Winter barley 2022

Do you mean soil temps with lads going to early, and not getting the uptake?
Yeah, spreading early when soil temps are consistently below 6 degrees followed by a big rain event on our lighter soils can result in a lot of the applied N moving down below the root zone. It's a tricky one as February is usually the wettest month of the year and soil temperatures can fluctuate a fair bit.
 
Have any of ye belfry? Is it a bit dead in itself? Not near as vigorous as any of the other varieties and struggling to beat slugs?
It's starting to grow on a bit now with the mild weather but still slower than castings and tardis both of which got pre emerge and just the way things happened the belfry didn't.. it looks like potash and its index 2 but the other varieties are in similar ground and are fine.
 

Attachments

  • IMG_20211110_091100.jpg
    IMG_20211110_091100.jpg
    390.5 KB · Views: 31
  • IMG_20211110_091354.jpg
    IMG_20211110_091354.jpg
    348.4 KB · Views: 36
  • IMG_20211110_091430.jpg
    IMG_20211110_091430.jpg
    501.1 KB · Views: 35
  • IMG_20211110_101743.jpg
    IMG_20211110_101743.jpg
    399.9 KB · Views: 37
It's starting to grow on a bit now with the mild weather but still slower than castings and tardis both of which got pre emerge and just the way things happened the belfry didn't.. it looks like potash and its index 2 but the other varieties are in similar ground and are fine.
Yep that it, looked like DFF scorch to me but the crops I’m referring to had no herbicide at all so it was not that.
 
Even though I didn’t find any, it’s surely leather jackets that are eating this? They have a nice bit of damage done.
 

Attachments

  • E30F7431-CC0E-449B-8F3B-ADB390679DB1.jpeg
    E30F7431-CC0E-449B-8F3B-ADB390679DB1.jpeg
    424.1 KB · Views: 60
I spent a good while rooting around and couldn’t find anything only earth worms. The plants are all cut about two inches below the surface.
 
This is the worst field of WB, there’s a lot of stupid lines through it, spread the fert after it was sown not on tramlines or with gps (won’t be doing that again) and dad sprayed it any he doesn’t believe in tramlines so one wheel might be in one and the other in the barley. It’s full of aphids but it’s joyua so might hold out, got tower and nothing else. There was a new drain dug along the border and all the old clay was scattered around so I was suspecting that area to turn yellow
 

Attachments

  • F2AD2C9D-B731-4C80-B603-AD4304E4EEBA.jpeg
    F2AD2C9D-B731-4C80-B603-AD4304E4EEBA.jpeg
    324.3 KB · Views: 99
  • A4CCAEA6-6C0D-45DE-8770-CEEE8AEAB05A.jpeg
    A4CCAEA6-6C0D-45DE-8770-CEEE8AEAB05A.jpeg
    385.7 KB · Views: 98
  • FE15AF3D-9096-445A-B082-2AE491897BCC.jpeg
    FE15AF3D-9096-445A-B082-2AE491897BCC.jpeg
    288.4 KB · Views: 97
Just checked another field there first time in it since it was sown, it’s where the sludge was put out nearly 2 years ago but is shocking thick and forward ?? A lot of slug grazing going on, have pellets there but I was half thinking maybe with it being so thick the bit of grazing might reduce disease pressure ? Or am I gone completely off track and better off protecting all leaf
 

Attachments

  • 3C41B5AD-7AF1-4570-B0DD-C40CCCB8F549.jpeg
    3C41B5AD-7AF1-4570-B0DD-C40CCCB8F549.jpeg
    295.3 KB · Views: 61
  • 72B522F3-548F-4CB6-AB82-2E094185500C.jpeg
    72B522F3-548F-4CB6-AB82-2E094185500C.jpeg
    260.3 KB · Views: 63
  • F6C03F13-2A9B-4B03-8B7D-A4C3BF91B84A.jpeg
    F6C03F13-2A9B-4B03-8B7D-A4C3BF91B84A.jpeg
    434 KB · Views: 64
  • 0BC4F939-D843-4DCF-B778-73C34059E0DD.jpeg
    0BC4F939-D843-4DCF-B778-73C34059E0DD.jpeg
    457.3 KB · Views: 64
  • 2D095265-555C-4EAD-B909-7DE60181C6E3.jpeg
    2D095265-555C-4EAD-B909-7DE60181C6E3.jpeg
    192.2 KB · Views: 64
Just checked another field there first time in it since it was sown, it’s where the sludge was put out nearly 2 years ago but is shocking thick and forward ?? A lot of slug grazing going on, have pellets there but I was half thinking maybe with it being so thick the bit of grazing might reduce disease pressure ? Or am I gone completely off track and better off protecting all leaf
I wouldn't be spreading slug pellets on that, unless there are bare patches and then only on the thin parts.
 
Just checked another field there first time in it since it was sown, it’s where the sludge was put out nearly 2 years ago but is shocking thick and forward ?? A lot of slug grazing going on, have pellets there but I was half thinking maybe with it being so thick the bit of grazing might reduce disease pressure ? Or am I gone completely off track and better off protecting all leaf
Sheep needed.
 
Just checked another field there first time in it since it was sown, it’s where the sludge was put out nearly 2 years ago but is shocking thick and forward ?? A lot of slug grazing going on, have pellets there but I was half thinking maybe with it being so thick the bit of grazing might reduce disease pressure ? Or am I gone completely off track and better off protecting all leaf
Leave it off it will be grand.
 
Have some winter barley gone fairly yellow , it is min tilled and maybe this is the reason. Plough based stuff seems to holding it colour well.
 
Have some winter barley gone fairly yellow , it is min tilled and maybe this is the reason. Plough based stuff seems to holding it colour well.
Any where that got extra traffic in the ploughed field is suddenly gone very yellow here, I was putting it down to the heavy rain a couple of nights sitting where there was a little compaction.
 
Have some winter barley gone fairly yellow , it is min tilled and maybe this is the reason. Plough based stuff seems to holding it colour well.
Most likely the min-tilled crop is running out of N whereas the plough based stuff is running on the extra N mineralised during seedbed preparation. The colder weather forecast for next week will be no harm, it's time crops were in winter mode.
 
Any where that got extra traffic in the ploughed field is suddenly gone very yellow here, I was putting it down to the heavy rain a couple of nights sitting where there was a little compaction.
this^^
exactly the same here
 
Back
Top