Spring barley looking poor...
- Thread starter Selectamatic
- Start date
Less than that here
- Location
- East meath/dublin
Looking good 7610, while the drought is certainly affecting spring crops its no 2018 hopefully more 1984 when medicore looking crops produced barnbusting yields
Should be a 25 quid a bale straw year too as an added bonus . We had about an inch of rain last night which should help crops no end but todays " dry " hurricane like wind is doing its best to claim the moisture back .
- Location
- East yorks
Think it depends a bit, where u are. We have had 40mm in March/April/May which is less than half we got in 18. Stuff still ok at mo though but this wind isn’t helping
- Location
- East yorks
Having had a wander, out of 40acres drilled I think only 16 acres will make the combine the rest will get muck spread on it and knocked out
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Yup. The line between crop and cover crop is a fairly fine one. And a bobbins late August will turn a 4t/ha barley crop into a 2. And the rest will be volunteers for three years. May be some value in mowing and baling it a month before.
- Location
- Berkshire
No rain here and none in the forecast for two weeks, at least we had some in April...
Spring barley is OK here but a distinctly average crop is on the cards
Let's hope we have this weather at harvest ☀☀☀
Spring barley is OK here but a distinctly average crop is on the cards
Let's hope we have this weather at harvest ☀☀☀
But with less wind!
Not a very good point at which to fall asleep for half a minute or so, which we've all done.
Jimbo
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- Location
- The kingdom
glasshouse
Member
- Location
- lothians
1984 followed a very dry autumn and winter of 83
I remember rolling wheat in nov 83 to try and smash clods
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
Blowing a fecking gale here and cold
Distinctly to be much less than average, here, unfortunately.
A very useful and handy old adage is - don't panic, but if you do panic, panic first.
We have therefore just taken advantage of current low IRs and almost zero fees to agree a facility which will allow us to survive two consecutive years at zero yield.
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- Location
- Lincolnshire
No rain.
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
JesusDistinctly to be much less than average, here, unfortunately.
A very useful and handy old adage is - don't panic, but if you do panic, panic first.
We have therefore just taken advantage of current low IRs and almost zero fees to agree a facility which will allow us to survive two consecutive years at zero yield.
You must have a good bank manager
Fortunately, yes.
Don't mind admitting it here, given past experience that bad years tend always to come in twos, I've panicked.
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puntabrava
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- Location
- Wiltshire
Fawley?
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Regardless of the looks I got when I suggested it, rolling the awful barley has buffed it from 2/10 to 3/10.
Lot of money made from spuds in 1983 / 84. For those that had irrigation, anyway.
We were growing strawberries at the time, pumping water from wells to try and keep the plants alive.
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