What going on here then?

[Farmer_Joe]

I’m in south of France at moment staying next to this field,

Looks like wheat sown with barley or at least 2 types on barley sown together?

Closer inspection it’s 2 types of barley?

Super tall to

Longer must be just shy of 4 ft

 

[Tamar]

You are on holiday.................. stop looking !!

 

[robs1]

Looks like triticale to me

 

[bobk]

Won't take much cutting off

 

[le bon paysan]

Tall stuff will probably be rye, the crop underneath is possibly triticale or a wheat.

 

[Lincs Lass]

Maybe farmer Pier had a few bags of ods and sods he wanted rid of ,,chuck the lot in the drill and cut it as whole crop silage

 

[Lincsman]

Volunteer triticale?

 

[JD6920s]

You are on holiday.................. stop looking !!

Once a farmer, always a farmer

 

[Chae1]

Looks like Rye. Took pictures of ours today.

 

[ploughman1963]

I’m in south of France at moment staying next to this field,

Looks like wheat sown with barley or at least 2 types on barley sown together?

Closer inspection it’s 2 types of barley?

Super tall to

Longer must be just shy of 4 ft

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pretty sure thats triticale

 

[Farmer_Joe]

Will get some better pics tomorrow for the humble livestock farmer it looked liked barley on steroids

 

[Farmer_Joe]

Tall stuff will probably be rye, the crop underneath is possibly triticale or a wheat.

Will it be be fed to livestock if that’s the case?

Would come over for some visits to some x pats but I’m well over near alps, think I’m nearly 6 hours from you

Came over on tunnel this time after years of ferry, so much easier an faster and cheaper!

 

[Alwaysinit]

Looks like Rye. Took pictures of ours today.

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What do you do with it? Have you a market for it or do you use it yourself?

 

[Chae1]

What do you do with it? Have you a market for it or do you use it yourself?

Plan is to combine it and feed it ourselves. It's on light land that normally burns up. So be interesting to see how it does.

Sold as a scavenger crop. It's relatively low input.

 

[nxy]

Mixtures of crops are popular here especially in organic and low input situations. I have heard of up to 6 way mixes that mature at roughly the same time mostly based around wheat, triticale, rye, oats, peas, beans, vetch and lupins. Most of these will be fed on farm but some co-ops will take mixtures and use them in animal feed plants or even separate them out, especially a mix that includes organic milling wheat where the price justifies the cost. Don't ask me how they work out the price I have never done it.

My neighbour has been growing mixes for years and has fine tuned his mix to triticale, oats and forage winter peas. After 5 years in grass and a careful plough he will probably use very little in the way of inputs. This mix is fed to fattening lambs without rolling. I am passing one of his fields later and I'll take a photo. The peas are going mad this year being forage types and we are forecast some thunderstorms next week so it could all end up flat.

Another idea people here are trying is a few rows of sunflowers in their forage maize crops to raise protein levels.

 

[Farmer_Joe]

That really interesting,

Have missed a year or 2 in France I had forgotten how amazing sone of the farmland is!

Here’s close up how do you tell triticale from barley other than height?

 

[Steel]

That really interesting,

Have missed a year or 2 in France I had forgotten how amazing sone of the farmland is!

Here’s close up how do you tell triticale from barley other than height?



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Trit has that bluey green colour and long heads.
That other head looks like wheat to me.

 

[nxy]

Trit has that bluey green colour and long heads.
That other head looks like wheat to me.

Agree with this. A lot of our wheat varieties have awns.

 

[Farmer_Joe]

Why would someone grow tritracle over barley, assuming it has longer heads I’m guessing it yields more?

 

[Farmer_Joe]

Agree with this. A lot of our wheat varieties have awns.

Heads definitely look like wheat (seed size and layout on heads) it was the awns that made me think barley