Crop yields

[kyska]

Well, what a year, 4.5 ton/acre barley and the wheat is looking to be over 5 ton/acre on our farm, it's bumper for us, let's hope it's not the same throughout the country!

 

Should compensate for poor prices at the mo.

 

I've just realised I'm almost moaning about a successful year!😄

[fenboy]

One of my farmers said his peas yielded over 4 tonnes a acre this year which according to him is about as good as it gets .

[kennett]

Rubbish on sandy land around here, as crops died rather than ripened but a bumper year on the clays!

[the enigma]

Well, what a year, 4.5 ton/acre barley and the wheat is looking to be over 5 ton/acre on our farm, it's bumper for us, let's hope it's not the same throughout the country!

 

Should compensate for poor prices at the mo.

 

I've just realised I'm almost moaning about a successful year!

 

Every silver lining has a cloud.

 

What price is barley making this year with you? I'd heard talk of £90/t over here, but not sure if that's right.

[johnphilip]

If there is to much, will it not bring the price down then.

[ditchman]

a few years ago a party of american farmers arrived in norfolk on an exchange visit.......................they gave the usual ******** stories about how much better they were at growing and harvesting cereals...........but when they saw in the own eyes us good ole boys harvesting in excess of 4tonne an acre it stopped them dead in their tracks...as they were getting max 1.5 tonne/acre..........

[kyska]

 

Every silver lining has a cloud.

 

What price is barley making this year with you? I'd heard talk of £90/t over here, but not sure if that's right.

We sell on a partial contracted price, pre harvest so we've made the right desicion this year.

If there is to much, will it not bring the price down then.

Of course, we're not allowed to 'win', but with the yields we hope there will be an offset.

 

Exports are an issue, especially with Russia arsing about with European security.

a few years ago a party of american farmers arrived in norfolk on an exchange visit.......................they gave the usual ******** stories about how much better they were at growing and harvesting cereals...........but when they saw in the own eyes us good ole boys harvesting in excess of 4tonne an acre it stopped them dead in their tracks...as they were getting max 1.5 tonne/acre..........

Brilliant!

 

😄

[CharlieT]

It's a rubbish corn growing area here, a very good year would produce 3T of barley, but this year, which has been very wet and cold, we managed 4T on one field even with all the deer damage.

 

I've heard prices of £85/90T delivered directly off field for barley blown into the silo.

[scotslad]

Not much cut in SW scot yet been a fairly poor year for growing, pretty wet and not a lot of heat.

 

Was spaeking to a farmer ast year who grows a lot of arable asking how price can be 220 for wheat about 3 years ago but only 120 last year and he said he generally makes a similar ammount each year, usually in a high price year yeilds were low while in a poor price year yields were high so make up for it.

I'd imagine at 90-100 a T will not be profitable for many marginally arable areas/fields and would be far cheaper buying it in.

 

When i was in OZ about 20 years ago they sometimes got as little as 1/3 of a T per acre, but are dealing with massive areas, that 1 farm i was on had 40'000 acres of arable alone. And it was in a marginal area of Queensland, out in WA/perth a contractor had 1 million acres to plant and harvest, much of it his own/rented

1 nite i drove back to the cottage and could see 13 combines all cutting towards the road with the headlights on, was some spectacle as all working with massive headers think 40-50ft as yeilds were so low

[islandgun]

Not much cut in SW scot yet been a fairly poor year for growing, pretty wet and not a lot of heat.

 

Was spaeking to a farmer ast year who grows a lot of arable asking how price can be 220 for wheat about 3 years ago but only 120 last year and he said he generally makes a similar ammount each year, usually in a high price year yeilds were low while in a poor price year yields were high so make up for it.

I'd imagine at 90-100 a T will not be profitable for many marginally arable areas/fields and would be far cheaper buying it in.

 

When i was in OZ about 20 years ago they sometimes got as little as 1/3 of a T per acre, but are dealing with massive areas, that 1 farm i was on had 40'000 acres of arable alone. And it was in a marginal area of Queensland, out in WA/perth a contractor had 1 million acres to plant and harvest, much of it his own/rented

1 nite i drove back to the cottage and could see 13 combines all cutting towards the road with the headlights on, was some spectacle as all working with massive headers think 40-50ft as yeilds were so low

I was driving tractors in WA (clover harvesting) 35yrs ago they only cut the heads of barley and drilled whenever it rained just to keep the very thin soil in place. it would take an hour to get round a paddock !

[spiceychilli57]

5t/acre of WB on the chalk ground here. With a £30/t premium for being a seed crop isnt to be sneezed at.

 

For those not involved with farming yields here is an interesting graph of prices over the last few years and what farmers are having to put up with this year.

http://thefarmingforum.co.uk/grain-markets

[Lloyd90]

5t/acre of WB on the chalk ground here. With a £30/t premium for being a seed crop isnt to be sneezed at.

 

For those not involved with farming yields here is an interesting graph of prices over the last few years and what farmers are having to put up with this year.

http://thefarmingforum.co.uk/grain-markets

Bloody hell price is low atm then. What sort of acreage is the average wheat / barely farm approx then ?