Winter Barley Planting

[Baling Hay]

With all the talk around the disaster of winter wheat planting currently. I was wondering how did people get on with their winter barley planting? Did most people get it in before the weather got real bad or have they just given up on it?

 

[teslacoils]

Given up. Seen one field done near here. It's not a pretty sight.

 

[Hindsight]

With all the talk around the disaster of winter wheat planting currently. I was wondering how did people get on with their winter barley planting? Did most people get it in before the weather got real bad or have they just given up on it?

On the heath but drilled late by usual standards. Not much on heavy ground I know of.

 

[Clive]

Drove 300 miles today mostly motorway and could count the number of fields I saw any crops growing in on my fingers I reckon

 

[Shutesy]

Gave up on drilling this years W Barley on the 28th of Oct, decided to focus on wheat as its worth far more to us and it was getting late for barley round here, 1 block has some blackgrass on it so wont hurt as a spring barley, the other block has bad rabbit problems so a late drilled, slow growing winter barley wasn't going to enjoy itself there. Can spend the winter fixing some rabbit fencing and stick something in early in the spring.

 

[BigBarl]

We were supposed to be putting in a fair bit of W Barley this year both for seed and some commercial 6-row, ordered more spring feed barley seed last week however? 0% of all winter cereals in for us, got some stewardship legume/grass seeds in before the weather broke which looks questionable and some OSR which is hanging on in there. The rest will be spring now. tine drill on constant standby however in vain hope?

 

[DRC]

I’ve drilled all my barley but some of it is now lying so wet that I don’t expect to see it emerge. One early drilled field is up, but looks like it’s been rounduped. Never expected so much rain after drilling and it’s raining heavily now.

 

[Boysground]

Planted my 55ac last week. It’s on good free draining chalk so should be ok. The rest of my wheat is another matter

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[Jon 3085]

planted all of ours,some is even coming up,don’t think the headlands will come to much.

 

[traineefarmer]

No cereals planted yet, but this has been a time thing as much as a weather problem.

We're a mixed farm so livestock jobs get done before any field work meaning that we rarely get a start until lunchtime.

Harvest dragged into september (because of the weather). Beet harvest overran (because of the weather) so we missed out on a few days drilling before starting potato harvesting which was slow (because of the weather). Couple this with some staffing issues (family bereavement) and I reckon we are easily 4-5 weeks behind.

Just completing some repairs to our main topwork tractors and should be ready to go later today. (But we won't, because of the weather!)

 

[Fuzzy]

I’ve drilled all my barley but some of it is now lying so wet that I don’t expect to see it emerge. One early drilled field is up, but looks like it’s been rounduped. Never expected so much rain after drilling and it’s raining heavily now.

About the same here, it would be nice to see some rows coming up!!! I have a little 5 acre field left to do, which i might get in if we get a run of frosty mornings. I fully expect to do some patching up with spring barley (luckily i have plenty of spring balrey FSS !!)

 

[Brisel]

The big question is How much more winter barley will be sown now? Surely it's time to concentrate on wheat and swap winter barley for spring barley?

Everyone around here who is growing winter barley has sown it all, even if they haven't sown much wheat.

 

[bankrupt]

Everyone around here who is growing winter barley has sown it all,

Same here, Brisel, but it's yellowing off more and more every day hereabouts - doubt it will yield even 50% of 2019.

Of course, that still might well be more than 2020 SB.

 

[solo]

100acres drilled early October is 95%established with odd saturated areas on clay caps. 20acres drilled more recently is chitted but yet to emerge. No yellowing yet which has surprised me, as barley hates wet feet.

 

[ajd132]

Only got a small area of winter barley this year (40ha) but seems to be coping well so far on some hanslope clay. Headlands look okay too. Pleased we haven’t trampled About on cultivated land to get it in.

 

[farmerm]

Last week of October saw a weather window and ploughed 30 of the planned 45 acres of barley convinced it would get drilled. Not ideal that our rotation put the barley on the heaviest ground this year. It needed 2 good drying days after ploughing during the 4 days window, in the end it really got 2 hours drying on the afternoon on day 4, it wasn't going to carry the drill let alone make a barley seedbed... we then had 80mm over that weekend... It might turn out that not being able to drill either the barley or the wheat ground I could have had ploughed and drilled instead was actually a good thing.

 

[czechmate]

Did you all put pre ems on the barley before the rains?
That is my main concern. Plus I tried 0.45 liberator on oats as they didn’t forecast anything like the 70mm we had over the week end, 3 days after sowing. Will be an interesting watch

 

[DRC]

Did you all put pre ems on the barley before the rains?
That is my main concern. Plus I tried 0.45 liberator on oats as they didn’t forecast anything like the 70mm we had over the week end, 3 days after sowing. Will be an interesting watch

Nothing sprayed at all here

 

[eagleye]

all in and mostly rolled and pre-emed. last field wheat yesterday only one not preemed. maize only lifted day before. far too wet today to do anything in a field now.
still finished 2 weeks earlier than last year! late potatoes last year.
some barley will be not pretty.