Farmers Weekly

JULY 24, 2023

Farmers Weekly Throughout harvest 2022, we are updating our handy map with the latest data from 2022’s AHDB winter barley Recommended List harvest results. Use the map below to find the five highest-yielding winter barley varieties at your nearest AHDB trials site.

Harvest 216

Harvest Harvester Harvesting Yield 216

Real Agriculture

MAY 24, 2024

There’s plenty of potential but final yield will likely be determined by how the crop deals with the many stresses it could encounter between now and harvest. There’s plenty of potential but final yield will likely be determined by how the crop deals with the many stresses it could encounter between now and harvest.

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Yield Harvest Harvester Harvesting 300

Real Agriculture

MAY 28, 2024

So many decisions that influence yield need to be made throughout the growing season, and it begins with the optimal seeding rate. The ideal seeding rate can also help with a smoother harvest and to time. The ideal seeding rate can also help with a smoother harvest and to time. Read More

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Seeding Yield Harvest Harvester 286

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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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Yield 209

Farmers Weekly

JULY 31, 2023

Farmers Weekly The pain continues for oilseed rape growers with only 21% of the rapeseed area cut by 25 July and yields averaging a poor 3t/ha, according to the first AHDB harvest report. Progress is far behind where it was at the same time last year, when 68% had been harvested.

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Yield 239

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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Maize Yield Harvest Harvester 246

Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 7, 2023

Farmers Weekly Ukraine’s wheat harvest is producing impressive yields, but with fewer hectares planted as a result of the Russian invasion, there will be no record for overall tonnage this year.

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Yield Harvest Harvester Harvesting 158

Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 3, 2023

Farmers Weekly Farmers continue to dodge the showers and dry as little of crops as they can – although the continued rain is turning what started out as an early harvest into one with plenty of delays.

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Yield 161

Farmers Weekly

JULY 12, 2023

This has led to some thin-looking spring crops, with very low-looking margin potential considering the price we […] The post Farmer Focus: Wheat yield compromised as harvest nears appeared first on Farmers Weekly Something similar to what our friends in Norfolk would normally get.

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Yield Harvest Harvester Harvesting 195

Farmers Weekly

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Farmers Weekly Potato harvest is nearly complete for RG Abrey Farms in Norfolk, which has been pioneering an innovative camera-based system to drive yield and marketability across its potato crop.

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Crop Yield 264

Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 11, 2023

Farmers Weekly Weather conditions have drastically slowed harvest, with lodging difficulties delaying the combines. A sliver of light is that overall winter barley yields concluded well this season.

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Lodging Harvest Harvester Harvesting 246

Farmers Weekly

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Farmers Weekly A mix of peas and mustard generated the highest gross margin in the first year of an extensive intercropping trial carried out by Oxfordshire farmer Ben Adams, where different crop mixes were assessed for yield, quality and ease of harvest.

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Yield Harvest Harvester Harvesting 325

Farmers Weekly

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Farmers Weekly Sugar beet growers have made an unusually early start to this year’s beet harvest as British Sugar offers a premium for early-lifted crops in an attempt to make up for last season’s 250,000t sugar shortage.

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Yield Harvest Harvester Harvesting 306

Farmers Weekly

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Farmers Weekly It’s been a difficult stop-start harvest across the country, but how have our regular featured Arable Insights farmer panel fared?

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Yield 279

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

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. 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.

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Yield 212

AgWeb Farm Journal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Despite the weather extremes Indiana farmers faced during the season, USDA is estimating statewide yields will be above 2022 for both corn and soybeans. So far harvest results are confirming that trend.

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Yield 122

Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 21, 2023

The two-row feed variety yielded 8.5-9.5t/ha ha this harvest, the specific weight held up with […] The post Harvest 2023: New winter barley impresses in Yorkshire appeared first on Farmers Weekly

Harvest 244

Harvest Harvester Harvesting Yield 244

Real Agriculture

JULY 24, 2023

When it comes to silage, a lower harvest height can add real tonnage to the final yield tally. Kayla Slind, acting general manager with the Western Applied Research Corporation (WARC), says that harvesting close to the ground requires land rolling to protect the harvester from damage due to picking up. Read More

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Yield Harvest Harvester Harvesting 235

Real Agriculture

JUNE 27, 2024

When fungicides are effectively applied to protect soybean plants growers can expect to see more uniform and bigger seed size when the combine rolls through fields at harvest. Read More

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Yield Seeding Harvest Harvester 194

Farmers Weekly

JULY 13, 2023

Farmers Weekly Combines might have got off the starting line early for some, but wet weather has blown in and it is certainly putting a damper on harvest. Farmers Weekly speaks to a range of growers in the South West to find out the latest harvest updates.

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Yield 227

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

Harvest 246

Harvest Harvester Harvesting Yield 246

Farmers Weekly

JULY 24, 2023

Farmers Weekly Winter wheat harvest started two weeks earlier than usual for Dorset farm manager Tom Matthews, making him one of the earliest growers in the UK to cut wheat this season.

Harvest 246

Harvest Harvester Harvesting Yield 246

Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 23, 2023

I can only apologise if you have had a wetter than normal harvest, it is quite obviously all my fault. My prediction […] The post Farmer Focus: Spring cereal yields are disappointing appeared first on Farmers Weekly

Yield 246

Yield Harvest Harvester Harvesting 246

Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

There are some problems you just can’t avoid — like ending up with wheat roots in drainage tile after big yields, but every challenge has a solution and it comes down to making hay while the sun shines. No, not actual hay, as we are in the critical harvest period, but if the soil is. Read More

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Yield Seeding Harvest Harvester 272

Real Agriculture

AUGUST 25, 2023

What does black electrical tape have to do with protecting your state of mind at harvest? For Megz Reynolds, during a particularly bad harvest, covering up the yield monitor with it was a small boundary she set to help ease her mind and focus on the task at hand. It may seem small, but small things. Read More

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Yield 190

Real Agriculture

AUGUST 25, 2023

A soybean grower in Georgia has set a new world record for soybean yield, surpassing the mark established by one of his mentors. Alex Harrell of Smithville, GA, harvested 206.7997 bu/ac on August 23, breaking fellow Georgia farmer Randy Dowdy’s previous record of 191 bu/ac set in 2019. Read More

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Yield Harvest Harvester Harvesting 240

Real Agriculture

APRIL 23, 2024

Intercropping is the practice of growing two or more crops seeded at the same time (in one pass or two) that are then also harvested at the same time. The seeds are separated post-harvest, and the yield can, at times, out yield what each crop would have yielded on its own. But not all crops. But not all crops.

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Yield Seeding Harvest Harvester 292

ProAg

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Soybean harvest progress has raced ahead with nearly half of the crop out of the field. farmers have harvested 43% of all soybeans as of October 8. Both corn and soybeans are slightly ahead of last year’s harvest progress of 29% and 41%, respectively. Read more on harvest pace here. Read more on harvest pace here.

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Yield 59

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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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Crop 167

Real Agriculture

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

On this episode, host Shaun Haney is back from Germany and is joined by RealAgriculture’s in-house agronomist, Peter Johnson, to discuss: Autonomy to help dealing with labour issues; Yields and quality concern in the corn harvest; and, Enough corn for an on-farm grain dryer. We will also hear a. We will also hear a. Read More

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Grain 208

ProAg

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

An early corn harvest is well underway in Iowa. And early-season uncertainties about yield have, for the most part, been calmed with early yield results. Iowa farmers have reported average or higher-than-average corn yields despite the drought, according to Iowa State University Extension field agronomists.

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Yield Harvest Harvester Harvesting 59

Farmers Weekly

JULY 18, 2023

Farmers Weekly Winter barley has been coming into grain stores around the South with varying quality levels and moistures due to a stop-start harvest. Oilseed rape is trickling in too, showing good oil content so far.

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Grain 183

Real Agriculture

MAY 28, 2024

But growers have plenty of management decisions to consider to effectively use a PGR to reduce lodging, increase harvestability and protect and increase grain yield. But growers have plenty of management decisions to consider to effectively use a PGR to reduce lodging, increase harvestability and protect and increase grain yield.

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Lodging Harvest Harvester Harvesting 283

Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 25, 2023

If the weather pattern for the previous growing season wasn’t bad enough, we now find ourselves in a snatch-and-grab harvest, with wheat moistures ranging from 21.25% down to 11.6% The wet autumn and early spring […] The post Farmer Focus: June drought blamed for poor wheat yields appeared first on Farmers Weekly

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Yield Harvest Harvester Harvesting 207

Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 31, 2023

Spring barley has been fairly good for yield, but crop have certainly missed the sunshine this year, while in Scotland some growers are seeing spring barley showing regrowth of green shoots […] The post Harvest 2023: Wheat quality suffering as Hagberg levels fall appeared first on Farmers Weekly

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Yield 171

ProAg

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Almost all of Iowa’s corn and soybeans have been harvested as of the latest and final USDA crop update for 2023. Harvest for both crops concluded about a week ahead of the five-year average, primarily due to late-summer heat and drought conditions. But did adverse weather impact yields? Not as much as you’d think.

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Yield Harvest Harvester Harvesting 52