What % of your winter wheat is sown?

What % of your winter wheat has been sown

  • 0-20%

    Votes: 100 29.4%
  • 21-40%

    Votes: 31 9.1%
  • 41-60%

    Votes: 38 11.2%
  • 61-80%

    Votes: 37 10.9%
  • 81-90%

    Votes: 23 6.8%
  • 91-100%

    Votes: 106 31.2%
  • North East

    Votes: 41 12.1%
  • North West

    Votes: 15 4.4%
  • West Midlands

    Votes: 48 14.1%
  • East Midlands

    Votes: 60 17.6%
  • South West

    Votes: 51 15.0%
  • South East

    Votes: 30 8.8%
  • Scotland

    Votes: 17 5.0%
  • Wales

    Votes: 8 2.4%
  • East Anglia

    Votes: 46 13.5%
  • Northern Ireland

    Votes: 4 1.2%
  • September

    Votes: 25 7.4%
  • October

    Votes: 95 27.9%
  • November

    Votes: 46 13.5%
  • December

    Votes: 14 4.1%
  • January

    Votes: 17 5.0%
  • February

    Votes: 30 8.8%

  • Total voters
    340

Steevo

Member
Location
Gloucestershire
All done here, plus a bit extra too. Have one field that is spring barley that I had wondered about getting into wheat if I could. Will still drill up to mid March with Skyfall.

Heard of two here locally-one has planted no winter wheat, the other planted 250ac and only has 60ac viable left.

It’s all very hit and miss.
 
From the percentages assuming each band on average is planted to the mid point
the survey so far is 56 % planted
the question is what was the area original intenfed
assume 1.8 million ha then the area planted is 1 million ha
the ahdb give another 2700000 ha to be planted
make your conclusions
east Anglia and East Midlands are the biggest wheat growers by area
does a tff survey represent the actual farming area

of the farms I contract and farm 2 are 100 % planted and one is 25% planted the overall 40% planted
but this is only 28% of the 2019 harvested area

does the Ahdb or tff surveys represent the uk farms
other organisation estimates i here are between these 2 but nearer the lower figures
 

bankrupt

Member
Location
EX17/20
the question is what was the area original intended
Good point.

May have to change vote now - just realized there's probably half a dozen or so really tricky bits here never actually intended.

So now done quite considerably better than was thought until yesterday.
 
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Brisel

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Midlands
I've put 90% which I am luckily. Well done for trying to achieve this and I'm trying to think of an easy ad on to help those who have drilled late. I'm thinking something like: What percentage of your average do you expect looking at crops currently? Sorry if already mentioned

Perhaps just a simple poll on what growers think they will harvest as a % of September expectations of an “average harvest?”
 

Renaultman

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Darlington
Or even tonnage as a percentage of normal tonnage as I can see me harvesting nearly all of it but can see some of it being 2t ish. At the moment I predict my wheat harvest will less than half of last granted on a slightly reduced rotational acreage and that IMO is the most important statistic.
 

Oscar

Member
Livestock Farmer
Just pulling your leg but you forgot Somerset from your SW counties!!
Well on my little bit, planned 95 acs of first wheat and have drilled 82 acs. Maybe 70 acs is definitely ok and the 12 acs is questionable but will probably leave for logistic reasons ( patches and odd headlands)
Planned around 60 acs of winter barley but only managed 21 acs which is ok , maybe 1.5 acs is very thin from flooding but will stay.
Have got S barley seed delivered to drill remaining areas but think that around 7 acs will be fallow as currently under water.
55 acs of OSR drilled and ok but again 12 acs is very thin and now currently under water however will not be refilled.

My estimates will be 2.65t/ ac max for wheat and W barley ( 3.65t would be 5 year average), so 160t short
S barley , normally 2.85 t / ac and could do that again but not drilled yet or anytime soon.
OSR, averaged around 1.6 t / ac last three years but think a ton / ac on drilled area will be all it is so around 30 ton short
 

Clive

Staff Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lichfield
Perhaps just a simple poll on what growers think they will harvest as a % of September expectations of an “average harvest?”

yes that’s probably the simple question to ask

” compared with last years total sales what % do you expect your wheat tonnage to be reduced by this year ?”

thats would cover reduced planting intentions, reduced ability to plant, losses due t9 flood and reductions in yield expectation
 

Wsquire

Member
0% planted. No wheat in, no barley in, OSR failed for various reasons. Rightly or wrongly still planning on putting wheat in if it ever stops raining.

Sticking to planned area for Spring barley and peas to stick to rotation.
 
Not yet, but they have got planning permission now. What is the world coming to! The 21st century may get to us yet!

You don't need MacD ... OK Diner has you covered.

Drove the A606 from the A1 to Oakham 3 weeks ago tomorrow.
The area looks well (unsurprisingly), but special kudos to the grower of the two OSR fields, one on each side of the road, about a mile ? east of Rutland water. They are a league better than the best of Bedfordshire.
 

Wombat

Member
BASIS
Location
East yorks
Been for a wander and the stuff drilled a few weeks ago is coming, it’s very wet 80mm in 2 weeks straight after drilling doesn’t help. Lost a few acres where a neighbours pipe bridge blocked and flood us but hey ho
 

B'o'B

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Rutland
[QUOT
You don't need MacD ... OK Diner has you covered.

Drove the A606 from the A1 to Oakham 3 weeks ago tomorrow.
The area looks well (unsurprisingly), but special kudos to the grower of the two OSR fields, one on each side of the road, about a mile ? east of Rutland water. They are a league better than the best of Bedfordshire.
That’s R & R Mills, big contract farming set up. They cover 5000a+ possibly up to 6000a now, I lose track! They make a very good job of it, which I find incredibly considering the area they are covering. That rape went in very early, which definitely seems to have been the key to keeping a decent crop through winter the last couple of years around here.
 

AndrewM

Member
BASIS
Location
Devon
So far the above survey is averaging around the 60% planted at the most.
No real surprise to most of us which brings into question
where the 93% planted(Ahdb) came from?

ahdb dont say that 93% of wheat has been planted. they say that farmers when surveyed in February intended to plant 93% of the area of wheat they did last year, this included winter wheat and spring wheat yet to plant.
when you look at the data, it works out to be about 60+% of last years area. notso different than this survey

east midlands- 2019 planted 326,000Ha - 2020 survey, intended planted area 227,000Ha of which planted 62% = 140,740Ha ,(140740/326000)*100 = 43% of last years wheat area planted in the east midlands.

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SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

  • 0 %

    Votes: 80 42.3%
  • Up to 25%

    Votes: 66 34.9%
  • 25-50%

    Votes: 30 15.9%
  • 50-75%

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 75-100%

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 100% I’ve had enough of farming!

    Votes: 7 3.7%

Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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