State of your crops -2022

Iben

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Arable Farmer
Location
Fife
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. 🤷‍♂️

Always worth a trial. Although is blending not dumbing down the nutrient value of the cassia rather than lifting the bazooka? 🤷
 

bankrupt

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Location
EX17/20
We'll see at harvest.
Bazooka's outdated according to Syngenta, but it's still our main variety here, though it was difficult to get seed last autumn.

Only variety ever to reach the magic 4t with us , but that was probably just the season rather than the variety.

Pirate (same vintage as Norman) would have done at least 5t in 2019.
 
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Chae1

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Location
Aberdeenshire
Bazooka's outdated according to Syngenta, but it's still our main variety here, though it was difficult to get seed last autumn.

Only variety ever to reach the magic 4t with us , but that was probably just the season rather than the variety.

Pirate would have done at least 5t in 2019.
Was only seed I could get at lastminute.com.🤣
 

e3120

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Northumberland
Very interested if anyone is happy with a 6-row for home feeding. Over 5 years Cassia has averaged comfortably over 4t of bold feeding but supposedly a 6-row won't suffer from this. Only a fraction of the field, but soul destroying nonetheless, as that only took them a day and a half.
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moretimeforgolf

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Arable Farmer
Location
North Kent, UK
Very interested if anyone is happy with a 6-row for home feeding. Over 5 years Cassia has averaged comfortably over 4t of bold feeding but supposedly a 6-row won't suffer from this. Only a fraction of the field, but soul destroying nonetheless, as that only took them a day and a half. View attachment 1042850
Rooks or pigeons? Have a lot of trouble with rooks and jackdaws at this time of year. I’ve watched them fly into the crop to knock it over then eat the grain from ground level.
 

teslacoils

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Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
Wheat after grass. I used a strong grass weed herbicide in spring to remove volunteer ryegrass, and it never really got over it. But will be ok.
 

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Winter wheats in this area all look promising . Winter Barley pretty good looking as well since recent just in time rains. Spring Barley ranges from thin to too thin and might disappoint if rain fails to appear again soon. Most potatoes are watered and managed well so they look ok. Sugar beet are variable depending on land type and drilling dates. Vining peas look very good. Oilseed Rape is very pleasing to the eye although some fields have several aborted pods as a result of the dry spring. As usual a mixed bag but in genreal 'optimistic' is the word that would sum it up for me.
 

Wombat

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BASIS
Location
East yorks
Winter wheats in this area all look promising . Winter Barley pretty good looking as well since recent just in time rains. Spring Barley ranges from thin to too thin and might disappoint if rain fails to appear again soon. Most potatoes are watered and managed well so they look ok. Sugar beet are variable depending on land type and drilling dates. Vining peas look very good. Oilseed Rape is very pleasing to the eye although some fields have several aborted pods as a result of the dry spring. As usual a mixed bag but in genreal 'optimistic' is the word that would sum it up for me.
You had more rain than some years? Or the cereals been irrigated?
 

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