Would you cut it or not?

[Bignor Farmer]

Weather forecast looks terrible for the rest of the week and weekend. Rubbed out samples 24-25% a significant amount of shed grains on the floor, Crusoe looks like it’s sprouting and I suspect 2nd wheat Skyfall next door will at least of lost its hagberg although not obviously sprouting yet.
Drier is up to date but do I want high drying costs on feed wheat.

I think I’m going to start at 3pm, am I mad???

 

[Still Farming]

Cracking on around here what ever?
Terrible weather due tommorrow again
Hagbergs dropping fast now we guess?

 

[Sonoftheheir]

Weather forecast looks terrible for the rest of the week and weekend. Rubbed out samples 24-25% a significant amount of shed grains on the floor, Crusoe looks like it’s sprouting and I suspect 2nd wheat Skyfall next door will at least of lost its hagberg although not obviously sprouting yet.
Drier is up to date but do I want high drying costs on feed wheat.

I think I’m going to start at 3pm, am I mad???

Would it come out of the trailer at that %?

 

[Bignor Farmer]

Would it come out of the trailer at that %?

Cut plenty at 24% in the past. Not a brilliant job but I can confirm that it does slide out of the trailers..... probably in a single big brick!

 

[Still Farming]

Crimp green grain tips ok so this much drier?

 

[Barleycorn]

You've got all week to dry it! My neighbour was on till late last night, and will be on again today.

 

[Sonoftheheir]

Don’t think we’ve ever cut over 18% before, never heard of crimping till I came on here

 

[Hanslope]

Crack on, as long as you can dry it promptly, get going!

 

[Brisel]

Time waits for no man. If you can dry it, you'll have the rest of the week while it's pouring with rain to work your way through it. As the grain sprouts, it will use the reserves in the endosperm which will drop the bushel weight even further.

 

[quattro]

Plenty cut up here at moistures,meter won’t read
When it gets so wet you don’t need to tip trailer so high it just runs out

 

[7610 super q]

Don’t think we’ve ever cut over 18% before, never heard of crimping till I came on here

Never heard of cutting at 13-14% till I came on here. Didn't think it was possible... ( pathetic new ROFL emoji thing )

 

[Woosh]

Nothing to think about, Cut it !!

 

[DRC]

The trouble is, some of the moisture contents mentioned on here , take a serious amount of drying time and fuel, whilst also putting strain on machinery . How much a ton will getting it from 24 to 15 cost.

 

[Bignor Farmer]

The trouble is, some of the moisture contents mentioned on here , take a serious amount of drying time and fuel, whilst also putting strain on machinery . How much a ton will getting it from 24 to 15 cost.

This is what I’ve been thinking about.
I guess a commercial store is something like £2.30/t/% so £23/t with 1.25% weight loss per 1% dried.

Fag packet calculation but if I treat it as feed wheat and turn the flame up on the drier I’ll burn about 1,500l of fuel a 17hour day and achieve perhaps 7t/hr though our 20t/hr continuous flow drier so that’s £825 fuel for 119t of grain £6.93/t plus 10% weight loss. A bit of electricity on top, no significant wear and tear, depreciation there if I dry it or not.

 

[Still Farming]

If feed just leave to dry maybe in field but milling group 1 ,hagbergs, bushel weight , protein etc drop by the day.
Along with black and sprouting corn ,a years worth of work gone for a day or 2 to harvest?

 

[DRC]

How many acres and combine capacity .
Personally if all mine was standing, I wouldn’t be cutting it at those levels . I only have a 12 ton masters drier, which would be running for about 3 hrs to dry 24% wheat . I’ve also only got 150 acres of wheat, so horses for courses

 

[Bignor Farmer]

The trouble is, some of the moisture contents mentioned on here , take a serious amount of drying time and fuel, whilst also putting strain on machinery . How much a ton will getting it from 24 to 15 cost.

This is what I’ve been thinking about.
I guess a commercial store is something like £2.30/t/% so £23/t with 1.25% weight loss per 1% dried.

Fag packet calculation but if I treat it as feed wheat and turn the flame up on the drier I’ll burn about 1,500l of fuel a 17hour day and achieve perhaps 7t/hr though our 20t/hr continuous flow drier so that’s £825 fuel for 119t of grain £6.93/t plus 10% weight loss. A bit of electricity on top, no significant wear and tear, depreciation there if I dry it or not.

 

[e3120]

I'm very glad I cut wb at 23 last week.

 

[Cowcorn]

Weather forecast looks terrible for the rest of the week and weekend. Rubbed out samples 24-25% a significant amount of shed grains on the floor, Crusoe looks like it’s sprouting and I suspect 2nd wheat Skyfall next door will at least of lost its hagberg although not obviously sprouting yet.
Drier is up to date but do I want high drying costs on feed wheat.

I think I’m going to start at 3pm, am I mad???

No, half a loaf is better than no loaf at in a forthnights time. .Or as my father used to say " better to cut it wet the first day and get most of it than to cut it as porridge the last day as a clearing excerise . Drive on !!!

 

[chipchap]

Cutting wheat here, Cordiale only just ripe but round upped off. 18%