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Is that an ex farm price? That's about £5 more than I was offered.

What sort of money is feed barley making ex farm in Aberdeenshire on the spot market?

Sassy should usually be around 400 seeds, assuming germ in the mid 90's. 20 seeds less if conditions are fab, 20 more if they're poor. So you're saying that regardless of time of sowing, ground condition, variety, tgw or germ, everything should be sown at 200kg/ha?

Why not try it on a bag or two of seed so you a have a divide in field and conduct your own trial?

I think this buy-out could well demonstrate that two negatives don't always make a positive :cautious:

Also meant to say @4course, I think the reason Vibrance Duo may not be labelled for seed barley crops is because it doesn't give full control of loose smut. It would need to be doubled up with something else. I could be wrong though...

Agreed. My reply was specifically directed at someone else's post. Aaaaaaaaanyway, over yeared winter seed is a good thing for me. I like to sow Scottish produced seed to support my local merchants (not that I have anything against Englandistan btw) and for winter seed, especially wheat, it...

Of course I know spring barley is stored until spring Chae. The point I was making is that it is ridiculous to suggest that the majority of winter seed (which this thread is about) is deliberately stored for a year, then fraudulently sold as new crop seed the following year.

That's a ridiculous suggestion. You really believe that most seed harvested this year will be tucked away in sheds until it next year? Storage capacity, storage cost, cash flow, risk, etc. A merchant has precious little to gain. Aside from which, there's the fact that certified seed...

Difficult to say because I think it's a long term strategy with 'payback' taking time. Hearing the way some people talk about them they view them as a box ticking exercise and go for the cheapest product possible. I try to view them as another type of input and select the product according to...

Impossible to say without knowing soil disease levels and previous cropping.

As above, only on later drilled wheat where there's a noticeable improvement in speed of establishment. Some years this is more important than others, depending on how crap the weather is. I don't think it's necessary on early sown crops or where the weather is balmy.

Who has moved to 8%? Presumably a reaction to expected skinning levels this year. Are the buggers taking claims from a lower level? Hopefully your later cut Laureate will have lower skinnings. Seems to be worse with early cut, not too bad for a while, then bad again with anything cut late. Good...

Different barley varieties can have different steep cycles and germination periods for malting. If you tried to malt a blend there is a very high chance the malt would contain a high % of over/under malted barley.

"Anything with a string awn from a pile of oats with no own" Ahem, ...Anything with a strong awn from a pile of oats with no awns :confused:

They won't always be longer, but they are slender. Basically there are 3 types, although the 3rd isn't a true wild oat: Spring wild oat (avena fatua) - hairy, heavily awned, grey/brown. Winter wild oat (avena ludoviciana) - very hairy, heavily awned, dark colour than spring wild oat. Fatuoid...

Sounds a bit suspect to me & I'd be querying it for sure. Sounds like it's not just up here that the mighty Fro's conduct has been a bit errant :cautious:

@Happy I would say both merchants are giving good suggestions for your area. KWS Jackal and LG Skycraper are both versatile varieties - light/heavy, 1st/2nd wheat, similar disease scores, etc. The main difference, in my opinion, is that Jackal is better suited to earlier sowing than...

I think yields are being capped by soil health - organic matter, residual nutrient levels, etc - all of which have declined steadily over the past few decades. If only it were possible to try a modern variety in soil of 30 years ago, then we'd have a better picture.

True - the finished product is coloured although the active part is colourless. The colour is only a dye added so we can identify treated seed from untreated seed to avoid it ending up in the food chain. Some of the Mn on the market is clear and some is coloured, and it can have an effect on...