Feldspar
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True. The grains look pretty well filled. I've certainly seen far more pinched stuff before.
Harvest/Yields 2020
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True. The grains look pretty well filled. I've certainly seen far more pinched stuff before.
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shakerator
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did you reduce fungicide to the extase relative to anything else ?
I think there's a strong correlation between the types of people who may inflate their yields and the type of people who feel the need to phone their contact at the farmers weekly the moment they finish a field.
Feldspar
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It didn't have a teb T0 like the Zyatt that surrounded it with no obvious ill effect whereas Zyatt had a lot of visible YR. T1 was the same as Zyatt - CTL + 0.7l epoxi. T2 again the same low rate of Revystar + CTL + teb. All had 0.5l teb for T3. I did mistime the T2 on the Extase with the flag fully emerged for a while before the T2 went on. Again, didn't see any ill effects from this as septoria pressure wasn't exactly high, but it's possible it might have affected the yield.
Gleam by comparison got 2x SDHIs (although the T1 one was partly to compensate for slightly late timing).
If we plant a decent area of it next year, I would expect to do similar again. No T0, no SDHI at T1, SDHI at T2 and probably a cheap T3. We might have the entire cropped area as 1st wheat next year, so I also see it as giving me a bit of tolerance if I miss timings by a few days.
They do call you up. They rang me a few weeks ago wanting details but we hadn’t done enough. I would have been honest but it would make me look like a bad farmer compared to morons like the guy from sheppey.
Just over 5t here for malting barley
High profile contract farmers can just say "I did 10T/ha barley" with no backup, and it is free advertising. By high profile I mean 'people who tweet a lot' - seems they are now are the same names that pop up as AHDB monitor farms, in advertising pamphlets, on the board of the Oxford Farming Conference etc. Either they are desperate for these types of roles, or the people that are trying to fill them have got exceedingly lazy in where they look.
(Spoiler alert: the best farmers are probably not on twitter, nor are they calling - or being called by - the FW when they get great yields. I dare say Tim Lamyman's yields have been broken several times by farmers who would rather just get on with the job and not show their hand...The British wheat yield record is really "the highest self-pronounced wheat yield")
Extase seems to be best ever against septoria tritici
Zymoseptoria tritici - Wikipedia
but absolutely useless against septoria nodorum
Septoria nodorum blotch of wheat
Mehra, L. K., Adhikari, U., Ojiambo, P. S., Cowger, C. 2019. Septoria nodorum blotch of wheat. The Plant Health Instructor. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1094/PHI-I-2019-0514-01 DISEASE: Septoria nodorum blotch a.k.a. Septoria glume blotch PATHOGEN: Parastagonospora n...
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Feldspar
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Extase seems to be best ever against septoria tritici,
Zymoseptoria tritici - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
but useless against septoria nodorum
Septoria nodorum blotch of wheat
Mehra, L. K., Adhikari, U., Ojiambo, P. S., Cowger, C. 2019. Septoria nodorum blotch of wheat. The Plant Health Instructor. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1094/PHI-I-2019-0514-01 DISEASE: Septoria nodorum blotch a.k.a. Septoria glume blotch PATHOGEN: Parastagonospora n...
That's very interesting. I did see something in it that I thought might be nodorum. It seemed to die from the top down rather than bottom up which was a bit worrying. I know I was late on the T2 so it's possible disease came in then and appeared later on (T3 would have done nothing against any form of septoria). Zyatt T2 was better timed. Extase was on our only bit of properly light land, so that rather confuses the issue.
I think there is quite a small pool of farmers that are approached by the magazines. I get asked fairly regularly to do articles but I try and limit it to one a year. Did one about osr growing low cost risk averse based on margin recently which whenever it gets published will hopefully be abit of an antidote to the usual Spend spend spend mantra. Don’t mind doing the occasional article but some people seem to be in them every week. Must have read about 20 articles about Andrew wards blackgrass rouging!
We've got Extase, Exsept, Graham, Bennington and Diego here, all on similar ground, planted same time, same program, etc.
Somehow don't think Extase will come anywhere near top, but who knows?
Trying
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Done 25 acres of Extase couple of days ago. 81bushel. 11.6 protein only about 2.8 ton to acre.
Feldspar
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Did you aim to get the protein? I think I have put considerably too much N on as it turns out. I hope that at least it will mean I get a decent protein, but am prepare to be disappointed.
Trying
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Aiming for 13. It was thin.
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In defence of Tim he is very welcoming, prepared to share information; isn't trying to build a big contract farming business off the back of it, takes genuine pride in what he does (you couldn't make as many passes as he does without having a genuine interest in how far you can push a crop). He loves his farming and tends to keep himself to himself until he's on about seeing how far you can push things.
One of my Dad's sayings is "the ones to watch are those who think it's important to be important" which I think boils down to the difference between pride and ego. The public eye isn't for everyone but it can certainly attract the wrong type
lloyd
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We are well sorted.