Spring barley (feed)
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solo
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- worcestershire
£180/t on offer for November tonight. 2t /acre plus straw should leave a bit. It all really depends on how well you have bought fertiliser and chemicals. It certainly won’t leave much for shiny metal. If you can get better yields then it looks ok to me.
It’ll get pig muck, but at a cost of spreading . How much fertiliser I need after that I’m not sure . Maybe non or very little . Seed at £495 ton .fert bought at £350. No chems bought yet .
solo
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- worcestershire
Muck I find certainly helps especially with straw volume. Farm saved seed helps too. Mine gets 10t/acre cattle yard muck from last winter so well rotted. I usually top it up with 90 units out of the bag. Poorest last year was 2.5t and best 3.4t. Doubt I will be able to repeat that again.
I usually grow maize , but decided not to this year, so left with little alternative but buying in seed .
My ground is stubble turnips with sheep here until end of March , so drilling will be into April
Hopefully will be drilled up in next couple weeks depending on digestate deliveries. About 90 acres to go in. Like it in before April to be fair.
Yes we’ve been caught out by the not growing maize thing , as usually it doesn’t matter if sheep are here until end March .
- Location
- Hereford
Not too much chemicals on feed SB . Bit of weed killer job done . We will plaster muck on and hopefully no fert
aim for first week of April to get it in .......if the sheep go !!
- Location
- the brecks norfolk
@silverfox why grow feed? Why not grow a malting variety with the attitude and inputs it'll be feed and if they're desperate you may get a premium.
- Location
- East yorks
That’s what I do grow something like laureate on a feed and get them to test every trailer load as it goes into store and if it’s upgraded great. If not nothing lost@silverfox why grow feed? Why not grow a malting variety with the attitude and inputs it'll be feed and if they're desperate you may get a premium.
- Location
- East yorks
Just to add the last 2 years haven’t been the best years with no rain for 6-7 weeks just as it’s drilled
True. Just storage is a big issue for us , hence feed wheat and feed barley . We also have good local mills and farmer customers for feed grain@silverfox why grow feed? Why not grow a malting variety with the attitude and inputs it'll be feed and if they're desperate you may get a premium.
- Location
- the brecks norfolk
Fair enough chuck it on one big heap but I'd say grow a malting variety as they're just as good if not better than there feed varieties.
With plenty of pig muck you might only want cwt or cwt and a half of N.
With plenty of pig muck you might only want cwt or cwt and a half of N.
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Chae1
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
200kg/ha seed if conditions right.
I wouldn't bother with malting if after stubble turnips and getting a good mucking. N levels likely to be high.
If you could guarantee high N ie over 1.85 some good contracts available. Offered £245/t contract today for high N malting barley.
I wouldn't bother with malting if after stubble turnips and getting a good mucking. N levels likely to be high.
If you could guarantee high N ie over 1.85 some good contracts available. Offered £245/t contract today for high N malting barley.
- Location
- the brecks norfolk
