Fredwalton Posted July 16, 2016 Report Share Posted July 16, 2016 How long do people reckon it will be until harvest time. If anyone from the Newmarket area in Suffolk has an idea that would be very helpful! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harnser Posted July 16, 2016 Report Share Posted July 16, 2016 With in the next couple of weeks . With in 10 days of being sprayed off . Look out for the sprayer on the fields or new tram lines in the crop . Harnser Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exudate Posted July 16, 2016 Report Share Posted July 16, 2016 Farmer who owns my permission has told me it'll be done before the end of July. He's near Milton Keynes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mossy835 Posted July 16, 2016 Report Share Posted July 16, 2016 been out one of my farms today, and the rape was sprayed off in the week, so 10 days and its cut.,cant wait. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxie Posted July 16, 2016 Report Share Posted July 16, 2016 Combines out yesterday here in sunny East Kent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Konnie Posted July 16, 2016 Report Share Posted July 16, 2016 Some fields of barley done, and rape sprayed off in the week just gone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motty Posted July 16, 2016 Report Share Posted July 16, 2016 It will not just vary from area to area, but also from farm to farm. Some of the farms I shoot on don't combine until 3 weeks after spraying of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marsh man Posted July 16, 2016 Report Share Posted July 16, 2016 Very rare they will cut the rape before the winter barley is completed around here , but like Motty said it will vary from area to area and I don't expect to see any cut before the last week of July or a bit later , as a guide when I used to go to the C L A Game Fair each year we would always see some rape cut on our journey and that would be the last weekend of July . Our Peas should come off Monday, and weather permitting they should be combining the barley sometime next week . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motty Posted July 16, 2016 Report Share Posted July 16, 2016 I have shot on rape stubble at least as early as the 15th of July, but also as late (freshly cut) as mid-August. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mossy835 Posted July 16, 2016 Report Share Posted July 16, 2016 It will not just vary from area to area, but also from farm to farm. Some of the farms I shoot on don't combine until 3 weeks after spraying of. i had one farmer never sprayed, just waited till it got dry, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDog Posted July 16, 2016 Report Share Posted July 16, 2016 I saw swathed rape near Horncastle today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkfanz Posted July 16, 2016 Report Share Posted July 16, 2016 one of ours was sprayed on thursday,merseyside. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oz.man64 Posted July 16, 2016 Report Share Posted July 16, 2016 Still rubbery in west lancs boo hoo few weeks yet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pesky pigeon Posted July 16, 2016 Report Share Posted July 16, 2016 swathed rape near me on the 8th July. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skye Posted July 17, 2016 Report Share Posted July 17, 2016 Fields of barley cut at Culford, Bury st Edmunds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kippylawkid Posted July 18, 2016 Report Share Posted July 18, 2016 One of my farmer pals reckons Northumberland harvest is 3 to 4 weeks behind other southern counties. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
numpty Posted July 18, 2016 Report Share Posted July 18, 2016 One of my farms sprayed 5 days ago and another is spraying today, pigeon on the first already. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandalf Posted July 18, 2016 Report Share Posted July 18, 2016 The estate finished all rape spraying last Friday so we should be busy this coming weekend if the weather stays as it is now. (Hot). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitebridges Posted July 18, 2016 Report Share Posted July 18, 2016 Fields of barley cut at Culford, Bury st Edmunds. For whatever reason that area always seems to be the first or one of the first areas cut in East Anglia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElvisThePelvis Posted July 18, 2016 Report Share Posted July 18, 2016 Any tips for shooting over cur rape? I know the main flight line, shoot tomorrow or leave it a few days?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenholland Posted July 18, 2016 Report Share Posted July 18, 2016 dry tomorrow thunder storms looming Wednesday Thursday ? shoot it tomorrow mate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motty Posted July 18, 2016 Report Share Posted July 18, 2016 Not necessarily good advice. The pigeons may not have built up properly. dry tomorrow thunder storms looming Wednesday Thursday ? shoot it tomorrow mate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 18, 2016 Report Share Posted July 18, 2016 One of my farmer pals reckons Northumberland harvest is 3 to 4 weeks behind other southern counties.sounds about right bud I shoot north yorks and its usually 2 or 3 weeks after farms further south of my perms,northumberland is always last depending on weather apart from Scotland but they have had more sunshine than the most up to now this year ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oxfordfowler Posted July 19, 2016 Report Share Posted July 19, 2016 Been cutting Barley around here for the past 5 days - and still going. Just been to the game dealer as freezers were full (220 pigeons so far). And even better news they have hired a combine in to start on the OSR - starting TODAY . What always amazes (I know it shouldn't) me is where all the "pigeons shooters" appear from this time of year. I have been beaten to the stubble fields for the last two days. The day before that I had 2 set up at the other end of the field (they did ask first) and then 2 more arrived - but they ******** off. Never see them when it's wet and cold . Right then I am off to follow the combine for a while - just in case there is a charlie or two disturbed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shotguneddy Posted July 19, 2016 Report Share Posted July 19, 2016 One of my farms sprayed 5 days ago and another is spraying today, pigeon on the first already. +1 same here tons of pigeons on wires unable to get near them,but bring on harvest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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