Spring Barley - General Thread

[Mid cork]

Yes, I see mine up yesterday morning after 8 days. The heat and moisture combination in late April speeds it up, if usually sown in mid March here it takes 16 days to emerge.

I have see barely up in five days in May. Might be just a well as we have about two days sowing left to do.☹️☹️

 

[Dunmasc]

twas frosty last night, grass was white when i brought in the cows for milking this morning

It was - 1.5 here last night.

 

[nashmach]

Motoring since last Wednesday View attachment 136826
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Did you just scatter it on top!!!

 

[DCol]

Did you just scatter it on top!!!

Wednesday the 17th I should have added

 

[c4l]

18 acres in since it came. Not a bad machine View attachment 136782

How do you find the discs over the usual power harrow?

 

[Masseyrk662]

How do you find the discs over the usual power harrow?

Way faster anyway, burned a lot less diesel too (with drilling tractor) and a lighter outfit. However I wouldn’t like to be relying on one for my ground

 

[Crops]

Way faster anyway, burned a lot less diesel too (with drilling tractor) and a lighter outfit. However I wouldn’t like to be relying on one for my ground

Will they supply a diesel bowser for the extra diesel produced by the Fendt?

 

[drew]

Will they supply a diesel bowser for the extra diesel produced by the Fendt?

They send it out with the light on and take it back full

 

[Masseyrk662]

This was the only light that came on…. Several times, seemed to go into some sort of limp mode, turn off and back on job

 

[nashmach]

Wednesday the 17th I should have added

I was getting concerned

 

[BasilSeal]

I've got 15 acres of spring barley and pea mix to go in, it's being ploughed today, all being well, I was wondering whether it was too late to go now, and whether to play safe and go for a grass reseed instead, downside of doing that i could do with both the corn for feeding and the straw *if* it comes ok, if it doesn't come or it gets too late for combining, i've wasted nearly £2K of organic seed.

What do you guys think, drill or don't drill?

 

[Crops]

I've got 15 acres of spring barley and pea mix to go in, it's being ploughed today, all being well, I was wondering whether it was too late to go now, and whether to play safe and go for a grass reseed instead, downside of doing that i could do with both the corn for feeding and the straw *if* it comes ok, if it doesn't come or it gets too late for combining, i've wasted nearly £2K of organic seed.

What do you guys think, drill or don't drill?

I certainly wouldn’t consider it too late.

 

[Bgrove]

I’ll be setting well into May. Same ev year

 

[6910s]

A gorgeous combination.

It’s a dangerous thing to get a demo of something like that…

What model amazone do you know? Looks like it's got weigh cells must me a dream to just type in kg/ha and drive on instead of churning out buckets of seed to weigh.

 

[Blackwater boy]

18 acres in since it came. Not a bad machine View attachment 136782

Those discs under the drills tend to ridge in soft ploughing. It’s not an issue in the autumn as it has plenty time to settle before harvest but in spring grain it can be a dose cutting it especially if your having to cut low in brackled barley as the clay ridge keeps building up on the knife in the same spot.
They are a great job in the autumn as the slightly rougher seedbed leaves the water away better than a fine seedbed left by a power Harrow.

 

[c4l]

I've got 15 acres of spring barley and pea mix to go in, it's being ploughed today, all being well, I was wondering whether it was too late to go now, and whether to play safe and go for a grass reseed instead, downside of doing that i could do with both the corn for feeding and the straw *if* it comes ok, if it doesn't come or it gets too late for combining, i've wasted nearly £2K of organic seed.

What do you guys think, drill or don't drill?

Surely push come to shove, could make wholecrop out of it? Still get your feed out of it

 

[BasilSeal]

I certainly wouldn’t consider it too late.

I’ll be setting well into May. Same ev year

Cheers for the advice. ploughed over today, hopefully will get it in on thursday if it can hold of raining for two days in a row.

 

[BasilSeal]

Surely push come to shove, could make wholecrop out of it? Still get your feed out of it

fair point,whole crop would be a get out route if it looks like it won't ripen in time. i#'d prefer to get it as a combinable crop if i can though as it would be worth a lot more to me, i use it to feed young stock and calves as the price of organic corn is astronomical. the straw would come in handy this year as well

 

[Masseyrk662]

Jesus I would think that it wouldn’t be much good in the backend for me anyway, you would definitely want a lot better seedbed in front of it than a normal one pass

 

[nashmach]

Spring barley very slow about coming here. The extreme variation in temperature is obvious.

A field sown late Sunday night, 10 days ago, is breaking ground well this evening and it's neighbours are a bit behind it but only sown the following morning.

 

[Blackwater boy]

Spring barley very slow about coming here. The extreme variation in temperature is obvious.

A field sown late Sunday night, 10 days ago, is breaking ground well this evening and it's neighbours are a bit behind it but only sown the following morning.

Same variety?

 

[nashmach]

Same variety?

Yep, all Mermaid.

It's only 10 days in yet which would be about usual for here if growthy weather

 

[Masseyrk662]

Seen a video a Wexford farmer had up on Facebook (could be a member here as I don’t know how I’m friends with him) but the seedbed was turned into some slop already

 

[JamesK]

Seen a video a Wexford farmer had up on Facebook (could be a member here as I don’t know how I’m friends with him) but the seedbed was turned into some slop already

Alright if there isn't a bit of stiching to be done after this weekend. We thought we were in for a drought after 9 months of rain!!

 

[Masseyrk662]