Varieties For 2023

[ajd132]

No cover if a blossom midge year?

Always seems to be yellow blossom we get these days.

 

[willy]

Skyscraper, Gleam, Dawsum and some insitor in the ground at the moment.
Insitor has been higher input but to be fair looks the business now.

Dawsum looks fantastic but no being blossom midge will only have a smallish area.

so I pretty much will stick to what I have this year.

 

[Cassia]

What are best wheat varieties for growing on lightish land (apart from none)

 

[Devon James]

Lightning winter barley doing well

 

[Oscar]

I m growing Boulton Winter Barley for first time , not cut yet but stood well and looks a picture . Will hopefully cut post rain , end of week .Have been growing California before but never performed particularly well .
Had Zyatt last yr in 2nd wheat slot which was great but this years is not so good , seemed to lack vigour last autumn and never got going before on set of winter. My ground sits naturally wet and it left 10% of area [in patches]bare by spring .
Graham is first wheat , never looks superb but is consistently stable

 

[teslacoils]

What's doing the business then? What are the duffers?

And is your Dawsum still stood?

 

[Lothian]

Tremendously pleased with our Insitor, it has outyielded the Dawsum by a good 0.25t/ac and is about a week earlier with more straw. So Dawsum is on the feed heap and Insitor back in the drill next year.

 

[4course]

just got in to dawsum odd bits on fit mucked land been laid a fortnight or more ,amazingly not sprouted and under 15% though rubs out mucky , finished skyscraper earlier well pleased with it 2nd wheat

 

[Hampton]

Did some Graham today, only 70-71kg at 14% moisture

 

[teslacoils]

Did some Graham today, only 70-71kg at 14% moisture

I didn't get on with Graham at all. Worse than gleam in every way.

 

[thorpe]

for this autumn i would like 2t of maris huntsman 3t of brigadeer and 3t of norman these are just for trial plots to see how my royalties have been well spent or not!

glad i didn't get that huntsman seed!

 

[alomy75]

Dawsum looks just ok and will have to keep it for a fair bit of seed; stand out here is actually Bairstow. Clean as a whistle and massive ears.

 

[teslacoils]

I'm just going to order some gleam I think.

 

[ajd132]

Extase is the stand out this year here so far, I think it’s disease resistance really kicking in.
Dawsum is doing well too.
Got some champion and gleam to cut in the next few days.

 

[PSQ]

Extase is looking good in most trials and on farm as a 1st and 2nd wheat.

Dawsum looking good at 4 trial sites, ordered a tonne today.

For a wildcard: Redwald, slight issue with spec weight. If I had to guess the genetics from it's looks I'd say 'Revelation x with a triffid'. In one particularly fertile trial on good land it looked like it would hump the existing world record.
Candidate variety, so only limited amounts of C1 available.

Extase did OK as a third wheat, but no improvement on the yield of old favourite Grafton (early wheats only, entry for OSR).
Extase 2nd wheat looks promising, into it this afternoon. 1st wheats Extase and Dawsum look stunning, Dawsum was slow out of the blocks in spring but it looks every bit as promising as the Extase, and it’s standing. Dawsun (and others) have had lodging issues in this part of the world, so seed rates will need reducing; but only if it yields clear over Extase.
And Redwald, couldn’t get seed but with a standing rating of 5 I’m kinda glad. That said it did look terrific in trials again, a leggy beauty queen of a variety , but apparently doesn’t respond to PGR’s well.

 

[Brisel]

Costello has done well here despite breaking down to septoria so I'm breeding up Dawsum to replace it.

Zyatt is going as I want to get away from yellow rust and no more second wheats here. Replaced by Extase to suit later drilling.

Crusoe is staying as most of my grain goes to Camgrain who want quality and brown rust is readily controlled. Cranium is staying as a feed wheat.

Laureate stays as spring barley and Isabel spring oats to offset a lower osr area (Acacia fss) and help with blackgrass. Peas are going as the partridges enjoy them more than the combine does.

No decent new wheat varieties seen in trials apart from a new Syngenta group 1 Miller whose name I have forgotten already!

 

[Alwaysinit]

It depends what you want, but I’m struggling to look past Graham (first wheat) Dawsum (second wheat) and Extase (late slot or second wheat) this year.
Group ones are shot, group 3s not valid in west of country.
Skyscraper good but scruffy, champion etc low bushel.

mad for winter barley, tardis (2 row) one of the hybrids, or the new six row with bydv tolerance although royalty thing would miff me off

Is Tardis a hybrid??

 

[cquick]

Had a nibble on some Redwald today. The field was mostly Graham with a 2ha seed crop in the middle. The Graham was doing about 8.5-9 through the middle, the Redwald 10.5-12.5. And it stood better than the Graham!

I got rained off, but will post field averages when finished. Needless to say Graham can get in the bin, will probably drill 50/50 Redwald//Champion this year.

 

[bobk]

Costello has done well here despite breaking down to septoria so I'm breeding up Dawsum to replace it.

Zyatt is going as I want to get away from yellow rust and no more second wheats here. Replaced by Extase to suit later drilling.

Crusoe is staying as most of my grain goes to Camgrain who want quality and brown rust is readily controlled. Cranium is staying as a feed wheat.

Laureate stays as spring barley and Isabel spring oats to offset a lower osr area (Acacia fss) and help with blackgrass. Peas are going as the partridges enjoy them more than the combine does.

No decent new wheat varieties seen in trials apart from a new Syngenta group 1 Miller whose name I have forgotten already!

Hasn't septoria hit all varieties , My dawsum didn't overly tiller , maybe a high seed rate crop ?

 

[alomy75]

Is Tardis a hybrid??

Nope