Which hybrid WB next year?

[Breakthru]

Grow it as a blend with 2 row. Cuts the seed cost get extra hybrid vigour and less disease. Always used Volume and Pearl. Don't try too hard on the awns just leave the whole lot in a pile on the floor for 24 hours before putting through augers etc. The Awns just fall off. Why? No idea its worked on all 6 rows for decades.

 

[Secret Agronomist]

LG mountain here, gave up on hybrids. Did 8.7t/ha on silty sands, pretty happy with that really. Lots of straw.

 

[Chae1]

We tried some LG mountain this year. Drilled same field side by side with cassia. Won't be saving any mountain for seed. It

 

[Chae1]

Grow it as a blend with 2 row. Cuts the seed cost get extra hybrid vigour and less disease. Always used Volume and Pearl. Don't try too hard on the awns just leave the whole lot in a pile on the floor for 24 hours before putting through augers etc. The Awns just fall off. Why? No idea its worked on all 6 rows for decades.

What proportion do you mix hybrid:2 row

 

[Mark C]

Gave up with hybrids 3 years ago. FSS Craft just did 8.75t/ha. Nice bold grain, and nicer straw than hybrids.

 

[average farmer]

Seem to remember drilling 4 ha of a 30 ha field at half rate hybrid (probably bazzooka) due to cock up. Then drilled the rest of the hybrid out at correct seed rate over half the field then drilled the rest of the field with fss .. probably tower and went back and drilled the first 4 ha of cock up seed rate hybrid at half rate tower .
hybrid did a bit better then tower but not much but the double drilled hybrid/ tower mix did loads better .

 

[neilo]

Seem to remember drilling 4 ha of a 30 ha field at half rate hybrid (probably bazzooka) due to cock up. Then drilled the rest of the hybrid out at correct seed rate over half the field then drilled the rest of the field with fss .. probably tower and went back and drilled the first 4 ha of cock up seed rate hybrid at half rate tower .
hybrid did a bit better then tower but not much but the double drilled hybrid/ tower mix did loads better .

On that basis, would two varieties of 2-row barley not perform better too? If so, why doesn't everyone do it, as long as it's all going on a feed heap?

 

[neilo]

Is there a worthwhile benefit to any of the hybrids now that 2 row varieties have (supposedly) jumped up in yield?

Tardis ordered here, having been tempted by the hybrids most years, but never feeling wealthy enough to try them.

 

[average farmer]

On that basis, would two varieties of 2-row barley not perform better too? If so, why doesn't everyone do it, as long as it's all going on a feed heap?

don know, just what happened that year.

tower did very well the year after to, owell did very well last time we grew winter barley

 

[Breakthru]

What proportion do you mix hybrid:2 row

As per Mossie in your area. 50:50

 

[Breakthru]

As per Mossie in your area. 50:50

Also hearing very good reports locally of Hawkings around 4t/ac give or take.

 

[snarling bee]

Bazooka lodged severely in one field this year. Kingsbarn not much better. Too little yield, too expensive seed, can't HS, too risky on bushel wt. I'm going to grow 2 row from now on, and pick the variety on standing power.

Harvest Update

Flat Bazooka did 5.76 t/ha over weighbridge, @ 55 - 62 hl weight. That won't pay many bills.
Moral of the story, don't be persuaded by a seed salesman that one variety is a direct replacement for another, or that hybrids are better than conventional.

 

[neilo]

Also hearing very good reports locally of Hawkings around 4t/ac give or take.

I was told it had done really well locally, especially on heavy ground. That was my second choice if I couldn’t get Tardis, and probably would have been wiser than picking an exciting newcomer.

 

[ajd132]

Harvest Update

Flat Bazooka did 5.76 t/ha over weighbridge, @ 55 - 62 hl weight. That won't pay many bills.
Moral of the story, don't be persuaded by a seed salesman that one variety is a direct replacement for another, or that hybrids are better than conventional.

Very honest Thankyou

 

[cricketandcrops]

Thinking of moving to KWS Tardis, the Kingsbarn has yielded well (no fancy yield monitors on a 1085 however there is a big heap) wont know until its all sold. Bushel is crap though! 56-58. Don’t necessarily blame the variety because we had hardly any sun during grain fill. Tardis on paper has caught up in yield terms with better grain quality.

 

[neilo]

Thinking of moving to KWS Tardis, the Kingsbarn has yielded well (no fancy yield monitors on a 1085 however there is a big heap) wont know until its all sold. Bushel is crap though! 56-58. Don’t necessarily blame the variety because we had hardly any sun during grain fill. Tardis on paper has caught up in yield terms with better grain quality.

I’m told there’s not much Tardis seed about this year. Wynnstay told me that all of their allocation had gone to their contract seed growers to multiply up for next year.

 

[Bobthebuilder]

Had the wagons in for kingsbarn today, 7.22ha 86.5t loaded out so more than we originally thought