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Buttress Barley’s Paddock Performance Reflects Outstanding Trial Results
With a new name but a proven track record, Buttress spring sown barley’s on-farm performance is reflecting the cultivar’s outstanding results in four years of Foundation for Arable Research (FAR) trials.
This is the second year Springston grower Chris Morrish has grown Buttress (formerly CRBA148) feed barley and once again he found it an easy crop to grow, with just a standard fungicide...
Buttress Barley Performs as Second Crop
Buttress barley is a perfect fit in Glenn Smith’s crop rotation.
For the past two years the Irwell farmer has pushed the boundaries by planting Buttress barley immediately after the harvest of his process broad bean crop in late November and early December.
This means the barley is being drilled as late as 9 December and is harvested in late March.
Despite this short growing window, Buttress...
Fortitude Barley Proves a Consistent Performer
Fortitude barley is proving to be a solid performer in Mark and Marthie Wright’s crop rotation.
This was the third year the Mid Canterbury farmers have harvested the cereal and this year it yielded 11.3t/ha and 11.8t/ha out of the two paddocks it was grown in. These paddocks were previously in maize and clover respectively. Mark and Marthie farm Lynmoor Farm, a 380ha mixed cropping and dairy...
CRBA 148 Barley impresses in trials and on-farm
Chris Morrish: Reinforcing what FAR trials found, Chris Morrish found CRBA 148 an easy crop to grow with high yields and minimal inputs.
After four years of Foundation for Arable Research (FAR) trials, Luisetti Seed’s spring-sown feed barley CRBA 148 is proving to be a consistently top performer in yield and test weight.
The barley was trialled by FAR on two dryland sites in the Manawatu,...
Autumn-sown Fortitude barley offers flexibility and yield advantages
Our aptly-named Fortitude barley is proving to be a solid performer with growers valuing its ability to resist scald and produce good test weights and bushel weights.
This was reinforced in Fortitude’s results in the latest Foundation for Arable Research’s Cultivar Performance Trials where the barley’s yield across two Canterbury sites (Rakaia under irrigation and St Andrew’s dryland) exceeded...
Combat resistant Ramularia Leaf Spot
Ramularia collo cygni leaf spotting on barley plants.
Ramularia collo-cygni is also called Ramularia Leaf Spot or Sprinkling necrosis of barley, even though it can attack a variety of host plants in addition to barley. In New Zealand we usually see it in barley and wheat, though the fungus can also host on oats, rye, and grasses.
Most winter and spring barley varieties are vulnerable to...