Winter barley 2019

Nobody would like to see spring barley yellow due to N deficiency, why would winter barley be different?

It’s well proven that barley fills its grain from sugars built up in the leaves and stems, this biomass needs to be created early.

Unless of course, barley is sown too early and has formed a forest of tillers and disease and would actually benefit from a bit of hunger to thin it out.

Teagasc have conducted N timing trials on winter barley that showed no difference in yield between N applied in late Feb and early March. This is for Carlow where growth begins later than the south coast.
I doubt if it took into account the effect of N sitting on the ground in late March if one got 3 weeks of easterly wind.
 
Time enough putting N on winter barley in March,
@bogman can adjudicate pictures of yella barley to see who has strongest nerve
 
N approach should really be crop specific, how you approach an early sown heavily tillered crop on fresh ground or after break crop will be very different to say a second cereal slot sown late October like this one below GS1.4 to 2.1
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@CORK the dairy farmer.

Get yourself to your local co-op, buy yourself a set of cheap poor quality “waterproofs” don’t be fooled into paying extra for a set that will last for years and will keep you dry, this is an important purchase and will be the reference for future farm investment decisions.
Go home.
Roll around in slurry, make sure to leave the hood down, while wearing the wooly hat with holes in it, proudly go over to your new tractor, complete with a new waterproof seat cover which was “free”
Great job, your going to mind this tractor.

Spend some time getting to understand what’s important on your new tractor, find out how to open the back window, this job will only be done once, so it’s worth doing it right.

Next study the door, is access limited? Any restrictions will cost you time, time is money.
If it was a bit wider maybe?
No, not going cutting lumps out a new tractor, too busy, you haven’t the time, take off the door maybe? go and get your toolkit.

Return proudly with..
One spurious vise grip, a set of screwdrivers bought in German discount store, the quality of which is so low, they could be described as edible.
A luminous yellow, spurious Stanley knife.

Slowly and carefully start about getting the door off,
1 minute has passed...
give up...
Go and get the hammer you forget when getting your other tools.
It’s in an old blue USA biscuit tin, the tins were bigger back then, there were more biscuits in them too, you’d like a biscuit now, but no, there’re riding you for biscuits these days. Fcuk that.

Gently use the hammer and vise grip together, this will work..
2 more minutes.
Oh dear.
The ram thing on the door is broken.
Get baling twine, tie up broken yolk.
It’ll be grand.

Its 10.00am breakfast time, head in and have a cup a tea, you’d love a biscuit...
eat brown bread with cheap imported butter.

Back to work, time is money, tidy up tools, put spare baling twine in the cab, to keep it dry, it’s so handy to have with you, somewhere around the handbrake. Leave extra on the seat too, it was a great job on the old tractor.

Vise grip and hammer go into the tractor toolbox.
It’s huge, that’s the size of box you’d want to be buying biscuits in.

Get up on the tractor, go and put on the silage grab, a claw grab, a great yolk.
It’ll never be taken off again and will be always left open, so as to always be ready for use.

Open door, as you disembark you catch new waterproof trousers on the broken ram yolk, rip them, curse.
Hook up grab, you love that grab.
Ripped waterproof could be a safety risk, get your knife and trim it back, can’t find the knife in your pocket, you find it on the seat of the tractor, under the baling twine, the blade was out slightly, the new seat cover is ripped. Curse violently.
Replace baling twine on seat, cut away hazardous piece from new waterproofs, go and feed the cows and pretend none of this happened.
 
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ithastopay said:
@CORK the dairy farmer.

Get yourself to your local co-op, buy yourself a set of cheap poor quality “waterproofs” don’t be fooled into paying extra for a set that will last for years and will keep you dry, this is an important purchase and will be the reference for future farm investment decisions.
Go home.
Roll around in slurry, make sure to leave the hood down, while wearing the wooly hat with holes in it, proudly go over to your new tractor, complete with a new waterproof seat cover which was “free”
Great job, your going to mind this tractor.

Spend some time getting to understand what’s important on your new tractor, find out how to open the back window, this job will only be done once, so it’s worth doing it right.

Next study the door, is access limited? Any restrictions will cost you time, time is money.
If it was a bit wider maybe?
No, not going cutting lumps out a new tractor, too busy, you haven’t the time, take off the door maybe? go and get your toolkit.

Return proudly with..
One spurious wise grip, a set of screwdrivers bought in German discount store, the quality of which is so low, they could be described as edible.
A luminous yellow spurious Stanley knife.

Slowly and carefully start about getting the door off,
1 minute has passed...
give up...
Go and get the hammer you forget when getting your other tools.
It’s in an old blue USA biscuit tin, the tins were bigger back then, there were more biscuits in them too, you’d like a biscuit now, but no, there’re riding you for biscuits these days. Fcuk that.

Gently use the hammer and wise grip together, this will work..
2 more minutes.
Oh dear.
The ram thing on the door is broken.
Get baling twine tie up broken yolk.
It’ll be grand.

Its 10.00am breakfast time, head in and have a cup a tea, you’d love a biscuit...
eat brown bread with cheap imported butter.

Back to work, time is money, tidy up tools, put spare baling twine in the cab, to keep it dry, it’s so handy to have with you, somewhere around the handbrake. Leave extra on the seat too, it was a great job on the old tractor.

Wise grip and hammer go into the tractor toolbox.
It’s huge, that’s the size of box you’d want to be buying biscuits in.

Get up on tractor, go and put on the silage grab, a claw grab, a great yolk.
It’ll never be taken off again and will be always left open, so as to always be ready for use.

Open door, as you disembark you catch new waterproof trousers on the broken ram yolk, rip them, curse.
Hook up grab, you love that grab.
Ripped waterproof could be a safety risk, get your knife and trim it back, can’t find knife in your pocket, you find it on the seat of the tractor, under the baling twine, the blade was out slightly, the new seat cover is ripped. Curse violently.
Replace baling twine on seat, cut away hazardous piece from new waterproofs, go and feed the cows and pretend none of this happened.
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Ok. Here we have post of the year so far.

It’s only January though so plenty of time to get your entries in.....

Edit: I think I’ve just punctured a lung laughing at that. I could do with a biscuit.
 
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