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FarmerBruce

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Location
Yorkshire
Anyone seeing many or sprayed for them this year? Seeing quite a few the last few evenings. Agronomist says it’s past the stage of worrying about them! Is that the case mid flowering.
 

Zippy768

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Dorset/Wilts
When we had an explosion of them back in 2018 (I think, and I treated), it was a very short window between ear emergence and flowering.
This year the ears seemed to of been emerged ages before flowering.
 

Hindsight

Member
Location
Lincolnshire
Don’t look. They are often yellow ones also which the insecticide is even less effective against


I understand the only insecticide now available to effect some form of control is a pyrethroid, which I stand to be corrected, think is equally effective on orange and lemon blossom midge. The more concern is the plant resistance to orange midge doesn't transfer effectively to lemon midge. But fortunately lemon midge is less common. Someone will come along to correct me where I am wrong.
 
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snarling bee

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Bedfordshire
And it sprouts after half a mm of rain and the hagberg goes in dew.
it’s a terrible variety.
Not my experience, almost always get it away for milling.
2021 - 1000t lowest hagberg 277, average about 300, 78 hl, 13% protein
2020 - 500t 320, 81,13.2
2019 - 850t, 296-400, 77.5-80.2, 12.89 - 14.52,

Might suit our area.

I will concede that Crusoe probably assimilates protein better.
Skyfall is normally the first variety to ripen so loss of hagberg not an issue.
 

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