"Will crops survive" poll????

[Bossfarmer]

Quite so, snarling bee.

Fact is, as in 1975 and in 1989, crops are so poor that the only way to show the circling banksters that another big loss has not been made here will be to trade in a combine or two asap after harvest.

The one I always drive, for example, might easily fetch £85k as a trade-in, but currently stands in the books at about £145.

Shall be very sorry to say goodbye, but needs must.

how will you cut your grain next year?

 

[bankrupt]

How many combines you got?

Three, currently.

The only way we could seem to get 50ft and 100t/hr for less than £5k invested.

 

[Wombat]

Things are really not pretty here, but I have never farmed through such a year of extremes

660mm in 6 months then 19mm in 3 months

The sooner we can get harvest done and then start again the better

 

[An Gof]

Three, currently.

The only way we could seem to get 50ft and 100t/hr for less than £5k invested.

Poor old Tony has passed on but you could have given the Wag form Widecombe a run for his money ???

 

[glasshouse]

Quite so, snarling bee.

Fact is, as in 1975 and in 1989, crops are so poor that the only way to show the circling banksters that another big loss has not been made here will be to trade in a combine or two asap after harvest.

The one I always drive, for example, might easily fetch £85k as a trade-in, but currently stands in the books at about £145.

Shall be very sorry to say goodbye, but needs must.

Just tell the banker you have a shed full of last yrs wheat but cant find the key for the door

 

[bankrupt]

Just tell the banker you have a shed full of last yrs wheat but cant find the key for the door

Would 90% do it?

 

[dowcow]

I'm going to put the fert spinner on this afternoon and get some N on the Maize, hoping for tonight's rain to be a decent amount. If it is a decent amount, the maize and barley/vetch wholecrop will be terrific crops even with a dry June, as right now they look great for the time of year, but they are quite dry and the rain will be most welcome.

Pastures are going a little brown underneath, but not quite at the peak of 2018's drought, which here was pretty much the best summer I can ever remember. It rained just in time that year too. Didn't have to go far to see much more severely browning grass crops though, and a family member is a firefighter and spent half the summer putting out the fire on Winter Hill.

 

[Wombat]

Concrete not damp yet

 

[Devil's advocate]

Decent rain

Could my 10 th May drilled spring barley be the crop of the year?

It looks the best of the lot of them.

 

[glasshouse]

Decent rain

Could my 10 th May drilled spring barley be the crop of the year?

It looks the best of the lot of them.

Pics?

 

[Devil's advocate]

Pics?

Sorry don't do them.

But it is smart, maybe let down by some late germinating seeds, will need dessication late september harvest or wholecrop.

 

[Wombat]

well 1mm, nothing more than nusiance value

 

[teslacoils]

It has / is raining here but again it's looking likely to only be enough to wet the dust . Will surely trigger a BG explosion somewhere though.

 

[Bossfarmer]

well 1mm, nothing more than nusiance value

it looked on the rain radar as if the rain from scotland last night was heading south today?

 

[7610 super q]

Looks like we've missed today's rain too. Oh well, hope we get some Saturday.......

 

[dowcow]

5mm here so far

 

[Wombat]

it looked on the rain radar as if the rain from scotland last night was heading south today?

Story of the year when we wanted 10mm in feb it got stuck over us and we got 150mm. Now we cannot even get a light shower

 

[bankrupt]

Thank goodness June's not going to be yet another boring record here, like February and May.

Few spots we had here this am have already exceeded 1975, with 27 days still to go.

 

[teslacoils]

4mm. No puddles. Dry under car.

 

[Breakthru]

Wet night?? 7.5mm and cold, better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.
Forecast to stay cool with showers so crops will fill nicely if it stays like this.
Yield is number of ears/m2 X number of seeds/ ear X TGW of grain.
The first is relatively easy unless you have the extreme heat and dry you had in the south but the art is in the second one. The third is partly a mix of the first two but long cool days with some moisture is the icing on the cake for TGW.