Hybrid rye

[Alwaysinit]

Anyone growing rye/hybrid rye for a digester?
Pro's and con's?
Yeilds?

 

[DRC]

Used to grow it. Yielded around 17/18 tons acre and the best thing it was harvested end of June, so off in good weather and enabled timely drilling of OSR, grass seeds or stubble turnips. It was straightforward to grow with just one fungicide spray. A lot of it grow locally for AD .

 

[whitefox]

Anyone growing rye/hybrid rye for a digester?
Pro's and con's?
Yeilds?

Have you a AD plant looking for you to grow feedstock for for them?

 

[Alwaysinit]

Have you a AD plant looking for you to grow feedstock for for them?

Yes

 

[whitefox]

Yes

I would happily grow hybrid whole crop rye again, provided the economics were right,as @DRC points out,I assume you will just be growing the crop and AD plant will harvest?,that in itself is a huge bonus, along with good control of grass weeds,and earlier cash return than combineables

 

[cowboysupper]

Has anyone any experience of what looks like septoria in rye? Crop was clean at T1 and agronomist recommended Tebuconazole only. Leafs 2&3 affected. Flags largely unaffected.

If you read the material online it would suggest rye is fairly unaffected by septoria, but is that really the case?

 

[deleted user 837354]

Never fall for the notion that rye or triticale are 'unaffected by' or 'resistant' to disease. Protip: they aren't.

I have a feeling that might not be septoria you have there though.

 

[cowboysupper]

Never fall for the notion that rye or triticale are 'unaffected by' or 'resistant' to disease. Protip: they aren't.

I have a feeling that might not be septoria you have there though.

I'm no expert in fairness, it was the closest disease I could compare it with in my diseases pocket book!

I havent had time to pay a lot of attention to it but I could have sworn that field was pretty clean last week. I applied T2 (Elatus Era, Canopy, Combitop) on Friday morning very early (light dew present). Later in the morning the sun was quite intense for a period. Over the weekend the discolouration of the leaf seems to have exacerbated. Plants closest to the ditch seem least affected.

I'm a total novice when it comes to growing crops so disease was the first thing I jumped to, but I did wonder whether the spray application could have had anything to do with it. Been cold wet and windy up until beginning of last week.

 

[nxy]

Has anyone any experience of what looks like septoria in rye? Crop was clean at T1 and agronomist recommended Tebuconazole only. Leafs 2&3 affected. Flags largely unaffected.

If you read the material online it would suggest rye is fairly unaffected by septoria, but is that really the case?

rhynchosporium

 

[whitefox]

Has anyone any experience of what looks like septoria in rye? Crop was clean at T1 and agronomist recommended Tebuconazole only. Leafs 2&3 affected. Flags largely unaffected.

If you read the material online it would suggest rye is fairly unaffected by septoria, but is that really the c

brown rust i think?,that was the only disease that really caused me much concern,and occasionally mildew,rust for some reason was always more of an issue south of the clyde,was quite common for the header to be covered in brown spores at harvest

 

[nxy]

brown rust i think?,that was the only disease that really caused me much concern,and occasionally mildew,rust for some reason was always more of an issue south of the clyde,was quite common for the header to be covered in brown spores at harvest

If there are any black specks in diseased bits it might be septoria but if not more likely to be rhynchosporium. We get it in Triticale.

 

[cowboysupper]

I can't see any black specks to be honest. If it is rhyncho, do you find the top leaves of the Triticale grow away from the disease as the literature suggests the Rye will?

 

[deleted user 837354]

I don't think it is septoria. Lesions just don't look right to me but I've been out of the game a long time.

 

[nxy]

I can't see any black specks to be honest. If it is rhyncho, do you find the top leaves of the Triticale grow away from the disease as the literature suggests the Rye will?

Yes Its never that bad in triticale nothing like as bad as rust can be. Though normally by now our weather is hot and dry so it might be different in your climate? Ours is in ear already and mostly hasn't had a fungicide at all.

 

[cowboysupper]

Yes Its never that bad in triticale nothing like as bad as rust can be. Though normally by now our weather is hot and dry so it might be different in your climate? Ours is in ear already and mostly hasn't had a fungicide at all.

North West of Ireland... Wet and mild more often than not. I'd rather be where you are!

 

[nxy]

North West of Ireland... Wet and mild more often than not. I'd rather be where you are!

You would be surprised how many from your part of the world are already here, we seem to get more Irish refugees every week looking for cheap hectares..

 

[cowboysupper]

You would be surprised how many from your part of the world are already here, we seem to get more Irish refugees every week looking for cheap hectares..

Fed up with the rain here and who can blame them! South West France is a beautiful place to live.

 

[deleted user 837354]

Fed up with the rain here and who can blame them! South West France is a beautiful place to live.

Basically all of France is a delightful place to live if you are after the farming.

 

[nxy]

Fed up with the rain here and who can blame them! South West France is a beautiful place to live.

Unfortunately we are more sort of central France and not quite south enough so the weather this year has been a bit sh!t.

 

[cowboysupper]

Unfortunately we are more sort of central France and not quite south enough so the weather this year has been a bit sh!t.

Apologies! I looked at Hautes Vienne on the map and my eyes were drawn to the Dordogne (one of my favourite places) slightly further south.