Just taking a break here between the wheat / triticale and the oats. What a contrast with the UK. Temperatures 10C above normal and yields 50% below! I am far from happy with our yields but then we have doubled the national average and in one case quadrupled it! The latter at just over 5,000kg/ha is, however, the only crop I am happy with. Several factors like planting three weeks late in the autumn, a hot spell in late spring that took a month off the growing season and half the crop was on derelict land and the other half on land that has seen few inputs for years (not a great intro for organic). I reckon the planting cost us 750 kg/ha and the hot weather about 1,000kg/ha. The locals tell me to be happy about it because we are getting what they would be happy with! The other thing of note here is how far behind the plant breeding is. Will only used western bred seeds from here on.
Scots origin. Families farmed in Suffolk and Scottish borders. Wye College graduate and academic staff (ag business). A few years as an international consultant. Now setting up and managing a buffalo milk production and processing operation in Transylvania and HM Honorary Consul!