Winter Wheat 2019

[Blackwater boy]

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Conros looking the business this evening

Is that the 5T field in the distance?
What are the triangle yokes hanging up, presume to scare the crows but what actually do they do?

 

[rustymcsocks]

Yeah thats the field. The "triangle yoke" is a carousel crow banger and the red thing hanging down is the gas cylinder. I was taking it home as it had done it's job.

 

[Mid cork]

150mm spacing. 20 coulters, 3 metres wide.

A Lemken?

 

[rustymcsocks]

A Lemken?

Yeah Solitair 8.

 

[vf949]

Yeah Solitair 8.

Are a lot of the Lemken drills at 150mm spacings?

 

[rustymcsocks]

Are a lot of the Lemken drills at 150mm spacings?

To my knowledge the newer ones are. This is our second. The last one had 24 coulters in 3 metres so 125mm spacing

 

[Win]

To my knowledge the newer ones are. This is our second. The last one had 24 coulters in 3 metres so 125mm spacing

What's the theory behind going to a wider spacing, is there any benefit to the crop?

 

[rustymcsocks]

What's the theory behind going to a wider spacing, is there any benefit to the crop?

Well the flow of soil is less impeded with wider spacing in heavier conditions. Also I'm asumming more light can get to lower leaves for longer. Only one season with wider spacing so I haven't noticed any significant yield bonus/penalty yet.

 

[Hardysplicer]

I consider 7" spacing the sweet spot

just like Massey I think @MF30 ?

narrow spacing looks better but it fills in and more likely to tiller

8" works well too, tried 10" but too wide for Barley

 

[rustymcsocks]

I consider 7" spacing the sweet spot

just like Massey I think @MF30 ?

narrow spacing looks better but it fills in and more likely to tiller

8" works well too, tried 10" but too wide for Barley

We have 12" on the sumo dts but like you said too wide for barley especially spring.

 

[Hardysplicer]

We have 12" on the sumo dts but like you said too wide for barley especially spring.

Depends if its a row or banded, a gap of more than 8" is not ideal with our shaky leg spring barley varieties

 

[Bog Man]

Depends if its a row or banded, a gap of more than 8" is not ideal with our shaky leg spring barley varieties

Does the Barley fall into the alleys in a wet harvest . With narrow rows the Barley is like two drunks one holds the other up .

 

[Hardysplicer]

Does the Barley fall into the alleys in a wet harvest . With narrow rows the Barley is like two drunks one holds the other up .

that's a perfect analogy, especially them shaky varieties @CORK do be peddling

 

[Blackwater boy]

that's a perfect analogy, especially them shaky varieties @CORK do be peddling

He is selecting varieties now purely based on the amount of straw they have to enable the dairy lads get cheap straw and keep the Celtic cow on cocaine for another few years

 

[Hardysplicer]

He is selecting varieties now purely based on the amount of straw they have to enable the dairy lads get cheap straw and keep the Celtic cow on cocaine for another few years

I heard they leave pint bottles on milk on his doorstep 7 days a week

 

[Cork]

I heard they leave pint bottles on milk on his doorstep 7 days a week

Yes, it actually changes over to Baileys Cream Liquor on the run up to Christmas.

Decent in fairness.

 

[Cork]

Does the Barley fall into the alleys in a wet harvest . With narrow rows the Barley is like two drunks one holds the other up .

As part of the high tech variety screening process that our Wexican Comedian describes, there’s a gap between the variety plots of about 10”.
When the barley plots are cut, you can certainly see more heads in these gaps than across the plot itself.

 

[MF30]

I consider 7" spacing the sweet spot

just like Massey I think @MF30 ?

narrow spacing looks better but it fills in and more likely to tiller

8" works well too, tried 10" but too wide for Barley

Correct, the early MF30s had spacings that were almost 7 inches wide and then changed to around 5 inch spacings. On a 3 meter drill this gave you 19 rows and 23 rows respectively. With 5 inch spacing and drilling seed only you could squeeze another couple of coulters in and feed them from the rear of the hopper. We changed from wide to narrow spacing years ago and I couldn't see any yield benefit. Narrow looked neater early in play, made it more difficult to walk through though when roguing wild oats etc!

 

[Hardysplicer]

Back to winter wheat

There is a lot to be said from a social media point of view of the positives of cutting 5T of Cellule in July :Thumbp2:

 

[Oakley]

Speaking of cellule is it sold out or is there still seed available

 

[Cork]

Speaking of cellule is it sold out or is there still seed available

There should be some available still.

 

[Blackwater boy]

Back to winter wheat

There is a lot to be said from a social media point of view of the positives of cutting 5T of Cellule in July :Thumbp2:

I never saw that tweet you put up.

 

[Cork]

I never saw that tweet you put up.

Considering the reaction when I quoted a wheat yield on here, I’d say he would have been hung, drawn & quartered for quoting a 5 tonnes....

Mighty yield in fairness.

 

[Hardysplicer]

I never saw that tweet you put up.

Wasn’t year for it

 

[Sheebadog]

Finished planting just now for the rain.
Didn’t get the last 44acres planted but no harm because I’d prefer maize on it anyhow as it’s after Lucerne.
Wash down and oil machines now.
May try a bit of sbarley in Jan, weather permitting.

All seed used was home saved straight from the heap. Gaucho and Deter are banned now so I didn’t even bother cleaning it.
We did buy a few ton of certified seed for next years supply...Sophie, Cellule, Cesario, Descartes, Rubisco and Consort.