glasshouse
Member
- Location
- lothians
what crop?Ripping through the acres yesterday, but when the best fields did 2t/a and the worst 1 t/a you don't spend a lot of time in the shed tipping, first year of DD hasn't been great
Wheat harvest 2018
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W Wheat
That’s not good! What yields would you expect normally?
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Ripping through the acres yesterday, but when the best fields did 2t/a and the worst 1 t/a you don't spend a lot of time in the shed tipping, first year of DD hasn't been great
Exactly what happened here when DD was first invented, ... Bettinson and Gramoxone, you need the right soil type, typically the stuff that is so easy to plough and follow with the drill.
The other farm thats Patriot, disc/press then vaddy, worst is 3t/a best 3.5t/a
- Location
- West Yorkshire
All these reports of everybody finishing harvest early, does this go for spring grown crops also in and around the west/east Yorkshire area?
A straw merchant is telling me very little spring crops harvested around this area which is what he’s waiting for.
Does this sound right to anybody out that way ?
A straw merchant is telling me very little spring crops harvested around this area which is what he’s waiting for.
Does this sound right to anybody out that way ?
- Location
- Lincs / Cambs border
At least you found it’s a waste of time in a year , it took me 5 and a lot of stress , cost and disappointment.Ripping through the acres yesterday, but when the best fields did 2t/a and the worst 1 t/a you don't spend a lot of time in the shed tipping, first year of DD hasn't been great
- Location
- Cirencester
Got started in SW Mulika, nothing to shout about but then didnt spend bugger all on it, 16.4% and doing between 4-5t/ha, so much for not using the drier this year!!
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Its quite true, just a little further south, the bit of rain has brought some of it back to life so will still be another 2 or 3 weeks.
Just nicely in to wheat on the Yorkshire coast lots of spring barley to cut. Not cut much wheat under 18% around 20% today . But it’s not bad for us . Fairly good yields in first wheat. 2nd nothing special. Not surprising after last autumn. Plenty of straw.
- Location
- West Yorkshire
Thanks for that.
I honestly thought I was having the P//s taken out off me.
I hope I don’t end up with wet straw this year off all years otherwise I would have bought over a month ago of someone else for same price as being offered now but at least it would be dry.
I honestly thought I was having the P//s taken out off me.
I hope I don’t end up with wet straw this year off all years otherwise I would have bought over a month ago of someone else for same price as being offered now but at least it would be dry.
Plenty of straw around these parts . Every acre baled. How much is it delivered out your way ?
- Location
- East yorks
Quite a bit in the valve of York to cut, keep catching rain and showers and a lot of the days have been very drab and humid. Grabbed some spring barley yesterday at 16.4% as some showers around again today and then getting cold.
- Location
- West Yorkshire
£110/ton delivered for spring barley, saying wheat is going to be the same at the moment.
- Location
- the brecks norfolk
I think that's telling you something.
Daniel
Member
- Location
- Mildenhall, Suffolk
Back to the plough?
- Location
- Lincs / Cambs border
A bit of everything plough, min til , DD osr and maybe some wheat after beans if conditions and forecast are perfect . Be flexible .
I really like the theory of DD and not sure after 10 years of HLS grass anything would have worked that well, I did plough a bit for S Barley, but that was late and dried out fast, its just scraped in at 2t/a, but spent begger all on it, just 1 Herb and 1 Fungicide and 2 bags of Extran, it was that fluffy it was a job to cut last night, kept pushing up in front of the header
Bluetooth
Member
- Location
- North east
Long day today, got a whole 2 hours combining and an hours baling before it rained again. Combine was just on its way to the last field.