Spring barley anyone?

blue5000

Do many ppl on here sow spring barley? What varieties of seed, sowing rate do you use?

merryberry

I have about 30ac to put in. 10ac ploughed in the last fine spell. Remainder yet to b ploughed. Will be sowing the same variety as last year, Mickle, and probably will have to up the sowing rate as its going to be mid April by the looks of things. Must also get some lime out in parts also.

f140

I have land ploughed but still to be tilled for it. Have got a brand called quench. Going at a bag and a half to the acre and will put 3 bags of 10-10-20 to the acre when setting

larthehar

f140 wrote: »

I have land ploughed but still to be tilled for it. Have got a brand called quench. Going at a bag and a half to the acre and will put 3 bags of 10-10-20 to the acre when setting

Same scenario! 11stone/ac here.. mickle... straw length is important if you are in an area prone to lodging..

MF290

larthehar wrote: »

Same scenario! 11stone/ac here.. mickle... straw length is important if you are in an area prone to lodging..

Found the mickle a good stander here too. Usually sow some spring barley for our own use but put winter barley in this year instead.

6480

MF290 wrote: »

Found the mickle a good stander here too. Usually sow some spring barley for our own use but put winter barley in this year instead.

Waste of time rented out the ground 225 an acre to dairy Farmer + emintments back to me

rangler1

6480 wrote: »

Waste of time rented out the ground 225 an acre to dairy Farmer + emintments back to me

Same here, but I'm aware that this milk bonanza won't last and the next CAP reform will probably take the entitlements off landlords.
Share farming with tillage farmers was probably a better long term option

MF290

6480 wrote: »

Waste of time rented out the ground 225 an acre to dairy Farmer + emintments back to me

The bit of tillage fits in well with reseeding. No dairy farmers around here would be paying that kind of money, only 1 in a 2km radius of our farm. Why does the only option option ever seem to be rent to a dairy farmer or go contract rearing.... I'll definitely consider going dairying in the future but I don't see why we should all rent our land out to them just because they can make a better margin. I wouldn't bother farming if it was purely for money when I can see graduates coming out of college courses starting on 60k plus a year.... A lot of those leases won't be worth the paper they're written on if the price of milk drops for any reasonable length of time. Anyone who's still in tillage after the past few years knows how to survive the difficult ones. Dairy farmers haven't had a prolonged period of bad prices yet...

blue5000

It dovetails in well with beef for me, kale for weanlings, barley to finish cattle, straw for bedding finishing cattle in a cheap shed, then fym for the kale. Re-seed back to grass then.

queueeye

Sowing planet for malting contract. 3 bags of 10 10 20 on what didn't get slurry/fym, 18 6 12 on what did. 11 to 12 stone per acre depending on seed TGW, later sowing date and allowing a bit for the birds.

blue5000

I wonder is the acerage down a bit this year. I went with Poustain (spplleeing?):P at 10 stone. What are malting prices/contracts like this year?

Odelay

MF290 wrote: »

The bit of tillage fits in well with reseeding. No dairy farmers around here would be paying that kind of money, only 1 in a 2km radius of our farm. Why does the only option option ever seem to be rent to a dairy farmer or go contract rearing.... I'll definitely consider going dairying in the future but I don't see why we should all rent our land out to them just because they can make a better margin. I wouldn't bother farming if it was purely for money when I can see graduates coming out of college courses starting on 60k plus a year.... A lot of those leases won't be worth the paper they're written on if the price of milk drops for any reasonable length of time. Anyone who's still in tillage after the past few years knows how to survive the difficult ones. Dairy farmers haven't had a prolonged period of bad prices yet...

Graduates starting on €60k plus a year?? What industry??

J.O. Farmer

Odelay wrote: »

Graduates starting on €60k plus a year?? What industry??

And where.
I work in the west of Ireland on a reasonable salary but I'd get a lot more in Dublin. However I reckon I'd have to get double to work in Dublin as half any extra will go in tax and the other half in the increased cost of living.
After all that I'd still have the torture of working in Dublin.

MF290

Odelay wrote: »

Graduates starting on €60k plus a year?? What industry??

The best paid jobs for graduates are now in law, legal services and patents, where there is an average salary of almost €40,000, followed by management consulting.

Stole that from an article and that's average...
Heard of graduates from BESS in ucd are getting great starting salaries. Actuary was always supposed to be a top earner. People who get on well in computer science and in engineering are very well paid starting off too.

Odelay

MF290 wrote: »

The best paid jobs for graduates are now in law, legal services and patents, where there is an average salary of almost €40,000, followed by management consulting.

Stole that from an article and that's average...
Heard of graduates from BESS in ucd are getting great starting salaries. Actuary was always supposed to be a top earner. People who get on well in computer science and in engineering are very well paid starting off too.

That's for the cream of the crop, and byJesus they will have to put the work and hours in for it.
Computer science, maybe if you're very innovative. Grad engineers would be getting 25-35k, any employer offering 60k to a graduate engineer would want their head examined unless the lad was in the top 1% and had very specialised skills to offer.

Boaty

I wouldn't be worried about what someone starts out at if there's no route to progress, you might start out on 40k but you mightn't get above 50k for 5 years.
The opportunities in areas such as finance are much better than any specialized area.