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Harvest 2020

  • 16-08-2020 3:01pm
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    NcdJd
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    Well anyone got any photos of their harvests or machinery going at it? Big or small, edible or inedible. Mishaps, failures etc. I should have some photos in a month or so fingers crossed.

    All I've got is 4 bowls of plums from a tree at the side of the house. You may laugh but I was chuffed with them..:)


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    [Deleted User]
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    Harvested 15 of these yesterday.
    2.2 to 3.3 kg


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    [Deleted User]
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    Harvested 15 of these yesterday.
    2.2 to 3.3 kg


  • #4
    Base price
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    It wasn't the best year for hay so we didn't buy much but we are busy drawing wb straw at the moment. Talking to the farmers that we buy from, yields are down on previous years and in some areas that didn't grow they were planted with spring barley. Hopefully the weather is kind to them and they get the rest of the harvest in.


  • #5
    NcdJd
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    SouthWesterly wrote: »
    Harvested 15 of these yesterday.
    2.2 to 3.3 kg

    There's no picture Southwesterly. What did you harvest?


  • #6
    NcdJd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 994 ✭✭✭NcdJd


    Base price wrote: »
    It wasn't the best year for hay so we didn't buy much but we are busy drawing wb straw at the moment. Talking to the farmers that we buy from, yields are down on previous years and in some areas that didn't grow they were planted with spring barley. Hopefully the weather is kind to them and they get the rest of the harvest in.

    Supposed to be down by nearly 50 percent. Man i know said combine was going twice as fast as normal due to the crop being so light.


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  • #7
    kk.man
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    NcdJd wrote: »
    Supposed to be down by nearly 50 percent. Man i know said combine was going twice as fast as normal due to the crop being so light.

    I heard same and alot of straw got rain.


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    NcdJd wrote: »
    Supposed to be down by nearly 50 percent. Man i know said combine was going twice as fast as normal due to the crop being so light.
    Yield of straw is less than 50% according to some of our regular suppliers as they had to replant spring barley into areas that didn't grow.
    OH and I are flat out drawing bales ahead of the Northern buyers before they hoover them all up. He draws both large squares and rounds on his lorry and drag and I draw rounds on my little lorry and drag.


  • #9
    NcdJd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 994 ✭✭✭NcdJd


    Base price wrote: »
    Yield of straw is less than 50% according to some of our regular suppliers as they had to replant spring barley into areas that didn't grow.
    OH and I are flat out drawing bales ahead of the Northern buyers before they hoover them all up. He draws both large squares and rounds on his lorry and drag and I draw rounds on my little lorry and drag.

    Wise move. There's no height in any of the corn around where I am. Also alot of secondary growth from the time after the drought.


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