Extase potential problems

Renaultman

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Arable Farmer
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Darlington
That was the conclusion of discussion with Agronomist yesterday.
Another 5 minute wonder that brings v.little to the party.
I sometimes wonder if these low bushel weight ones are worth a go in my circumstances.
Heavy land, mobile drier that can often improve samples and the ability to blend with really good weighing wheats. The yield would have to be considerably better than what I am already growing though.
 

benny6910

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Arable Farmer
I have cut 160 acres for 2 customers and 1farm on a mixture of 1st 2nd and a 6th wheat it’s done 4ton acre, second farm it averaged 3.7 first wheat after fallow. After fallow yield is a little low due to water logging over winter more than poor crop genetics I think.
 

An Gof

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Cornwall
AHDB RL Trial results now in from all 26 sites. Overall Extase has had good results achieving 103% of control for this year on treated plots and 120% of Control on untreated plots.

BUT there is some variability in the Extase. Interestingly it performed relatively poorly at both far SW sites (treated) 95% of control at Cornwall site cf Graham at 106% and 104% at the Devon site cf Graham at 109%
Also a very poor result for Extase at one of the Hampshire sites.

On my farm the Extase did marginally better than the Graham. Rightly or wrongly i had already made the decision to go for Extase for 2022 🤞
 

bankrupt

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EX17/20
Overall Extase has had good results achieving 103% of control for this year on treated plots and 120% of Control on untreated plots.

RL sites were lucky to escape the septoria meltdown we had here - 30-40% yield reduction being just about what we always expect from septoria nodorum.

edit:- nodorum infection in seed would also account for the so far unexplained experiences (see above) of many who've had good crops of Extase from farm saved seed and bad crops from bought in Extase (whether produced in '19 or in '20) and others who've found the exact opposite.

Rating it anything above (2) in the 2021-22 list will be an outrage - should be (1) imho, but that would mean dropping it altogether..

:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
 
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RL sites were lucky to escape the septoria meltdown we had here - 30-40% yield reduction being just about what we always expect from septoria nodorum.

edit:- nodorum infection in seed would also account for the so far unexplained experiences (see above) of many who've had good crops of Extase from farm saved seed and bad crops from bought in seed (whether produced in '19 or in '20) and others who've found the exact opposite.
My farm saved seed was definitely less affected than the new bought in seed, very interesting. 🤔
 

An Gof

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Location
Cornwall
My farm saved seed was definitely less affected than the new bought in seed, very interesting. 🤔

That’s interesting. My Extase seed was certified seed of 2019 production over yeared as we failed to drill any wheat for harvest 2020. The Graham we harvested this year was new 2020 production certified seed. The Graham I had on farm for planting in 2019 was HSS and it lost its germination over year 🤦 not a good day when I had to write off all that seed, on the bright side they did pay me back the royalty.
 

bankrupt

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EX17/20
Finally started cutting wheat today and took off three fields of Exstase. I know its early days yet and we have more Exstase to cut along with our Graham. However, early indications are of disappointment!!!!
First three fields only averaging around 8.5 T/ha

On my farm the Extase did marginally better than the Graham. Rightly or wrongly i had already made the decision to go for Extase for 2022 🤞

I hate to ask this, but does this mean that your Graham was less than the Extase 8.5t average?

Still a lot better than our 7.8, of course.

:oops:
 
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An Gof

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Cornwall
I hate to ask this, but does this mean that your Graham was less than the Extase 8.5t average?

Still a lot better than our 7.8, of course.

:oops:

Yes it does, an acceptable yield because of this years prices but to be honest very disappointing from what we expect and how it all looked. Specific weights all good, maybe I have underestimated a little. Oats that have moved to central store turned out better than my estimate.
 

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