- Location
- North West
Spring barleys not half moved since we got all this rain! Got the odd bit gone flat on some headlands so just hoping the rest stays stood up 
got a good way to go yet.
got a good way to go yet.
State of your crops?
- Thread starter Jerry
- Start date
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Winter Barley DD’ed into Spring Barley stubble in mid-October. It’s really not liking the wet feet, like on every other field here, but perks up a bit every time the water table drops a bit.
No record yields next year anyway. Time to turn away and not look at it for 6 weeks, or move to Devon @Jerry
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The same field from a similar place yesterday. Some turnaround considering…
Know how your feeling, the weather is rubbing it in with 20mph winds 24c and intense sun . F lovely!!!!!!
- Location
- Herefordshire
Was talking to a grain merchant,last Friday,who reckons wheat yields are going to disappoint due to the high levels of disease.Apparently Septoria is rife everywhere .
Revystar isn't all it's cracked up to be. The last 2 low disease years have lulled us in to thinking it's the answer to life after CTL, but it's been found to be seriously wanting this year...
Edit: if Revystar isn't the answer to a serious septoria threat without CTL, then we can kiss two thirds of the 'Recommended List' goodbye, and with such a concentration of wheat varieties across the UK we can kiss the existing genetic disease resistance goodbye shortly afterwards.
Are we at the point of realising that losing CTL will have a massive 'unintended consequence' on our ability to produce wheat profitably, and supply domestic demand?
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- Location
- Herefordshire
4course
Member
- Location
- north yorks
ours looks clean as a whistle
Our light-land wheat's dying off in the extreme heat here and now showing up its earlier septoria damage as some kind of an excuse.
60-year low specific weights here on WB (1959 was quite bad) due to uncontrollable ramularia, leaving WO as our potential crop of the year.
It's just such a shame that wheat-linked milling oat contracts are all tonnage-, rather than acreage-, based these days.
And thunderstorms now forecast for next Monday, just when we'll be fit to go.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
It is here in every variety that i have looked at, at least half tonne / acre has now gone missing, this all despite expensive fungicide applied with spot on timing, still, it should add £30/tonne to what is harvested.
Yes leaves are pretty clean, it's the ears where the problem is, I am estimating up to 15% of grain sites affected. Had a robust 4 spray fungicide programme, I thought the timing was pretty good. Obviously not spot on,or there is an ear disease weakness. Skyscraper with the same regime has only 5% ear disease. Haven't looked at the Spotlight yet.
Spencer
Member
- Location
- North West
What is zyatt like around the country interested to know
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
4course
Member
- Location
- north yorks
missed this reply( sorry bit late now) but having rubbed a few ears out tonight crop here is not showing any sign of disease in the ear as every grain site full and plenty of full grains/ear,throughout the growing seaon has not needed any fire brigade fungicide , grains /ear and heads/sq m I can say im looking forward to harvesting it but it will be a couple of days later than others by the look of it
- Location
- Lincolnshire
