potential intuition would be to push them harder, especially if price is under pressure then all you have is yield. I agree on poor looking crops, problem is no one that i have ever met has been able to judge OSR yields accurately!

 

[T Hectares]

That is easy to say in retrospect, but look at it another way, if crops look like they have good potential intuition would be to push them harder, especially if price is under pressure then all you have is yield. I agree on poor looking crops, problem is no one that i have ever met has been able to judge OSR yields accurately!

I wouldn't say mine was a view that came from retrospect, more a view that as OSR is a notorious crop to predict yield, how can you be sure if you will see a return from extra inputs ?
I think that 2011 showed us that well structured crops with appropriate later N timings yielded fantastic, but more as a result of the weather than any other factor,
I feel if you get the basics right, the rest is mainly weather rather than chucking the kitchen sink at it !!

 

[Brisel]

The cheapest way to grow good yielding osr is to get it established well & early - the rest is mere tweaking...

 

[Farmer Dod]

Osr always seems to flatter to deceive. Nothing worse than going into a good looking field with the combine and the left wondering "was that it" once your finished.

 

[jammygit]

the wind and rain proving tiresome, looks like it 's been snowing. Consoling myself with the thought of how bad it could have been if I hadn't used podstick. Got to feed the slugs somehow...

 

[JACK F]

Camelot all cut mid week. 1.41 tonne/acre @ 6.5% av moisture, over weighbridge.
Farm would generally average 1.5 t/acre which other varieties/fields might do.
Quartz, Trinity, Cabernet should be ready next week.

 

[horizontal]

Already strikes me that comments on this forum are far more realistic and honest than some of the rubbish reported in the yellow comic.

We haven't started yet and are still at least a week away but I am not expecting anything special. Crops look fine from the gate but flatter to deceive. I've been conscious since April that our canopy is shallower than normal so not expecting great things.

Hope the weather behaves for everyone over the next fortnight.