Spring Barley - General Thread

[nashmach]

Maybe these pictures of my Barley should be put in members only because if the CBOT see them prices will collapse and they would collapse laughing if they saw the size of the field.
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I walked down to get this before I found it with the combine.
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Look at the length of the heads there

 

[Blackwater boy]

Ah yea just what a fella would need alright.

 

[Cork]

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Ah yea just what a fella would need alright.

I must have a look at ours. Had a brief look at some yesterday and didn’t see any of that.

I did notice the ear still partly surrounded by the leaf sheath just like in your picture though. I’d say it’s from the Terpal in our case.

 

[Bog Man]

Anyone heard the bad news about Barley in the South East . Plant counts are only 500 to 700 as it never tillered . Grain sites could not make up the yields unlike wheat. I did not count ours but they are a bit airy looking even though rank green still. I had a malting Barley grower looking in on my field and it is a lot greener than his ploughed stuff .

 

[Cork]

Anyone heard the bad news about Barley in the South East . Plant counts are only 500 to 700 as it never tillered . Grain sites could not make up the yields unlike wheat. I did not count ours but they are a bit airy looking even though rank green still. I had a malting Barley grower looking in on my field and it is a lot greener than his ploughed stuff .

Last counts I did in the plots (Light to medium texture) were in the region of 700. That’s despite having at least 1000 tillers at the end of tillering.

The drought in May must have caused some to die off.

We have commercial Planet in heavier ground that looks thicker. Also some commercial Gangway on medium ground which was planted excessively thick by accident.

 

[Mid cork]

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Ah yea just what a fella would need alright.

I was in a few fields of barley yesterday and I didn’t see any. It wouldn’t be as advanced as what you have there, a week or so behind . What you have there was probably ok a week ago as well.

 

[Blackwater boy]

I was in a few fields of barley yesterday and I didn’t see any. It wouldn’t be as advanced as what you have there, a week or so behind . What you have there was probably ok a week ago as well.

That’s a bit of errigal, late tillers have a few, nothing major but still a disappointment, I’ll have a look at planet later on

 

[thefarminglad]

Anyone heard the bad news about Barley in the South East . Plant counts are only 500 to 700 as it never tillered . Grain sites could not make up the yields unlike wheat. I did not count ours but they are a bit airy looking even though rank green still. I had a malting Barley grower looking in on my field and it is a lot greener than his ploughed stuff .

Going to cause a lot of problems at harvest for barley to make malting or brewing as less heads to soak up all that nitrogen.

Anyone else been plagued by crows on Spring barley yet. They started on mine two days ago so had to spend today with my gun teaching them how to practice social distance

 

[laoisfarmer]

Going to cause a lot of problems at harvest for barley to make malting or brewing as less heads to soak up all that nitrogen.

Anyone else been plagued by crows on Spring barley yet. They started on mine two days ago so had to spend today with my gun teaching them how to practice social distance

Starting into spring barley here also

 

[Ags11]

I was rogueing wild oats last werk.
When you look down in there's quite a few late green tillers.
That and drought patches that have started to green again. There's alot of ears half stuck in the leaf sheath.
It's unfortunately gonna be a glyphosate year..

 

[nashmach]

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Ah yea just what a fella would need alright.

I have that here too in Gangway on an exposed site, seems worse up on the brow. It's pretty extensive too and I don't know why. A field sown an hour before just down the road is clean of it.

I'll put up a photo of it tomorrow. Didn't check the Planet yet.

 

[nashmach]

I have that here too in Gangway on an exposed site, seems worse up on the brow. It's pretty extensive too and I don't know why. A field sown an hour before just down the road is clean of it.

I'll put up a photo of it tomorrow. Didn't check the Planet yet.

That's the Gangway, it's in Planet here too as well.

 

[Masseyrk662]

Not looking too bad but the crows are out in full force now

 

[nashmach]

Plenty of second growth coming now.


Maybe not as clear in the photo but the rocky areas are very visible to the naked eye now


This has come on leaps and bounds since

 

[Masseyrk662]

Same field, tram line along ditch was a bit out for sprayer

 

[MF30]

Was wandering through the SB today checking crow damage and rogueing any wild oats etc, it has recovered a lot since the drought ended. The good is excellent and the burnt up bare patches has now filled out albeit unevenly and patchy. First two pics are the good, last two are the recovered poor.

 

[jay gatsby]

It's not pretty lads. From green as grass to nearly golden... thin and short. Grain fill not bad is about the only saving grace

 

[Cork]

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Christ that’s a pity to see, a right pain.

Spoke to a man from Carlow today and he said there’s green patches turning up across acres and acres of spring barley:tdown:

 

[Ags11]

You're not alone! I've acres growing again!

 

[jay gatsby]

Christ that’s a pity to see, a right pain.

Spoke to a man from Carlow today and he said there’s green patches turning up across acres and acres of spring barley:tdown:

I have a neighbour here who is a.large grower and probably the best I know of, great man to have even , healthy looking crops across all land types and his spring barley is all over the place this year. Greenery appearing everywhere in it

 

[MF30]

I have a neighbour here who is a.large grower and probably the best I know of, great man to have even , healthy looking crops across all land types and his spring barley is all over the place this year. Greenery appearing everywhere in it

He’s not on his own. When I last sprayed mine, any of the bare or thin patches have now filled out quite well but in new greenery. Quite obvious from a distance where the patches are.

 

[headcase]

What's the latest I can give the ears a wash?
Mine turning yellow,think it's too late
I'll get a pic in the morning

 

[gone]

The worst of mine is horrendous, 2 crops, 1 ripening and 2nd just after flowering.
What the f#€£ I will be able to do with it I just don't know. Roundup when the 1st crop is near fit and try blast the half ripe crop out the back of the combine???????????

 

[jay gatsby]

The worst of mine is horrendous, 2 crops, 1 ripening and 2nd just after flowering.
What the f#€£ I will be able to do with it I just don't know. Roundup when the 1st crop is near fit and try blast the half ripe crop out the back of the combine???????????

I honestly dont know what's going to be done with it all. I winder if the weather played ball and the first lot was rotten ripe and you sprayed it would it ripen the second lot quick enough... maybe it would all end in a loss then though. You might be right

 

[Cork]

The worst of mine is horrendous, 2 crops, 1 ripening and 2nd just after flowering.
What the f#€£ I will be able to do with it I just don't know. Roundup when the 1st crop is near fit and try blast the half ripe crop out the back of the combine???????????

I think what you describe is the best compromise, came to the same conclusion with someone regarding winter barley last week.