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Flatlander

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Arable Farmer
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Lorette Manitoba
Heavy rain for most of the day, gauge is showing 47mm. That’s to go with the 22 from Saturday night/Sunday morning. Crops that are planted will be struggling in saturated soils. Low lying areas near rivers are getting overland flooding again. locally 20-40% of the acres planted. With more rain coming it going to be a late harvest if any more gets planted.
 

CPF

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Arable Farmer
Meteorological spring was yesterday and it’s still sh!t to be in single figures middle of the day. Today was vaguely less sh!t as it rained less made it to about 15deg
That’s because it’s still spring time 🤣
Then after the 21st it’s a bad summer when it’s wet and cold 🤣👍🏻
 

Hindsight

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Location
Lincolnshire
Meteorological spring was yesterday and it’s still sh!t to be in single figures middle of the day. Today was vaguely less sh!t as it rained less made it to about 15deg

Whoa there fella. Today - loads of sun, from dawn, so the best blue type light wavelength, temperature in low single figures overnight and mid teens during the day - this is classic 1984 wheat grain fill weather. You want to pray that this continues for all of June. Goodness the last thing we need is temperatures into the high 20's 30s curtailing grain fill. Grain fill is a set number of day degrees - the quicker they pass the less light the crop has chance to intercept. I do wonder sometimes.
 

Wombat

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BASIS
Location
East yorks
Whoa there fella. Today - loads of sun, from dawn, so the best blue type light wavelength, temperature in low single figures overnight and mid teens during the day - this is classic 1984 wheat grain fill weather. You want to pray that this continues for all of June. Goodness the last thing we need is temperatures into the high 20's 30s curtailing grain fill. Grain fill is a set number of day degrees - the quicker they pass the less light the crop has chance to intercept. I do wonder sometimes.
It’s the nicest day in weeks and to be honest grain fill is the least of my give a craps as most of my ears are not out yet as it’s been gash for the last 2 weeks so they just slowed to a crawl, at the moment I want to make sileage and we cannot string 2 decent days together in weeks
 

Hindsight

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Location
Lincolnshire
It’s the nicest day in weeks and to be honest grain fill is the least of my give a craps as most of my ears are not out yet as it’s been gash for the last 2 weeks so they just slowed to a crawl, at the moment I want to make sileage and we cannot string 2 decent days together in weeks

Grain fill starts way before the ears emerge. From around flag leaf emergence the wheat plant is making carbohydrate and that which it doesn't use daily is stored as stem reserves that are moved into the grain at the end of grain fill. Best of luck with silage!
 
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Flatlander

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lorette Manitoba
Whoa there fella. Today - loads of sun, from dawn, so the best blue type light wavelength, temperature in low single figures overnight and mid teens during the day - this is classic 1984 wheat grain fill weather. You want to pray that this continues for all of June. Goodness the last thing we need is temperatures into the high 20's 30s curtailing grain fill. Grain fill is a set number of day degrees - the quicker they pass the less light the crop has chance to intercept. I do wonder sometimes.
Intresting. I’ve always noticed here if it’s a dull cool early summer wheat yields are below average,last year we had 25-35 degree temperature and no rain but the wheat was above average and weighed on the heavy side.
 

Hindsight

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Location
Lincolnshire
Intresting. I’ve always noticed here if it’s a dull cool early summer wheat yields are below average,last year we had 25-35 degree temperature and no rain but the wheat was above average and weighed on the heavy side.

Cannot speak for Canadian conditions but in Temperate climatic regions with adequate soil moisture radiation drives yield. You say dull - thus low levels radiation. See article below.

 

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quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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