Winter wheat yields

carbonfibre farmer

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Arable Farmer
Istabraq here copes well with the soil type, moving over to skyscraper now, had good goes with Oakley in the past. It all depends on spring rainfall as the light soils have little water storage.
Spotlight looking better than Skyscraper here at the moment although it’s not supposed to do as well north of the border. Will be interesting come harvest to find out.

Istabraq still got quite a following up here, particularly in Fife.
Always found it a bit hit & miss myself. Some years 4t/acre others 2.75t. Maybe just didn’t suit the farm
Hopefully it remains popular so we can keep growing it as a seed crop!
Get on well with it here, we arn't early drillers. Generally a bit after beet too.

Our 2 best bits are after peas that was our version of min till that went in late Oct (for seed) and some drilled (mauled) in after beet on Jan 31st at one hell of a seed rate that had plenty:oops: of rain after but looks thick and reasonably green now.
 

Clive

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Arable Farmer
Location
Lichfield
I live in hope, but I guess I'll budget on 5-6 t ha on wheat. Although I did hear an estate manager nearby stating that he expects his yields to down from average of 12.5 t ha to around 9 t ha (lifes a bitch).
9t ha? if I get that to sell this year I'll dance around the parish & shut up!

the yield bulls**t will really have to go into overdrive this year

if I was a chemical distributor / agronomist I would keep my customers well supplied wih beer and scotch in hope they stay pee'd, keep the pub yield flowing and not care until harvest 2021 !
 

4course

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north yorks
ear counts on the ww est before oct rain stopped play are on average just shy of 6 m/ha some above some a tad below, which is about normal or at least target and with good sized ears , the w barley looks ok , im a little more optimistic than I was, its the later sown crops that are lower .Then of course there is the sp barley sown instead of ww.of which we have too much
Im thinking the ww could do a good average but the whole farm cereal tons/acre output in purely yield terms will be down though maybe just maybe not by as much as I feared a month ago .
 

snarling bee

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Arable Farmer
Location
Bedfordshire
I haven't done any ear counts on the WW, but I suspect they are around 400m2 rather than the 600 we are aiming for, so how that will translate into yield I don't know. We have had 78mm rain this month that will have helped. The spring wheat and barley look about right though.
 

4course

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Location
north yorks
I haven't done any ear counts on the WW, but I suspect they are around 400m2 rather than the 600 we are aiming for, so how that will translate into yield I don't know. We have had 78mm rain this month that will have helped. The spring wheat and barley look about right though.
you could well be surprised I was ,didnt look 6m from outside the field and it was the crop inspector not me doing the counts
 

Brisel

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Arable Farmer
Location
Midlands
I haven't done any ear counts on the WW, but I suspect they are around 400m2 rather than the 600 we are aiming for, so how that will translate into yield I don't know. We have had 78mm rain this month that will have helped. The spring wheat and barley look about right though.

One of the Solari brothers in NZ got the world record wheat yield a while ago with around 450 ears/m2. Been beaten a few times since.
 

DRC

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If it’s any indication, the hybrid rye was harvested today, and although overall yield was down, there was more actual grain in the sample than ever seen before, putting the dry matter up to over 42%, even though the stems were still very green . DM is usually around 33%, and a higher reading would make you think it’d burnt off.
Hopefully this bodes well for the wheat.
 

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Pilatus

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cotswolds
Winter wheat ears in the few crops I have walked into ,look to have a lot of grain sites that are starting to fill which will hopefully end up as bold grain in the store , so hopefully yours are the same.
 

Spanish

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Today I am going to put some photos of how wheat is in Castilla (Spain). It is a crop with 2 varieties (70% RGT Somontano and 30% Nemo) that are not planted in the UK. It has 140 units of N and a fungicide treatment with 0.5 Elatus Era and 0.5 chlorthalonil applied on April 24. With the abundant rains there is a lot of disease per foliar, some have tried twice depending on the variety. That farm I calculate 5 tons / ha, the rest about 3.8 t / ha on average. Next year I will apply manganese and magnesium as I have read to you, if I am doing well you are invited to good hamView attachment 877721View attachment 877722View attachment 877723View attachment 877724
Today I have harvested the wheat in the photo at 6.4 ton / ha a great achievement. Sown with direct sowing, 200 euros of fertilizer and 70 euros of plant protection.
Magnificent harvest in the few farms that could be sown in autumn
 

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