Kws dawsom

[benny6910]

First time growing this year and noticed the ear’s starting to split open a little. Has any one else had similar experience? I was thinking of growing it again for next year but unsure if I’d want a large area of it.

 

[alomy75]

First time growing this year and noticed the ear’s starting to split open a little. Has any one else had similar experience? I was thinking of growing it again for next year but unsure if I’d want a large area of it.

2nd year growing Dawsum here. You look at it throughout the year and it looks pretty average but it seems to give a pleasant surprise once you get the combine in it

 

[Spencer]

First time growing this year and noticed the ear’s starting to split open a little. Has any one else had similar experience? I was thinking of growing it again for next year but unsure if I’d want a large area of it.

Looks like it will thrash nicely

 

[benny6910]

Looks like it will thrash nicely

Only cut a a couple of acres as moisture is a too high still. Just a bit nervous about the possibility of it shedding in a wet harvest? It’s not rotten ripe as the heads still take a good pull to come off the straw.

 

[PSQ]

It's the same here, but I'm not overly concerned about it shedding. Yet.

 

[David.]

Some Gleam last week looked exactly the same. It's just that it's actually ripe now I think.

 

[CORK]

Only cut a a couple of acres as moisture is a too high still. Just a bit nervous about the possibility of it shedding in a wet harvest? It’s not rotten ripe as the heads still take a good pull to come off the straw.

I always like to see this in wheat, I always consider it a sign of excellent grain fill.

I run trials here and had a shedding event in the wheat trials last year. Varieties vary a lot in terms of their susceptibility to shedding, Dawsum scored really well with very little shedding.

 

[horizontal]

Grown Dawsum for five years and never had an issue with it. Most reliable and consistently high yielding wheat we have ever grown on our heavy ground.

 

[Boysground]

Times have changed lot in the last 30 odd years. I remember doing a combine driving course on my middle year at college. The chap was saying how by not driving a combine to its full potential there would be increased losses because the crop would start shedding.

Combines are a little bigger now

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[David.]

Has the advice on reel speed and input also changed? When I started, the correct way was said to be bars in the crop at the level of the ears, and speed slightly faster than forward speed. Now you see operators, particularly on YT videos, with the reel right in and speed much higher relative to forward speed. Even in rape.

 

[Boysground]

Has the advice on reel speed and input also changed? When I started, the correct way was said to be bars in the crop at the level of the ears, and speed slightly faster than forward speed. Now you see operators, particularly on YT videos, with the reel right in and speed much higher relative to forward speed. Even in rape.

I be often thought that, wonder if the reel speed is down to the video?

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[Brisel]

Growers of Skyfall will be familiar with open glumes. I don't remember that variety shedding.