Pushing The Limits Of The Barley

No !!! Its at best 800 heads a sqm in places down to 200...i want 1000 even across paddock minimum...

Very interesting growing spring barley....agro wants me to try linseed...but ive not read good things about harvesting it?

Ant...

Linseed is a weird crop.

I don't know about your weather but once you have sprayed it off, you can find you can combine 50 acres in the blink of an eye or spend all day trying to thrash out 5 acres with constant blockages and the like.

Be wary with your weed control, you have some exotic weeds and it might pay to ask what chemistry you can use/obtain.
 
Linseed is a weird crop.

I don't know about your weather but once you have sprayed it off, you can find you can combine 50 acres in the blink of an eye or spend all day trying to thrash out 5 acres with constant blockages and the like.

Be wary with your weed control, you have some exotic weeds and it might pay to ask what chemistry you can use/obtain.

I hear ya, tread with caution...i'd grow winter beans and spring barley etc before doing that...harvest weather is the biggest concern..

Ant..
 

Muddyboots

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I'm sure it isn't. I'd rather mine was looking well tillered and a bit yellow like my neighbours does rather than sparse and green and small as mine does......

We have been growing winter barley here for fifty years and we have never known a year yet when it hasnt gone yellow at some point. It an attribute of wb and has little impact on final yield imo.
 

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