Gravity wheat

[Green oak]

Not happy with OBMR the kws gator next field away has no sign.

 

[warksfarmer]

What are people's thoughts on this wheat variety .

Looking good but needs a drink of water. Not much disease and only used very basic cheap fungicide program. It’s quite short compared to the Edgar next to it so I doubt the straw yield will be similar.

 

[warksfarmer]

Thats right.

Given the numbers of OWBM we saw here i'm not surprised to see so larvae have made it into the ear. I don't think these are Yellow/lemon midge. But the varietal resistance appears to have done its job. I think the lack of rain is going to have a far greater bearing on the yield though now.

We haven’t even bothered checking for OWBM on anything this year. Is it really a problem?

 

[farm]

Looking good but needs a drink of water. Not much disease and only used very basic cheap fungicide program. It’s quite short compared to the Edgar next to it so I doubt the straw yield will be similar.

Have you grown any zyatt to compare to gravity

 

[dirty harry]

All I’ve got is gravity & zyatt here this time?
What do you want to compare? OWBM?
I can’t find any larvae in gravity here , not sprayed but found a bit in the zyatt ( which was sprayed)?
Yes we did seem to get our fair share of OWBM!
Cheers dh

 

[farm]

All I’ve got is gravity & zyatt here this time?
What do you want to compare? OWBM?
I can’t find any larvae in gravity here , not sprayed but found a bit in the zyatt ( which was sprayed)?
Yes we did seem to get our fair share of OWBM!
Cheers dh[/QUOTE
So if zyatt was not sprayed it would have alot of damage

 

[JCfarmer]

Last field of wheat harvested today! Gravity new seed, new variety to us, yield very disappointing compared to the bumper yields we have been having like most others, about 8.4t/ha Drilled late October after spuds. Not necessarily the best field and called the Woodfield, had some flat areas with pigeon damage as well but Evolution in field next door next to the same wood did over 10.5t/ha after spuds drilled same day. Crusoe milling wheat doing 12t/ha.
Do I give Gravity another go?
Any bumper yields of gravity?
Thoughts and experiences please.

 

[JCfarmer]

Should say Gravity is/was going to replace Evolution

 

[DRC]

Should say Gravity is/was going to replace Evolution

Barn filler if you can keep it standing. All 3 fields I had went flat in large parts.

 

[APJ]

Grown it for two seasons, it’s binned for this year, most of it fell over, gleam is a better variety if your looking for a good feed wheat that delivers.

 

[JCfarmer]

Siskin yielded well also, some 1st but mostly 2nd wheat and majority of that did alot better than the Gravity!
I will have a look at Gleam.

 

[spikeislander]

Going to stick with it this year it looked and did well .
Did what we asked of it got going in a late drilled slot , pushed on in the spring with good ground cover and yielded as well as early drilled stuff.
Won’t have loads and a robust pgr programme it stood ok other than usual suspect loamy valleys etc but clearly it could go down . Didn’t seem to shed as bad as Kerrin.
Siskin was a champ here this year
Gleam promised lots but no better

 

[Mr Charisma]

Just started on gravity yesterday , first field did 4.3 ton / acre , over weighbridge into local store , second field which looked better has done 4.75 ton / acre , measured by yield meter but fairly accurate as I had been checking against stores weighbridge on previous loads .
So one field left , was direct drilled and on gravelly soils , not expecting to break to 4 ton mark on this field but time will tell

 

[JACK F]

Gravity did fantastic for me and will be drilling a higher percentage of it this autumn. Highest yielding crop I have grown. Only fields that went down were after that weekend of 50mph winds and was not flat to floor but just leaning and so was no bother to combine.
Probably not one for early drilling though. Drilled ours all second half of October.

 

[JCfarmer]

Wished I'd never asked!
Gravity by 'Newtons law of universal gravitation' which describes gravity as aforce which causes any two bodies to be attracted to each other, with the force proportional to the product of their masses!
IE Gravity meets ground!!!