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Spring crops 23 how bad are they?

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    jaymla627
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120677224#Comment_120677224

    How many more weeks would spring barley crops have in a scenario with little to no rain, would another 2 weeks basically be a write off on light ground where it went in late?



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    Waffletraktor
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120677497#Comment_120677497

    With barley if you don’t get the tiller numbers your in for the Hail Mary play of big grains. 2021 had big yields with lots of grain/heads. 22 the grains did the Hail Mary and filled out to huge bushel weights with the sunny not roasting July it would have been distinctly average due to lots of yellow virus about otherwise .

    Would think the only decent spring crop this year will be light- medium ground feb sown already in ear nearing flowering that didn’t end up with trampled headlands etc dragging the average down. The rest is full of wheelings and corn at 4 different growth stages and thin while sitting there not growing as lads tear about putting liquid nutrition on to save the magic calculators with prices headed for a 40% drop. With low yields it might be a difficult year at BOORTMALT as their store is half full and proteins potentially high on the malting job as they expect a 70/30?? Split for contracts above/below 10.8? % protein.

    South Wexford around The hook and Campile that missed heavy showers 9/11th May is meant to be doing a great impression of the outback in Oz.

    In short jobs fooked hope you have lots of winter crop/late jan-feb spring grain and Nae 500€ rents. How bad it’ll be is only when the combine arrives as the good looking grain might be caught with rain at flowering and throw out lots of fusarium riddled grains of rice in the sample.



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    blue5000
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    Mod note, pulled these from the dairy chit chat thread as not everyone will read it there.

    I imagine maize under plastic is fairly warm in this weather. Spring barley round here not looking too healthy on light land.

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



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    kk.man
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    Talking to a tillage man outside the local shop this evening.... disaster it seems... too late sowing and now sun and heat killing it



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    K.G.
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    Only have ours in with 3 weeks but surprised it s not worse.hopefully it will get rain the weekend if it doesn't its game over I'd say.i ve seen before late sown crops still nearly ear out at the same time as early crops and never get going



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    Reggie.
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    Jaysus didn't think cereal crops would be affected that much.



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    kk.man
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120685810#Comment_120685810

    Its very bad ..late sowing and now sun killing it



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    Reggie.
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120700277#Comment_120700277

    Nasty



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