Wheat yields so far

[Brisel]

Never had a fly problem with sewage digestate. Lots with poultry muck though.

 

[bankrupt]

Never had a fly problem with sewage digestate. Lots with poultry muck though.

There's digestate and there's digestate.

Some that we've had in from Torquay's been far more toxic than anything you'd ever get from Bournemouth.

 

[Brisel]

There's digestate and there's digestate.

Some that we've had in from Torquay's been far more toxic than anything you'd ever get from Bournemouth.

That will be all the cider and Doom Bar you lot consume - more curry powder in Bournemouth's by product

 

[jendan]

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

I buy straw off a farming family from near the coast(Whitley Bay area) and they told me if any of the group were found to be using it,they would not take their grain.I think it was Tyne Grain( or whatever they are called now). The neighbouring estate to me used it on their grassland for years and it stank to high heaven.It was just raw sewage mixed with some lime.The owners and farm manager started getting death threats so stopped using it.

 

[DRC]

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.

Did you have much regrowth. Anything that died off here in May, has now greened up again.
sprayed some later sown costello off yesterday. Earlier drilled Gleam was testing from 15 to 18.5% this afternoon, so hopefully will be good to go at the end of the week, if we have a hot day or two.

 

[SilliamWhale]

I'd say I'm doing about 3t acre average. Bit thin but only £40,/ ha in fungicides cost.

It's about 17% but I'm harvesting and drying with my cheap covid kero. Only 50p ton. We have rain forecast for Tuesday and Wednesday so sod it

Hoping for 7 or 8 round bales to the acre

 

[ajd132]

5-9t/ha.

 

[bobk]

I'd say I'm doing about 3t acre average. Bit thin but only £40,/ ha in fungicides cost.

It's about 17% but I'm harvesting and drying with my cheap covid kero. Only 50p ton. We have rain forecast for Tuesday and Wednesday so sod it

Hoping for 7 or 8 round bales to the acre

Lot of about's in that post .

 

[SilliamWhale]

Well it won't get baled til tomorrow.

I'm calling a Bailey 11t trailer at 17% 10 ton of wheat. Don't have a lexion yield meter so ii reckon I'm more accurate with my estimates

 

[APJ]

Did you have much regrowth. Anything that died off here in May, has now greened up again.
sprayed some later sown costello off yesterday. Earlier drilled Gleam was testing from 15 to 18.5% this afternoon, so hopefully will be good to go at the end of the week, if we have a hot day or two.

Just an odd green one starting to appear, but all in the shed now all under 15 percent. Got a small bit of tidy wheat to do this week hopefully it does a lot better.

 

[Brisel]

I buy straw off a farming family from near the coast(Whitley Bay area) and they told me if any of the group were found to be using it,they would not take their grain.I think it was Tyne Grain( or whatever they are called now). The neighbouring estate to me used it on their grassland for years and it stank to high heaven.It was just raw sewage mixed with some lime.The owners and farm manager started getting death threats so stopped using it.

What group and what crop? Let me guess - Quaker oats for Grainco? https://www.grainco.co.uk/oatco.html

Lime stabilised sewage cake does smell awful! A few sewage works still produce it but most put it through an anaerobic digester which takes most of the smell out.

 

[Andy Howard]

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

My view is that it could be seen as a future contaminant and an excuse for people to reject crops from that land. Is is worth the risk? Not sure.

 

[jendan]

What group and what crop? Let me guess - Quaker oats for Grainco? https://www.grainco.co.uk/oatco.html

Lime stabilised sewage cake does smell awful! A few sewage works still produce it but most put it through an anaerobic digester which takes most of the smell out.

I just took it that it was everything they sold to GrainCo.It was a few years ago now though.By coincidence,they share the same surname as the world record holder for wheat yield and had a go at it couple of years ago.

 

[Brisel]

My view is that it could be seen as a future contaminant and an excuse for people to reject crops from that land. Is is worth the risk? Not sure.

Too late for many. A huge area of UK farmland has been treated with heavily regulated sewage cake. The heavy metals will never be seen again on high pH soils. Plastics? Add a load more acres of land that's had compost and you've just removed half UK farmland from production. Of course you have to prove that there is a problem.

 

[teslacoils]

Too late for many. A huge area of UK farmland has been treated with heavily regulated sewage cake. The heavy metals will never be seen again on high pH soils. Plastics? Add a load more acres of land that's had compost and you've just removed half UK farmland from production. Of course you have to prove that there is a problem.

It's only a problem for those who love looking for a problem.

 

[Andy Howard]

Too late for many. A huge area of UK farmland has been treated with heavily regulated sewage cake. The heavy metals will never be seen again on high pH soils. Plastics? Add a load more acres of land that's had compost and you've just removed half UK farmland from production. Of course you have to prove that there is a problem.

Completely agree, also the fishing industry would be dead. The problem is there are people who think we should rewild 50% of the Farmland and are looking for an excuse. Not sure compost has microplastic. Plastic yes.

 

[Renaultman]

What group and what crop? Let me guess - Quaker oats for Grainco? https://www.grainco.co.uk/oatco.html

Lime stabilised sewage cake does smell awful! A few sewage works still produce it but most put it through an anaerobic digester which takes most of the smell out.

I don't think it's allowed on the bean contracts either.

 

[fieldfarmer]

I don't think it's allowed on the bean contracts either.

I dont think your aloud to spread in front of a bean crop, anywhere, you won't get a spreading approval for the field if the crop is to be beans.

 

[Brisel]

I dont think your aloud to spread in front of a bean crop, anywhere, you won't get a spreading approval for the field if the crop is to be beans.

Agreed. RB209 says no N for pulses, so you’d have to fudge the paperwork to feed a catch/cover crop first.

 

[puntabrava]

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.

You would probably struggle to be accepted onto the database now.