Given a clear run, maize harvesting, including tomorrow's MGA/ADAS grain maize demonstration event, should be complete by the end of the week on the land Troy Stuart farms in Devon.
About a third of the crop around Clyst St Mary, Exeter, cut at 30-35% moisture, has been crimped and sealed into 2m x 60m ‘sausages' with a Korte bagger for use as high quality dairy feed. The rest is being dried and stored.
The only wheat drilling remaining was after the maize and that was going well as was the cereal spraying programme, Mr Stuart reported.
"We're still suffering from slugs, but we're pretty well up to date with everything. The Vaderstad Topdown has gone well allowing us to do much more work in a day.
"It's been a doddle of an autumn, but that really only makes up for the diabolical summer."
The post-maize varieties were Einstein and Istabraq, especially the latter for its good fusarium resistance, he explained.
Two days at Germany's Agritechnica show left him with "quite a shopping list".
"It's not the place to buy, but from my point of view the thing it showed was that we are already dealing with the better end of the market, especially Claas and John Deere. The new Claas forager looks very good."
The trip had its downside, however.
"We flew from Bristol at 3pm but didn't get there until after 11pm, having spent six and a half hours at Amsterdam airport which was a bit tedious."
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