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

[neilo]

It is shaping up to be a less than ideal season for spring crops here... Again.

Yes, my late drilled crops after grazed fodder crops look ‘less than ideal’ too.

Better than the fodder beet that was drilled a week ago though. That doesn’t look like anything at all yet.

Could all change with a wet fortnight though…. maybe…

 

[David.]

Concrete is damp this morning.
'Tis a funny old heatwave didn't see the Sun yesterday at all.

 

[robs1]

Our best wheats seem to come after spring oats

 

[cquick]

Redwald yesterday, against Graham

 

[Tom88]

We grow Parkin , Gleam , Astronomer, Illuminate, , Dawsum , Typhoon and some Cranium to try this year . To be honest there’s nothing on the list or anything that’s standing out particularly from the breeders for us , we drill early , apply a lot of manures and have done for decades so if varieties are not 7/8 for standing they don’t get looked at , I wouldn’t touch Redwald or Mayflower or anything with a rating below 7 at least , everything the breeders are pushing out at the minute are so leggy it seems and late maturing aswel I think we will keep the same line up , other than dip into group 2s and have a look at Extase or Palladium although I’ve seen some neighbours September drilled Extase and it’s leggy , clean but very leggy .