Anyone growing rye/hybrid rye for a digester?
Pro's and con's?
Yeilds?
Pro's and con's?
Yeilds?
Hybrid rye
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whitefox
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- Location
- central scotland(the very wet bit)
Have you a AD plant looking for you to grow feedstock for for them?
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whitefox
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- Location
- central scotland(the very wet bit)
I would happily grow hybrid whole crop rye again, provided the economics were right,as @DRC points out,I assume you will just be growing the crop and AD plant will harvest?,that in itself is a huge bonus, along with good control of grass weeds,and earlier cash return than combineables
Has anyone any experience of what looks like septoria in rye? Crop was clean at T1 and agronomist recommended Tebuconazole only. Leafs 2&3 affected. Flags largely unaffected.
If you read the material online it would suggest rye is fairly unaffected by septoria, but is that really the case?
If you read the material online it would suggest rye is fairly unaffected by septoria, but is that really the case?
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ollie989898
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Never fall for the notion that rye or triticale are 'unaffected by' or 'resistant' to disease. Protip: they aren't.
I have a feeling that might not be septoria you have there though.
I have a feeling that might not be septoria you have there though.
I'm no expert in fairness, it was the closest disease I could compare it with in my diseases pocket book!
I havent had time to pay a lot of attention to it but I could have sworn that field was pretty clean last week. I applied T2 (Elatus Era, Canopy, Combitop) on Friday morning very early (light dew present). Later in the morning the sun was quite intense for a period. Over the weekend the discolouration of the leaf seems to have exacerbated. Plants closest to the ditch seem least affected.
I'm a total novice when it comes to growing crops so disease was the first thing I jumped to, but I did wonder whether the spray application could have had anything to do with it. Been cold wet and windy up until beginning of last week.
- Location
- Haute Vienne, France
rhynchosporium
whitefox
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- Location
- central scotland(the very wet bit)
brown rust i think?,that was the only disease that really caused me much concern,and occasionally mildew,rust for some reason was always more of an issue south of the clyde,was quite common for the header to be covered in brown spores at harvest
- Location
- Haute Vienne, France
If there are any black specks in diseased bits it might be septoria but if not more likely to be rhynchosporium. We get it in Triticale.
I can't see any black specks to be honest. If it is rhyncho, do you find the top leaves of the Triticale grow away from the disease as the literature suggests the Rye will?
ollie989898
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I don't think it is septoria. Lesions just don't look right to me but I've been out of the game a long time.
- Location
- Haute Vienne, France
Yes Its never that bad in triticale nothing like as bad as rust can be. Though normally by now our weather is hot and dry so it might be different in your climate? Ours is in ear already and mostly hasn't had a fungicide at all.
- Location
- Haute Vienne, France
You would be surprised how many from your part of the world are already here, we seem to get more Irish refugees every week looking for cheap hectares..
ollie989898
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Basically all of France is a delightful place to live if you are after the farming.
- Location
- Haute Vienne, France
Unfortunately we are more sort of central France and not quite south enough so the weather this year has been a bit sh!t.