Gents, randomly we’ve got 6 wheat varieties in the ground this year so when harvest comes around I’ll need to keep about 15 tonnes of each variety separate until we can collate yield data maps and decide which two to grow on. I’ve got no shed space to keep them all separate and I can’t use my trailers (only got 2 anyway) as they move onto early potato harvest. Filling bags off the combine doesn’t appeal as it would be around 100 tonnes. Any ideas? It’s a one off so buying new trailers is a big no no and I can’t find 14t ish trailers for a couple of thousand quid.
Seed storage quandry
- Thread starter Beefsmith
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- Location
- S.E
Ex artic bulkers. Can pick them up dirt (£3500) cheap from auctions. Store 40t each.
Thought about that but how do you tip them up without spending a lot more money? Also getting them in and out of the fields (no tracks) could be a very big issue for us as biggest tractor is only 200hp.
SilliamWhale
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To be honest even filling 100 big bags wouldn't take half a day.
It’s not an option really as it would mean stopping a shared combine to fill bags off the spout. We don’t have enough trailers to cut all day and then store the seed to bag up early morning the next day.
- Location
- Lorette Manitoba
Walk the varieties before cutting and do a head count,seeds per head and a visual assessment on top of knowing what agronomif inputs were needed to get to that point. I produce my own seed every year and will grow three or four varieties to try on small areas. I keep a good watch thru the growing season to decide which if any will be the new front runner. Currently on the same varietiey fir the last 6 years and it’s going in again.
kiwi pom
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- Location
- canterbury NZ
Either make the decision before you cut like Flatlander says - the yield monitor on the combine would back up your decision wouldn't it? Or bag off the combine, there really isn't any other option that doesn't involve spending a lot of money.
Next cheapest, can you hire a trailer big enough to hold 15 tons and set up some way of bagging off that trailer with an extra person (auger, telehandler etc) while the other two trailers keep the combine going.
Next cheapest, can you hire a trailer big enough to hold 15 tons and set up some way of bagging off that trailer with an extra person (auger, telehandler etc) while the other two trailers keep the combine going.
Nearly
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- Location
- North of York
Artic bulkers, 8 wheelers, neighbours, bulk bags.
Buying trailers now to resell this time next year won't be expensive if bought well.
Anything is possible.
Buying trailers now to resell this time next year won't be expensive if bought well.
Anything is possible.
- Location
- Lorette Manitoba
Or go buy one 20 ton bin. Cut the first varietiey that ready and bin it. If the next out yield it bin that one until the highest yielded is the one left in The bin. But to be brutally honest you or your crop guy should have it nailed down before harvest which one is going in the ground next. But you better get it germ tested.
How much seed are you going to need to carry over.
It doesn’t sound like you’re going to clean the combine out between seed lots so presumably there will be some discarded to the feed heap at the start of each variety and even then there will be some cross contamination.
Top an bottom of it is your current plan has too many varieties for your equipment/time and there is only two ways to change that spend some money or drop some of the varieties before harvest.
How much barn space is there available at harvest? Can you tip down and bag up at a later date when the combine has moved on from you?
It doesn’t sound like you’re going to clean the combine out between seed lots so presumably there will be some discarded to the feed heap at the start of each variety and even then there will be some cross contamination.
Top an bottom of it is your current plan has too many varieties for your equipment/time and there is only two ways to change that spend some money or drop some of the varieties before harvest.
How much barn space is there available at harvest? Can you tip down and bag up at a later date when the combine has moved on from you?
- Location
- 200 miles N,NW of New York
Have you got any tattie boxes, line with plastic sheet
yellow belly
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- Location
- south west lincolnshire
Evaluate the varieties before harvest
Join a trials organisation where they measure yield more accurately
Join a trials organisation where they measure yield more accurately
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- South Notts
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My local aggregates place uses one of these buckets on front in a telehandler, drive into a bulk heap, hook your bag on underneath and discharge. Buy some bulk bags for short term storage, cost about £10 each and away you go until the cleaner comes.
Nearly
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- Location
- North of York
Spotted this.
Have you tried Brandon?
Saw some cut last fall, and it did very well.
- Location
- Lorette Manitoba
Yes. Grew some quiet a few years back on a seed contract. Wasn’t impressed with it. Stood very well and trashed easy and as far as hard red spring wheats go it yielded well. I moved away from quality milling wheat in favour of feed. most prefer the milling route but where I’m gaining is higher yield and no dockage from the feed mill. Also being close it’s less trucking and I’m on a emergency call list so if they get short fir a long weekend or poor weather im given extra for short notice but I have to deliver at some awkward times but we’ll compensated fir it.
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- Lorette Manitoba
Above picture is brandon If my memory is right.
- Location
- Lorette Manitoba
Still is on average. That would be 45bu an acre lots of wheat would be in that range in dryer areas. If mine averaged that I’d consider it a crop failure but some ground out west it’s a bin buster crop. I generally have better crop in a dryer year. My soil will hold water like a bucket. If the Brandon yielded in the 90 range it was better than mine and would have turned a good profit. What area was that grown.