Miserden???
Record harvest?
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- Herefordshire
I never known such a long spell of windy conditions, from spring till now.
- Location
- Essex
I was thinking that too but also worried about options for brome control which put me off that.
lloyd
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- Location
- Herefordshire
I know I keep mentioning it on threads. But me and dad were talking about the seed control unit this morning and whether it would allow us to replace at least some spring barley with more winter barley. Brome and a lot of BG will still be in the ear at harvest with winter barley.
spring barley is fairly unreliable especially with dry springs, spring oats are fine though.
Go to @Farmer Roy page is to see Australian report on combine mounted weed seed pulverisers.
lloyd
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- Location
- Herefordshire
Out of interest do you grow winter beans ?
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
Bit disappointed with my S Oats this year, in a lovely field and just haven’t got away after initially establishing well. Foot high and starting to come into ear
SilliamWhale
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If you have brome winter barley will make it worse.
Now this years seems especially bad for brome.
Personally I think you may as well consider Skyfall in January than Winter Barley.
- Location
- Left in the middle of nowhere
These meteorological recordings need to be made where the local environment has been unchanged for the last few hundred years - they're bloody meaningless when you add data in from London, Heathrow, Waddington etc. It's like "rising sea level" records being taken from a silted up dock!
Jan drilled Skyfall won’t smother BG though
- Location
- Essex
It's a good idea but without a proper hard frost it's not really an option in a high clay situation.
SilliamWhale
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No. Stick to spring barley then and do a shallow cultivation
Yes I know, but we have a seed destructor being installed on combine which may change the game when it comes to brome.
Yes some
lloyd
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- Location
- Herefordshire
How does a seed destructor work?
It’s knocks the germination of weed seeds in the chaff. It’s part of a trial on different weeds we’re doing with niab. It looks a promising concept.
There’s quite a lot of questions about this on various threads so I may start a seperate thread for it so I don’t need to repeat myself too often!
- Location
- Herefordshire
Same here,too dry I think.Bit disappointed with my S Oats this year, in a lovely field and just haven’t got away after initially establishing well. Foot high and starting to come into ear