Graham averaged 4.4 tons acre, Extase 3.5 tons acre, cost us about 20k in lost income. Best field Graham did 4.7 tons acre worst did 4 ton. Best Extase did was 4 ton and worst was 2 ton acre lots of blind or partially filled ears. All ours was early drilled so possibly frost related? But did notice higher levels of eyespot infection compared to Graham. Definitely won't be growing it again, am replacing it with Gleam.
Extase potential problems
- Thread starter willy
- Start date
Snap. Sub 72 bushel, skyscraper and elicit 74-76 on similar land.
Mixedupfarmer
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- Location
- Norfolk
- Location
- Lincolnshire
All trails are little narrow strips, so disease isnt a problem due to different resistances etc of varieties keeping it at bay, hence the real world can look very different.
Extase best in untreated aswell…
Ive seen plenty of trial plots where disease has been a big problem!!!
Narrow strips or not.
I’m just trying to add some balance to the discussion.
By a huge margin ……
Indeed.
Our package of fungicides here, at T1,T2,T3, seems to have reduced our Extase yields by some 40% compared to untreated.
I'm not a big grower by any means, only 80 acres of wheat.
1 field of extase after oats 3t acre
1 field of extase after maize 3.6t acre
1 field of Graham after maize 3t acre
Make of it what you will but I shall be growing both again next year.
I won't write off a variety because of unusual late frosts that we don't generally get, especially in Cornwall.
1 field of extase after oats 3t acre
1 field of extase after maize 3.6t acre
1 field of Graham after maize 3t acre
Make of it what you will but I shall be growing both again next year.
I won't write off a variety because of unusual late frosts that we don't generally get, especially in Cornwall.
What did you put on? We were reasonably robust this year even on the extase about £75/ha. it definitely stayed greener for much longer than all the other varieties. What your saying could having something very interesting in it.
Extase had the same as everything else here, a bit more than £75/ha, and stayed much greener than all other varieties until it suddenly succumbed to the 5" of rain at the turn of June/July.
- Location
- Thames Valley
Extase here looks likely to be highest yielder -‘d very good yield and quality too. But we did go high on fungicide spend at >£110/ha
alomy75
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Where do you envisage disease data comes from then for the recommended lists? How do manufacturers compare fungicides on disease? Trials get disease.
- Location
- Thames Valley
Yep. But the weather pattern we had in my view did not suit a low input regime regardless of variety disease profile. So we managed it accordingly. Not saying that this is what produced the yield but very happy with it and growing it again. We may have missed the worst of the frosts but this was drilled around 25 September.
fieldfarmer
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My extase was treated with the same fungicide program as all the other varieties, t0, through t3 all very robust due to area, serviced agronomy, large spend, it just broke down.