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Low tgw doesn't necessarily mean low hectolitre.
True. The grains look pretty well filled. I've certainly seen far more pinched stuff before.
Low tgw doesn't necessarily mean low hectolitre.
True. The grains look pretty well filled. I've certainly seen far more pinched stuff before.
I think there's a strong correlation between the types of people who may inflate their yields and the type of people who feel the need to phone their contact at the farmers weekly the moment they finish a field.Think I need to become a FW contributor,all their barley seems to be at least 7.4t/ha.That seems to be the absolute top on here,.5.5-6 or less is more typical,we are all being too honest!
did you reduce fungicide to the extase relative to anything else ?
They do call you up. They rang me a few weeks ago wanting details but we hadn’t done enough. I would have been honest but it would make me look like a bad farmer compared to morons like the guy from sheppey.I think there's a strong correlation between the types of people who may inflate their yields and the type of people who feel the need to phone their contact at the farmers weekly the moment they finish a field.
Just over 5t here for malting barleyThink I need to become a FW contributor,all their barley seems to be at least 7.4t/ha.That seems to be the absolute top on here,.5.5-6 or less is more typical,we are all being too honest!
High profile contract farmers can just say "I did 10T/ha barley" with no backup, and it is free advertising. By high profile I mean 'people who tweet a lot' - seems they are now are the same names that pop up as AHDB monitor farms, in advertising pamphlets, on the board of the Oxford Farming Conference etc. Either they are desperate for these types of roles, or the people that are trying to fill them have got exceedingly lazy in where they look.They do call you up. They rang me a few weeks ago wanting details but we hadn’t done enough. I would have been honest but it would make me look like a bad farmer compared to morons like the guy from sheppey.
Extase seems to be best ever against septoria triticidid mistime the T2 on the Extase with the flag fully emerged for a while before the T2 went on. Again, didn't see any ill effects from this as septoria pressure wasn't exactly high,
Extase seems to be best ever against septoria tritici,
Zymoseptoria tritici - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
but useless against septoria nodorum
Septoria nodorum blotch of wheat
Mehra, L. K., Adhikari, U., Ojiambo, P. S., Cowger, C. 2019. Septoria nodorum blotch of wheat. The Plant Health Instructor. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1094/PHI-I-2019-0514-01 DISEASE: Septoria nodorum blotch a.k.a. Septoria glume blotch PATHOGEN: Parastagonospora n...www.apsnet.org
I think there is quite a small pool of farmers that are approached by the magazines. I get asked fairly regularly to do articles but I try and limit it to one a year. Did one about osr growing low cost risk averse based on margin recently which whenever it gets published will hopefully be abit of an antidote to the usual Spend spend spend mantra. Don’t mind doing the occasional article but some people seem to be in them every week. Must have read about 20 articles about Andrew wards blackgrass rouging!High profile contract farmers can just say "I did 10T/ha barley" with no backup, and it is free advertising. By high profile I mean 'people who tweet a lot' - seems they are now are the same names that pop up as AHDB monitor farms, in advertising pamphlets, on the board of the Oxford Farming Conference etc. Either they are desperate for these types of roles, or the people that are trying to fill them have got exceedingly lazy in where they look.
(Spoiler alert: the best farmers are probably not on twitter, nor are they calling - or being called by - the FW when they get great yields. I dare say Tim Lamyman's yields have been broken several times by farmers who would rather just get on with the job and not show their hand...The British wheat yield record is really "the highest self-pronounced wheat yield")
We've got Extase, Exsept, Graham, Bennington and Diego here, all on similar ground, planted same time, same program, etc.Extase was on our only bit of properly light land, so that rather confuses the issue.
Done 25 acres of Extase couple of days ago. 81bushel. 11.6 protein only about 2.8 ton to acre.Extase doing between 6.4t and 6.9t on lightish land over about three fields. Quite a bit worse than I expected and I don't think I had realised the extent which it had died prematurely. Zyatt in the same field doing 1 t/ha more, ranging from 7.2t to 7.9t/ha of the 80ac we've done so far. Heads of Zyatt hanging over more naturally whereas Extase stood upright and looked thin. Hectolitre weights sitting just over the 80 mark for everything, which is a bit odd if the diagnosis of the Extase is correct. As per the above, from a calibrated yield meter.
Done 25 acres of Extase couple of days ago. 81bushel. 11.6 protein only about 2.8 ton to acre.
Aiming for 13. It was thin.Did you aim to get the protein? I think I have put considerably too much N on as it turns out. I hope that at least it will mean I get a decent protein, but am prepare to be disappointed.
In defence of Tim he is very welcoming, prepared to share information; isn't trying to build a big contract farming business off the back of it, takes genuine pride in what he does (you couldn't make as many passes as he does without having a genuine interest in how far you can push a crop). He loves his farming and tends to keep himself to himself until he's on about seeing how far you can push things.High profile contract farmers can just say "I did 10T/ha barley" with no backup, and it is free advertising. By high profile I mean 'people who tweet a lot' - seems they are now are the same names that pop up as AHDB monitor farms, in advertising pamphlets, on the board of the Oxford Farming Conference etc. Either they are desperate for these types of roles, or the people that are trying to fill them have got exceedingly lazy in where they look.
(Spoiler alert: the best farmers are probably not on twitter, nor are they calling - or being called by - the FW when they get great yields. I dare say Tim Lamyman's yields have been broken several times by farmers who would rather just get on with the job and not show their hand...The British wheat yield record is really "the highest self-pronounced wheat yield")
Just over 5t here for malting barley
Tim wasn't really the one I was joshing about, he's not really got a lot to prove and I know its been independently verified. But my post could have been better worded! But at some point, he had to tell someone "my yields are the best" otherwise who would have found out?In defence of Tim he is very welcoming, prepared to share information; isn't trying to build a big contract farming business off the back of it, takes genuine pride in what he does (you couldn't make as many passes as he does without having a genuine interest in how far you can push a crop). He loves his farming and tends to keep himself to himself until he's on about seeing how far you can push things.
One of my Dad's sayings is "the ones to watch are those who think it's important to be important" which I think boils down to the difference between pride and ego. The public eye isn't for everyone but it can certainly attract the wrong type
We are well sorted.malting premium was rubbish last season how is it
stacking up this time?