Kws funky winter barley

[dirty harry]

Similar thing inspecting our seed funky last few days, it’s c1 & got rye in it? Rogable at mo, but also the odd bit of 2 row which we have never grown barley here?
Main issue though is volunteer wheat unfortunately especially where it’s a bit thin due to waterlogging in one field.
Otherwise looks really good...fingers crossed....
Cheers dh

 

[E_B]

Fairly pleased with our Funky this year, also got some Bazooka but likely going to save the Funky and do 100% next year.

 

[Breakthru]

After not growing W barley for some time I have some Belfry in the ground as a third cereal. ATM it is looking all straw and not over numerous small ears. The weighbridge will tell I guess. I am not over enamoured with the high seed price and inability to home save, but it really does smother the blackgrass though.

Too high a seed rate???

 

[Breakthru]

Will do. I bought a tonne of new seed to grow on. It’s a shame it’s contaminated with two row. But I suppose there’s nothing I can do about it. Was going to have 200 acres of funky this year.

I haven't been involved in trials for a while but the best yields in the north were from a 50% 50% mix of Volume and Pearl.
Both matured at same time and you got 3t/ac from the Pearl and another 3t/ac from the volume with no specific weight deductions.
The secret in blends is similar maturity, the hybrid vigour comes free.

 

[average farmer]

If it is Talisman, which seems quite possible considering its height and the ramularia it's carrying, its specific weight is actually lower than Funky.

I mixed tower and bazooka both at half rate(drilled twice) and think it out yielded the stuff grown on its own, in the same field.

 

[Breakthru]

I mixed tower and bazooka both at half rate(drilled twice) and think it out yielded the stuff grown on its own, in the same field.

Just blend together in cement mixer feed mixer or whatever rather than drill twice.
Under high input systems also get 10% extra from using wider row spacing, every second coulter, but no idea if that would affect your BG control.

 

[snarling bee]

Too high a seed rate???

I put on exactly what they recommend. A neighbour last year put more on and regretted it. Perhaps I should put less on than recommended.

 

[SilliamWhale]

I mixed tower and bazooka both at half rate(drilled twice) and think it out yielded the stuff grown on its own, in the same field.

I might try that this year

 

[average farmer]

I might try that this year

I’ve mixed quite a few verities af most crops in the past but this was a cock up after leaving the metering wheel in the slow setting after drilling the osr

 

[robbie]

How is everyone's funky looking now with this terrible dry spell?

I've got bazooka which is now more or less dead on it feet but next door I have cassia and that's still green. I don't know what's happening to the hybrid vigor but it's looking a bit disappointing.

 

[bankrupt]

How is everyone's funky looking now with this terrible dry spell?

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All down to soil type with us.

Got Funky, Meridian, Bazooka and Volume with nothing to choose between them, but a couple of weeks between the clays and the shales (scattered at random within every field!).

 

[iwannalexion]

I have just finished judging Winter Barley competition, all entries were KWS varieties? The last one seen was the only 6 row, Funky. It took a lot of separating, all clean, all looking great, but I put the Funky first! Hope it gets the sunshine now to fill out, but good looking heads so far. When I grew hybrid, the difference in seed cost was exactly the extra return, hence not worth the risk.

 

[Shutesy]

Unsure what to do now, KWS Funky wasn't on display at the Frontier trials day I went to today, the couple of people that I spoke to from Frontier were a bit concerned that the full details of the variety aren't known yet, was mentioned that the specific weights could be a bit low. So don't know whether to stick to Bazooka this Autumn or risk Funky??? I am not a huge fan of the low seed rates of hybrids but it did give us our highest ever W Barley yield last year with Volume.

 

[iwannalexion]

The Funky crop was for seed, the 2nd year he has grown it. No problem with specific weight last year, a moderate year for yield. I agree the hybrids can yield, but 2 points. The low seed rate can lead to a thin crop in bad autumn, and you can end up buying yield when you factor in the cost of seed and the inability to farm save seed. Of course, the other crops of two rows show they have caught up, with better straw. A difficult choice today, the long heads of two row look great.

 

[Shutesy]

The Funky crop was for seed, the 2nd year he has grown it. No problem with specific weight last year, a moderate year for yield. I agree the hybrids can yield, but 2 points. The low seed rate can lead to a thin crop in bad autumn, and you can end up buying yield when you factor in the cost of seed and the inability to farm save seed. Of course, the other crops of two rows show they have caught up, with better straw. A difficult choice today, the long heads of two row look great.

I keep forgetting the fact I could farm save some Funky seed for most of my acreage and just buy a small amount of new each year for next years seed. The amount of straw from these hybrids can take some dealing with as well if its chopped and not baled, especially in a direct drilling situation.

 

[bankrupt]

Think we'll be starting with Meridian next week rather than with Funky, but it's all down to soil type.

Name of the field in question's probably a dead giveaway - Stoney Park.

 

[Green oak]

like this??? Ground hasn’t had barley for 15 years. Samples are at niab now to see what the contamination is

Niab results

 

[bankrupt]

Niab results

Thanks for taking the time to post that, Green oak.

Personally, I think it's just an outrageous copout which conveniently lets all concerned off the hook.

Fortunately we shall be able to tell this time next year whether the NIAB are correct or not.

If this autumn's trade seed producing our next year's crop is as contaminated as last year's then they'll be right.

If not, they'll be wrong.

 

[iwannalexion]

The crop entry I judged was grown for seed, the second crop in that field of Funky. I never found one rogue, in 23 ha's, so the problem is not widespread, nor endemic in that variety due to failure of uniformity.

 

[Green oak]

It’s bloody annoying. I specially brought one tonne to multiply. For 86 hectares this season. So I could have around 18tonne for seed. Now what do I do.