Winter wheat drilling

[Northern territory]

I agree but on a smaller mixed farm it doesn’t really stack up. As a break crop on a larger arable farming I can see the incentive, just playing devils advocate really.

 

[Feldspar]

No body really knows, but it seems to be getting better and generally you know you will get it at some point.
For now it seems a better option to me than busting your gut growing a crop, buying all the inputs, wearing out machinery and yourself out, hoping you may get a little bit more back, but in reality are more likely to get much less back.

Got 95% of ours in good time. Well before we would have got the money selling the crop that would have been sold.

 

[Flat 10]

I prefer to look at overall margin. We attribute £100/ha of fixed costs to our AB6. Wheat is more like £500/ha. Overall a margin of £320/ha is pretty competitive this year.

A rent of £240/ha would make it a bit tougher

 

[beardface]

Starting 20 Sept here I think. f**k the black grass and hope for the best. Better to have a mucky crop of wheat than none at all after the last 12 months.

 

[Feldspar]

I agree but on a smaller mixed farm it doesn’t really stack up. As a break crop on a larger arable farming I can see the incentive, just playing devils advocate really.

I can see that. We were in a situation of taking on extra land which allowed us to dilute fixed costs as a result. The margins don't stack up if you keep the same level of fixed costs.

A rent of £240/ha would make it a bit tougher

You have to pay the rent on the wheat ground too though so it shouldn't change the calculation?

 

[Hindsight]

You have to pay the rent on the wheat ground too though so it shouldn't change the calculation?

Concurr but the AB15 is a fixed income for five years. The wheat is an annual crop - so there maybe some upside in some of those years - otherwise wouldn't be growing the wheat. The point I think being made is the margin you gave, with which I concurr, is not of much use if paying a commercial rent.

 

[teslacoils]

I pay a commercial rent and grow both ab6 and ab15. Only two more years to go though.

 

[yellow belly]

Will start as soon as harvest finished and winter linseed planted
aiming to be done by 1 October unless the weather looks very settled and dry looking

with a new semi lockdown from Monday the weather will now turn sunny and dry until the restrictions are relaxed !!
justlike in the spring

 

[redsloe]

Will start as soon as harvest finished and winter linseed planted
aiming to be done by 1 October unless the weather looks very settled and dry looking

with a new semi lockdown from Monday the weather will now turn sunny and dry until the restrictions are relaxed !!
justlike in the spring

Looks a lot like it! Next week looks good down ere in Cornwall!
Problem now being that if, I think @Flintstone is correct and we're due a couple of weeks of nice weather before the shiit returns, then waiting for our normal tilling season starting in October maybe a bit nerve rattling.

 

[Feldspar]

Will start as soon as harvest finished and winter linseed planted
aiming to be done by 1 October unless the weather looks very settled and dry looking

with a new semi lockdown from Monday the weather will now turn sunny and dry until the restrictions are relaxed !!
justlike in the spring

Interesting, especially given you are, IIRC, on black-grass land. Do you think no-tilling with a disc allows much earlier drilling or not? We are going to have very good conditions in a few days time, so I am going to be very tempted to start somewhere.