Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

As far as averages go, the 2024 harvest season is chugging along around the average for most provinces. Some farmers are fully caught up with what’s ready, even though early indications were for an earlier than normal harvest. But like most averages, the number doesn’t tell the whole story.

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Farmers Weekly

OCTOBER 24, 2023

After an unseasonably wet harvest this year, farmers in some parts of the country are seeing next year’s crops rotting under floodwater. NFU deputy […] The post Farmers demand government action as crops submerge appeared first on Farmers Weekly

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Farmers Weekly

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Farmers Weekly Farmers are seriously considering sowing more crops for pollinators and wild birds under the Sustainable Farming Incentive, rather than arable crops, as way of reducing their risks and future-proofing their businesses.

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Crop 261

Farmers Weekly

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Farmers Weekly With a return to rainy weather after 10 September, harvest slowed and was eventually completed on 3 October. This is not unusually late, but it felt like a long harvest, starting on 20 July, only a day later than last year.

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Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 21, 2023

Farmers Weekly Yorkshire Wolds grower Mark Ullyott is impressed with the new winter barley variety Caravelle, saying it is the best seed crop of barley he has grown for more than 10 years and he will be growing it again this coming season. The two-row feed variety yielded 8.5-9.5t/ha

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Farmers Weekly

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Farmers Weekly Harvest 2023 is now finished all bar 10ha of lentils, which look like they will be ready at the end of the month. Like last year, they were grown as a bi-crop with camelina, which is supposed to act as a pea-stick to hold them up for harvest.

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Lodging Harvest Harvester Harvesting 246

Real Agriculture

AUGUST 7, 2023

Not without controversy, applying glyphosate prior to harvesting a crop can help with crop and weed dry-down. If done too early, while the plant is still moving nutrients up into the kernels, a pre-harvest pass can cause glyphosate residues in the resulting grain.

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 16, 2024

In Episode 14 of the Truth About Ag podcast, co-hosts Evan Shout and Kristjan Hebert discuss this year’s challenging harvest, from managing unpredictable weather to empowering the team through cross-training and delegation. Read More

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Real Agriculture

DECEMBER 6, 2023

What can farmers learn about combine settings from machines running in neighbouring fields or those harvesting wheat in fields over 8,000 miles away in Australia? Read More What can farmers learn about combine settings from machines running in neighbouring fields or those harvesting wheat in fields over 8,000 miles away in Australia?

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Farmers Weekly

JULY 31, 2023

Farmers Weekly Somerset grower Charles Quick managed to catch a break between the rainstorms to make a start on winter wheat harvest, before this week’s forecast of heavy rain. Cutting into a crop of Graham over the weekend on the outskirts of Taunton, Charles was pleased with budgeted yields of 8.5-9t/ha

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Yield 246

Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 20, 2023

Farmers Weekly Spring malting barley crops are showing promising grain quality from the early harvested areas across south and eastern England, although yields are a touch disappointing after such a difficult growing season.

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Real Agriculture

MARCH 21, 2024

The big corn Ontario crop of 2023 is doing what analysts suspected it would to cash prices — and it’s not a rosy picture. says that a seasonal post-harvest rally didn’t even happen, which was a little surprising, and Ontario farmers have got plenty of corn. Phil Shaw, market analyst and farmer from Dresden, Ont.,

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Real Agriculture

AUGUST 9, 2023

When looking at any pesticide label there should be three words that make you stop, think, and mark the calendar: pre-harvest interval. The pre-harvest interval — PHI — is the minimum time necessary between application of a product and cutting the crop, either by swathing or straight-cutting. Read More

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Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 13, 2023

Farmers Weekly Just 5% of the winter wheat and spring barley crop in Britain has been cut in a delayed wet weather harvest, although these figures will have risen sharply after a dry spell in the second half of last week.

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Crop 231

Real Agriculture

JUNE 28, 2024

Ontario’s winter wheat crop has high yield potential but there are also high levels of yield robbing fusarium in fields in some regions of the province. Real Agriculture agronomist Peter ‘Wheat Pete’ Johnson says it’s not as bad as 1996 when fusarium decimated the provincial winter wheat crop, but growers will.

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Yield 298

Real Agriculture

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Farmers got their first look at new John Deere predictive ground speed automation harvesting technology this fall and they like what they’ve seen, reports Bergen Nelson, Deere’s go-to-market manager for harvesting equipment. Read More

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Technology 236

Real Agriculture

JANUARY 18, 2024

New Holland is redesigning and restyling its line of forage harvesters. Up front, farmers will notice a renewed version of New Holland’s UltraFeed grass pickup on its range of FR forage harvesters for 2024. The UltraFeed will be available in working widths of 3.o, The UltraFeed will be available in working widths of 3.o,

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Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

CLAAS is celebrating 50 years of Jaguar self-propelled forage harvesters. Read More CLAAS is celebrating 50 years of Jaguar self-propelled forage harvesters. Read More CLAAS is celebrating 50 years of Jaguar self-propelled forage harvesters. In this report, CLAAS. In this report, CLAAS.

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Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Seed corn harvest in southern Ontario typically gets underway in early September. Read More Seed corn harvest in southern Ontario typically gets underway in early September. Read More Seed corn harvest in southern Ontario typically gets underway in early September. Why so early? Why so early?

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Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 14, 2023

Farmers Weekly Grain traders are reporting wide variations in grain qualities, with this harvest very much proving the luck of the draw, depending on local conditions. Even so, milling wheat and malting barley have had average to above-average yields this year.

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Grain 246

Farmers Weekly

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Farmers Weekly Harvest 2023 is coming to an end throughout the country as spring barley is cut in the North, with this week’s heatwave keeping moisture contents below the drying threshold. Morayshire This week’s high temperatures, in the mid-20Cs, have been good for crops, says Frank Thomson, near Clochan.

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Crop 202

Farmers Weekly

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Farmers Weekly A switch to grain maize could be the answer for farmers with maize crops still standing because harvest has been hampered by wet ground conditions. This is according to Michael Carpenter, technical director of feed preservation specialist Kelvin Cave.

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 29, 2024

You can’t manage what you don’t measure, and if you’re not measuring grain loss out the back of the combine, you could be losing two, four and even 10 bushels an acre on the harvest pass.

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Farmers Weekly

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Farmers Weekly As foragers start chopping maize crops across the South and East, reports are that yields are very good, ranging between 43 and 48t/ha. This is allowing growers to replace their forage stocks and build up a carry […] The post Maize harvest begins with yields off to a promising start appeared first on Farmers Weekly

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Real Agriculture

JULY 25, 2024

Farmers are looking for two things during harvest: efficiency and a clean sample. Read More Farmers are looking for two things during harvest: efficiency and a clean sample. Read More Farmers are looking for two things during harvest: efficiency and a clean sample. Read More

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Grain 245

Farmers Weekly

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Farmers Weekly This has been the worst winter wheat harvest in 11 years at Downpatrick, and what a summer we have had. Wheat crops initially showed a lot of potential, but unfortunately this didn’t play through to harvest as we had limited sun and too much rain.

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Crop 208

Farmers Weekly

JULY 11, 2023

Farmers Weekly Winter barley harvest has been a stop-start affair at the Trinley Estate in Hampshire, where farm manager Mike Farrell began cutting the hybrid variety Thunderbolt last week, with yields of just over 10t/ha.

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Yield Harvest Harvester Harvesting 209

Real Agriculture

AUGUST 27, 2024

Harvest is often a highlight of the year, but it can also be a stress-filled time, especially when combined with other factors outside of a farm’s control. Read More Harvest is often a highlight of the year, but it can also be a stress-filled time, especially when combined with other factors outside of a farm’s control.

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Crop 328

Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In recent years, many corn growers in Ontario have wrestled with gibberella ear rot in the crop and the high levels of deoxynivalenol (DON) levels it can produce in the grain. It’s made for stressful harvest seasons, especially in 2018 when mycotoxins produced by the gibberella fungus in some fields climbed well above safe feeding.

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Grain 314

Farmers Weekly

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Farmers Weekly With combing wrapped up, there is just one crop left to harvest – pumpkins. Being about 90% water, they need a lot […] The post Farmer Focus: July and August rain sees bumper pumpkin crop appeared first on Farmers Weekly The one benefit to the July and August rain has been pumpkin size.

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Crop Harvest Harvester Harvesting 246

Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 14, 2023

Farmers Weekly The wheat harvest picked up pace in the recent dry spell, with yields surprisingly good after such a wet and stormy July, although milling quality is a concern with proteins generally low and Hagbergs under pressure. Suffolk father-and-son growers Carl and Adam Driver have finished 155ha of Extase with a yield of 8.7-9.7t/ha,

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Yield 243

Farmers Weekly

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Farmers Weekly There can’t be a better sign than this for a future wheat crop. It’s lovely to see photos of cropping, after harvest dominated the galleries for a good couple of months with some stunning pictures. This rainbow overseeing wheat drilling in Ocle, Herefordshire was captured by George Williams.

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Crop Harvest Harvester Harvesting 246

Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 20, 2023

Farmers Weekly More than one-third of the total winter wheat crop area across Great Britain has now been cut, but farmers are still catching up on harvest due to variable weather.

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Crop 190

Real Agriculture

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Speed and flexibility is everything when a farmer is in the middle of harvest and needing to get grain trucks emptied as quickly as possible.

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Farmers Weekly

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

September has been much better, with a run of 10 dry days allowing harvest to progress at a more normal pace. We ended up cutting all of the wheat by 4 September, about the […] The post Farmer Focus: First winter barley min-tilled after cover crop appeared first on Farmers Weekly

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Crop Harvest Harvester Harvesting 246

Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 18, 2023

Farmers Weekly Harvest has got off to a challenging start, with more days parked up than cutting so far. Yields have been variable, with winter barley slightly disappointing. Oilseed rape is not very exciting – just scraping the average, while the winter wheat has produced a mix of average and good.

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Crop Yield Harvest Harvester 246

Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 4, 2023

At the moment, if the rain stopped and the crop was allowed to dry the combine would get underneath it […] The post Farmer Focus: Wet harvest misery with half of wheat lodged appeared first on Farmers Weekly Fields are getting soft even for travelling. In most fields, 50% has now lodged, which is very frustrating.

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Lodging Harvest Harvester Harvesting 216