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- Herefordshire
Winter wheat looking well here but the spring crops are thin, short and badly affected by the dry weather
Dry set now. May almost hit 30 end of this week.
Wow! That is some crop of barley!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
The winter, it looks a fair old crop to meWhich will yield the best , winter or spring barley ?View attachment 1042684View attachment 1042685View attachment 1042686
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 .The winter, it looks a fair old crop to me
You should come to the east to see what a dry spring has done to some of the barley!!!!!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 .
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?
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 itThank 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.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.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 thought you said some time ago that six row barley was no good for feeding to cattle?Still growing Cassia here too.
Have centre of a field in Bazooka this year. Will be interesting to see yield difference
Yeah. Well remembered.I thought you said some time ago that six row barley was no good for feeding to cattle?