Daniel
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- Location
- Mildenhall, Suffolk
What price are they offering?
Anyone growing hybrid rye?
- Thread starter moretimeforgolf
- Start date
- Location
- nottingham
Contract £30 under wheat pool , be interested how autumn pool has performed this year
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
When I enquired about growing some earlier this year this is exactly what I was told. Seems strange that contracts to grow are available but no sellers available?
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Daniel
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- Location
- Mildenhall, Suffolk
We are including our own rye in our poultry rations this year, but as it’s a low protein grain it needs a fair bit of soya meal and soya oil to balance it. And because the prices of those two ingredients are sky high it means there isn’t really a cost saving to including the rye. Which probably indicates why feed homes aren’t as interested in it?
If soybeans were cheap then it would probably get more interest.
If soybeans were cheap then it would probably get more interest.
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- Location
- Perthshire (It's a big place!)
I was always told that fowl didn't eat rye! I have 500 acres sold in various contracts. But I grow in a ploughed situation. This is to reduce risk of ergot. To be fair the only ergot I sem to get is in late tillers tramlines, easily solved by running the sprayer over pre harvest. Yield up to 10t/ha on light land.
- Location
- North Kent, UK
Please can someone tell me how to get it established in a no-till situation? It just doesn’t seem to want to germinate if there’s any straw or chaff next the seed. I like it when it grows, it rockets away in the spring and is very competitive.
- Location
- nottingham
Takes forever with these pools , the rye has ended up at £211 in the spring pool and 8.4t/ha so all good , we have some getting ready for spraying off now but think we will still go back to barley next year or will we ???? which livestock will need feeding in the future is anyone's guess
- Location
- Perthshire (It's a big place!)
I was toying with going back to barley as you can sell it most days not so with the rye. But TBH the output and GM is still better with the rye as it uses less N than w. barley
Chae1
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Ordered seed last week.
Plan is to combine it. Hopefully suit our light sandy soil and give a early entry for forage crops.
Plan is to combine it. Hopefully suit our light sandy soil and give a early entry for forage crops.
- Location
- Perthshire (It's a big place!)
EHHHHHHH, it's not that early. On our land we are cutting it about the same time as wheat, probably mid august, maybe the 20th as a start date some years.
Chae1
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
That doesn't sound so good.
I thought it would be similar time to winter barley. Might have to wholecrop it if looking like being late.
20th August normally our starting date for spring barley.
- Location
- nottingham
Its a head scratcher, its a good break on lighter land , pity its not a bit earlier to get ready for osr and pity there arnt many central stores for it go in out the way.
- Location
- Perthshire (It's a big place!)
Yields as well as wheat "here" will costs £100/ha less to grow this year but is worth less, the difference will be bigger next year due to only getting 150kg/ha N while wheat will get 190-220. Also the straw has a lot of value for me.
- Location
- North Kent, UK
Going to go for it tomorrow! Have parked the combine up for the last 2 days so will raring to go in the morning.
I wait in great anticipation! Put some very late tebconazole on ours as rust was starting to come in late I think it has really helped keep it green.
- Location
- North Kent, UK
Ours didn’t get a fungicide but probably should have had something similar to you.
Last year it was spotless. Serafino by the way.
Daniel
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- Location
- Mildenhall, Suffolk
Thought ours was ripe but went to look this morning and still a surprising amount of green in it, big root system has let it hang on longer in the heat maybe?
Apparently it feeds itself from stem more than wheat hence why has a tiny flag leaf but this loses alot less moisture through transpiration than wheat, so perfect for this dry heat! I can't beleive on our lightest field it can still be green!
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
It will be after spring barley, there are a few guys growing it around. I’ve looked at it a few times. It seems to stack up if you can feed it yourself (pigs) and use the straw. Not sure there is a big enough demand locally to sell it. Was the seed very expensive?That doesn't sound so good.
I thought it would be similar time to winter barley. Might have to wholecrop it if looking like being late.
20th August normally our starting date for spring barley.