Hybrid Rye

[Jsmith2211]

Depends what you want out of it really. For straw purposes I doubt you can get much better because it's high yielding and good quality unlike wheat. On sand where barley and wheat struggle for moisture it's great for it's drought resistance too. In that period in early spring where it didn't rain for over a month, ours was only starting to yellow off a bit in the last week but it soon recovered with some water on it.

Grain's really the side product, feed standard stuff is really the best bet if you can use it yourself too.

Probably not the ideal crop as a spring variety really because you want it standing and dry. It's like rope if it starts getting tangled together and a small combine simply wouldn't be able to process it if it was damp with how much volume is going in.

That was my point. Why is rye grain at a discount to wheat when it’s supposedly a premium product? Why is seed much more expensive?
Can’t comment on the whole crop forage or AD aspect.
It’s easy to combine if it stays upright. If it goes flat it’s a nightmare in my experience but it was years ago with an MF525. Would only go one way. If it went in head first it wrapped round the drum an rear beater.

See for us we mill wheat barley oats beans and peas (this year and last, not certain if we will continue them) into meal which we use ourselves but mostly we sell it in dumpy bags which is a good way to add a bit of value rather than selling it on a lorry. Haven’t sold any on a lorry for several years now so must be working ok! So far as I’m concerned the more different things I can put in the feed the better, especially different crops that like different weather. I also sell the straw (mostly use bean holn for ourselves and sell the nice straw) so more of that is better too. Like the look of a crop that has good feed values, lots of straw and is cheap to grow while having good yields. Think I’ll give it a go next autumn and see how it goes. Any ideas on varieties? Serafino is one I’ve heared talked of, so I assume that’s decent.

 

[Chieftain]

See for us we mill wheat barley oats beans and peas (this year and last, not certain if we will continue them) into meal which we use ourselves but mostly we sell it in dumpy bags which is a good way to add a bit of value rather than selling it on a lorry. Haven’t sold any on a lorry for several years now so must be working ok! So far as I’m concerned the more different things I can put in the feed the better, especially different crops that like different weather. I also sell the straw (mostly use bean holn for ourselves and sell the nice straw) so more of that is better too. Like the look of a crop that has good feed values, lots of straw and is cheap to grow while having good yields. Think I’ll give it a go next autumn and see how it goes. Any ideas on varieties? Serafino is one I’ve heared talked of, so I assume that’s decent.

Think Serafino is generally highly rated, just make sure if you decide to grow it you get it bought early because it can sell out quick

 

[DrWazzock]

See for us we mill wheat barley oats beans and peas (this year and last, not certain if we will continue them) into meal which we use ourselves but mostly we sell it in dumpy bags which is a good way to add a bit of value rather than selling it on a lorry. Haven’t sold any on a lorry for several years now so must be working ok! So far as I’m concerned the more different things I can put in the feed the better, especially different crops that like different weather. I also sell the straw (mostly use bean holn for ourselves and sell the nice straw) so more of that is better too. Like the look of a crop that has good feed values, lots of straw and is cheap to grow while having good yields. Think I’ll give it a go next autumn and see how it goes. Any ideas on varieties? Serafino is one I’ve heared talked of, so I assume that’s decent.

If you can use it or retail it yourself than that’s 10x better than being tied into a poor contract. You’ve nothing to lose by trying some and it does produce a lot of good straw.