- Location
- East yorks
We got 100% of our target drilled but all in jan/feb. Then we had 6” rain in the 3 week after (25% of our normal annual rain fall) and that fecked it all up. Now 50% of the drilling is good the rest bad to gone
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Winter wheat yields
- Thread starter glasshouse
- Start date
We got 100% of our target drilled but all in jan/feb. Then we had 6” rain in the 3 week after (25% of our normal annual rain fall) and that fecked it all up. Now 50% of the drilling is good the rest bad to gone
- Location
- Sedgefield
late sown WW is picking up and the very late stuff is taking the N in now ( it’s been very dry here). I’m budgeting for 2 ton/acre
Spring wheat drilled into dry seedbeds and very little rain since
Budgeting for 1 ton/acre ( wasn’t worth drilling)
Spring barley growing and although patchy again I’m budgeting for 1.75/acre
probably have to attempt to bale as much straw as possible to get a bit of £££
With hindsight should have left fallow the spring stuff and prepared a great early seedbed for next years crop :-(.
Spring wheat drilled into dry seedbeds and very little rain since
Budgeting for 1 ton/acre ( wasn’t worth drilling)
Spring barley growing and although patchy again I’m budgeting for 1.75/acre
probably have to attempt to bale as much straw as possible to get a bit of £££
With hindsight should have left fallow the spring stuff and prepared a great early seedbed for next years crop :-(.
Here in Spain, which mostly suffers more from drought than from excess water, this next big cereal harvest. Except in more humid areas such as where I live, which in the autumn we could hardly plant and now it is exceptionally rainy in April and May. I intend to sow 50% of my farm with sunflower and I will have it difficult due to excess water.
The strong pressure of septoria and yellow rust has never been seen in wheat crops, more fungicide has been consumed than in the previous 3 years. Still I insist that it will be a great harvest of cereal
The strong pressure of septoria and yellow rust has never been seen in wheat crops, more fungicide has been consumed than in the previous 3 years. Still I insist that it will be a great harvest of cereal
Same here.roll on harvest and let the battle commence again
Can't help thinking this autumn's going to turn out to be either the driest for 400 years, or the wettest.
Just doing T1 on the small area of wheat I have in, it wont break records and it wont do much at all if we soon don't get some rain.
Cant remember such a dismal year in the past as this, roll on harvest and let the battle commence again
without doubt the worst I have seen this farm since I started farming
- Location
- Dorset/Wilts
Mains of our Wheat look a picture. Patchy headlands will drop the average.
Long way to go tho......
Long way to go tho......
Bossfarmer
Member
- Location
- between Perth and Inverness
thats quite a statement, any pics?
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Ploughed, pressed, rolled early april.
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- Location
- Lincolnshire
These two are from 11 April. Hadn't really moved since then. Cereals drilled into moisture and rolled straight behind. We've had half an inch in six weeks. Temps in the 20s. My clover ley has cracks six inches deep in it. These fields couldn't be walked on in February, and had puddles on in January.
All cereals had full rb209 rates of digestate on post drilling.
I've 80ac of barley which I'd be pleased with 150t. 135ac oats of which if they don't buck up will either be used as a stake seedbed for grass, or ripped up for a nice mud September wheat drilling.
Half my farm tenancy ends this September, so not overjoyed that its final year output will by approx 1/2 a ton of barley per acre.
Do the numbers - it's not pretty. I am not the only one. Spring cereals into ploughed land look ok. Min till all patchy. My neighbour on kind land used a 750a to keep the moisture and it is not good.
We *all* know what it will be like when the rains return......
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yellow belly
Member
- Location
- south west lincolnshire
Some acres will be under 1 tonne
Others 3.5 tonne
Average will be 2.5 to 3 depending on rain and disease
But only planted 28% of the area planted last year although last year had 30%extra planted
So only planted under half the area I intended
Did not get the planned oats in and no rape got past November
So planted 80% spring crops half barley half break crops
We also now have 8% of the area farmed in non saleable crops gras strips bird food and nectar crops
Others 3.5 tonne
Average will be 2.5 to 3 depending on rain and disease
But only planted 28% of the area planted last year although last year had 30%extra planted
So only planted under half the area I intended
Did not get the planned oats in and no rape got past November
So planted 80% spring crops half barley half break crops
We also now have 8% of the area farmed in non saleable crops gras strips bird food and nectar crops
- Location
- Lincolnshire
This year of my own land I have close to 20 percent in stewardship and 25 percent in grass so these will provide some income.
yellow belly
Member
- Location
- south west lincolnshire
To add in 2001 I had 50% set aside and higher area of wheat on half the farm size the uk produce the lowest wheat harvest for years
in 2013 had more acres of wheat and similar acres of barley and half the area of beans
also round here there is very little rape and half that is left will not be worth combining
there are also thousands of acres with no harvestable crop planted
in 2013 had more acres of wheat and similar acres of barley and half the area of beans
also round here there is very little rape and half that is left will not be worth combining
there are also thousands of acres with no harvestable crop planted
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Folk were ripping up osr a fortnight ago and planting barley but it's not up anywhere where the osr had any real biomass.
- Location
- Cirencester
WW 2t/ac if lucky here despite having 44mm of rain on it, just starting to get going but very patchy.
SW 1.5t/ac again very uneven germination depending on soil type, ploughed or mintill, they both look the same, pants!
Chap next door had a block of his fields in early with SW, saw him out there with the drill yesterday and apparently he was re-drilling with linseed as the BG was bad, he sprayed off the SW.
SW 1.5t/ac again very uneven germination depending on soil type, ploughed or mintill, they both look the same, pants!
Chap next door had a block of his fields in early with SW, saw him out there with the drill yesterday and apparently he was re-drilling with linseed as the BG was bad, he sprayed off the SW.
GeorgeK
Member
- Location
- Leicestershire
No wheat drilled. The OSR failed on the starting line, then the weather turned before I got any further. The previous dry winters had left our fields in too good a condition to be worth damaging so shut the gate. Sheep are making a nice job of preparing the stubbles ready for a fresh start this year