Seed prices

Flat 10

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Fen Edge
If it grows as yellow as plenty around the country, and looks worse than the Costello its supposed to replace, I'd not bother.
Combine hasn't had its say yet, but starting to get the feint whiff of another KWS 5 minute wonder variety.
I'm not sure it's entirely fair to single out KWS especially- you could say the same about the whole list.....
 

Good stuff

Member
Arable Farmer
If it grows as yellow as plenty around the country, and looks worse than the Costello its supposed to replace, I'd not bother.
Combine hasn't had its say yet, but starting to get the feint whiff of another KWS 5 minute wonder variety.
Yellow rust in Dawsum or flag leaf tipping ?
 

David.

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
J11 M40
Just yellow leaves/tips, robust fungicide program and not YR.
I'm not singling out anyone particular, it must be too easy for the big breeders to get varieties on the RL that have no particular merit over old faithfuls; even Claire is still going with people who know how to grow it, how many short duration septoria/rust infested hopefuls have been and gone in Claire's timeframe...
 

Good stuff

Member
Arable Farmer
Just yellow leaves/tips, robust fungicide program and not YR.
I'm not singling out anyone particular, it must be too easy for the big breeders to get varieties on the RL that have no particular merit over old faithfuls; even Claire is still going with people who know how to grow it, how many short duration septoria/rust infested hopefuls have been and gone in Claire's timeframe...
Might be the year its not liked with the drought early on, they all seem to have different weakness in different years e.g.
Claire likes to sprout in a wet harvest for example
 

bobk

Member
Location
stafford
I've never had much faith in the recommended lists. Better to see trials of varieties in your region and then keep going back for a year or two and see how they fare before committing to a new variety with a modest order of new seed.
Got even less faith in the new over priced gilt edged shite super fungs , snake oil the lot of them
I'm buying ctl from france next year
 

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