Who’s fired up the grain drier?

[Bignor Farmer]

We’ve got fit wheat and it Hasn’t rained properly since early June but now we keep catching light showers every day, very annoying!

Weather forecast is hotter for the end of the week but I think we’re going to chip away at it in the afternoons, seems to be between 15.5% and 17%. Any other year I’d grab every bit of sub 18% I could get.

It doesn’t really exist until it’s in the barn

 

[Woldgrain Storage]

So far we have dried 19,640 litres out of 12,500mt of intake.

On this date last year we had dried 15,530 litres out of 2,300mt of intake.

For some context, drying 500mt of wheat by 3% would be removing 15,000 litres of water.

 

[Minesapint]

Have cut 180acres Extase, 15.5-16.5%. A litre of Kero/tonne to dry it. I don’t trust the forecasters!
Skyfall is not fit.

 

[yellow belly]

Wheat not ripe enough here heavy land with more than enough rain in June
Still got green in the straw

 

[ollie989898]

Plenty early yet.

 

[jondear]

Neighbors doing wheat today here in Devon must be nearly a record !

 

[PSQ]

21% Grafton, Scottish Borders. 95% fit, but yesterdays 9mm of rain is stopping us from combining.

 

[Jon 3085]

I cut a couple of trailer loads @18.5 to 21% to open a field up this afternoon, all went well until I saw my dad going across the field with the hydraulic tailboard in the air with a half loaded trailer good job there wasn’t too much on the back of the trailer.

 

[AndrewM]

Neighbors doing wheat today here in Devon must be nearly a record !

just made a start tonight, 14% about 3t/acre on sand. earliest we have cut wheat before

 

[Zippy768]

I cut a couple of trailer loads @18.5 to 21% to open a field up this afternoon, all went well until I saw my dad going across the field with the hydraulic tailboard in the air with a half loaded trailer good job there wasn’t too much on the back of the trailer.View attachment 1052226

You just wanted to show off that spanky nice trailer

 

[DRC]

Wheat not ready here yet. OSR only just about ready .

 

[farmerm]

some folk love to create work, dust and burn diesel.

 

[MrNoo]

Just took enough off for a drier load 27t this afternoon, 17-17.5% more to iron out any bugs re combine and drier, a few greens in the tramlines but the rest is just about fit, Skyfall. Need to tighten up the chaff spreader belt but otherwise all good. Lovely brood of young English Partridge chicks and also a brood of "bumble bee" sized chicks too, lovely to see, they've had a good year.

 

[Jon 3085]

You just wanted to show off that spanky nice trailer

14 years old

 

[Zippy768]

14 years old

Wow

 

[Bignor Farmer]

Despite a couple of showers we did tip a few loads dry yesterday and mixed a few more 15.5s with some off the drier. Green headlands no worse than 17.5%.

2nd wheat gleam doing 9t/ha over the weighbridge but will be pulled down by a few sketchy headlands as we move across the block.

 

[idle git]

My skyfalll was 17.8% on Mon evening,, possibly the lowest it had been as in still ripening but anxious to keep going as yesterday we had a showery forecast for the next 10 days.
This block of wheat is going into our local storage facility who will quite happily dry it for me if my patience runs out. But on the plus side because I don't believe in liquid sunshine I have £2 a ton in my wallet to pay towards the drying
Did nip a sample to the store from Mon. moisture 17.8, protein 13.6. Twm 78.3. Hagburg 365

 

[B R C]

Cut the oats all dry Sun/Mon just wheat now and have no intention of using the dryer. Neighbour who cuts it is over halfway through combining now.

 

[DRC]

It is still only July according to my calendar . Quite often we haven’t even started winter barley .
I did see a neighbour cutting spring barley yesterday, which must be a record for round here .

 

[MrNoo]

It is still only July according to my calendar . Quite often we haven’t even started winter barley .
I did see a neighbour cutting spring barley yesterday, which must be a record for round here .

I see on Twitter that there was one chap finished yesterday, mind boggling when some haven't even started