Winter Barley 2020

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we got more rain than a lot of other places and a phenomenal amount of sun over the last 8 weeks so crops hanging on very well so far, rain is needed to fill potential but plenty of ye are a lot worse off than we are. Crops ended up tall in the end but a good bounce off them. The 3 fungicide attack at low rates has held all the leaves. The loss of CTL next year is going to be a disaster for barley
 
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we got more rain than a lot of other places and a phenomenal amount of sun over the last 8 weeks so crops hanging on very well so far, rain is needed to fill potential but plenty of ye are a lot worse off than we are. Crops ended up tall in the end but a good bounce off them. The 3 fungicide attack at low rates has held all the leaves. The loss of CTL next year is going to be a disaster for barley
Fabulous looking crops:Thumbp2: nothing even near as good as that up here. Are they after a break crop? probably lots of organics with the dairy background. I see my own and any where that got dung is holding much better.
 
Fabulous looking crops:Thumbp2: nothing even near as good as that up here. Are they after a break crop? probably lots of organics with the dairy background. I see my own and any where that got dung is holding much better.
Ah no Neither of those crops are after breaks. i have pixel after maize after ley alright. There would be a lot of dung or cattle or pig slurry in the rotation alright but as I said we have had a few falls of 8/10 mms and that has been a good help.
 
Valerie grainfilling.

Hopefully it’ll just get away with it before drought bites it too much.

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The cracks are similar here, I hammered the kite standpoles into a crack in a tramline in the WB fields here. It’s the only hope of getting it into the ground. Usually loosens after a few days though. I daren’t hammer it too deep though, I don’t want to be responsible for starting an earthquake.
 
Crows started at winter barley here this evening. They have a few bare patches for ease of access.
All crops looking decent.
 
Not a grain grower but I'd imagine the last thing those headed out crops need is a heavy lash of rain, would they lodge easily ?
 
It happened two years ago, we got one day with very light rain and high wind just around this time. A lot of winter barley went down, I was amazed how easily it went down.
That same year crops stretched an unbelievable amount in a very short space of time and bent over about 4 ish inches above the ground at one of the nodes. There was no wind at all that year either to strengthen stems and over night I remember a fairly bad wind with no rain at all and my wb was well shook the following morning.
 
Made a start yesterday. Passing thunderstorm left 4mm last night so day off today. Straw a bit tough.
Moisture 14.1%.
Bushel 58kph.
Yield 6.81t/ha.
Very pleased considering the year that’s in it. Quality is crap, but sold directly to an end user. Better off sold quickly than holding low spec in stock. Sold at €150/t delivered.
 
Infinity looking reasonable tonight, will do ok if it fills. Hope this rain will be gentle, ground cracked here this week only, we got a days rain every 10 days or so up till now. We have been lucky enough compared to some of you on here further East and North.
 

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Etincel 6-row today.
Moisture 15.2.
Bushel 51.
Yield between 3.9-4.1t/ha.
Pure crap. Not altogether ripe either.
 
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