Rake up for peas?

[hedgehog]

Boarderbloke, Wheat yields here are high generally, and protein low.
13% PROTEIN WHEAT IS £30 over feed. Feed is £120.
Nobody seems to have good protein, although hagberg falling numbers are high in uk, low in europe.
I am holding my milling wheat in the hope that a market for 10% protein high hag wheat will develop. It must i think as everyones is the same.
sheds are groaning here with record yield of low N barley and low protein wheat.

[hedgehog]

HAS anyone got a drum mower?
that will cut peas.

[pgluca]

Have done a lot of very flat peas with regular lifters, they roll up like a rug and you loose very little. IMO better than a flex header when they are very flat. I have used both, just tilt your table forward so you are running at least 6" off the ground and run the lifters 1" off. The only problems is you may get too much green matter and your may have too much material for your header to handle. The too much material you can maybe handle by only cutting partial width. The first pass is a killer though.
Good Luck

[Hopperbin]

Agree with last post. If very flat the swather is a good option. We got going today after only two tenths yesterday. Doing a quarter section a day with honeybee 36foot. 3 to 4, 5 mph. But steady. Honeybee lifters keep knife off the ground and after 450 acres like new knife yet. Swather can go slightly earlier and later than straight cutting. Rolls up like a rug and flips over on canvass still making lovely swath rolling fluff off. Susseptible to blowing but with todays forcast should only lay 3 days 3 days on account of too many mushy seeds. Combine picks up at up to 8 mph depending on if operator can handle.

[Hopperbin]

Straw chopped and spread. Another plus. Possibly dealer could rent you a mcdon. My honeybee lifters hug the ground so hard they can get hot to touch when mid day ground is dryer. But never wrecked one yet. Dont turn sharp.