Winter wheat yields

[ajd132]

how much is a leaf N tester?

Think it’s about £380 a year

 

[Lincsman]

Lucky you, still 30 years off a pension here...

Somewhere along the line it will change to 35 years from now.

 

[B'o'B]

Somewhere along the line it will change to 35 years from now.

I can see that change will be we’ll have to work an extra 10 years!

 

[Warnesworth]

Think it’s about £380 a year

I personally think those N-testers are flawed. @ajd132 fix a leaf to the tester so it can’t move and take a reading twice. I bet the figure given is different.

 

[Cowcorn]

One block could be as low as 6t/ha wheat. Other better block would probably be 8t.
About on par with the yields J. Lambkin used to report from FW Easton Lodge 20 yes ago. Similar land, similar yields; cannot escape yield potential of the land. Better red brash at home is always 2t ha better. Think it is going to just be a year to count ourselves fortunate to have a harvest at all, and to get out alive..
Eternal optimist next door is still planting unirrigated spuds. Big respect?.

Heres a stroll dowm memory lane a page from FW twenty years ago which i unearthed while clearing out the old milking parlour loft today .

 

[Will 1594]

Mid November drilled , 550 seeds m2 had an inch water 10 days ago , medium loam .

 

[Breckland Boy]

Heres a stroll dowm memory lane a page from FW twenty years ago which i unearthed while clearing out the old milking parlour loft today .View attachment 883745

Drilling wheat on the 23rd August!! Wow!!
I have drilled 1st week of September at 75kg/ha but never in August

 

[glasshouse]

I did. With premiums it all made that. Very profitable. And needed to be to cover 2012 which took three years to get over.

I didnt get the chance to recover from 2012 /13 as the landlord threw me out.
We had 22 months of dreadful weather starrting in august 11 till june 13
Barley and wheat both under 2 ton/ac
Only fed sheep in june twice, in 86 and 13

Feed bill was astronomic, but we didnt lose many
Those that didnt feed and let them die got compensation!!

 

[glasshouse]

Drilling wheat on the 23rd August!! Wow!!
I have drilled 1st week of September at 75kg/ha but never in August

Thats why blackgrass took off
Stupidly early drilling

 

[glasshouse]

Drilling wheat on the 23rd August!! Wow!!
I have drilled 1st week of September at 75kg/ha but never in August

That would have been just about the last harvest at easton lodge

 

[DRC]

Lucky you, still 30 years off a pension here...

Depends which way you look at it. I wish I was 30 yrs off a pension .

 

[glasshouse]

Depends which way you look at it. I wish I was 30 yrs off a pension .

Me too
Sadly only ten

 

[DRC]

Me too
Sadly only ten

When do we get it now, 67 isn’t it ?
I’m 9 then

 

[glasshouse]

Heres a stroll dowm memory lane a page from FW twenty years ago which i unearthed while clearing out the old milking parlour loft today .View attachment 883745

Yr 2000 was a bast.ard

 

[David.]

Interesting that the rape was only £113 ton.
That actually affirms my belief that a chunk of our land is very similar, brutally honest long term yields wouldnt really be any better than those.

 

[bankrupt]

Drilling wheat on the 23rd August!! Wow!!

Bayer it was who were coming around again and again at that time telling us to drill in August if ever we wanted to catch up with everybody else's yields.

This was in spite of the fact that most our entry crops, beans, oats, SOSR etc. were normally harvested in September - as was a lot of our wheat for FSS.

Not to worry, they said, our latest rocket science seed dressing is not being made available to mobile dressers and in future you'll be buying all of your seed through the trade.

 

[DRC]

Heres a stroll dowm memory lane a page from FW twenty years ago which i unearthed while clearing out the old milking parlour loft today .View attachment 883745

I’ve just found one from 25yrs ago. Me and dad with our only bit of fame !!
I’ve now turned into my dad , which is quite scary . Looks like 1995 was dry as well .

 

[David.]

I wish I could find the Farming News from that era, where I was pictured proudly showing off a load of small potatoes and large clods.

 

[teslacoils]

I’ve just found one from 25yrs ago. Me and dad with our only bit of fame !!
I’ve now turned into my dad , which is quite scary . Looks like 1995 was dry as well .

I've a feeling 1995 was a good year? Or was it 1994? Either way the year or two after was so awful ....

 

[DRC]

I've a feeling 1995 was a good year? Or was it 1994? Either way the year or two after was so awful ....

Must admit I can’t or don’t bother remembering what each year was like .