Spring crops really struggling

[Captain Mainwaring]

It's getting very dry here, my linseed is wilting today, warm dry wind.
Just beginning to flower, could defo do with some precipitation to keep it going.

Help could be at hand. I've put the mower on to start haymaking, that should guarantee at least an inch over the southeast in the next week so!

 

[bankrupt]

I've put the mower on to start haymaking

I was hoping you were going to think of that.

 

[jh.]

After showing so much promise I now really don't know what my SB is going to do. Dry salty gale on Thursday has been really hard on it. View attachment 683458

Has it had any moddus or similar as never seen just a wind doing that , at this time of year

 

[scholland]

Has it had any moddus or similar as never seen just a wind doing that , at this time of year

It's salt damage, force 9 wind covered it in sea salt, no rain so the salt burnt the leaf.

 

[Chae1]

Some spring barley on lighter parts of fields. A fair bit like this.

 

[jd2013]

6mm so far this month, no more forcasted for foreseeable future, 20 degrees and breezy, do not think there will be much of a cereal harvest in Moray this year. While plants are hanging in just , no moisture for grain fill.

 

[Chae1]

6mm so far this month, no more forcasted for foreseeable future, 20 degrees and breezy, do not think there will be much of a cereal harvest in Moray this year. While plants are hanging in just , no moisture for grain fill.

What do you think malting barley going to be worth? Crops don't look good in most area's it's grown in ne Scotland

 

[jd2013]

Depends on how the malters will view high screenings and high nitrogen, am sure they will claw it back some how!
Not really sure how the grain is going to fill with no rain forcasted? Would love to be prove wrong, but the next two weeks is not going to be fun as the dead areas of the fields expand.

 

[Chae1]

It's interesting times. There's virtually no carryover of barley from 2017 harvest. We're trying to source feed barley and it's up to £160/t.

 

[jd2013]

just hope we all can forfill any contracts we have this year or the master take pity on us and also realize their prices are keeping us on a shoe string purse.
Maybe better contracts next year?

 

[moretimeforgolf]

It's interesting times. There's virtually no carryover of barley from 2017 harvest. We're trying to source feed barley and it's up to £160/t.

I've been struggling to get rid of my last few loads of malting barley from last harvest ... £150/t for June. We are at the opposite end of the country though.

 

[mixed breed]

Propino, hit the mud 2 months today.

 

[Happy]

Depends on how the malters will view high screenings and high nitrogen, am sure they will claw it back some how!
Not really sure how the grain is going to fill with no rain forcasted? Would love to be prove wrong, but the next two weeks is not going to be fun as the dead areas of the fields expand.

Do you think it will be a high screenings year?
Crops in Perthshire/Angus/Fife sown late & haven’t tillered resulting in thin crops. I’d expect what is there to be ok for screenings due to all the light they will be getting in such thin stands.

Only 10mm here on Saturday but showing 100% rain from 9pm -2am tonight which if it comes should set things up for grains fill.

Never seen spring barley go from sowing to ear out in under 2 months like it has this year though!!

Edit,
Beat me to it @mixed breed

 

[Bossfarmer]

Propino, hit the mud 2 months today.View attachment 683726 View attachment 683728 View attachment 683730

ive seen a lot worse out and about? u must be reasonably pleased with that?

 

[Bossfarmer]

Do you think it will be a high screenings year?
Crops in Perthshire/Angus/Fife sown late & haven’t tillered resulting in thin crops. I’d expect what is there to be ok for screenings due to all the light they will be getting in such thin stands.

Only 10mm here on Saturday but showing 100% rain from 9pm -2am tonight which if it comes should set things up for grains fill.

Never seen spring barley go from sowing to ear out in under 2 months like it has this year though!!

Edit,
Beat me to it @mixed breed

will a lot of them not get secondary growth?

 

[Happy]

will a lot of them not get secondary growth?

Be interesting to see. Could well have been too dry for so long even for that?

 

[Bossfarmer]

Be interesting to see. Could well have been too dry for so long even for that?

some of mine seems to have bulked up after that rain the later sown stuff more so, what growth rate u reckons too late for it?

 

[mixed breed]

ive seen a lot worse out and about? u must be reasonably pleased with that?

Yep if the disease stays off its got promise. A later sown field (just 4days) is thin and only knee high, particularly on the banks, its not going to break any records

 

[Happy]

some of mine seems to have bulked up after that rain the later sown stuff more so, what growth rate u reckons too late for it?

Just speculating due to lack of tillers but haven’t a clue!
Never really seen a season like it.

On the plus side wheat on the heavy land has transformed in the past 2 months. Cracking has let air down to the roots which combined with the heat means what looked terrible crops now look pretty good

 

[limestone brash]

Right side drilled early April before rain
Left side late april after rain (twice as many plants
Photos of cracks to show land type