The Anyone finished yet thread

[ajd132]

what do you do with grain when you can’t get trucks ?

Put it in a heap or in a shed. Just about managing.

 

[jendan]

1300 out of 2000ha done. About 260ha wheat left to go. The rest is spring oats, spring wheat and winter beans.
there is masses of uncut fields in this area.
I think we’re doing okay, keep cutting, save quality and into Camgrain (when lorries are available!)
Some good yields and some fairly average.
fairly happy. Certainly pleased we have a low overhead system.

How many peeps do you have working 4500 acre?

 

[ajd132]

How many peeps do you have working 4500 acre?

2 full time + me and quite a few local self employed people/family and a man and tractor who come when we are busy. I do the agronomy aswell.

 

[B R C]

For every day I think "wow, if I'd kept on I'd have a big pile of dosh" my wife reminds me that I'd probably have had several heart attacks, or been medicated, or shed have left me. Got a nice, casual day on my brother's fendt with a set of 12m rolls on. Bank holiday weekend with the children. And I sleep at nights. Well, not the week before my "harvest" but it's so much better.

Same here, just have to look after grain store and mobile drier so can start and finish when I want, going for 50km bike ride with nates in the morning then probably do a couple loads through drier in the afternoon. Stress levels much reduced!

 

[Days of thunder]

1300 out of 2000ha done. About 260ha wheat left to go. The rest is spring oats, spring wheat and winter beans.
there is masses of uncut fields in this area.
I think we’re doing okay, keep cutting, save quality and into Camgrain (when lorries are available!)
Some good yields and some fairly average.
fairly happy. Certainly pleased we have a low overhead system.

Don’t believe it.

 

[ajd132]

Don’t believe it.

Don’t believe what?

 

[teslacoils]

 

[thorpe]

not cut anything since last friday but straw all carted and dry finished drilling osr today after waiting for seed for last field pizz it down tommorw, high pressure next week crack the last of the wheat then onto spring barley, jobs a good un! best laid plans an all that.

 

[Days of thunder]

Don’t believe what?

That you farm at all.

 

[ajd132]

That you farm at all.

Why would that be? Are you bored or something?

 

[mac]

We started spring barley today.

 

[jendan]

We started spring barley today.

Which bit of Caithness is it? How much do you grow? Great photo!

 

[Sonoftheheir]

Haven’t done any wheat since the 15th, have had 4.5mm since then. Moisture can’t seem to get below 17% without sun and wind. Cloudy here again and very still. Really am fed up with the lack of sun this year.

 

[David.]

Nearly an inch of rain 02.00 Sunday morning has quieted things a bit.

 

[Widgetone]

Put it in a heap or in a shed. Just about managing.

what sort of delays for trucks are there now?

 

[Zippy768]

Nothing since last weds.
Didnt have the expected amount of rain Saturday, yesterday pleasant enough. No sun or wind today. Testing 20.2%. No combining today.....

 

[Sonoftheheir]

Chilly northern breeze now. No sun!

 

[farmbrew]

Will finish this week if my part fits from Richard Manners, fingers crossed

 

[Norfolk Olly]

336 ha to go yet, a good week and we will be done. When’s the heatwave coming

 

[Secret Agronomist]

900 acres to go!
Wheat and rye were 20% on hand samples at 4 today, hoping for a dry night to get on tomorrow.