Wheat harvest 2018

[Tractor Boy]

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

Won’t be ready till at least the weekend I wouldn’t have thought. Even roundupped stuff takes 7-10 days from 30% to 15%.

 

[Barleymow]

heavy land here near Ipswich wheat will be ready next week only bit by the river still green

 

[Charlie--chalk]

Rubbed an ear out last week from some Crusoe on really light land.... just awful!! Never seen such crap! Just finished a truly terrible barley crop (didn’t cope with the wet then couldn’t cope with the drought), so harvest is going to be a complete non event here... gutted! [emoji22]

 

[TJB]

Wheat started in east Kent today @ 13% not sure on yield or quality yet though....

 

[SilliamWhale]

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Rubbed an ear out last week from some Crusoe on really light land.... just awful!! Never seen such crap! Just finished a truly terrible barley crop (didn’t cope with the wet then couldn’t cope with the drought), so harvest is going to be a complete non event here... gutted! [emoji22]

When did you last have rain?

 

[John Slejpner]

Started continuous wheat Skyfall this PM.
Some green grains etc but seems to be average 14.5%. The dry grains are almost too hard for the protimeter grinder, or your teeth.
Looks the right colour, a shovel feels heavy,
Not much idea on yield yet but hoping a bit over 7.5t/ha based on last years v similar drought experience.
Easily thrashed which was a surprise - ear is breaking up to dust - straw is gorgeous but a handful for the chopper. No fungal degredation at all of leaves that died months ago!! Straw has that pink colour mentioned in barley thread.

I first for me - this wheat has never had a rain on it - last rain was 30th may when ear was breaking boot.

 

[ajd132]

Did a field of First wheat Siskin on heavy clay which did 8t/ha over weighbridge, moved onto spring oats as was still abit wet at 18%.

 

[phil]

Cellule wheat nearly there
At least 3 weeks earlier than normal

 

[Feldspar]

Did a field of First wheat Siskin on heavy clay which did 8t/ha over weighbridge, moved onto spring oats as was still abit wet at 18%.

Not too awful.

 

[Charlie--chalk]

When did you last have rain?

The last decent rain was early May.... only had a couple of mm tops since

 

[Fuzzy]

Started continuous wheat Skyfall this PM.
Some green grains etc but seems to be average 14.5%. The dry grains are almost too hard for the protimeter grinder, or your teeth.
Looks the right colour, a shovel feels heavy,
Not much idea on yield yet but hoping a bit over 7.5t/ha based on last years v similar drought experience.
Easily thrashed which was a surprise - ear is breaking up to dust - straw is gorgeous but a handful for the chopper. No fungal degredation at all of leaves that died months ago!! Straw has that pink colour mentioned in barley thread.

I first for me - this wheat has never had a rain on it - last rain was 30th may when ear was breaking boot.

Any better idea on yield ?? My 70 acres of skyfall does not look very promising!

 

[Flat 10]

If I was offered 7.5 t/ha of 72kg/hl (all first wheats) today I would definitely take it.

 

[bankrupt]

If I was offered 7.5 t/ha of 72kg/hl (all first wheats) today I would definitely take it.

I'd take 6.5

 

[John Slejpner]

Any better idea on yield ?? My 70 acres of skyfall does not look very promising!

Bushel 77 (Hag 300+) protein 14.5%!!

Moisture - 13.5 was last nights sample dropped into Frontier intentionally containing a LOT of green gains from the lead tramline.
Infield today our Protimeter is reading 11 point something....unbelievable till you try and bite some.
8 inch auger handling a tonne a minute has a garden hose running full bore into it and its not half enough

Yield at least 8 t/ha. crop is way too thick for the season but seems to be getting away with it

 

[Flat 10]

I'd take 6.5

I should add I think I would have taken the 7.5 3 weeks ago

 

[bankrupt]

I should add I think I would have taken the 7.5 3 weeks ago

Unfortunately, Flat 10, such offers have been scarce, hereabouts.

Though I did hear in the pub that standing green wheat near Exeter fetched nearly £1000/acre from a local badly-droughted dairy farmer desperate to get something in his clamp.

 

[Worsall]

Skyfall doing surprisingly well.Good thick crop on light land circa 3.3t/acre. Very happy with that.
72kg, so a bit light.
Now cant wait to get into the proper crops on clay.

 

[Flat 10]

Skyfall doing surprisingly well.Good thick crop on light land circa 3.3t/acre. Very happy with that.
72kg, so a bit light.
Now cant wait to get into the proper crops on clay.

Well done, but spare a thought for those of us who will be struggling to find any good news....,.

 

[Feldspar]

Some parts of even this area got a good dose of rain when most of the rest of us didn't. I would have thought on well bodied land that those areas should be expecting pretty good yields.

 

[bankrupt]

Some parts of even this area got a good dose of rain when most of the rest of us didn't. I would have thought on well bodied land that those areas should be expecting pretty good yields.

Spot on, Feldspar.

Disease and lodging not generally being limiting factors, it's all down to the underground moisture and to the overhead.

Some crops have had both, some one or the other, and some neither.

Cue some record-breaking yields, some pretty reasonable, and some rather poor.

Unfortunately, our experience this time has been, as we expected, entirely of the latter.