- Location
- Mid Lincolnshire,UK
Yes - and combines much quicker, drier and dustier than without
How far off is harvest?
- Thread starter Feldspar
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ZXR17
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- Location
- South Dorset
Looked at some Glacier yesterday that was 18.4%, will probably be cut at the end of next week.
- Location
- south norfolk
Saw some barkey on fb being cut yesterday.expect a bit around here to be done next week
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And tramps down any greens in the tramlines.
Jon 3085
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- Location
- Worcester, UK
Normal start date here, around the 20th,amazed how its hung on in the heat .
- Location
- Cambridgeshire UK
Rape in 3-4 weeks, longer if i don't glyphosate off. Everything else very green, its only June!
Feldspar
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- Location
- Essex, Cambs and Suffolk
How do you deal with glyphosate timings when there are small side tillers that are a foot below the main canopy in some of the thinner areas? These are a way behind everything else and the crop is leaning ominously in places. Will glyphosate get these whilst green and mean they be small and shrivelled such that they'll blow out the back?
I wouldn't worry about glyphosate. Combining on a nice day barley can get the 13% the greens look bad in the sample but after conditioning with air the moisture of the greens is sucked out by the dry. I normally combine headlands in stages a bit at a time to mix in the heap. I never understand why headlands are done first and put at the back of the shed. That's just my opinion.
Feldspar
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- Location
- Essex, Cambs and Suffolk
I might just run round the headlands with glyphosate. Often will do as you say and cut headland gradually. Depends on ground conditions and cultivation history though. If the field is going to be direct drilled, not cutting headlands first leaves a lot of trailer wheelings all over the place which I don't like.
Feldspar
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- Location
- Essex, Cambs and Suffolk
Looks good!
Lets all if we can use glyphosphate as the last resort on cereals ( ITS ON THIN ICE AS IT IS) . A few greens up tramlines soon get well mixed up in the dry stuff and shrivel up . If you cut a bit with fair amount of green spread it thinly on the drying floor and tip the dry stuff on top don't put it at the back of the shed.
Patience don't come in a can nor does it come with a bill . Do what your grandfather used to say when you think its fit go away for a week and it will be fit when you get back.
Patience don't come in a can nor does it come with a bill . Do what your grandfather used to say when you think its fit go away for a week and it will be fit when you get back.
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- Location
- Cambridgeshire UK
Well said tw15.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
If you leave them as long as possible they soon get nearly ripe, they wont take anything like as long as the main crop has taken, mixed in they will be absorbed and sort of ripen in the heap, killing them stops this process.
So it is, RTK but, paradoxically, this recent bit of rain seems to have brought things further on.
Still going for Friday.
I have osr that is about ready for dedication and w barley that looks about two weeks away.
Got a weeks holiday with the family booked for 9th July (first time we've done that) and a new grain store that still is about 4 weeks away from completion. [emoji33]
I'm (at the moment) totally relaxed about it. The osr that needs to go in the new store has had pod stick on and will be left until its ready and the w barley will be done while I'm away if it needs!! [emoji41][emoji41]
Life's too short.......
Got a weeks holiday with the family booked for 9th July (first time we've done that) and a new grain store that still is about 4 weeks away from completion. [emoji33]
I'm (at the moment) totally relaxed about it. The osr that needs to go in the new store has had pod stick on and will be left until its ready and the w barley will be done while I'm away if it needs!! [emoji41][emoji41]
Life's too short.......
Good for you, Longneck.
Unfortunately for me, I'm our combine driver (since half way through 1956).
Why anyone wants to roundup winter barley is beyond me. It's only June ffs
I will do the field which is flat as a fart.
Been to Ipswich for the weekend. Saw several fields of barley sprayed off, and some OSR.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
When the ground is as dry as it is here, glyphosate takes forever to kill OSR so we swath it.
The winter barley has everything in it from dead shrivelled heads killed by drought to green tiller regrowth and green volunteer wheat and weeds that are making the most of the drought thinned stand, so it will have glyphosate at cost £xx. It's either that or wait till it's all broken down waiting for the last bit to ripen losing £xxx heads on the floor or go earlier to save the good stuff and put the lot through the dryer at £xxx.
It's a considered calculation, not routine usage and first year I have used glyphosate in barley in about 10 years.
The winter barley has everything in it from dead shrivelled heads killed by drought to green tiller regrowth and green volunteer wheat and weeds that are making the most of the drought thinned stand, so it will have glyphosate at cost £xx. It's either that or wait till it's all broken down waiting for the last bit to ripen losing £xxx heads on the floor or go earlier to save the good stuff and put the lot through the dryer at £xxx.
It's a considered calculation, not routine usage and first year I have used glyphosate in barley in about 10 years.