Winter wheat yields

[bankrupt]

Guessing what the weather will be like in 2 months time.

Fair point.

In our case, however, this year's yields will be positively correlated with success in guessing what the weather last autumn would turn out to be like in just 2 days time.

Where it stayed reasonably dry for a few days, preferably up to a week or so, after drilling it's OK; where it immediately got rained on unexpectedly and heavily, which most did, it's not.

For September and October plantings here, this finding is completely independent of species, varieties, seed generations, cultivations, drilling systems and any and all other prior or subsequent inputs.

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[warksfarmer]

Spring wheat on sandy soil. 2t/ac if we’re lucky. Only had 20mm of rain since the end of April.

 

[Fubar]

Rightly or wrongly I'm going to go through my milling wheat with some foliar N with some Epsom salts and t3 fungicide. Is it better to spray in the evening even though it's still warm and the crop is under heat stress or very early in the morning when everything is cooler but the heat of the day is imminent.

 

[Lincsman]

Rightly or wrongly I'm going to go through my milling wheat with some foliar N with some Epsom salts and t3 fungicide. Is it better to spray in the evening even though it's still warm and the crop is under heat stress or very early in the morning when everything is cooler but the heat of the day is imminent.

Late evening.

 

[Fubar]

Late evening.

Does the evening give more time for the leave to absorb the nutrients?

 

[Lincsman]

Does the evening give more time for the leave to absorb the nutrients?

Yes its absorbed etc before the sun gets to burn it.

 

[Brisel]

Late October sown Gleam. You can see where the soil is more gravel than anything else

 

[Phil P]

Kws Jacal drilled October

Skyfall drilled feb

Lili drilled feb

 

[PSQ]

Another case of 'be careful what you wish for'.
March "I really hope this tillers"...
Mid June:
(Grafton, Sept sown).

 

[redsloe]

@Phil P Like the look of the jacal

 

[MrNoo]

Late October sown Gleam. You can see where the soil is more gravel than anything else
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WW on Cotswold brash looks exactly the same here as that, not great. Reckon the Spring Wheat will outyield it, no decent rain for the last month

 

[Phil P]

@Phil P Like the look of the jacal

It looked really well last year too as a first wheat but just seemed to die off a bit to early and didn’t yield like It should have done. I know it’s not been an ideal session this year but if it doesn’t perform again it will be its last year!

 

[David.]

Worst bits on brash yesterday, notice the change of soil type and the difference it makes.



Just to prove it's not all doom and gloom, better ground late Nov and Dec drilled, Firefly and Barrel.

 

[bankrupt]

Another case of 'be careful what you wish for'.

Your secondary tillering's effort's pretty pathetic compared with some of ours this time, in the WB, the WW and the WO.

We last had this problem to manage here in 1982 when we decided to desiccate the WB and WW but to leave the second crop of WO to ripen naturally. gambling upon the first crop holding on, only to get a big gale blow up from nowhere the night before harvest.

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[B'o'B]

Your secondary tillering's effort's pretty pathetic compared with some of ours this time, in the WB, the WW and the WO.

We last had this problem to manage here in 1982 when we decided to desiccate the WB and WW but to leave the second crop of WO to ripen naturally. gambling upon the first crop holding on, only to get a big gale blow up from nowhere the night before harvest.

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@bankrupt If you didn’t have bad luck, you’d have no luck at all!

 

[Worsall]

 

[Brisel]

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What soil type is that?

 

[Ugo79]

What soil type is that?

Thames gravel?

 

[Fubar]

I like this thread. It's the mirror image of pub yields...." My wheats worse than your wheat!!!!"

 

[David.]

Trouble is, I think there are more people than expected sitting quietly, with decent enough crops. There have been some useful rains around the country now.
Trade seems to be thinking the bad news is all out there, is my take on it.