AHDB: Winter wheat harvest gathering tempo

In keeping with the Agricultural and Horticultural Growth Board (AHDB), the winter wheat harvest in Nice Britain is beginning to decide up tempo.

It is a direct results of the drier situations which have impacted throughout the nation over latest days.

By the top of final week, greater than 37% of the GB winter wheat space had been harvested.

Nonetheless, there’s a giant variation in progress, starting from 2% in Yorkshire to over 60% harvested within the southeast.

In Yorkshire, it has been reported that precedence has been given to harvesting spring barley, particularly malting varieties, in an effort to protect grain high quality. Consequently, winter wheat harvest progress has been sluggish.

In some areas, storms and heavy rain have led to experiences of lodging, notably within the northeast of England.

However the general price of lodging stays comparatively low. There have been experiences of ergot recognized in some hundreds within the east midlands. However, considerably, there haven’t been any reported rejections presently.

Winter wheat harvest yields

The place yields are involved, early experiences level to winter wheat tonnages being optimistic throughout many areas.

Nonetheless, variation throughout areas is obvious, with soil kind additionally impacting this, in line with the AHDB.

In Yorkshire, though winter wheat harvest has not progressed a lot, it’s famous that early yield indications recommend that crops on lighter land have suffered extra with decrease yields.

Water stress in direction of the top of the rising season brought about some grains to develop into shrivelled.

Early indications of yields on-farm are starting from 5.5-12.5 t/ha, with increased yields sometimes achieved on heavier land than crops on the lighter soils.

Typical common GB winter wheat yields as much as the center/finish of final week are estimated between 7.7-8.3 t/ha. These are effectively throughout the the five-year common yield figures.

Particular weights are ranging between 72-78 kg/hl on farm. The GB common is presently 74-76 kg/hl.

Hagberg falling quantity (HFN) values are ranging between 260 and 300 nationally. There’s restricted data regionally.

Nonetheless, experiences from the east midlands would point out that early harvested crops have are available in with HFN values averaging round 280.

Within the south-east, the HFN vary is between 270 and 320. Within the south-west, HFN are slowly declining, however the majority of high-quality wheat has now been harvested on this area.

 Up up to now protein ranges have been starting from 12.5-13%.

There’s restricted reporting of this data to date however within the east midlands, early harvested crops present protein content material to be at 12.6%.

The common grain moisture is round 16.2%, with the GB common set between 16% and 17%. There was a variation in drying necessities relying on climate.

Nonetheless it has been reported that much less grain drying, notably within the west midlands, has been wanted over the previous week because of drier climate situations.