Straw dilemma

[Hampton]

ffs an arable farmer without a baler , jeez

I’ve got a quadrant baler, it got a puncture. I even fetched the neighbours round baler to finish it (about 8pm) but then it poured down with rain.
when it stopped raining, my workman got covid so was off for 2 weeks, and I decided to prioritise combining the beans (about 70 acres 8 miles away). I chopped the bean straw.
Thought at some stage it would get dry enough to ted the straw, but every time it got close it rained.
Not really arsed about the straw anymore so going to take silver fox’ advice and disperse it before ploughing and drilling.
Once it dries….but if it does I might bale it! Although I can’t see my neighbour letting me use his round!
Or get a self prop forager!

 

[bobk]

Thats a job I’ve never done myself . Think my contractors newest one was £110k

Mine were slightly less .

 

[DRC]

ffs an arable farmer without a baler , jeez

As bad as one without a drier

 

[bobk]

I’ve got a quadrant baler, it got a puncture. I even fetched the neighbours round baler to finish it (about 8pm) but then it poured down with rain.
when it stopped raining, my workman got covid so was off for 2 weeks, and I decided to prioritise combining the beans (about 70 acres 8 miles away). I chopped the bean straw.
Thought at some stage it would get dry enough to ted the straw, but every time it got close it rained.
Not really arsed about the straw anymore so going to take silver fox’ advice and disperse it before ploughing and drilling.
Once it dries….but if it does I might bale it! Although I can’t see my neighbour letting me use his round!
Or get a self prop forager!

Bit of a perfect storm then .

 

[bobk]

As bad as one without a drier

Got a drier , just not mine .

 

[Hampton]

Bit of a perfect storm then .

Seems to be my life

 

[snarling bee]

Swan vesta baler. Used to be quite common in the 70's and 80's

 

[steveR]

Swan vesta baler. Used to be quite common in the 70's and 80's

I'll smell the smouldering straw from 20 milea away.....

 

[neilo]

Just drill between the swaths so you have less crop to buy fertiliser for?

 

[warksfarmer]

I’ve got about 4 acres of wheat straw still down from first week of September. It was part of the last field we combined, and due to a puncture on the baler, workman getting covid, rain and prioritising drilling, it is still in the windrows.
With the current forecasts, it doesn’t look like it will get baled so I need advice on the best way to drill without the straw issue.
I can either:
1) Ted out straw and plough
2) Ted out straw, disc, shakerate and drill
3) Hedge cut the windrows
What experiences have other forum members had in this situation.
Winter wheat Will be drilled with an Amazone combi.
TIA

Bale it and burn it.

 

[An Gof]

Bale it and burn it.

If it would bale and burn he wouldn’t have a problem

 

[warksfarmer]

If it would bale and burn he wouldn’t have a problem

Baled sodden crap here to get it off the field. You just can’t expect to pack the bale. Loose bales but they’ll still handle with a spike. These were so wet it was off the moisture spike scale.

 

[tr250]

Think I’d forget drilling it this autumn now it’s got wet. I’d chop it with trailed forager and let the worms and weather sort it out

 

[Hampton]

Just drill between the swaths so you have less crop to buy fertiliser for?

Anything elms about them paying for the swaths like beetle banks?

 

[neilo]

I had a small field of Spring Barley that was the last one cut in 2012, with the heaven’s opening again the next morning.

I remember baling it just before Christmas, and I remember chuckling as ‘I’m dreaming of a white Christmas’ came on the radio.

Have patience @Hampton , it’ll come.

 

[steveR]

I’ve got about 4 acres of wheat straw still down from first week of September. It was part of the last field we combined, and due to a puncture on the baler, workman getting covid, rain and prioritising drilling, it is still in the windrows.
With the current forecasts, it doesn’t look like it will get baled so I need advice on the best way to drill without the straw issue.
I can either:
1) Ted out straw and plough
2) Ted out straw, disc, shakerate and drill
3) Hedge cut the windrows
What experiences have other forum members had in this situation.
Winter wheat Will be drilled with an Amazone combi.
TIA

Brown's straw chopper with spreader vanes in. Must be a few about still...?

I did 200 hundred+ acres with one in a wet summer for a neighbout when the straw merchants went bump and he missed the boat for baling or anything....

 

[steveR]

I had a small field of Spring Barley that was the last one cut in 2012, with the heaven’s opening again the next morning.

I remember baling it just before Christmas, and I remember chuckling as ‘I’m dreaming of a white Christmas’ came on the radio.

Have patience @Hampton , it’ll come.

I still have a pic of a neighbour, long dead, who was never the most efficient at the job, combing spring barley after the Allscott factory had closed in mid January!

 

[Hampton]

I still have a pic of a neighbour, long dead, who was never the most efficient at the job, combing spring barley after the Allscott factory had closed in mid January!

Jeez, have you not met my neighbours at Broseley?
They’ve about 250 acres of wheat and oats left to cut.
This is not an unusual feat for them, often they are combining in march

 

[neilo]

I still have a pic of a neighbour, long dead, who was never the most efficient at the job, combing spring barley after the Allscott factory had closed in mid January!

I remember a similar fella back home, now also departed, who small baled ‘hay’ in the fog one November. It was on the ‘long meadow’, otherwise known as the wide road verge outside his farm gate.

Waste not, want not.

 

[Flat 10]

Jeez, have you not met my neighbours at Broseley?
They’ve about 250 acres of wheat and oats left to cut.
This is not an unusual feat for them, often they are combining in march

Combine cutting ww in the parish last week. We had a small area (very small) where the baler contractor missed some spring barley swathes out of a 30ft rotary. I was amazed that they ploughed in easily crosswises. To be certain that you will do a good job ted it, disc it and plough it.