Recommend Me A Milling Wheat

teslacoils

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Arable Farmer

Location

Lincolnshire

• Apr 25, 2021

• #1

Heavy land milling wheat variety needed. Needs to stand; thresh; and have an aggressive growth type. Needs to be fairly "showy" in early spring so I can feel good about it.

Thoughts? Gp1,2,3 all fine.

 

cricketandcrops

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BASIS

Location

Lincolnshire

• Apr 25, 2021

• #2

Crusoe still does the business or if G2 Siskin takes some beating drilled later for BG, tillers very well

 

snarling bee

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Arable Farmer

Location

Bedfordshire

• Apr 25, 2021

• #3

Sounds like you need Skyfall. Stands, threshes and is early. Good yield and quality, midge resistant, just watch the YR.

 

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Neddy flanders

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BASE UK Member

• Apr 25, 2021

• #4

Crusoe. theres no other.

 

teslacoils

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Arable Farmer

Location

Lincolnshire

• Apr 25, 2021

• #5

I like Crusoe very much, apart from threshing the damned stuff.

 

snipe

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Location

west yorkshire

• Apr 25, 2021

• #6

Gallant. Ours always on par with skyfall. Very reliable on protein and ready to cut a week before most other wheats.

 

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willy

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Mixed Farmer

Location

Rutland

• Apr 26, 2021

• #7

Xi19

 

Poncherello1976

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Mixed Farmer

Location

Oxfordshire

• Apr 26, 2021

• #8

If you are happy with Group 2 then a +1 for Siskin.

 

Badshot

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Location

Kent

• Apr 26, 2021

• #9

I'm going to try extase this year.
With frontier taking over Warburton's, wanting to cut my tonneage to an unusable level for the storage I have, I am dropping out of the contract.

With wheat trading at decent levels, lots in the news of big feed lots swapping to wheat as corn is too expensive, I can see it climbing to unseen levels in the next year.

 

teslacoils

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Arable Farmer

Location

Lincolnshire

• Apr 26, 2021

• #10

Yup, due to field sizes I've more grass than ideal, so have two leys to knock out next year. I've been all feed for convenience, but as I move to using just central storage I want to add the value.

 

Woldgrain Storage

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Location

Hemswell, North Lincs

• Apr 26, 2021

• #11

teslacoils said:

Yup, due to field sizes I've more grass than ideal, so have two leys to knock out next year. I've been all feed for convenience, but as I move to using just central storage I want to add the value.

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Speak to your trader, I think the only Gp2 with much of a specific premium from the millers last year was Siskin.

Any Chilham/Cochise/Extase just went as mixed LGM 1&2

 

Brisel

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Arable Farmer

Location

Midlands

• Apr 26, 2021

• #12

cricketandcrops said:

Crusoe still does the business or if G2 Siskin takes some beating drilled later for BG, tillers very well

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I've never found Siskin to be that good at tillering. It has been consistent though, has a good disease profile and develops fairly quickly.

Skyfall is still very good, but weak on disease now.

 

teslacoils

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Arable Farmer

Location

Lincolnshire

• Apr 26, 2021

• #13

Woldgrain Storage said:

Speak to your trader, I think the only Gp2 with much of a specific premium from the millers last year was Siskin.

Any Chilham/Cochise/Extase just went as mixed LGM 1&2

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What gp1s are you taking in?;

 

Wheatland

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Arable Farmer

Location

Shropshire

• Apr 26, 2021

• #14

Siskin most widely grown variety for me but second place is Claire which is very often top yielding and certainly my favourite

 

Farmer-George

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• Apr 26, 2021

• #15

I’m a big fan of soft wheat. Was always a die hard feed grower. My man at Cefetra got me into softs. Now growing firefly, elicit and skyscraper. Like the fact we can mix the 3/4 and still get a soft premium. Need to be careful with the 4 softs as only a few varieties they take on a group 3 premium.
I like the fact it takes no more from an input point of view to get a soft to meet spec than our feed wheats used to.

 

teslacoils

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Arable Farmer

Location

Lincolnshire

• Apr 26, 2021

• #16

Dad's Elicit looks ace. Thing is, now we don't run our own combine I can't be having heart attacks watching it shed or sprout. The idea is to get the stuff cut and into store.

If the store will take it, I'll book some Crusoe so will see. Did 13.2t/ha last time. Woot. That was a fair while back though.

 

Woldgrain Storage

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Location

Hemswell, North Lincs

• Apr 28, 2021

• #17

teslacoils said:

Dad's Elicit looks ace. Thing is, now we don't run our own combine I can't be having heart attacks watching it shed or sprout. The idea is to get the stuff cut and into store.

If the store will take it, I'll book some Crusoe so will see. Did 13.2t/ha last time. Woot. That was a fair while back though.

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We will take any group 1 variety, we just need to keep the Warbs and the Mulika separate from the other full spec group 1s.

 

Brisel

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Arable Farmer

Location

Midlands

• Apr 28, 2021

• #18

Woldgrain Storage said:

We will take any group 1 variety, we just need to keep the Warbs and the Mulika separate from the other full spec group 1s.

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How much of the incoming Mulika needs colour sorting for ergot? Ours was full of it last year

 

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sahara

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Arable Farmer

Location

Somerset

• Apr 28, 2021

• #19

Zyatt?

We were growing Crusoe and like you found it a pain to thresh.
In our experience it would fit your criteria, picture taken last week.

 

Ferndale213

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• Apr 29, 2021

• #20

Badshot said:

I'm going to try extase this year.
With frontier taking over Warburton's, wanting to cut my tonneage to an unusable level for the storage I have, I am dropping out of the contract.

With wheat trading at decent levels, lots in the news of big feed lots swapping to wheat as corn is too expensive, I can see it climbing to unseen levels in the next year.

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heard that there is a big push to get Extase upgraded to a GP1 but haven’t seen anything to confirm this yet