Wheat expectations?

[Chalky]

What are everyone's thoughts then? Heard 'massive' on a different thread from south of us.

May just be us, but mid/later season wheats(altitude or drill date/variety) hit by cool & wet at flowering-michodochium 15-20% florets on some ears, despite very robust (+PTZ) head spray. Earlier flowering much better, but septoria on Cougar parentage(Firefly). Stem/nodal & root fusarium also pretty evident doubtless from the very wet May. Will be far from bad, just not as good as the density and provenance of the crop could have expressed given differing circumstances. Regionally I imagine some escaped flowering issues, but may have caught others due to timing differences.

Crops completely turned local to me over the weekend-and it was not that hot

 

[SilliamWhale]

3.5 t acre

 

[Bignor Farmer]

Could have been mega but probably a “good average” now.
Firefly was the pick of the bunch but a bit shrivelled now so not fulfilled its potential. I still hope there’s 10t/ha in the better bits. We’ll know by the weekend

 

[jon9000]

Average here I think..... drought and blind sites. Very disappointing winter barley here

 

[teslacoils]

If the weather keeps off it, looks bloody good.

 

[MattR]

Walking our wheat yesterday I was disappointed with the number of "pinched" grains I came across. Not really sure yield wise but my expectations aren't as good as they were

 

[Neddy flanders]

late June was very dull. not enough sun.

 

[B'o'B]

1st wheats look reasonable and should come in above average. 2nd wheats have suffered in the late wet, ear disease, stem fusarium and a touch of take-all have all made an appearance and means there will be a lot of pinched grain in the sample and the corresponding yield hit (which will be significant).

 

[Norfolk Olly]

all looks promising but I’m sure the reality will be small pinched grains On some. There seems a lot of straw though and for the first time I can remember none of it has the infamous ‘Breckland stripe” running through it

 

[DRC]

Could have been mega but probably a “good average” now.
Firefly was the pick of the bunch but a bit shrivelled now so not fulfilled its potential. I still hope there’s 10t/ha in the better bits. We’ll know by the weekend

I have found the same with firefly , which is nearly half my acreage. Looked fantastic all through the year, but rubbed some out last night and was quite shocked how shrivelled the sample looked.

 

[Bignor Farmer]

I have found the same with firefly , which is nearly half my acreage. Looked fantastic all through the year, but rubbed some out last night and was quite shocked how shrivelled the sample looked.

It’s a real shame that the Cougar genetics have broken down. Looked liked the perfect variety for us 6 weeks ago.

 

[David.]

Shouldn't be surprising that is KWS varieties all over, in my limited experience; like No.16 busses.

 

[jack6480]

2 ton

 

[Flat 10]

all looks promising but I’m sure the reality will be small pinched grains On some. There seems a lot of straw though and for the first time I can remember none of it has the infamous ‘Breckland stripe” running through it

Tell me about the infamous stripe?

 

[AndrewM]

average or below, far too much rain not enough sunshine. loads of disease. plenty of straw as high biomass crops

 

[robbie]

Tell me about the infamous stripe?

Breckland swale.

Some years from the air the fields can look almost like a tigers stripes of light and dare caused by the droughted areas

 

[Flat 10]

Breckland swale.

Some years from the air the fields can look almost like a tigers stripes of light and dare caused by the droughted areas

Oh we get them..............
Some fields they are more like leopards spots..............

 

[Bogweevil]

Breckland swale.

Some years from the air the fields can look almost like a tigers stripes of light and dare caused by the droughted areas

Those glaciers have a lot to answer for.

 

[gww]

Those glaciers have a lot to answer for.

View attachment 976553

Did you plough the glacier in? Old Boys always said never plough snow in cos nothing will grow for years

 

[Secret Agronomist]

A lot of our stuff has gone off this past week but getting rain now which will help the greener areas but probably complicate harvest. These are areas near here that were/are flood plains.
Edit, these are images from 2018, I use what fields are being irrigated as a time stamp

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