corn yields

hedgecutting eddie

what kinda yields are ye people getting with ur crops
had one field of barely yield 4ton /acre on that 11 acres there was 105 bales of 4x4 s and 340 small square bales ,our wheat doing around 4.3/acre and bout 10plus 4x4s acre ,wish every year was like this one

F.D

We have winter oats, The corn is ripe but the straw is still very sappy trying to hold off a bit longer to see if it dries out more, first time to grow it so dont know how long it will take, but will probably have to cut it high next week if its not any further on, will update on the yield then

mick2706

Had all winter barley this year and averaged 4 ton to the acre at an average of 16.5% moisture. 14 bales to the acre then after that so happy days.

6600

Spring barley average 3.6t, winter wheat 4.8t and winter/spring oats 3.3t. All around the 18% moisture.
Proteins are low - 8% in the barley so none passed for malting. We cut some barley for a neighbour that was 2.5t and down as low as 6% protein :eek: But then he wouldn't spread butter!
Know what you mean about the winter oats. Was a bit odd cutting them tbh. Although the grain was ripe there was water splashing up on the cab! Stalks were full of water. The grain went in at 17% though.
Straw is good enough - about 9.5 bales to the acre. Not a bad harvest. The long ripening and late aphid spray on the barley saved the day

blue5000

Anyone ever hear of a big white combine in the states?:eek:

http://tak.newagtalk.com/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=251377&mid=1919757#M1919757

F.D

6600 wrote: »

Know what you mean about the winter oats. Was a bit odd cutting them tbh. Although the grain was ripe there was water splashing up on the cab! Stalks were full of water. The grain went in at 17% though.
Straw is good enough - about 9.5 bales to the acre. Not a bad harvest.

Did you find it was hard to get the oats to go through the combine? how high did you keep the header up, our contractor tried inside the gate a few days ago and pulled out straight away, said it was too hard to cut it, the straw that came out the back looked to be in bits, hopefully if it dries a little more it will flow through better

BeeDI

As a total non arable farmer in the poor west, I often wonder if any of wheat growers, keep any of the wheat for kitchen use? Does herself ever demand a sack of it for bread making?
Am I asking stupid questions here?:eek:

6600

F.D wrote: »

Did you find it was hard to get the oats to go through the combine? how high did you keep the header up, our contractor tried inside the gate a few days ago and pulled out straight away, said it was too hard to cut it, the straw that came out the back looked to be in bits, hopefully if it dries a little more it will flow through better

Kept it up about 6 inches, the shoots were probably still holding the rain that fell a couple of days before. Went through the combine ok but had to go slow. Throwing a small bit out but nothing major. Oats can be ripe when the plant isn't. Ideally you would spray off but you could lose a lot of grain in a tall crop.
Neighbours had to pull out as well last Sunday as it was 24% so yours just might not be ripe yet. A good fine day and she'll saw through it no bother. A week makes an awful difference.

6600

BeeDI wrote: »

As a total non arable farmer in the poor west, I often wonder if any of wheat growers, keep any of the wheat for kitchen use? Does herself ever demand a sack of it for bread making?
Am I asking stupid questions here?:eek:

AFAIK any Irish wheat that makes milling quality for breadmaking is blended with better quality English stuff. We just don't get the sunshine here for Grade I wheat so it mightn't be great stuff if you did keep it.
Also 'herself' doesn't have the arms to be grinding corn, a bag of flour would want to get a lot more expensive!

Tora Bora

BeeDI wrote: »

As a total non arable farmer in the poor west, I often wonder if any of wheat growers, keep any of the wheat for kitchen use? Does herself ever demand a sack of it for bread making?
Am I asking stupid questions here?:eek:

Saw a grow your own type growing and manually harvesting oats if some kind, to use in porridge. Growing in west Clare, and flogging at farmers markets. I suppose he can somehow manually dry small volumes to deal with moisture issues.

chesera

I had a disasterous yield with new varity I tried this year called Snakebite. Same poor yield over 4 different fields. Only common denominator is the variety. Any similar experiences with this breed????

Conflats

chesera wrote: »

I had a disasterous yield with new varity I tried this year called Snakebite. Same poor yield over 4 different fields. Only common denominator is the variety. Any similar experiences with this breed????

We grew a good bit of snakebite this year and did 2.9-3.4/ac so far so very happy with it, not to run you or your farming practices down but things like sowing rates/date, disease,fertilizer and perhaps the biggest factor Soil type can all have an affect on your yield

hedgecutting eddie

chesera wrote: »

I had a disasterous yield with new varity I tried this year called Snakebite. Same poor yield over 4 different fields. Only common denominator is the variety. Any similar experiences with this breed????

just in the door from cutting snakebite white label for a farmer i say its yielding 3.5 plus tonne /acre ,i sowed it and was late enough sown cant rem de date , its after maize got 3 bags of 18-6-12 and 2bags of can 27% its heavy ground and its as clean as a whistle no scutch or any weed in it

uncle had it too his yielded 3.2 acre

F.D

Cut the winter oat's yesterday, yielded 3.25 ton /acre, about 18% moisture. straw still wet enough will take a few days to dry, but got it down to 6-8 inches so happy enough, fair play to our contractor he done a good job