Winter Barley yields 2021

[fingermouse]

Hawking 3.12 t/acre ( 7.7t/ha )@ 13%, bushel just about 63 .
Bales worked out at ton and half straw / acre
everything over our weighbridge
It s a seed crop grown as a 1st cereal on some light ground didn’t push it hard with N so only 80upa (100kg/ha ) didn’t want it flat reasonable fungicide spend and lashings of pgr
It looked a better crop than it yielded definitely died rather than ripened at the end
No drying cost and no straw needed turning so happy with it overall

 

[Adeptandy]

Bit disappointed with mine. Look good all year then was hit with a storm just after ear emergence. Area’s that went flat were poor s and crows had also had a feed.
Initial thoughts 2.5t/a

 

[Two Tone]

All Bazooka here. Anything between 2.5 to 3.5 tons/acre.
Definitely a “better on the lighter land” year.
Most was ploughed and conventionally drilled, but 2 fields DD’d with a Weaving GD drill. Surprisingly, these 2 were the best! One of them on medium to heaving land, looked awful all winter and I very nearly scrapped it and started again. Even though it was very thin on the wettest, heaviest bit, the medium more than made up for it and it ended up as the 2nd highest yielding field.
One thing I have learned is that if you DD, you have got to get used to looking at the previous year’s stubble all Winter until April. Then it just takes off!

In general, I did need to keep checking the top sieve, as these would build up with awns and block, increasing losses until you cleaned them out again. I’ve only ever seen this happen once before in 45 years on driving Combines.

I still like Winter Barley as a 2nd white straw crop because of its much better Blackgrass suppression ability and because it is much cheaper to grow and potentially higher yielding than 2nd wheats.
But will be switching towards conventional Sensation next season.

Finished it all Friday tea-time and started the Winter Linseed.

 

[4course]

Bit disappointed with mine. Look good all year then was hit with a storm just after ear emergence. Area’s that went flat were poor s and crows had also had a feed.
Initial thoughts 2.5t/a

any idea of bushel weight , was thinking of trying some but a previous post has a lowly bushel and im of the view that that bushel weights have a greater influence on yield than realised

 

[Will 1594]

Any one had any malting sampled yet ,nitrogens and retentions ,

 

[robbie]

I'm hearing a lot of poor retention samples.

I hope no one has got defaultable contracts as it could get expensive......I'm still of the opinion f**k the malting barley and f**k the malsters.

 

[Adeptandy]

any idea of bushel weight , was thinking of trying some but a previous post has a lowly bushel and im of the view that that bushel weights have a greater influence on yield than realised

Not yet, will drop a sample off Monday if going past as I’m curious. Expecting it to be low though, so adjusted trailer loads in my calculations to avoid even more disappointment
Hoping the 2 row will be better

 

[robbie]

Not yet, will drop a sample off Monday if going past as I’m curious. Expecting it to be low though, so adjusted trailer loads in my calculations to avoid even more disappointment
Hoping the 2 row will be better

Don't count on it ever our cassia which is the highest bushel weight on the list is still thin, I dread to think what some of the low bushel varieties are like.
Only consolation is there's a bloody lot of it, it's shite but it's filling the tank quickly!!!!!!

 

[Northern territory]

Don't count on it ever our cassia which is the highest bushel weight on the list is still thin, I dread to think what some of the low bushel varieties are like.
Only consolation is there's a bloody lot of it, it's shite but it's filling the tank quickly!!!!!!

I have a feeling some good looking crops of wheat could disappoint this year. Up here we have had very little rain in the last 7 weeks. Stuff artificially ripening and full of septoria

 

[4course]

Not yet, will drop a sample off Monday if going past as I’m curious. Expecting it to be low though, so adjusted trailer loads in my calculations to avoid even more disappointment
Hoping the 2 row will be better

ah sorry, as you followed the report from the post above yours thought you meant the same variety i.e hawking ,personally wouldnt grow six row or hybreds but thats just me as when weve tried its been a waste of time and more importantly £

 

[Adeptandy]

ah sorry, as you followed the report from the post above yours thought you meant the same variety i.e hawking ,personally wouldnt grow six row or hybreds but thats just me as when weve tried its been a waste of time and more importantly £

Was a try and see, doubt I’ll repeat it

 

[Thomas Simpson]

2 fields of craft cut, one was plough carrier then tine drill 3.5t/acre and one was straight into stubble with the sumo dts 3.75t/acre . All over the weighbridge. N 1.49 but retention round 70. buschial around 66.

 

[Sandy]

What’s retention? Germination?

 

[Thomas Simpson]

The standard of most countries, except England and Wales, is 90% retained over a 2.5mm screen. Scottish growers trade malting barley on the 2.5mm standard, however, the standard is different for barley purchased in England, where maltsters normally accept 94% retained over a 2.25mm screen. UK brewers are attuned to this practice, and the resultant malt.
Most maltsters are willing to accept a small excess of screenings, with an appropriate price adjustment. This is from the malsters website.

 

[Feldspar]

What yield had you budgeted? And at that yield was it profitable? Nosey questions, so do please tell me to mid own business. But possibly the relevant questions. Glad we missed the storms yesterday. Cheers.

Budgeted sub 7t. Yes, comfortably profitable, especially including straw. Had 78mm in one part of the farm where the barley would have been last Sunday. And that was on top of 40mm not long before. Been rough weather this way, but we have avoided the catastrophic hail.

 

[balerman]

Much better than last year here.Early cut fields 2.5t/ acre second year barley.What I cut yesterday after red clover 3.5t and expecting last field after maize to be similar.All California home saved,120 units N and 3 cheap fungicides.

 

[texelburger]

I have a feeling some good looking crops of wheat could disappoint this year. Up here we have had very little rain in the last 7 weeks. Stuff artificially ripening and full of septoria

Same all over the country a grain merchant told me,the expcection being ,of course,our harvest contributors to the FW.

 

[sahara]

Just had our weights back.

Cassia barley, 140.200t from 18.79ha, 7.46t/ha, and lots of straw. Cut at between 11.2 and 13.7%MC. Happy here

 

[Zippy768]

Much better than last year here.Early cut fields 2.5t/ acre second year barley.What I cut yesterday after red clover 3.5t and expecting last field after maize to be similar.All California home saved,120 units N and 3 cheap fungicides.

How come you put barley after maize?

 

[balerman]

How come you put barley after maize?

Dont grow wheat,its all for home use.Barley does really well after maize.