Winter barley varieties for 2021

[Jerry]

I’ve still got momento in the shed that never got drilled last year...

 

[bankrupt]

I’ve still got momento in the shed that never got drilled last year...

It's a sad reflection upon our year here that the one, or in fact any, variety not drilled should turn out most profitable.

 

[daithi]

How did the craft do for you this year compared to other varieties?

 

[Chae1]

We've put in a field of Mountain. Be interesting to see how it compares to cassia.

Agronomist ordered it with fancy new sdhi seed treatment to fo a bit of a trial. Be interesting to see if any difference when it germinates alongside my cassia seed out the heap!

 

[ajd132]

I’ve just planted 200ha of untreated electrum

 

[Stuart J]

Infinity 2 row conventional
Bazooka and Kingsbarn Hybrid 6 row.

 

[bankrupt]

We're putting in the same four as last year - Bazooka, Baracooda, Funky and Meridian - because they were all so uniformly awful in 2020 as to be impossible to tell apart.

 

[lloyd]

Putting in Valerie tomorrow after the lime gets spread.

 

[Surgery]

So how have varieties yielded this time , did anyone plant any Bolton?

 

[bankrupt]

plant any Bolton?

No.

 

[SilliamWhale]

So how have varieties yielded this time , did anyone plant any Bolton?

Orwell. Was good enough.

 

[casper74]

Gimlett has done well for me this year, so growing again
Hawking has done ok, so growing again
Going to try a field of Tardis as well.

 

[Driller]

Ordered mostly cassia but trying some Bolton too, had cassia,Orwell and tower this harvest, tower was crap,cassia was top on grain and straw, everyone talks it down but performs well for us.

 

[Grim Reaper]

We've put in a field of Mountain. Be interesting to see how it compares to cassia.

Agronomist ordered it with fancy new sdhi seed treatment to fo a bit of a trial. Be interesting to see if any difference when it germinates alongside my cassia seed out the heap!

Well what’s your verdict chae1?
Mountain did well for me, usually grow Orwell but found it tends to brackle more.

 

[DRC]

Ordered mostly cassia but trying some Bolton too, had cassia,Orwell and tower this harvest, tower was crap,cassia was top on grain and straw, everyone talks it down but performs well for us.

Same here, despite the seed salesmen trying to say it’s past it, Cassia has come out better than the new variety Hawking .

 

[robbie]

Cassia is doing very well around here again this year, several farms growing it side by side the newbies are all saying the same, good yield, good straw and good grain.

 

[Chae1]

Well what’s your verdict chae1?
Mountain did well for me, usually grow Orwell but found it tends to brackle more.

Cassia yield about the same and more straw. Should probably have cut the mountain earlier but cut it at same time as Cassia and mountain had all brackled down. Rotary combine destroyed the mountain straw.

Won't be keeping any mountain for seed. Be all cassia going in this year.

 

[An Gof]

That's where triticale could fit the bill. Growing costs similar to barley, sale price £5 under wheat(or same as wheat I'd your clever) straw is the only down side.

No, another downside of Triticale is its propensity to sprout.

 

[Average Farmerboy]

Still growing Surge, seems to suit our cotswold brash.

 

[Shropshirebuller]

Gimlet done very well here, massive amount of straw if that’s your thing. One patch did 7 x 120x90 475kg bales to the acre. We usually only get around 4.5-5 bales on other varieties. (Season made a difference maybe) other 2 patches did 6 bales to the acre. Not put grain over a weigh bridge but happy with the pile in the shed.