State of your crops?

benny6910

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Arable Farmer
T3 applied on kerrin this evening, to the left of the boom no t2 was applied as a experiment.
 

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4course

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north yorks
Had a walk through the near to house wheats, most ears/sq m gravity largest number of grain sites / ear skyscraper most disease or spots where its been gleam in second place re number of grains/ear and number of ears / sqm saki at this stage which we will drop gleam and will keep the others but all could yet change. As for barley the mountain outshines the orwell in all places
 

4course

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Location
north yorks
spring barley has motored this last couple of weeks and despite a slow patchy start just might show to be the cinderella crop, it has certainly been cheaper/easier to grow and now coming into ear will not be as late as we feared ,a neighbour applying slurry to the stubble has certainly helped
 

Wombat

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BASIS
Location
East yorks
spring barley has motored this last couple of weeks and despite a slow patchy start just might show to be the cinderella crop, it has certainly been cheaper/easier to grow and now coming into ear will not be as late as we feared ,a neighbour applying slurry to the stubble has certainly helped

My heavy land has finally got its @ss in gear might not be perfect but better than it was still not at paint brush stage though
 

Wombat

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BASIS
Location
East yorks
spring barley has motored this last couple of weeks and despite a slow patchy start just might show to be the cinderella crop, it has certainly been cheaper/easier to grow and now coming into ear will not be as late as we feared ,a neighbour applying slurry to the stubble has certainly helped

My heavy land has finally got its @ss in gear might not be perfect but better than it was still not at paint brush stage though
 

Wombat

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BASIS
Location
East yorks
spring barley has motored this last couple of weeks and despite a slow patchy start just might show to be the cinderella crop, it has certainly been cheaper/easier to grow and now coming into ear will not be as late as we feared ,a neighbour applying slurry to the stubble has certainly helped

My heavy land has finally got its @ss in gear might not be perfect but better than it was still not at paint brush stage though
 

nxy

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Mixed Farmer
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So we finished baling the hay and decided to try the combine in the barley. Only cut up and down once. It was 18% moisture at this end but nearer 20% at the other end, straw is still a bit green too. Only really bothered because we needed a couple of tonne to feed to our bulls and the silos empty, though don't know how fresh wet barley will roll! Combine yield meter says 7T/ average which as this was the headland not too bad. This is the earliest we have ever had the combine out.
 
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So we finished baling the hay and decided to try the combine in the barley. Only cut up and down once. It was 18% moisture at this end but nearer 20% at the other end, straw is still a bit green too. Only really bothered because we needed a couple of tonne to feed to our bulls and the silos empty, though don't know how fresh wet barley will roll! Combine yield meter says 7T/ average which as this was the headland not too bad. This is the earliest we have ever had the combine out.
Cattle won’t like it that fresh will they or their guts won’t
 

nxy

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Mixed Farmer
Cattle won’t like it that fresh will they or their guts won’t
Going to mix it with about 5T of triticale that we have left over so will only be about a third of the diet. I have miss judged how much to keep this year and was tempted to sell too much too early because of the better prices. I have fed a similar amount before to big bulls (12month old pure Limousins) without trouble though it sticks to the rolls on the mill and can be a pain to roll when too fresh. Is there a rule of thumb for how long before it should be fed? We never seem to have enough left over at this time of year.
 

redsloe

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Location
Cornwall
Disappointed to see this in some extase this morning.
While doing the T3 last week it looked pretty good.
We reckon it was due to T2 being a week or so late because of bad weather. Later tillers still clean.
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Disappointed to see this in some extase this morning.
While doing the T3 last week it looked pretty good.
We reckon it was due to T2 being a week or so late because of bad weather. Later tillers still clean.
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Its a similar picture with me. Septoria isn't too bad but its basically a bad year for it. Yes I was a week too late on T2 as well.
 
Going to mix it with about 5T of triticale that we have left over so will only be about a third of the diet. I have miss judged how much to keep this year and was tempted to sell too much too early because of the better prices. I have fed a similar amount before to big bulls (12month old pure Limousins) without trouble though it sticks to the rolls on the mill and can be a pain to roll when too fresh. Is there a rule of thumb for how long before it should be fed? We never seem to have enough left over at this time of year.
I don’t know if I’m honest but a man who feeds a lot of cattle told me not to feed for at least a month better if six weeks that’s straight barley or wheat
 

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