Last date for winter barley

[Vader]

What's latest you would drilll it?
Yorkshire region..

Hardly drilled anything.
Never drys up.

 

[bobk]

Drilled it 5th of March 2013 , it grew fine .

 

[Vader]

Drilled it 5th of March 2013 , it grew fine .

Got. Bit longer then!

 

[Gormers]

Put some in 2 days ago ( Surge);
East Yorkshire
Should be ok

 

[Fish]

Far to late for w barley here in Yorkshire now + soil is now too wet for a half decent yield.

 

[RAF]

I always thought get barley in early as it tillers now . Where’s wheat tillers more in spring

 

[Vader]

I always thought get barley in early as it tillers now . Where’s wheat tillers more in spring

Was the plan.
Never been dry enough

 

[RAF]

Stick spring in. In April , do just as well I ve sown 2 year old winter barley this year came fine

 

[v8willy]

Neighbour drilled some in Jan ( think it must of been 08/09) says it was the best he ever had.

 

[Flat 10]

Bonfire night traditionally

 

[robs1]

Drilled ours three weeks ago then had 4 inches of rain two days later, bits never going to appear, was going to patch it last week but glad I didnt as had two more inches monday thats 8 so far for October

 

[snipe]

Think it will depend more on field conditions and forecast than date.

 

[glasshouse]

Drilled it 5th of March 2013 , it grew fine .

Winter lasted till may that yr

 

[Brisel]

The point at which you’d be better off switching to a spring variety is around Bonfire night, but as above it still has to go in well. Barley yield requires tillers, so not mauling it into a cold wet seedbed that then stays wet.

I have 40 acres still to sow but the undressed seed will go onto the heap now. Will probably sow Skyfall as a second wheat instead, assuming it ever stops raining long enough to get it sown.

 

[4course]

The point at which you’d be better off switching to a spring variety is around Bonfire night, but as above it still has to go in well. Barley yield requires tillers, so not mauling it into a cold wet seedbed that then stays wet.

I have 40 acres still to sow but the undressed seed will go onto the heap now. Will probably sow Skyfall as a second wheat instead, assuming it ever stops raining long enough to get it sown.

are you bonfire night dorset or up "ere

 

[CORK]

Cut off for winter barley depends on location and conditions in my opinion,

Ireland here (southern coast) and I’ve been growing trials with a good few years. Because it’s trials, to a degree they always have to be planted even if a bit late.

The first time we hit 4tn/acre was about 2006, barley was sown into reasonably good conditions in late November. Highest yielder was Saffron. Proline had just arrived on the market.

In autumn 2019, they were sown on the 29th October into reasonably good conditions but had 2” of rain within a couple of days. Harvest 2020 came along and I harvested a good number of plots yielding well over 5tn/ac. The highest yielder was KWS Tardis.
Nationally it wasn’t a good year for winter barley. Yields at 20% mc.

Both years were after a cereal crop and so didn’t have that benefit.

However, in 2006 I gave them some NPK before Christmas to give them a help.
In Jan 20 I gave them about 35-40kg/Ha of N.
I think the fertilizer made a big difference.

I would never intentionally wait that late to sow barley, preferring mid October.
Early sown barley can look great. Deter did help us on BYDV and now tolerant varieties will do likewise. However, we mustn’t disregard the effect of subclinical Take All and also latent Rhyncosporium which is cycling for weeks before we see it.

 

[Brisel]

are you bonfire night dorset or up "ere

Do you think the changeover between winter and spring barley ought to be sooner in the north? Logic suggests yes.

 

[bobk]

Do you think the changeover between winter and spring barley ought to be sooner in the north? Logic suggests yes.

Definately here , grass seed end of September .

 

[glasshouse]

Sept 30 is cut off here

 

[Brisel]

Sept 30 is cut off here

Would you sow spring barley in October?