Flat Corn

[teslacoils]

Been to Birmingham today. Woah there's some flat wheat. Before I get excited for a new variety, would anyone care to comment on which of their wheat is on the way down?

Out of ours, siskin after grass is going to need scraping up, and also a few patches of gravity. Gravity is not coming back next year.

 

[DRC]

Gravity in both fields. Went down in patches early doors in the June monsoon. Some Graham also down. All three fields are following potatoes , which yielded bugger all in last years drought, so maybe left more nutrition behind than I accounted for.

 

[Bramble]

Crusoe, Costello, Diego all flat. Basically all of it

 

[Spencer]

Shabras flat..

 

[l'ordinary bonville]

Kerrin flat

Lili just about holding up

It’s all my flat winter barley that I’m concerned about as it never dries up enough to physically cut it

 

[DRC]

Shabras flat..

Had that last year with Shabras. Not totally flat, but enough of a lean in a dry year to make me not grow it again.

 

[4course]

not much down here apart from overlaps,which,whilst annoying also show weve pushed as far as we could on the variety s, none showing worse than another for lodging, kerrin skyscraper gravity lili barrel and whilst non cut the the gravity looked shish until end of april but could well turn out in front of the others purely on the higher number of good ears. As for barley on combining orwell now its not as as brackled as tower but has much nicer straw ,only a small patch or two of both laid flat near a wood

 

[DRC]

To be fair, a Gravity looks a heck of a crop, but not much good if it goes down easily.

 

[bobk]

A bit down , needs cutting asap.

 

[teslacoils]

To be fair, a Gravity looks a heck of a crop, but not much good if it goes down easily.

Lodging too much of a downer for me to grow a variety that goes flat. Can never get flat wheat cut nicely.

Lili is very strong strawed. I like it.

 

[DRC]

Lodging too much of a downer for me to grow a variety that goes flat. Can never get flat wheat cut nicely.

Lili is very strong strawed. I like it.

Never had any lodging for years , and thought it was a thing of the past. I know we use a lot of pig muck, but the breeding of varieties needs to take this into account .

 

[teslacoils]

High residual n from dry winter; early growth; hotspell and tender crops this year. Certainly a lot about.

 

[Oscar]

Its all you guys scimping on spending a few quid / ha on G . Regs to get bragging rights on here " how little you spent" but then loose a heap of it or struggle to cut it .. In jest ,but just saying !!!

 

[bobk]

Its all you guys scimping on spending a few quid / ha on G . Regs to get bragging rights on here " how little you spent" but then loose a heap of it or struggle to cut it .. In jest ,but just saying !!!

I did a strong pgr program , problem is my agronomist is w4nk .

 

[Wombat]

Its all you guys scimping on spending a few quid / ha on G . Regs to get bragging rights on here " how little you spent" but then loose a heap of it or struggle to cut it .. In jest ,but just saying !!!

It's the 30mm of rain in an hour that doesn't help

 

[teslacoils]

Its all you guys scimping on spending a few quid / ha on G . Regs to get bragging rights on here " how little you spent" but then loose a heap of it or struggle to cut it .. In jest ,but just saying !!!

We did use slightly less pgr at T1, but then wheat looked nothing special, and temps were very high. In terms of £££ probably spent more on cerone etc later on than 0.1 extea moddus over it all at T1 would have cost.

 

[teslacoils]

Even with less pgr, I'm keen to know which varieties are standing better, especuallt the newer ones.

 

[bobk]

Even with less pgr, I'm keen to know which varieties are standing better, especuallt the newer ones.

Depends on how thick they are , Diego is untouched .... probably cos there's f**k all to touch . oops

 

[4course]

Even with less pgr, I'm keen to know which varieties are standing better, especuallt the newer ones.

orwell was stood better than tower more brackled, think thats because it was ready in the rain last week, both look to be yielding similar .Straw mushed on tower, lovely golden stuff in orwell though a bit less,slightly higher bushel weight in orwell by 2 points. orwell cleaner looking sample off combine, tower bolder grains

 

[martian]

To be fair, a Gravity looks a heck of a crop, but not much good if it goes down easily.

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