Winter wheat yields

[warksfarmer]

Can’t see winter or spring wheat achieving 3t/ac even after the rain.

 

[bankrupt]

Can’t see winter or spring wheat achieving 3t/ac even after the rain.

Hardly half that, here.

Frustration is that as you go down a field from the shale to the clay, first it's 1t due to drought, then 2t, then 3t, then 4t, then almost immediately nothing where it didn't survive the wet winter.

Should average 1.5t

 

[Brisel]

Can’t see winter or spring wheat achieving 3t/ac even after the rain.

You should have spent some money on it

 

[warksfarmer]

You should have spent some money on it

Really!

3t/ac of milling with very little cost vs 4t (if you’re lucky) with the kitchen sink. I know where I’d rather be in 2020. Same as 2012 where we did very well thank you.

 

[Brisel]

That’s why I put the laughing smiley at the end...

 

[bankrupt]

2012 where we did very well thank you.

Glad someone did.

 

[Renaultman]

Can’t see winter or spring wheat achieving 3t/ac even after the rain.

I think quite a lot will around here. No records but should be above 3 disasters allowing.

 

[4course]

the wheat crops that established before the oct nov rain will I think be fine now in fact a couple look promising ,its the rest which is in sp barley that will let the average t/ac down. These sp barleys have improved to look like a crop since the last rain but they wont lift the average , live in hope is how we are looking at this harvest but at the moment it is all getting a hammering from a torrential thunderstorm, just thankful we finished haylage yesterday

 

[willy]

Have to say we are looking like having a v good wheat harvest, we have been lucky with a few strategic rains (we normally miss them) and wheat looks surprisingly good.

 

[snarling bee]

Glad someone did.

There was very much a East West divide in 2012 and the opposite way round in 2013. We are in the middle and did okay both years.

 

[bankrupt]

There was very much a East West divide in 2012 and the opposite way round in 2013.

Both equally bad here.

 

[Wombat]

Have to say we are looking like having a v good wheat harvest, we have been lucky with a few strategic rains (we normally miss them) and wheat looks surprisingly good.

The issue here was really the 143mm in 3 weeks of Feb that fecked everything

 

[bankrupt]

The issue here was really the 143mm in 3 weeks of Feb that fecked everything

Very similar here - we had 275mm in that 3 weeks.

 

[Wombat]

Very similar here - we had 275mm in that 3 weeks.

It was the first storm through here on the 9th and it’s intensity that dumped way more than forecast something like 45mm when we were supposed to get 10mm that did the damage. It hit 150mm/hr of rain an hour on the Sunday morning and just sealed all the surfaces

 

[wellingtonfarmer]

This seed crop was a depressing sight over winter and early spring. (South coast of Ireland)

After WOSR, got hammered by Slugs & wet.

Winter wheat never ceases to amaze me with its ability to compensate.

These ears are the same variety but lots more grain sites where the plant has space (& nutrition).

I split the N into 5 applications, didn’t use extra just went with little and often.

Fingers crossed but I don’t think it’ll be a disaster.

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does anyone ever get ears that more than 13 grain sites high? I never found one and I noticed those pictures have 13.

 

[CORK]

does anyone ever get ears that more than 13 grain sites high? I never found one and I noticed those pictures have 13.

I hadn’t counted them to be honest but there seemed to be a lot.
I actually pulled a few spikelets off the base of one of the big ears as I pulled it.
These have lots of space around them though so larger ears are to be expected.
The variety is LG Illuminate, it’s a seed crop. I think it’s an up and coming variety in the UK also.

 

[T Hectares]

Have to say we are looking like having a v good wheat harvest, we have been lucky with a few strategic rains (we normally miss them) and wheat looks surprisingly good.

I'd say the same here, SB is below average and break crops are poor but Wheat will be the star and save the day here.
Who'd have thought that back in October!!

 

[warksfarmer]

I see fwi are already sprouting dried winter barley yields of 10t/ha. Yawn yawn yawn.

 

[Clive]

I see fwi are already sprouting dried winter barley yields of 10t/ha. Yawn yawn yawn.

some clearly farm in a very different world to me ......... or maybe i'm just sh!t at it !

 

[David.]

Yes but if FW rang me, I would have to try not to laugh and tell them that my barley was not as good quite as I had hoped, at about 11.2t/ha.
It is expected of one to tow the party line and not let the side down.