Poor grain set.

snarling bee · Jun 25, 2016

I am not sure I can expect much more than a very average wheat harvest. Pulling apart several ears there are many grain sites that have nothing in. The Gallant is better than the other varieties probably because it started flowering a bit earlier before this awful weather set in. Wheat never likes wet feet either, so I can't see good yields this year.
Any others found the same?

Badshot · Jun 25, 2016

I've got beans in wet parts of fields dieing of fusarium footrot now. We've been drier than many too.

Joseph · Jun 25, 2016

The disease pressure has really built up over the last 3 weeks of rain on otherwise clean crops with a good well timed fungicide program and now fusariam is coming onto the grain sites here.

Flat 10 · Jun 25, 2016

snarling bee said:
I am not sure I can expect much more than a very average wheat harvest. Pulling apart several ears there are many grain sites that have nothing in. The Gallant is better than the other varieties probably because it started flowering a bit earlier before this awful weather set in. Wheat never likes wet feet either, so I can't see good yields this year.
Any others found the same?

Yes. And on Spring barley.

Fuzzy · Jun 25, 2016

Badshot said:
I've got beans in wet parts of fields dieing of fusarium footrot now. We've been drier than many too.

I am finding disease pressure so high in beans (particularly tundra) that i have decided not to apply any more fungicide (3 applications so far) The pod set is very poor despite masses of flowers a while ago. I cant see a return on more chemical investment as i dont think the 'missing' pods are going to magically appear.

My winter barley should be ok yield wise, wheat will probably be ok yield wise but quality will be down.
Spring Barley is flat in places and i think it will be the crop that suffers most.....so much for the agronomists recommended high seed rate to combat blackgrass !!

shakerator · Jun 25, 2016

I am glad I grew a lot of oats as they seemed to have coped well

Wheat did flower early here and seems to have set reasonably

Winter beans disaster

Spring beans late planted early flowering so still hope

Looks like a muted version if 2012 with OSR being best of a bad bunch

shakerator · Jun 25, 2016

Fuzzy said:
I am finding disease pressure so high in beans (particularly tundra) that i have decided not to apply any more fungicide (3 applications so far) The pod set is very poor despite masses of flowers a while ago. I cant see a return on more chemical investment as i dont think the 'missing' pods are going to magically appear.

My winter barley should be ok yield wise, wheat will probably be ok yield wise but quality will be down.
Spring Barley is flat in places and i think it will be the crop that suffers most.....so much for the agronomists recommended high seed rate to combat blackgrass !!

Same opinion especially considering sprayer damage. Can see beans being mid august here due to disease bringing maturity forward

moretimeforgolf · Jun 25, 2016

Crops are looking pretty reasonable here apart from the spring barley which is a bit thin thanks to the slugs. We desperately need some sunshine now for grain fill or we shall end up with a repeat of 2012 ...chicken feed!

marco · Jun 25, 2016

Poor grain set can be linked to boron deficiencies, have you a soil test or leaf test for boron?

horizontal · Jun 25, 2016

Winter barley lodged around here.
Some rape and Spring barley down too.
First symptoms of possible fusarium on ear beginning to show in wheat.
Weather hasn't been too kind here. Over 100mm this month and still it comes.

einstein · Jun 26, 2016

horizontal said:
Winter barley lodged around here.
Some rape and Spring barley down too.
First symptoms of possible fusarium on ear beginning to show in wheat.
Weather hasn't been too kind here. Over 100mm this month and still it comes.

wheres here?

horizontal · Jun 26, 2016

einstein said:
wheres here?

Thames valley

Gong Farmer · Jun 26, 2016

Saw some fusarium on oat panicles the other day (in far south west)

snarling bee · Jun 26, 2016

marco said:
Poor grain set can be linked to boron deficiencies, have you a soil test or leaf test for boron?

No I haven't, but I was blaming the rain. We've had almost 100mm this month which is more than double the normal amount. Not quite 2012 levels, but not far off. Wheat does not like wet feet at any time of year and neither does it like a wet flowering period. The Gallant flowered a few days earlier, before the worst of the rain, and is less badly affected.
Perhaps temporary Boron deficiency, caused by the waterlogged soil, is part of the problem.

horizontal · Jun 26, 2016

I'd be very surprised if it's boron.
Can show temp deficiency when tested but rarely at levels that would lead to grain site abortion.

Gong Farmer · Jun 27, 2016

Cereals' requirement for boron is so low, if there was none at all it would only be a slight deficiency.

Flat 10 · Jun 27, 2016

@TelesnaAg if I remember correctly, Australian soils are much older than European soils and much more depleted of nutrients than here, hence why you are always mentioning them.

TelesnaAg · Jun 27, 2016

Old and shallow, mine are deep and reasonably fertile, but alot of poor farming practices here has meant a lot of nil fert applied etc...the country was majority sheep based for so long and if they wanted more money they bought more land not improved what they had....recentły this has all changed but the main cropping belt is i shallow soils....nthn NSW and sthn QLD have good dirt...

With current grain prices it's hard to increase soil indicies....i spread chook crap and lime ...plus fert the crop pretty well..but im also trying to build infrastructure as well...plus buy gear....its a slow road....hopefully if i can get more land i will get a move along...

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