Spring barley hit worse than wheat in UK.
August 19th 2011
Spring barley was far more badly hurt than other crops, including wheat, by the UK dry spring, with yeilds potentially on course for their lowest level since 1990.
ADAS reckon that the UK winter wheat crop looks set to end up with a yeild around average. Poor results have been seen from crops grown on the lighter land with 2 tonnes per hectare being seen on rare occasions.
A number of reports have shown 11-13 tonnes per hectare and ADAS in particular are predicting an average of 7.3 - 7.7 tonnes per hectare.
Wheat quality in Lincolnshire is very good with descent protein levels, very good specific weight and good hagburg levels. We still have about 20% of wheat to harvest along with some spring barley. Pulses will be next followed by Linseed.
For winter rapeseed the average yeild was seen potentially reaching 3.8 tonnes per hectare, well above the average of 3.3 tonnes .
David Hoyles of Lutton, cut a 8.25ha field of wheat which returned him 14.3 tonnes per hectare ( 5.79 tones per acre ). This is thought to be a new British record. The variety was Invicta.
