Spring Barley - General Thread

[MF30]

You may engineer a few hairdryers to go on the haybob after the last few days yet to get the straw dry.:sweat:



Any of it done around here is on day 9 and I know some is 2 weeks done today. I wouldn't like to be looking at it in the morning.

There was a heavy fog around here today and It's noticeable that crops are lodging already from it :sweat:

Could be waiting a while for a few good days in a row to get straw dry enough to turn, have another 50 ac of SB to cut for others in the meanwhile...

 

[Bcl]

Could be waiting a while for a few good days in a row to get straw dry enough to turn, have another 50 ac of SB to cut for others in the meanwhile...

Kids are back to school next week so weather will turn good then you'll get your straw!

 

[MF30]

Kids are back to school next week so weather will turn good then you'll get your straw!

Ours aren’t back for another two weeks, fingers crossed it’ll all come right soon!

 

[Masseyrk662]

All my barley is flattened after last night and about 8 of the 15 acres cut the other night is gone to the neighbours field and ditch, some mess

 

[Danielk]

Just walked some of mine. Breaking down badly. Really needs to be cut ASAP. Another nights wind and rain not going to help.

 

[Jd3350]

It a mess alright not nice at all .Hope were not looking at another 2017 with crops not cut and straw baled in febuary no one needs that again . Lets just hope for a good September where we all get everything done straw and late silage tightened up and a bit of comfort sowing winter crops .

 

[ts115]

It a mess alright not nice at all .Hope were not looking at another 2017 with crops not cut and straw baled in febuary no one needs that again . Lets just hope for a good September where we all get everything done straw and late silage tightened up and a bit of co,mfort sowing winter crops .

I need a few days before September, there'll be nothing left if it doesn't get cut in the next week!

 

[Masseyrk662]

What moisture would ye settle for now as a matter of getting it cut

 

[WestCorkBoy]

What moisture would ye settle for now as a matter of getting it cut

What are you doing with the grain?

 

[Masseyrk662]

What are you doing with the grain?

Going as feed but just want a general idea of what people are thinking In their own situations

 

[MF30]

I wouldnt like to cut above 20% but if a customer wants it cut at 22% I'll drop the concave a notch and as long as the crop flows nicely we'll cut. Above that moisture is not practical.

 

[WestCorkBoy]

Going as feed but just want a general idea of what people are thinking In their own situations

20-21 % I'm happy to cut as treating and storing myself. My crops are only just fit now but if overripe, breaking down and opportunities are scarce l would go up a few percent to get it done.

 

[Blackwater boy]

Ask your buyer but no need to panic, it’s not September yet

 

[thefarminglad]

I only have one tank of barley cut yet and that was at 25% moisture. Not going to panic for another few weeks yet. Panic solves nothing.

 

[Claas Grass]

Ask your buyer but no need to panic, it’s not September yet

That would be my take on it, you can't go out tomorrow cutting anyway so don't over think things, wait for a break in weather and be ready to take full advantage when it does come, ours is all malting hopefully so can't cut high but I can't remember sending a load off over 21%

 

[kildare]

I remember the last really wet harvest here. Think it was 2012. Dual wheels on the combine and still making tracks.
I finished harvest and then got in a drainage contractor. Worked a few days and the land was drying up. Then one of the men disappeared to harvest his grain in dry conditions. Made me feel foolish.
But I have waited in the past and lost yield big time.

 

[Bog Man]

My record for cutting high moisture lodged wheat was 42% the day before Lady Diana got killed in the Car crash . My brother in law was in with his combine and it took all day for the two combines to cut 17 acres . That night we went up to a standing crop of wheat and the tame contractor joined us with a couple of combines and we stayed going till the rain came in the early morning . My brother was driving home and heard Lady Diana had been injured in a Road accident . By the following Wednesday the dryer had the Yard cleared going 24 hours a day . It all had to be re dried later on in the year .

 

[Barrowsider]

My record for cutting high moisture lodged wheat was 42% the day before Lady Diana got killed in the Car crash . My brother in law was in with his combine and it took all day for the two combines to cut 17 acres . That night we went up to a standing crop of wheat and the tame contractor joined us with a couple of combines and we stayed going till the rain came in the early morning . My brother was driving home and heard Lady Diana had been injured in a Road accident . By the following Wednesday the dryer had the Yard cleared going 24 hours a day . It all had to be re dried later on in the year .

1997 was a brutal harvest. We had a lot of peas that year and bought a Sund header and put it on a Senator 85 dedicated entirely to harvesting peas. As we got in to October we had to take the spout off the combine and auger the mushy rubbish onto black plastic from where it was loaded into trailers. It's the one harvest I can recall being very glad to go back to school.

 

[Bog Man]

1997 was a brutal harvest. We had a lot of peas that year and bought a Sund header and put it on a Senator 85 dedicated entirely to harvesting peas. As we got in to October we had to take the spout off the combine and auger the mushy rubbish onto black plastic from where it was loaded into trailers. It's the one harvest I can recall being very glad to go back to school.

It was our second year with the dryer and our last with the John Deere combine . We got on the finest once we had the lodged stuff cut . We had a lot of Beans but I cut them flat out in 2nd gear .

 

[diesel power]

I have memories of 1985 and the combine parked up in the field in front of the parents house for weeks. I was only a young chap and I well remember looking out at this big yellow monster. A NH Clayson and probably a 10ft cut, 12 at the most but a big machine to a child. I vividly remember the man who owned the combine coming in and getting into it some way or other with a hose pipe washing the mud out of it in the evenings. He still remembers it himself. Now that was hardship and I hope this harvest doesn't end up the same way.
I have '05 as a bad harvest as well in my head. I know I got badly caught with burnt off sb and a bad break in the weather just after spraying it. A full month passed before we were able to salvage what was left which was 1.5 ton an acre and the ground coated in shed grain.

 

[6600]

I have memories of 1985 and the combine parked up in the field in front of the parents house for weeks. I was only a young chap and I well remember looking out at this big yellow monster. A NH Clayson and probably a 10ft cut, 12 at the most but a big machine to a child. I vividly remember the man who owned the combine coming in and getting into it some way or other with a hose pipe washing the mud out of it in the evenings. He still remembers it himself. Now that was hardship and I hope this harvest doesn't end up the same way.
I have '05 as a bad harvest as well in my head. I know I got badly caught with burnt off sb and a bad break in the weather just after spraying it. A full month passed before we were able to salvage what was left which was 1.5 ton an acre and the ground coated in shed grain.

I have learned not to even look at corn when its wet. Once your combine is in out of the rain and ready there's nothing else you can do. Combines have huge capacity now.

 

[Masseyrk662]

Just on the way home from my local pub which has since been converted to an “Italian :rolleyes2:“, wouldn’t normally be down on a Thursday but Iv no power after that storm so how else would you pass the evening, a lot of lads here put in cattle today, it rained all evening long as heavy rain as any winter night, the rivers banks are fully burst now, rest of the barley here will be a salvage job, I’m not too bad I only have small acres but there’s lads with a couple of hundred acres that haven’t even started yet here, hope September really improves but you wouldn’t go out on land now with a tractor and nothing on the back at the moment

 

[laoisfarmer]

Not sure when it was but maybe 05, we had 18 acres of barley that we had just about left as a right off , got in a cut it over 3 bits of evenings and salvaged 30 ton from it in the middle of November, cut winter wheat on the week of the ploughing that year also. It was the last year we ever had one combine and why we now are over capacity on combines. With what’s left 6 or 7 days will get us finished cutting I hope . Had a look this morning and my best crop of barley is well over although not broken down and it’s still not ripe so might sit back up, February sown winter wheat is thin and there seems to a nice few heads broken over and on the ground, a better crop would have held itself. Winter oats is just ripe and It’s not tall enough to fall over which is good. Winter wheat just ready for the combine so hopefully things will pick up weather wise in the next 2 weeks

 

[DCol]

This is the worst of it so far.

 

[Masseyrk662]

What would yer thoughts on this be lads ? Roughly 12 of the 15 acres sown in May is looking shocking, no rain here all day and a good wind but nice and calm now could go in with the sprayer and burn it off, or is it a waste of time and I should just mow it and bale it and hope for the best, just looking for a few opinions