Skyfall sprouting
- Thread starter Vitu
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Surely the grain had to be fit before it started sprouting? Unfit grain (depends on how you define that) would be immature and will not sprout. There is also bound to be a dormancy period before it is able to sprout?
Not disbelieving you that wheat has started to sprout. Is there much tolerance before milling quality is ruined?
Not disbelieving you that wheat has started to sprout. Is there much tolerance before milling quality is ruined?
Sprouting ruins milling quality, it destroys the hagberg.
How quickly does it ruin it? A few sprouts and field ruined? 5%, 10%?
That I don't know.
Just best not to get there.
The weather can be a real stress at times, especially when it can cost you thousands. No matter how early harvest is, bad weather is no good. Feel for you all.
Woldgrain Storage
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- Location
- Hemswell, North Lincs
Have you had a hagberg test done?
- Location
- West Suffolk
I don't like the way it looks like it will fall out of the ear, even a few weeks before harvest.
Why? This trait is one of the RL scores, everyone can see this on the list yet the other benefits ensure it is a variety that is popular - mostly the yield and quality in years when the weather doesn't make it sprout. It has always had a low score for sprouting. Hereward was a mainstay of milling wheat growers for a very long time despite a Hagberg that disappeared with the first rain shower when it was ripe.
If you're aware of the risks when you make your variety choice you have to take responsibility for that choice when it goes wrong.
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Because it's my most hated trait in a variety , biggest crops of I ever grew ( Alchemy) sprouted .... total loss by the time it was cut / silaged .
No not had hagberg test yet
Being one of the most popular variety s grown this season most of us must be prepared to take the risk that it can sprout.
Perhaps it's the fact that it can yield as well as the feed variety's with the added value that you may get good milling quality that's the view I took when growing it
2015 it sprouted but was at the back end of the season and was the last
20% of the variety we had to harvest
2016 no issue but hagberg was a bit on the low side
But was surprised that it has shown up so early this year but then the last week has been perfect conditions for it to sprout.
Being one of the most popular variety s grown this season most of us must be prepared to take the risk that it can sprout.
Perhaps it's the fact that it can yield as well as the feed variety's with the added value that you may get good milling quality that's the view I took when growing it
2015 it sprouted but was at the back end of the season and was the last
20% of the variety we had to harvest
2016 no issue but hagberg was a bit on the low side
But was surprised that it has shown up so early this year but then the last week has been perfect conditions for it to sprout.
warksfarmer
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Grew it for 3 years and dropped it last year. Poor yield, poor protein.
Got some leftover in a 4 way mix this year though. I'll check it tomorrow and see what's what in the field.
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- Cambs Essex
Saw the stuff I spray for someone on Thursday had sprouted