New Varieties Of Wheat And Barley - What's Looking Decent?

[teslacoils]

I think my faithful gleam has had its day. What's looking the standout wheats and barleys on your farms - what's covered the ground well and avoiding the diseases?

 

[Mr Tree]

Asked a similar question yesterday

Siskin clean as a whistle like Extase here
Gleam is in its last year here.

fancied trying palladium to keep it all farmer friendly and group 2’s

 

[Wombat]

Champion and Bairstow look good.

the bairstow has been a more angry shade of green all year. Champion has tipped a bit at T1 even though all sprayed same load.

 

[Jo28]

I think my faithful gleam has had its day. What's looking the standout wheats and barleys on your farms - what's covered the ground well and avoiding the diseases?

Really. We are keeping gleam, hoping dawsum does better than it looks and dropping saki

 

[bobk]

Really. We are keeping gleam, hoping dawsum does better than it looks and dropping saki

Dawsum certainly slow to get going but now looking good , could be surprised

 

[teslacoils]

Really. We are keeping gleam, hoping dawsum does better than it looks and dropping saki

Yeah, I've had it a long time - a solid replacement for Relay before it. I'm not saying I won't keep some for next year, but won't grow it on its own. Need to try something newer.

Bushel weight, "aggression" and standing are my main criteria. Pure yield not really the big concern.

 

[Jo28]

Yeah, I've had it a long time - a solid replacement for Relay before it. I'm not saying I won't keep some for next year, but won't grow it on its own. Need to try something newer.

Bushel weight, "aggression" and standing are my main criteria. Pure yield not really the big concern.

Sounds like our criteria which is why we've tried some dawsum this year. LG beowolf looks interesting don't know enough about it yet but I reckon In a year it will be one for us to try

 

[PSQ]

Saw some lovely thick Champion on a neighbours farm walk yesterday, with Dawsum and forward looking Extase in adjacent fields looking very promising. Extase at home looks as good this year as last, when it broke our farm record by a third of a tonne. It should be early enough to get OSR in behind, as it's our replacement for Grafton which was only really grown for its earliness. Dawsum as mentioned was a slow developer. It's looking thick now, but 5" shorter than the Extase in the same field.

TBH Think we've got some really strong varieties to choose from, when only a few years ago the wheat breeding horizon looked rather bleak.

I'll be trying a bit of Redwald this autumn as an experiment, as it's the wildest looking variety I saw in trials last year, and as far back as I can remember.
'Lairy' just about sums it up, both threatening looking and (potentially) rewarding at the same time. I don't think I'd ever dare put in more than a third of the wheat area down to it without losing sleep.

 

[casemx 270]

Extase looking really good very promising massive flagleaf

 

[teslacoils]

Saw some lovely thick Champion on a neighbours farm walk yesterday, with Dawsum and forward looking Extase in adjacent fields looking very promising. Extase at home looks as good this year as last, when it broke our farm record by a third of a tonne. It should be early enough to get OSR in behind, as it's our replacement for Grafton which was only really grown for its earliness. Dawsum as mentioned was a slow developer. It's looking thick now, but 5" shorter than the Extase in the same field.

TBH Think we've got some really strong varieties to choose from, when only a few years ago the wheat breeding horizon looked rather bleak.

I'll be trying a bit of Redwald this autumn as an experiment, as it's the wildest looking variety I saw in trials last year, and as far back as I can remember.
'Lairy' just about sums it up, both threatening looking and (potentially) rewarding at the same time. I don't think I'd ever dare put in more than a third of the wheat area down to it without losing sleep.

Redwald looked a bit low bushel, not so good at standing, and I thought it might sprout but can't remember why I noted that down.

I tried some Graham a couple of years ago and it was exactly what I didn't want.

 

[Midnight plough boy]

Champion looking good, has kept nice and clean. Extase has let more septoria in than one would have liked so a robust fungicide programme for that, although some would select the variety for potential lower fungicide input. Dawsum hooking very good, although again let more septoria in than the recommended list score would suggest. Typhoon the cleanest variety I’ve grown this year, although slow out of the blocks and should really be a September driller rather than mid October so don’t think it will reach its full potential. Gravity coming to the end of it’s life with the inputs needed to keep it clean, although it’s been a good second wheat, and may get a stay of execution if it performs well in that slot this season.

 

[Northern Luke]

Second year on extase and it's looking great up here very rapid growth once it sets off.
Trying Dawson, tillered well and looks promising, shorter than anticipated but growing away now.
Graham looks OK, but that's all, a lot dirtier than previous years.
Gravity is fine, slow to get going but catching up.

Only growing craft w.barley, that looks promising but I will wait for grain fill as I think it has a few empty sites this year, dare I say it (a few light showers would help!)

 

[cquick]

Mayflower has looked absolutely fantastic all year, just hope it yields! Absolutely zero disease, even better than my plot of Theodore which has the usual mildew and also couple of spots of brown rust on L3.
Redwald certainly looks lairy. Maybe a bit thinner than the Graham it's next to but it feels stiff and surprisingly clean.

Graham really has lost its shine disease wise this year. I guess it's been slowly breaking down for a while but the last few low pressure years have masked that. It also likes to show its stress, leaves curl up at the first sign of dry and it's often a more pale green than neighbouring varieties. Not a problem as it usually delivers the goods, but my dad keeps asking why my crops look worse than everyone elses, which is quite straining. I think it'll be its last year here.
Champion looks ok, but it's got pretty bad BYDV so I can't draw too many conclusions

I saw some LG Clyde at trials back at T1 timing, looked more like a grass ley than a wheat crop. One to watch

 

[DrWazzock]

Moving to Champion.
Crispin has served us well on light land but resistance looks to have run out of steam here.

 

[Lothian]

Dawsum looks good here but looks a good week behind the Insitor. If they yield in the same ballpark I'd be tempted to go all Dawsum for flexibility in rust timings. Redwald sounded like a very promising variety but the recommended list seemed to think it wasn't as good up north?

 

[Jo28]

Dawsum looks good here but looks a good week behind the Insitor. If they yield in the same ballpark I'd be tempted to go all Dawsum for flexibility in rust timings. Redwald sounded like a very promising variety but the recommended list seemed to think it wasn't as good up north?

Bushel weight looks poor

 

[HarryB97]

Skyscraper looking really good and clean again here.

 

[FarmerBruce]

Graham still looks the business here. Dawsum definitely dirtier. Gleam will be on its last outing here.

 

[Phil P]

Also trying Dawsum this year as a replacement to gleam which will be getting dropped. However the Dawsum is no where near as clean as my Extase which looks really, really promising again at this point.
The Dawsum is at least 10 days behind the Extase though despite been drilled best part of a week earlier but time will tell. The Weighbridge will be the judge at the end of the day.

 

[B'o'B]

Got some Bamford here, a new group 3 from Elsoms. Looks pretty good, first year growing it so my yield info. Also some Sartorial from Agrovista, again first time growing it but looks well. RGT Grouse was pretty slow getting leaf 3 out but has now pretty much caught up, unlikely to be an out and out yielder but BYDV tolerant