- Location
- midlothian
started at 22% got down to 20% winter Barley 50 arces down, 180 to go. then 300 acres osr (not fit yet but will be if the weather continues) joys of Scotland!
What moisture to start harvesting at?
- Thread starter Feldspar
- Start date
- Location
- North Kent, UK
We tried a bit of skyfall late yesterday afternoon - cut a trailer load and called it a day. It was 15.8%. Most on here would think I'm crazy not to have carried on. We have no drying facilities, no longer use commercial storage but we are well over capacity on the combine front. We know historically that all we require is a couple of sunny days and it will be sub-15% ...it's only the end of July, hagbergs should be fine. Also not in a hurry to put rape in until first week of September, direct drilled, so in no rush to clear ground for cultivations either.
- Location
- Cambridgeshire UK
@moretimeforgolf If that statement doesn't come back to haunt you we can all relax.
Relax in this particular harvest, RTK Farmer, and one's certainly sure to regret it.
As a matter of immediate interest, when are moretimeforgolf's two sunny days due to appear?
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John Slejpner
Member
- Location
- Brick clay near Bedford
An unexpectedly good day today. Cleared 40 acres between 10:30 (18%) and 19:30 (15.5%).
What are yields like John?
Had nibble at barley again today, first for 10 days, sticky soil picking up on lifters and causing bulldozing, need them on because heads hanging close to floor.
This might be as good as it gets, every ruddy thing is now ready together around here. Better look silly early than silly late, every time.
This might be as good as it gets, every ruddy thing is now ready together around here. Better look silly early than silly late, every time.
- Location
- North Kent, UK
No dryer = no choice. I'm in Kent not Kelso. Rain tomorrow, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday looks dry ...at the moment!
John Slejpner
Member
- Location
- Brick clay near Bedford
A hopefully conservative estimate would be 7.5t/ha. Third & fourth (continuous?/) wheat
Simon Chiles
DD Moderator
- Location
- Surrey/ Kent Border, UK
As you know I'm also in Kent ( just ) and the forecast as far as I can see it looks as though we have showers on Sun, Mon, Tue, and Wed. It's my fault as one of my customers has gone on holiday to the Maldives and I told him we'd be finished by the time he got back on the 3rd! Got seed crops of Oats and Triticale that I'm desperate to get although they are still OK at the moment and all the wheat I've got to cut, Skyfall and Trinity, is ready now. Even winter beans look only a couple of weeks off.
And I should be desperate for you were your seed Triticale to sprout for the first time, Simon Chiles.
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With mixed moistures in the wet bin it's hard to control the drier when the flow is so slow (2 hours to go through) to get 5% out of osr at cooler burner temperatures (80 dregrees). One minute the intake is 14% then next it has 11% on top of it so the exhaust temperature varies so much. On slow throughputs you're cooking it one minute then underdrying it the next. It's not much more time consuming to fire it throught twice at double the speed with easier control of output moisture, plus I have plenty of bin space for the half dried crop. Daily showers also leave plenty of time for catching up. I should probaly not worry about it, set it at one rate and hope the wet spots blend away with the dry.
Mr Charisma
Member
- Location
- stratford on Avon
Not panicking yet , still happy to wait and cut rape at 10% . To be honest last week the crop has dried so quickly that moisture came down from 11% to 9% in a hour and a half , and to be fair to my combines lack of output the crop is hardly fit yet , still finding green stalks yesterday .
With in 2 hours cutting I will be moving onto a block of campus , planted at a lot higher seed rate , I'm hoping that although there looks to be a lot more material to go through the machine that it will be fitter
With in 2 hours cutting I will be moving onto a block of campus , planted at a lot higher seed rate , I'm hoping that although there looks to be a lot more material to go through the machine that it will be fitter
Jo28
Member
- Location
- East Yorks
weather looks awful again this next week, does anyone know if a high is ever going to get in??!!
- Location
- North Kent, UK
To be fair, I am a member of Weald Granary, and their drying charges are reasonable. On the other hand I have lost good cutting weather in the past due to slow collection and I don't like the rest of their charges. I reckon we get a problem with hagberg one year in fifteen, and that would only be on small proportion of that total crop. It is a risk based on what has happened historically. This year may be that problem year but let's not be pessimistic at the end of July!
Woldgrain Storage
Member
- Location
- Hemswell, North Lincs
Prompt collection from farm whenever the grower wants movement shouldn't be a problem for any central store, especially if they own/lease their own vehicles.
Indeed, but are the members happy to pay for the potential increase in charges from the investment required in higher capacity at peak periods? I've never been to a central store meeting where at least one member hasn't grumbled about charges! You can't win
