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<blockquote data-quote="robbie" data-source="post: 7607268" data-attributes="member: 7037"><p>I haven't grown hybrids for a couple of years but from my experience the extra yield paid for the extra growing costs so I was no better off, I just ended up the same but had put more money into syngenta et al pockets.</p><p></p><p>Despite looking to produce huge amounts of straw it never yielded as much as cassia.</p><p>To be competitive with weeds it needs to be drilled at a conventional seed rate but cost prohibits that, I think the low seed rate is only a sales pitch to make the seed cost justifiable.</p><p>It does tiller well but you have to work hard at it and if things don't go to plan it ends up thin.</p><p></p><p>Saying all that I'm still tempted to try a bag of one of the new ones like thunderbolt just to keep a finger in the pulse of how they're progressing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="robbie, post: 7607268, member: 7037"] I haven't grown hybrids for a couple of years but from my experience the extra yield paid for the extra growing costs so I was no better off, I just ended up the same but had put more money into syngenta et al pockets. Despite looking to produce huge amounts of straw it never yielded as much as cassia. To be competitive with weeds it needs to be drilled at a conventional seed rate but cost prohibits that, I think the low seed rate is only a sales pitch to make the seed cost justifiable. It does tiller well but you have to work hard at it and if things don't go to plan it ends up thin. Saying all that I'm still tempted to try a bag of one of the new ones like thunderbolt just to keep a finger in the pulse of how they're progressing. [/QUOTE]
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