N rates for RGT Planet spring barley

Laggard

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Arable Farmer
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Suffolk
Last year I applied 110kg N/ha to RGT Planet spring barley (following sugar beet) giving a yield of 7.7t/ha with grain nitrogen 1.57% - 1.68% (very dry year here in the east).
This year I have RGT Planet spring barley following fallow, sugar beet, winter OSR, winter wheat and spring barley. How much N would you put on following these different crops please? I am aiming for feed barley but would like it to remain standing. My soil type is Hanslope and Beecles medium clay loam.
 

Laggard

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Arable Farmer
Location
Suffolk
What about following OSR, some of which got mown before harvest (CSFB damaged then the pollen beetle wouldn’t let it pod).
 

Brisel

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Arable Farmer
Location
Midlands
I apply 150 kg/ha N on Planet for targeting 1.85 N. You'd have a little bit left after a failed osr crop depending on N what it had. I've got years of post harvest results so know what each variety and market requires. I'm on light land with less holding ability and slightly lower N use efficiency, so heavier stuff will require less, especially if the use of manures & cover crops has been greater.
 
I apply 150 kg/ha N on Planet for targeting 1.85 N. You'd have a little bit left after a failed osr crop depending on N what it had. I've got years of post harvest results so know what each variety and market requires. I'm on light land with less holding ability and slightly lower N use efficiency, so heavier stuff will require less, especially if the use of manures & cover crops has been greater.
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Is that taking into account the NIAB data on the very flat response curve for Planet and applied N above 125 kg/ha?
 

Brisel

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Arable Farmer
Location
Midlands

Im taking into account my own results. I’ve tested grain samples for high and lower yielding fields and 150 kg seems to be the optimal average here. Good fields get a bit more and poorer ones a bit less.
 

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