Wheat yields so far

[willy]

Well started wheat on Wednesday and so far wheats have been interesting.

started on second wheats on brash, struggled to do 2.5t, then went into first wheat on brash again 2.5-2.75.

then went onto second wheat on brash but after failed osr which had sewage sludge incorporated at drilling last august then osr sprayed off and wheat drilled on one of the frosts in November. This has amazed me and done 3.5 tonnes an acre over 20 ha.

then back onto 1st wheaton v light land but with sewage sludge applied and this is doing a good 3.t.

sofor me sewage sludge is proving its value

 

[Feldspar]

I think sewage sludge is the single most important thing I have failed to do on the arable side of things. I tried to get some last year, but wasn't pushy enough.

 

[dirty harry]

Trouble is the cost? Here it’s £8/ton @20ton/ha....!!! So you need an extra ton/ha wheat to cover the cost of the sludge? Agreed it’s good - but....!! Cheers dh

 

[dirty harry]

Wheat yields all over here, headlands generally crap-ok, middles anything from 3.3-3.8 ton/ac so far on first & second wheat zyatt not really noticing much difference between first or second wheat yet? Still got some worse looking stuff to cut & some potentially better looking stuff to cut yet, but generally pleased all things considered! Cheers dh

 

[willy]

Trouble is the cost? Here it’s £8/ton @20ton/ha....!!! So you need an extra ton/ha wheat to cover the cost of the sludge? Agreed it’s good - but....!! Cheers dh

£3.50 a tonne spread here.

 

[jendan]

I think sewage sludge is the single most important thing I have failed to do on the arable side of things. I tried to get some last year, but wasn't pushy enough.

I thought it was banned for farm assurance? Lovely stuff full of heavy metals and oestrogen.

 

[fieldfarmer]

I thought it was banned for farm assurance? Lovely stuff full of heavy metals and oestrogen.

You best have a read for your self on your own assurance scheme and find where it's band, because it ain't on mine, I spread lot!

 

[Andy Howard]

How much micro plastic in it? Next big issue for industry.

 

[Case290]

1.5 - 2t on 2nd wheat , that had sludge didn’t do much for me.

 

[MrNoo]

2.2t/ac on 2nd wheats average here, spent naff all on it.

 

[APJ]

2ton second wheats with sludge or hen muck no difference just pants joys of gravel soils, the wet winter didn’t hurt them but a scorching may killed it off unfortunately. Least it’s over with now and we can move forward.

 

[Nitrams]

You can put what you like on the land but the biggest yield differentiater in extremes is strength/quality of your land. Workability when wet and ability to retain moisture when dry( subsoil just as important as topsoil for moisture retention) and this year both were required

 

[nick...]

Thanks for your honesty.will make me feel better when I get into my wheat with next to no roots and a flag leaf that dissapeared weeks ago
nick...

 

[ollie989898]

Well started wheat on Wednesday and so far wheats have been interesting.

started on second wheats on brash, struggled to do 2.5t, then went into first wheat on brash again 2.5-2.75.

then went onto second wheat on brash but after failed osr which had sewage sludge incorporated at drilling last august then osr sprayed off and wheat drilled on one of the frosts in November. This has amazed me and done 3.5 tonnes an acre over 20 ha.

then back onto 1st wheaton v light land but with sewage sludge applied and this is doing a good 3.t.

sofor me sewage sludge is proving its value

Phosphate gives the roots a good nod and keeps the plants going all winter.

Microplastics are a concern but will undoubtedly be banned from going into waste water before long with any luck.

 

[David.]

People pay water companies for the privilege of taking their controlled waste off their hands?

 

[bankrupt]

Couple of guys here not too happy :-

Uk wheat crop prediction 2020

My guess is 7million tonnes

thefarmingforum.co.uk

 

[Brisel]

I thought it was banned for farm assurance? Lovely stuff full of heavy metals and oestrogen.

Not for Red Tractor. Many milling wheat/oats and malting barley contracts forbid it. No fresh produce either.

 

[Brisel]

Trouble is the cost? Here it’s £8/ton @20ton/ha....!!! So you need an extra ton/ha wheat to cover the cost of the sludge? Agreed it’s good - but....!! Cheers dh

Usually worth £10/t in N and P with the bonus of trace elements and organic matter. 20 t/ha gives around 3 crops worth of P (circa 220 kg/ha P2O5)

 

[Brisel]

How much micro plastic in it? Next big issue for industry.

What is your view on this issue? My concern is what the plastic breaks down into. Still a yield lift on chalk after a dose and no reduction in earthworm numbers.

Having said that, the 3 osr fields treated with sewage cake last autumn were lost to flea beetle

 

[bankrupt]

the 3 osr fields treated with sewage cake last autumn were lost to flea beetle

Having spent many happy days the last ten or twelve autumns ploughing in the sewage cake, Brisel, I can confirm that it's extraordinary attractive to anything at all that can fly, particularly just after dawn.