Harvest/Yields 2020
- Thread starter Honest john
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Finished yesterday with some spring barley. Propino. Sprayed a fortnight ago then rained for 12 days. About 30% of ears dropped off on the floor . 15% moisture at 11am though. A disappointing end to a poor harvest. Bulldozing, stones, and brackled, flat. Good riddance to 2020 season, what a year it has been,
roll on 2021.
I begin to think that it is a regular spring barley thing, lots of ears on the floor due to the wet 10 days we always seem to get just as we are finishing wheat, and consequently cannot get to barley quickly enough.
I know it costs buggerall to grow, but winter seems just more reliable and is gone before harvest really starts...
I know it costs buggerall to grow, but winter seems just more reliable and is gone before harvest really starts...
For some reason I thought you would still be using a thrashing box
,shame to have to wish your time away though
- Location
- Lincolnshire
It's the propensity for a decent barley crop to self destruct that I don't like. However after two years of awful spring oats where the high winds have shagged them leads me to think both are just....annoying.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Certainly my last year with propino. Looks green, you go away, come back two weeks later and it's fallen to bits.
Yes, all well and good saying " September is harvest month ". but barley is usually f**ked long before then. Modern varieties ? Did it used to be like this ?
- Location
- Lincolnshire
I should think about 300 kg per acre of wheat shaken out, some sprouted and stalks bent down with heads on the ground. There isn’t an easy cereal when you get weather like we had here last week. Anyway, nowt we can do about it but hope to clear some more up this afternoon. At least the suns out properly for the first time in a week.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Some stand better than others. Feeds like Westminster seem to stand better than Planet here. Not a scientific study just an observation.
4course
Member
- Location
- north yorks
heavy dew but sunny here, just waiting for first trailer , was just over 17 last night having come down from 20 plus during the day until damp stopped play,hope its under 16 will aerate and blend if it is as the drier is overworked as am I
Back in the day when we grew Rika, Proctor and Freya, almost every year the Proctor premium would end up on the ground.
So, there's always been varieties and varieties - and a criminal lack of information from NIAB/HGCA/AHDB on just which one will neck/detach/shed more than the other.
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Quite agree it’s a crap variety , Only grew t this time as being a skin flint buying sb seed this spring , progress from optic And tipple etc my arse
- Location
- the brecks norfolk
We still grow odyssey. I got told 2 years ago no one want it but for farmers mill does which suites us.
We grew optic and that always ended up on the floor, you only needed to fart in the gate way and it would drop most of the heads. We then grew cocktail and then tipple but niether ever really did very well at all we then changed to odyssey and have stuck with it ever since. It will brackle like they all will but it always goes over half way up so you can get the knife under it like a carpet. It holds onto its ears very well and always produces lots of nice straw.
This year we did try a bag of planet in amongst a field of odyssey and it was noticable there was more straw and grain behind the odyssey and despite being our first cut spring barley the planet ears were already heading southwards.
We grew optic and that always ended up on the floor, you only needed to fart in the gate way and it would drop most of the heads. We then grew cocktail and then tipple but niether ever really did very well at all we then changed to odyssey and have stuck with it ever since. It will brackle like they all will but it always goes over half way up so you can get the knife under it like a carpet. It holds onto its ears very well and always produces lots of nice straw.
This year we did try a bag of planet in amongst a field of odyssey and it was noticable there was more straw and grain behind the odyssey and despite being our first cut spring barley the planet ears were already heading southwards.
For some reason I thought you would still be using a thrashing box
HA , well it would have been an even bigger faff cutting it with a binder. Threshing with the steam engine would definitely be more enjoyable though, in the winter on a cold windy day stood up on the engine with warm feet watching the other 8 or nine people working. What's not to like about that?
SilliamWhale
Member
Back in the day when we grew Rika, Proctor and Freya, almost every year the Proctor premium would end up on the ground.
So, there's always been varieties and varieties - and a criminal lack of information from NIAB/HGCA/AHDB on just which one will neck/detach/shed more than the other.
Tell me a spring barley which can stand the weather?
Spencer
Member
- Location
- North West
Irina
Had that here - so many false starts that no one ever thinks they have to turn up promptly when you actually need them.