Uk Soya Bean crop 2019?

[Pilatus]

I think some of you were growing a few ha’s of Soya Beans for combining this year, were they a success,will you grow them again?

 

[Brisel]

@tw15 hasn't cut his yet, though it won't be long before he does. Great looking crop from the roadside.

 

[tw15]

Still hanging on some still green soft beans , so still going to be ten days away from cutting. As they don't shed easily and not wanting to drill ww till middle of oct no worries just hope the dry weather comes back late next week and into the first week of October

 

[New Puritan]

Assuming it doesn't turn into an embarrasing disaster I've got some to harvest soon and will post here too

 

[Pilatus]

I may have imagined it but I thought @Clive planted some this spring.

 

[Neddy flanders]

are there really no varieties from anywhere in the world which wont mature in the UK til October?

 

[tw15]

Combines don.t know the date its only us .
0000 varieties are the only ones that are suited to the uk .

 

[Brisel]

What is the name of your variety? Wasn’t it from Ukraine?

 

[tw15]

Silverka is what we have grown .

 

[New Puritan]

Assuming it doesn't turn into an embarrassing disaster I've got some to harvest soon and will post here too

Gah! So I've given up on my soya for this year. They've gone mouldy / mildewy from all the relentless rain.

They had been looking really quite good too, not bad yielding (for organic) & not overly weedy etc. They hung on in there 'til last week-ish and then the f**king mould got in.

There was a v light frost one morning last week, would that have been the turning point? The beans went soft afterwards.

I'll still try again next year though.

 

[heritagefarmer]

Gah! So I've given up on my soya for this year. They've gone mouldy / mildewy from all the relentless rain.

They had been looking really quite good too, not bad yielding (for organic) & not overly weedy etc. They hung on in there 'til last week-ish and then the f**king mould got in.

There was a v light frost one morning last week, would that have been the turning point? The beans went soft afterwards.

I'll still try again next year though.

Great to see you’re not giving up on them! How many ha did you have in? Would be interesting to hear from others.

 

[Michael3112]

I think some of you were growing a few ha’s of Soya Beans for combining this year, were they a success,will you grow them again?

Ours are still in the field yet

 

[heritagefarmer]

Ours are still in the field yet

Is it the plant or the ground conditions keeping you out?

 

[Clive]

I may have imagined it but I thought @Clive planted some this spring.

you imagined it I'm afraid

after x2 failed attempts (2015 /16) I'm now banned by father and agronomist from trying again!

Reading here they are still to be cut I'm happy with that ban

 

[Gong Farmer]

Harvested our trials yesterday.

 

[Steevo]

Still hanging on some still green soft beans , so still going to be ten days away from cutting. As they don't shed easily and not wanting to drill ww till middle of oct no worries just hope the dry weather comes back late next week and into the first week of October

If only.....

 

[Michael3112]

Is it the plant or the ground conditions keeping you out?

Plant would go now, it just so wet they are on heavy ground this year an everytime its nearly dry enough it rains again but it might be a case of once it sort of doable dosnt help some of the beans a quite close to the ground on the plant so need the header real close to the ground

 

[tw15]

Just cant get enough dry weather to get them dry enough to cut . Who would of thought that since that when the weather broke it would bet wet for over a month . Oh well it will be what ever in the end .

 

[BSH]

Had to write mine off. Went mouldy/rotten. Was a poor crop from the start. I had one good year, but two bad with them. I think they dont suit my ground. I struggle with these dry springs... when there is enough warmth to get them going, I run out of moisture. Pity as I thought they would be really good in the rotation.

 

[New Puritan]

Great to see you’re not giving up on them! How many ha did you have in? Would be interesting to hear from others.

It was one whole hectare! Just an experiment at the end of a field. I tried the previous year but they never came to anything, so this year was looking much better until they all went mouldy. I think next year I'll put them in at a wider spacing which as well as allowing for inter-row weeding might create a bit of airflow and reduce the mould risk. It was the weather really though that did for them this time, and there's nothing anyone can do about that.