Spring Barley - General Thread

Beans in, going to sow barley but might need to reassess...

Feckin rain!
 

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Rebelman said:
When was that planted? Or what I’m really asking is how fast would people chance going in with the roller?
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Planted yesterday morning, the rest i did was from Monday. Usually leave it a day around here, lads would say its too "fresh".
 
Rebelman said:
When was that planted? Or what I’m really asking is how fast would people chance going in with the roller?
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I planted today and rolled a few fields this evening, didn’t roll the last field.
It whitened up well and the promise of a bit of rain every day for the next week pushed me to chance it.
My GPS isn’t dialled in like @DCol 😂
 

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Got mine set yesterday a heavy shower near the end gave me a' o fuck not now moment' but didn't get heavy enough to stop us. Ground was well packed beet Ground more so I had to subsoil that whole field , 3 passes of the spring harrow later and it was in good enough shape years like this i wished i had a power harrow. Maybe next year lol
 
Mynamesnotdave said:
Thank god this is the last field and the only one that’s causing the earth to stick to the boards.
Won’t be winning any competitions with what it’s leaving.
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Tis funny after all the beating of rain the ground has gotten that it will stick like that on you. Tis some pain when it happens
 
My Fertilser has been held up fierce this year as I special order it with a manganese dressing. After a few dates of delivery failed it finnally got delivered this afternoon. We had ground ready. Rang the sower man as the moffet was lifting off the first pallet of a 30ton load and by the last pallet the sower man was in the yard ready to load and I loaded up with Fertilser. Then it started dropping rain of course after a great morning. Still got 2 fields of white label laureate sown as it never really rained. Only drops.
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Danielk said:
My Fertilser has been held up fierce this year as I special order it with a manganese dressing. After a few dates of delivery failed it finnally got delivered this afternoon. We had ground ready. Rang the sower man as the moffet was lifting off the first pallet of a 30ton load and by the last pallet the sower man was in the yard ready to load and I loaded up with Fertilser. Then it started dropping rain of course after a great morning. Still got 2 fields of white label laureate sown as it never really rained. Only drops.
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Have you actually seen a benefit in that manganese fert dressing over standard fert? I’ve often seen it with and without and I can’t say I’ve ever seen any difference at all. Maybe it best suits certain soils or somthing.
 
Blackwater boy said:
Have you actually seen a benefit in that manganese fert dressing over standard fert? I’ve often seen it with and without and I can’t say I’ve ever seen any difference at all. Maybe it best suits certain soils or somthing.
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I’m doing trials this year to test out the manganese seed dressings and some others on spring barley. I just wanted to know for sure.
Two varieties in each trial. 13 different treatments, each replicated 4 times in each trial.

Two sites, one of which has definite manganese deficiency. One sown, the other isn’t sown yet.
 
It’s gas that ye can get that sort of stuff at all down that side. I ordered beet compound for a customer 3 years ago and they sent out 13-6-20 plus s
 
Blackwater boy said:
Have you actually seen a benefit in that manganese fert dressing over standard fert? I’ve often seen it with and without and I can’t say I’ve ever seen any difference at all. Maybe it best suits certain soils or somthing.
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We tried the seed dressing once and didn’t seem to help. Still coming up in dark green and light green lines. Our ground would be fairly low in manganese now. We try roll before sowing as well as after. We try to plough as early as possible so ground is settled and firm when sowing. We have been using the wolfrax manganese on the Fertilser a nice few years now and we do have good green even crops coming up.
 
Danielk said:
My Fertilser has been held up fierce this year as I special order it with a manganese dressing. After a few dates of delivery failed it finnally got delivered this afternoon. We had ground ready. Rang the sower man as the moffet was lifting off the first pallet of a 30ton load and by the last pallet the sower man was in the yard ready to load and I loaded up with Fertilser. Then it started dropping rain of course after a great morning. Still got 2 fields of white label laureate sown as it never really rained. Only drops.
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Mr T?
 
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