same here. I think rain is too late here for anything apart from the later bit of linseed, sugar beet and winter beans. Cereals look terrible with the exception of winter barley which was nearly ahead of the moisture deficit.
Spring crops really struggling
- Thread starter SilliamWhale
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- Location
- Cirencester
Spring Wheat here looks really good, it is on clay however, maybe any rain in the next 10-14 days may make it yield ok but did get drilled late. Looked at WW yesterday at 8-30am and the flags were curled up, these next few days will hammer the crops, dont dare go and look at the Spring Barley on brash.
Same here now , going to go through with some strob and mag on the sb to try and keep it green as long as possible rightly or wrongly
Jon 3085
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- Location
- Worcester, UK
Recon this hot dry weather is robbing yield at a rate of 100kg ha a day on some poorer land . I do feel for everyone affected as a lot of hard work has gone into trying to get a good crop this year and then this weather comes and kicks you . Well it is farming I suppose and we cant do anything about it .
shakerator
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- Location
- LINCS
Possible storms next week now ...
- Location
- East yorks
Can't see them making it up here, the last lot didn't
My take, tw15, is that, whereas in other industries one's worst enemies are one's competitors, ever keen to steal a march and to take advantage, in farming it's always been mainly the weather.
Clearly, other competition exists (from French wheat and from Scandinavian oats, in our case) but they are all subject to the weather, too.
Furthermore, the benefit of the weather being one's main opponent is that we all have an enormous advantage, extensive time series of its dumb strategies being available on demand, allowing the development of good defensive techniques, based upon the historic probabilities of wet summers, wet harvests, late frosts, drought, etc.
Unfortunately, historic probabilities tend to be ignored when, for example, four or five successive unusually good years for spring crops arrive on the trot, as they did.
Honest john
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- Location
- Fenland
You have to wonder what the season has in store for us.
Since a few days before Christmas it's been too Cold, too wet, too hot, & now toooo dry.
A lot of crop went in too wet & now it won't rain again.
It was a bit like this in 1994. Spuds were £300 that season so now 24 yrs on £500 sounds reasonable.
@Sonoftheheir ?
Since a few days before Christmas it's been too Cold, too wet, too hot, & now toooo dry.
A lot of crop went in too wet & now it won't rain again.
It was a bit like this in 1994. Spuds were £300 that season so now 24 yrs on £500 sounds reasonable.
@Sonoftheheir ?
- Location
- West Suffolk
I remember 94/95’ fondly, I was 21, dating a 18 year old blonde. The farm made the most profit since 76 and I bought a 3 bedroom detached house.Times were good!
Looking around @Honest john i can not see why spuds won’t make a lot? If things stay the same, and even with the perceived lack of demand. I don’t like to get too excited but £10 a bag for decent stuff must be achievable later on?
Looking around @Honest john i can not see why spuds won’t make a lot? If things stay the same, and even with the perceived lack of demand. I don’t like to get too excited but £10 a bag for decent stuff must be achievable later on?
What % of potatoes are sold on contract compared to free-market prices?
Still with her then ?!!
- Location
- West Suffolk
No, traded her in for a brunette in 98’
- Location
- West Suffolk
I have no idea, but we’re all free buy. There are a few more going over to contracting part of their crop around here. It seems this year they were loading bulkers much later in the season though.
And then a rubbish year the next year as you have put your customers off and they are now using pre prepared imported stuff.