fieldfarmer
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Well, at least its less than a handful of us are having problems.
. Was contacted privately by someone who suggested it's far more widespread.
Extase potential problems
- Thread starter willy
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. Was contacted privately by someone who suggested it's far more widespread.
Good handful of cases just within a stone's throw of here - including some planted after maize.Well, at least its less than a handful of us are having problems.
Was contacted privately by someone who suggested it's far more widespread.
fieldfarmer
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And here, I'll pm you my area but you may already know.
- Location
- Herefordshire
I think it is quite widespread but have also heard of good yields locally.Im not sure they'll ever find out the reason for some to have awful yields whilst others are OK.Im just not prepared to take the risk and there are plenty of other varieties out there.The variety has already cost me £12,000 in lost yield compared to other varieties we have grown.I'm out.Well, at least its less than a handful of us are having problems.
Was contacted privately by someone who suggested it's far more widespread.
Think yourself lucky it’s 1.5t/ac down on everything else and 200ac of the stuff. We’re out as well as it’s the worst variety we have ever grown here. It’s extremely widespread and I know somebody who’s talking to the recommended list trying to get it removed. There’s something drastically wrong with it as 6 varieties here and this is the only one that’s not performed.
Frankly, unless KWS can come up with a proper explanation and a fix within the next fortnight, they should withdraw it themselves.
The longer they choose to stick in the denial phase (see above), the greater will be the reputational damage.
My neighbour won’t grow it again as it’s only done 2t/acre compared to everything else which has averaged 3.5t/acre.
fieldfarmer
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I'm in another 40 acre block of the crap today and it's seriously depressing sitting here cutting it.
- Location
- Herefordshire
Agreed,@JasmineHughes i think we need a little honesty and integrity from KWS.There are obviously problems with this variety that needs investigating, your company denying this doesn’t look good.
Only positive thing is you are making progress but it must be very frustrating.
Same here - combine driving's fun, but Extase has properly put paid to that this year.
More to life
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- Location
- Somerset
Speak as I find ours is yielding very well I was concerned as I could see some black ears last week.
- Location
- North West
Just finishing another field of Extase, no signs of any black heads in this one either. As has been suggested I suspected it’s a weather/area issue.
Interesting tramlines at 45 degrees to the drilling .
Is it a more forward growth stage followed by continuous frosts. Did those hot couple of days at the end of March push things on before the frosts ensued.
I wondered what the graphic looks like when the loss monitors are actually working
.Or on a wet shitty headland , best place for monitors is the binI wondered what the graphic looks like when the loss monitors are working