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To grow milling wheats as feed wheats?
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<blockquote data-quote="franklin" data-source="post: 3265344" data-attributes="member: 1118"><p>The trials all say that Skyfall will do the business in terms of yield vs most other varieties. It threshes nicely; is early; seems reasonably robust; covers the ground and tillers; seems fairly fine going in the ground later. So if it were entered as a feed wheat, it would still be right up there. It's very flexible, but I wouldnt be betting the wife's jewellery on making 13%. That being said, ours did 13.7% last year albeit slightly down on yield than where I wanted it, mainly due to a 3-way N split with no foliar. If I get 9.5t/ha of full spec wheat, or 11t/ha of feed, then I'm going to be reasonably pleased with each. With the current poor premiums for free-buy gp1s, and being close to a *very* active feed wheat buyer makes the milling harder to justify when we often are going to be several pounds per ton up on you for feed wheat. </p><p></p><p>I dont think we do ourselves any harm by switching into "quality" wheat varieties wholesale, and then managing them based on personal knowledge of our land and markets. If I was dead set on a gp1 and needed that premium I would be growing crusoe and having a good drier. We have close to 500ac out of 1200ac of winter wheat to cut this summer in Skyfall so inevitably some is going to end up spolit by the weather. Although Skyfall cut end of 1st week of September last year retained its hagberg and was a doddle to get cut vs that cut on about the 16th August.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="franklin, post: 3265344, member: 1118"] The trials all say that Skyfall will do the business in terms of yield vs most other varieties. It threshes nicely; is early; seems reasonably robust; covers the ground and tillers; seems fairly fine going in the ground later. So if it were entered as a feed wheat, it would still be right up there. It's very flexible, but I wouldnt be betting the wife's jewellery on making 13%. That being said, ours did 13.7% last year albeit slightly down on yield than where I wanted it, mainly due to a 3-way N split with no foliar. If I get 9.5t/ha of full spec wheat, or 11t/ha of feed, then I'm going to be reasonably pleased with each. With the current poor premiums for free-buy gp1s, and being close to a *very* active feed wheat buyer makes the milling harder to justify when we often are going to be several pounds per ton up on you for feed wheat. I dont think we do ourselves any harm by switching into "quality" wheat varieties wholesale, and then managing them based on personal knowledge of our land and markets. If I was dead set on a gp1 and needed that premium I would be growing crusoe and having a good drier. We have close to 500ac out of 1200ac of winter wheat to cut this summer in Skyfall so inevitably some is going to end up spolit by the weather. Although Skyfall cut end of 1st week of September last year retained its hagberg and was a doddle to get cut vs that cut on about the 16th August. [/QUOTE]
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