State of your crops -2022

[texelburger]

Winter wheat looking well here but the spring crops are thin, short and badly affected by the dry weather

 

[teslacoils]

Dry set now. May almost hit 30 end of this week.

 

[Iben]

Dry set now. May almost hit 30 end of this week.

Dry forecast here as well, may almost hit 20 end of this week.

 

[e3120]

It must be that time of year again. Approx 7 weeks of battle ahead

The next time I start to preach about mixed farming can someone remind me how gates, drinkers, bare grass and feed troughs are not a bonus near winter barley. Middle of field looking better (Valerie with cassia in distance, a day or 2 behind)

 

[sahara]

Picking a few stray Ryegrass plants.

Quite pleased with this year's Barley so far.

At about 90cm tall. Someone has fun in the tramline tunnels!View attachment 1042543

 

[DeeGee]

Picking a few stray Ryegrass plants.View attachment 1042540
Quite pleased with this year's Barley so far.
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At about 90cm tall. Someone has fun in the tramline tunnels!View attachment 1042543View attachment 1042542

Wow! That is some crop of barley!

We can never get crops that tall here, they all seem to be bred for short straw these days: but this crop looks really exceptional.

What variety is it, and as a guesstimate what do you expect it to yield if all goes to plan?

 

[DRC]

Which will yield the best , winter or spring barley ?

 

[DRC]

Or Rye maybe

 

[robbie]

Which will yield the best , winter or spring barley ?View attachment 1042684View attachment 1042685View attachment 1042686

The winter, it looks a fair old crop to me

 

[DRC]

The winter, it looks a fair old crop to me

That is where my money would be, but Gross margin will be interesting as spring barley has only seen the sprayer once and had 1cwt N plus pig muck . Dry spring hasn’t helped though .

 

[DRC]

The winter barley is on some land that’s been in continuous winter cereals for many years . Sometimes wheat, sometimes barley . That’s a second year barley as I’d originally intended to enter a scheme and put a 2 yr legume fallow on there . But that plan has altered drastically

 

[robbie]

That is where my money would be, but Gross margin will be interesting as spring barley has only seen the sprayer once and had 1cwt N plus pig muck . Dry spring hasn’t helped though .

You should come to the east to see what a dry spring has done to some of the barley!!!!!

 

[sahara]

Wow! That is some crop of barley!

We can never get crops that tall here, they all seem to be bred for short straw these days: but this crop looks really exceptional.

What variety is it, and as a guesstimate what do you expect it to yield if all goes to plan?

Thank you, that's very kind.

The variety is Cassia, we have been growing it for a few years now, it seams to like our farm and do fairly well for us. We rather like it, its one of the earlier ones to mature, so that helps workload. It also had the highest bushel weight and it threshes well to give a nice sample.

I hate trying to predict Barley yields, as a crop it often flatters to deceive as it grows and ripens, and then when you get all the truck weights and do your calculations you discover that it was all mouth and no trousers!
Having said all that it should do 3ton to the acre. We are light to medium soils and will never consistently get the monster yields that other do, its had about 170Kg/Ha of N, so a fairly standard dose.

Ironically I was going to start a thread on what variety to potentially replace the Cassia with, perhaps I don't need to!

 

[DRC]

Thank you, that's very kind.

The variety is Cassia, we have been growing it for a few years now, it seams to like our farm and do fairly well for us. We rather like it, its one of the earlier ones to mature, so that helps workload. It also had the highest bushel weight and it threshes well to give a nice sample.

I hate trying to predict Barley yields, as a crop it often flatters to deceive as it grows and ripens, and then when you get all the truck weights and do your calculations you discover that it was all mouth and no trousers!
Having said all that it should do 3ton to the acre. We are light to medium soils and will never consistently get the monster yields that other do, its had about 170Kg/Ha of N, so a fairly standard dose.

Ironically I was going to start a thread on what variety to potentially replace the Cassia with, perhaps I don't need to!

I’d agree with that. It always looks fantastic at this stage, but can shrivel as it ripens and you end up with an average yield . Mine is Orwell, as I couldn’t get Cassia when I wanted it

 

[DeeGee]

Thank you, that's very kind.

The variety is Cassia, we have been growing it for a few years now, it seams to like our farm and do fairly well for us. We rather like it, its one of the earlier ones to mature, so that helps workload. It also had the highest bushel weight and it threshes well to give a nice sample.

I hate trying to predict Barley yields, as a crop it often flatters to deceive as it grows and ripens, and then when you get all the truck weights and do your calculations you discover that it was all mouth and no trousers!
Having said all that it should do 3ton to the acre. We are light to medium soils and will never consistently get the monster yields that other do, its had about 170Kg/Ha of N, so a fairly standard dose.

Ironically I was going to start a thread on what variety to potentially replace the Cassia with, perhaps I don't need to!

Well it looks a cracking crop.
I’m also wary of predicting yields, but that looks to me easily a 3 tonne plus crop. The straw yield should also be good if it is at 900mm now!

As ever, fingers crossed that the weather plays ball for us all this harvest.

 

[robbie]

Thank you, that's very kind.

The variety is Cassia, we have been growing it for a few years now, it seams to like our farm and do fairly well for us. We rather like it, its one of the earlier ones to mature, so that helps workload. It also had the highest bushel weight and it threshes well to give a nice sample.

I hate trying to predict Barley yields, as a crop it often flatters to deceive as it grows and ripens, and then when you get all the truck weights and do your calculations you discover that it was all mouth and no trousers!
Having said all that it should do 3ton to the acre. We are light to medium soils and will never consistently get the monster yields that other do, its had about 170Kg/Ha of N, so a fairly standard dose.

Ironically I was going to start a thread on what variety to potentially replace the Cassia with, perhaps I don't need to!

I've had cassia for years, I moved over to tower and glasier and then back to cassia and I've also tried the hybreds and have always stuck with cassia. Good grain and straw yield as well as good quality of both too.

 

[Chae1]

Still growing Cassia here too.

Have centre of a field in Bazooka this year. Will be interesting to see yield difference

 

[DeeGee]

Many years ago, about 1982, we grew a winter wheat variety called ‘Norman’. It yielded a weighed crop of just over 4 tonnes/acre.

Never managed to better that here in subsequent years despite supposed improvements in plant breeding.

All spring barley now, the margin over costs, coupled with extra flexibility and a quick return on reduced inputs is probably equal to or better than Winter Wheat in this situation.

 

[RmfJ]

Still growing Cassia here too.

Have centre of a field in Bazooka this year. Will be interesting to see yield difference

I thought you said some time ago that six row barley was no good for feeding to cattle?

 

[Chae1]

I thought you said some time ago that six row barley was no good for feeding to cattle?

Yeah. Well remembered.

I plan to blend it with the Cassia to improve bushel weight/feed quality.

Be interesting to see difference in specific weight at harvest. Plenty people claim there's not much difference with modern 6 row varieties.