- Location
- Lincolnshire
Later wheat has much bigger leaves. I'll get some side by side when ears are out. Thin stuff that was rolled until almost dead has twice the leaves of the "better" stuff.
State of your crops -2022
- Thread starter Jerry
- Start date
Chae1
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
No. I don't even think skinning affects germination very much according to some people.
It's just a excuse to reject loads and for deductions.
We'd use a lot of pgr and touch wood up until now had no issues with skinning.
I've a feeling there won't be many loads rejected this harvest.
Thanks. Perhaps I was a bit vague......If the BG is in lines behind the combine, then hasn't that BG seed predominantly come over the rotors? All of the Seed destructors & collectors/baggers/chaff collectors that i've seen over the last decade or so, only collect or destroy the material that has gone over the sieves.
The sieves would have spread the BG seed wider than than the body of the combine (Wider than the swath line), so the lines of BG seed would be perhaps 6-8m wide? Does the most recent seed mill take the material that comes out of the rotors too?
TIA Tim
- Location
- North West
My guess would be that the combine wheels/tracks have caused more seed to soil contact and soil disturbance causing a flush of bg. It’s not necessarily what came through the combine. However I’m only guessing.
Also been firmer it will probably be holding moisture better which bg like I believe?
I don’t know. niab had one last year and saw very good reductions. Ive seen very similar results to what I am showing in that picture with the EMAR chaff deck, which essentially puts all the chaff in strips behind combine including weed seeds. The seed control unit goes one better and makes the seed unviable.
Yes partly but never seen this until our latest combine, even when we used to have way more blackgrass.
I’ve heard some people with new lexicons have needed chaff spreaders re calibrated/new software. I think there is an issue with ours which has inadvertently showed us that a lot of viable seed goes through the combine.
Anyway we’re doing this 2 year trial on the seed control unit so should be interesting, and I get an expensive bit of gear for free for a while!
APJ
Member
- Location
- West Midlands(Shropshire borders)
23rd of March, after turnips had the short disc over it at 2inches then sown with the weaving sabre tine.
- Location
- Cambridge
Yes I have a couple of fields of champion . Looks good at the moment
- Location
- Cambridge
Champion wheat DD following beans drilled 9/10/21 @ 150kg/ha
Same here - crop of the year if the drought continues.
Shame we cut back by 50% after 2 years of wheat doing so much better.
- Location
- North West
Ovation Spring barley’s looking a bit er, thick 
. Don’t think I’ll be skimping on the pgr this year.
. Don’t think I’ll be skimping on the pgr this year.
Jon 3085
Member
- Location
- Worcester, UK
Spring barley growing well now it’s rained a bit .
Steevo
Member
- Location
- Gloucestershire
Ovation Spring barley’s looking a bit er, thick
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Will it be a standing Ovation or a flat Ovation?
Bossfarmer
Member
- Location
- between Perth and Inverness
looks huge potential, what was in this field last year? it had a lot of muck?
- Location
- Darlington
T2 going on Astronomer today (i know my windows need cleaning) 
- Location
- North West
Siskin has finally started to get a move on after looking thin for what seems like forever!
Gleam not looking to bad either.
Gleam not looking to bad either.
Chae1
Member
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Blackgrassy second wheat. Whatever we do these fields always have a certain level on.
someone the other day told me, after I was getting wound up abit that I needed to forget my ego/pride and just make sure we keep it at economic levels.
should really have gone into a spring crop. This field always yields well and I’ve seen it do 10t/ha with much worse BG than this.
The last few years history on these fields was 10t/ha really blackgrassy wheat, 8t/ha spring barley, 3t/ha osr, 10t/ha slightly blackgrassy wheat and now this current crop of second wheat. It had been continuous wheat for 30 odd years before that which is to blame for having a big BG seed bank. Any thoughts?
- Location
- Darlington
If you can control the blackgrass to such a level that you can still achieve 10t that's what I would be doing, particularly with wheat at current prices.