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I usually dress around 10-12 tonne of my own wheat seed. This year I was for various reasons including grass weeds was going to buy ‘c2 seed’ from the merchant. However having received orders /invoice for £575 a tonne and now falling prices I’m thinking home save what I’ve got again( after...

Thought it would be a good idea now that harvest 2022 is well underway to have a thread with grain yields/ variety of Barley/ Wheat etc all in one place. So how are your crops yielding for 2022?

Two weeks of baking hot sunshine now with settled high pressure. What’s the betting we’re in for a wet harvest in August??

Wild-oats, of which there are two wild species, are one of the most competitive grass weeds (more than twice as severe as black-grass), with just one plant per square metre able to reduce cereal yields by as much as 1%. The problem As with any weed, prevention of seed production should always...

Will winter barley be ready next week for this good spell of weather or is it still to early.

Good afternoon all, I wanted to let you know that we've opened the Sustainable Farming Incentive for applications today. You can find a summary of what's available in this initial rollout here: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/a-summary-of-the-sfi-in-2022 - we'll be expanding the scheme to cover...

Good afternoon, thought it was worth a shot at asking - first time we've used our Senator 60 for trit in over 7 years - last time out she was fine on Lucerne. Bad crop, down, poor sample and small grain size. What ever I try suffering from allot of grain heads in the tank. Tried opening up...

I’ve got some second wheat questions: 1. Are there any varieties that are best suited to being a second wheat? 2. Is Latitude needed when a second wheat is drilled as late as January? 3. what kind of seed rates should be used for second wheat drilled in Dec/Jan? I would normally be at around...

As above all my forbears were farmers and so am i but my kids have chosen a different path . Absolutely nothing wrong with that but just thinking how easily the farming knowledge that gets past down over the years gets lost in the space of one generation , makes you think doesn't it ?

Is it dry as a nuns with anyone else? Another couple weeks without a decent rain and east yorkshires going to start turning brown, and I don't just mean the crops!

With rising feed costs set to heavily erode production margins this winter, dairy and beef producers with cereals in the ground are being urged to consider crimping crops to maximise nutritional value and dry matter yield. “Making the most of home-grown feed, whether that be grass, maize or...

On my travels I saw this field of real dark green cereals . I presumed it was wheat . On my return journey I stopped and examined the crop , it looked like barley but wasn't. A quick check on Google confirmed it was rye . Is it a break crop like oats and what sort of yield and value per...

WB still looking three weeks away, so probably not starting here until 4th July, much later than in 1984. Crops here were set back by early drought, so yields not likely to match those of 2019. Nominal prices now at a record high but not yet approaching the £650/tonne in today's money...

We’ve been stalwart milling wheat(group 1 /2 growers ) for years Zyatt finally bit the dust here last season after a few years getting fed up of chasing the disease in it and life’s a little too short to look at something in a field that doesn’t quite please your eye regardless! We grew...

While it may be tempting to sell cereal crops due to the high prices they are currently fetching, putting these crops into the clamp as wholecrop could offer a better return, by reducing the amount of purchased feed required next winter. The hike in input costs means that many producers are...

Looking for ideas for a non brassica winter forage crop to go in after spring barley and ahead of maize next spring. Can be grazed with sheep or cattle. Light sandy free draining ground. Don’t want brassica as it was stubble turnips ahead of the spring barley. Suggestions? part of the fiend in...

So….. question from someone who has come of chalk down land that never really needed draining. We are now living in central France with some very different ground to what I have been used to. During the winter the ground quickly water logs and takes a long time to dry in the spring. The farm is...

We are fast approaching harvest 22 and looking now to harvest 23 for cropping decisions, but the cost and margin picture looks very different to this time last year. UK feed wheat new crop futures (Nov-22) closed yesterday at £340.10/t. This is almost double the price from this time last year...

I’ve got a problem with some spring barley drilled with a 750 into spring wheat stubble on March 30th. The barley has no go in it, it’s all got spindly leaves and no tillers and despite an 85% establishment it still hasn’t covered between the rows after emerging about a month ago. I’m not sure...

Have a 16 acre field thats been grass for about 15 years. It was in an arable reversion scheme a while ago but that expired 5 years ago and I now want to bring it back into the arable rotation as of next spring with spring barley being first crop. Over the coming winter I want to graze it with...