Wheat harvest 2018

[Breckland Boy]

What do you reckon it's yielding?

It looked like you'd got a reasonable amount of straw in your other pictures.

Barley straw yield was good, all that growth when moisture was there. Did about 2t/acre.
Less straw in the wheat but I do sow it thin. Doing about 1.5 t/acre which is better than I feared.

 

[Breckland Boy]

They started for the local TV cameras last week then stoped as soon as they went away! A bit green in the shaded areas and believe it or not it was sprayed off with glyphosate only five days before. Not quite sure why they felt the need to spray off this year. Obviously their agronomist smelt a sale.

Then had the weekend off. I think they’ve got going today, like you.

Why is it that our two big neighbouring estates have to be on the telly all the time?

 

[Cuthbert]

View attachment 694446 View attachment 694448 View attachment 694452 Continuous wheat Diego will be the earliest here, but still rubs out pretty green.
Gravity after maize is still very green.

Excellent crops

 

[Breckland Boy]

Oops forgot that you too are a TV personality!!

 

[franklin]

That's shabras off next year's drilling list then.

 

[Feldspar]

Have wheat testing at about 25% today. How long until it's down to 17% do people reckon in this heat?

 

[Hobbit]

Was it 1st or 2nd wheat

1st. Have done another 40acres today which was basically all the same. Going to try some Siskin tomorrow which is a 2nd and looking bloody thin.

 

[Properjob]

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This is my other field of Shabras on stronger land. Had a good growth reg, and no more fertiliser than the other varieties . Don’t think I’ll dare grow it again.
Hutchinson’s trials it was all down apparently .

That's going to have a monstrous yield, only good crops lodge and still plenty of green in the straw/leaves to finish.

 

[Suffolk Serf]

Oops forgot that you too are a TV personality!!

Definitely a one off, and it was only because of them.

 

[Sprog]

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This is my other field of Shabras on stronger land. Had a good growth reg, and no more fertiliser than the other varieties . Don’t think I’ll dare grow it again.
Hutchinson’s trials it was all down apparently .

Shabras not the only variety going down!

 

[Gong Farmer]

Shabras also has low sprouting resistance, so going down is not good

 

[Andy26]

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Shabras not the only variety going down!

Looks like there's a belt of lighter soil in the bottom right hand corner of that trial area, plots in the top left have a significant advantage by the looks of it?

 

[fudge]

Have wheat testing at about 25% today. How long until it's down to 17% do people reckon in this heat?

Any particular reason not to wait for 15%? So far I wouldn’t regard 2018 as a normal year.

 

[solo]

35 acre grafton second wheat cut yesterday averaged 14.1% at 74.1kg/hl. Best estimate just over 2t/acre.

 

[Flat 10]

35 acre grafton second wheat cut yesterday averaged 14.1% at 74.1kg/hl. Best estimate just over 2t/acre.View attachment 694604

I’m sorry to hear that. Worried about some mine. Think it will go next week.

 

[SilliamWhale]

I'm hearing the Germans not having great yields

 

[Zippy768]

35 acre grafton second wheat cut yesterday averaged 14.1% at 74.1kg/hl. Best estimate just over 2t/acre.View attachment 694604

Sorry. You wont be the only one. Got some 2nd wheat Costello on light ground, well dead now. Sample and yield will be awful

 

[Sprog]

Looks like there's a belt of lighter soil in the bottom right hand corner of that trial area, plots in the top left have a significant advantage by the looks of it?

Top soil is all much the same but of varying depth due to underlying layers of mudstone but certainly some of the varieties will have had an advantage in the last few weeks of grain fill.

 

[shakerator]

Top soil is all much the same but of varying depth due to underlying layers of mudstone but certainly some of the varieties will have had an advantage in the last few weeks of grain fill.

so what would be your break even price at say 5.5t/ha?
it will make sobering reading im sure

good luck with the rest of your harvest

 

[Sprog]

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Shabras not the only variety going down!

On the 12th June the plots looked like this.