You're lucky you can get going. Seems to rain every other day. Hardly turned a wheel in weeks.
Our wheat has been the star this year, barley and oats pretty average but heavy land and wheat have been good cut a 3rd wheat at 12.4 t/ha yesterday and decent straw.
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Decent straw? How wide is your header?
No mate, we all deserve some success. Mind you all my neighbours have baled ever stem of straw to sell & have romped over harvest quick...lack of grain trailers flying about.Saying I've got 5t/a won't make the bank balance any better when they're as low as they are, and why not be honest, at least it will make some people feel better about there crops
............and just in case anyones thinking I'm a rubbish farmer ( probably am ) OSR averaged 1.9t/a over the weighbridge off 66 acre
No mate, we all deserve some success. Mind you all my neighbours have baled ever stem of straw to sell & have romped over harvest quick...lack of grain trailers flying about.
Me, I don't have a lack of storage this year and the combine is remarkably good on diesel.
Fair playAll combinables gone,
Grp1 milling Wheat 4.2 t acre
Feed barley 4t acre
Spring barley 3t acre
All up on last year, we always seem to do better here in a dry year.
Overall very pleased!
So you should beAll combinables gone,
Grp1 milling Wheat 4.2 t acre
Feed barley 4t acre
Spring barley 3t acre
All up on last year, we always seem to do better here in a dry year.
Overall very pleased!
All combinables gone,
Grp1 milling Wheat 4.2 t acre
Feed barley 4t acre
Spring barley 3t acre
All up on last year, we always seem to do better here in a dry year.
Overall very pleased!
i can only dream of such numbers.......... one day though I will get myself a proper farm to farm
Ha! We only farm on a tiny scale compared to you, if I can’t get 100 acres of wheat and 50 of barley right, then I may as well let Mr Big Farmer up the road have it.
there isn't 100ac of my farm that could do those numbers, nice easy soil but its doesn't like a dry time
My great grandfather did well when he bought this place 100 years ago. Mostly black Fen with clay underneath. Soil works nicely on top for germination then the roots can get down to the moisture retaining clay in years like this.
All combinables gone,
Grp1 milling Wheat 4.2 t acre
Feed barley 4t acre
Spring barley 3t acre
All up on last year, we always seem to do better here in a dry year.
Overall very pleased!