How's your Diego looking ?

[bobk]

Here it's looks better now than 2 months ago , will keep growing until I find something better.

 

[Mr chips]

Ours looks the best of our wheat. Revalation looks good too.

 

[fingermouse]

Ours is looking better now than it did 2 months ago as well
Always reckon it to be a scruffy variety but usually delivers in the end
binder will tell before long

 

[DRC]

Same here. I was all for dropping it earlier in the season, but now it's looking ok.
@bobk , try a bit of Annapolis from Hutchinsons. They think it'll be the Diego replacement, and ours looks very well again.
Last year it outyielded everything here, despite being later drilled.

 

[bobk]

Same here. I was all for dropping it earlier in the season, but now it's looking ok.
@bobk , try a bit of Annapolis from Hutchinsons. They think it'll be the Diego replacement, and ours looks very well again.
Last year it outyielded everything here, despite being later drilled.

Yes , was going to bash some in after the spring barley which isn't a cereal crop in my thoughts

 

[DRC]

Yes , was going to bash some in after the spring barley which isn't a cereal crop in my thoughts

Does well after maize and has a good fusarium rating .

 

[bobk]

Does well after maize and has a good fusarium rating .

High input ?

 

[Brisel]

My Diego looks good now where drought hasn't hit it but anything that hasn't had a good fungicide programme on it is looking sad. I'm running a low and higher input tramline trial for my TAG group. The 25% less dose tramlines are much thinner. All had a T1 of Magfos K tonic (which perked it up overnight), extra Rubric for yellow rust, Talius for mildew as well as Adexar & CTL because they were filthy despite the dry weather.

I was going to drop Diego because it is dirty but unless I can find another slow developing mid Sept onwards Group 4 hard with 6+ septoria rating it might stay on a smaller area. I was looking at Kerrin or Crispin but neither look that spectacular.

 

[bobk]

My Diego looks good now where drought hasn't hit it but anything that hasn't had a good fungicide programme on it is looking sad. I'm running a low and higher input tramline trial for my TAG group. The 25% less dose tramlines are much thinner. All had a T1 of Magfos K tonic (which perked it up overnight), extra Rubric for yellow rust, Talius for mildew as well as Adexar & CTL because they were filthy despite the dry weather.

I was going to drop Diego because it is dirty but unless I can find another slow developing mid Sept onwards Group 4 hard with 6+ septoria rating it might stay on a smaller area. I was looking at Kerrin or Crispin but neither look that spectacular.

What rate is the Magphos @Brisel ?

 

[bankrupt]

I was going to drop Diego because it is dirty but unless I can find another slow developing mid Sept onwards Group 4 hard with 6+ septoria rating it might stay on a smaller area.

Same here, Brisel.

In fact, Graham may go before Diego.

Thank goodness we still have Grafton and Exsept.

 

[phil]

Same here, Brisel.

In fact, Graham may go before Diego.

Thank goodness we still have Grafton and Exsept.

What's Graham downfall

 

[bankrupt]

What's Graham downfall

So far, its claim to be good for early drilling seems to rely less upon inherent slow development and more upon its poor ability to establish, but this may have been due to bad seed supplied here last autumn.

Doesn't seem to stand too well, either, which might just explain last years poor sample and low vigour.

Still might beat everything else by 20% though.

 

[Run to the hills]

Couple of fields of diego got abit much yellow rust here, tho may be due to spray being applied late, earliest drilled field looks best following SB. Revelation looking very well too.

 

[DRC]

The difference in colour of different varieties was evident at the Arable event trials this week, and is evident in this field of mine, where I used up Costello on the first few runs, before switching into Graham. Which will yield the best will be interesting .

 

[bobk]

View attachment 539452 The difference in colour of different varieties was evident at the Arable event trials this week, and is evident in this field of mine, where I used up Costello on the first few runs, before switching into Graham. Which will yield the best will be interesting .

It would easier to see if you hadn't took the photo in black and white or my laptop's fudged.

 

[DRC]

It would easier to see if you hadn't took the photo in black and white or my laptop's fudged.

There's a hint of green. It's a bit dull here .
Does this barley I just photographed look yellow

 

[bobk]

View attachment 539458
There's a hint of green. It's a bit dull here .
Does this barley I just photographed look yellow

No, that's fine and shouldn't be long before it's cut.

 

[DRC]

It

No, that's fine and shouldn't be long before it's cut.

its greener in the middle. Won't be done till after 15th July

 

[bobk]

It

its greener in the middle. Won't be done till after 15th July

And why's that I wonder

 

[Jon 3085]

Diego looking good here, I was going to drop it, but what is better??.(That field has been wheat for over 20 years)