Charlie Flindt
Member
If you can bear to buy FW, I'm doing a two pager which explains everything.......
Grain yields 2022
- Thread starter gone up the hill
- Start date
- Location
- East meath/dublin
Im not telling you a word of a lie the man in the next field was cutting geraldine barley doing a whisker under 4 ton acre .
Locally most crops have comfortably crossed 3 .5 ton acre leaving a few tight wads like me who wouldnt buy the 10 10 20 or 18 6 12 compounds stuck in the seventies with 2 and a half .
The Teagasc man and the local independent guru are in agreement that even with good indices barley needs fast access to p to get high yields .
Combine drilling allows rates to be cut a little but for me taking a p+ k holiday on the s barley has proven an expensive trip .
Nowadays with modern varities youre really at nothing at low yields according to the advisers !!!
I wasn’t disbelieving you. I’m surprised that all your indices aren’t sky high with all that lovely muck you have. I would have (obviously wrongly) thought it was fairly available. I was chuffed to average over 3t the other year. How much N do they apply?Im not telling you a word of a lie the man in the next field was cutting geraldine barley doing a whisker under 4 ton acre .
Locally most crops have comfortably crossed 3 .5 ton acre leaving a few tight wads like me who wouldnt buy the 10 10 20 or 18 6 12 compounds stuck in the seventies with 2 and a half .
The Teagasc man and the local independent guru are in agreement that even with good indices barley needs fast access to p to get high yields .
Combine drilling allows rates to be cut a little but for me taking a p+ k holiday on the s barley has proven an expensive trip .
Nowadays with modern varities youre really at nothing at low yields according to the advisers !!!
glasshouse
Member
- Location
- lothians
This year reminds me of 95-96Had the chance to do that here in 1996.
Now taken 25yrs to recover from 1997.
Best two years of my life
97-2005 were awful
glasshouse
Member
- Location
- lothians
Me tooIm not telling you a word of a lie the man in the next field was cutting geraldine barley doing a whisker under 4 ton acre .
Locally most crops have comfortably crossed 3 .5 ton acre leaving a few tight wads like me who wouldnt buy the 10 10 20 or 18 6 12 compounds stuck in the seventies with 2 and a half .
The Teagasc man and the local independent guru are in agreement that even with good indices barley needs fast access to p to get high yields .
Combine drilling allows rates to be cut a little but for me taking a p+ k holiday on the s barley has proven an expensive trip .
Nowadays with modern varities youre really at nothing at low yields according to the advisers !!!
- Location
- East meath/dublin
Said field is to far away from the yard for getting slurry to and a busy road to boot .
Indices were high the last time it was tested and its a second cereal after spuds so i thought it should have been all right .
Other fields were slightly better but no field crossed 3 ton .
Still one 20 acre field of barley beside the yard which looks like it will maybe ..
Cut it next week if the weather settles. Its a wet field and wasnt drilled till mid May so barely ready .
I put 120 units normally but dropped to 90 this year due to cost .
The high fliers go up to 140 but a full pgr programe is a must .
What really amazes me is how the malting barley guys down in Wexford get over 3 ton handy every year with mim N .
Have to try harder !!!
Same.
For 20 years my highest yielding spring barley was a 3.2t/acre field of Prisma grown in 1995.
Like this year weather conditions for the crop were just right.
Varieties have moved on a lot since then though. Only had one field of SB from 10 do less than that crop of Prisma this year.
Same here - this was when Gordon Brown was soliciting the City, banking big tax takes from mark-to-model profits, making 2 days/week with tax credits better than 5, and ramping Sterling.
glasshouse
Member
- Location
- lothians
That was bad, but the weather under labour was shockingSame here - this was when Gordon Brown was soliciting the City, banking big tax takes from mark-to-model profits, making 2 days/week with tax credits better than 5, and ramping Sterling.
Then there was foot and mouth
Often is - same thing happened here with Wislon/Callaghan 1974/78.
glasshouse
Member
- Location
- lothians
No
75-76 were fantastic
Wilson proposed a new 60" water main running from Scotland to London in 1976 - whatever happened to that?
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Proposals are cheap.
Not if they get accepted and then you have to pay for a divorce
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Not if they get accepted and then you have to pay for a divorce
Trick is to keep kicking it down the kerb while reaping the benefits....
- Location
- Perthshire (It's a big place!)
WW so far just on the 9, Rye 9 on 200ha, Diablo spring barley 7.7.
Are you still going ?
- Location
- Perthshire (It's a big place!)
Got 120ww and 100 sb but sb is just sprayed off now, had a few breakdowns that lost us 3 days total.
ridger
Member
- Location
- Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Spring wheat 2.8 tons to acre