- Location
- Darlington
You'll be glad if the weather at the end of March is still preventing fieldwork. Unfed crops will be dropping tillers like crazy while yours are still green & lush.
Not for the crap weather, I think we've all had enough of that.
Fertilizing winter cereal
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Not for the crap weather, I think we've all had enough of that.
No. This is a lie that zealous no tillers spout to make themselves feel better when the crops look crap. I know, i used to be one!
build biomass early imo, especially on lighter soils - regardless of how you establish crops
A well fertilised crop will always have more roots than a yellow one that’s dropping tillers.
- Location
- Darlington
I'm on almost the opposite soil to you though, some neighbours would say it's not heavy, but it certainly holds water.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Absolute rubbish weekend. Rained for 24 hours plus. Complete disaster. Back to square 1 and more due Tuesday.
Yep , from sh!t to shittier , glad I haven't sold a grain yet
any one tray tested diamond urea s for kv geo please save getting trays out
thanks
thanks
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Blowing so hard it’s rocking the tractor so packed up again. Every feckin job.
Mark C
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- Location
- Bedfordshire
24m Drop point setting K for straight urea
thanks will try that and throw trays out
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Calm now. I'm doing mine and not looking behind.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
I got started again after lunch when the wind dropped. Will carry on into the evening. Won’t see the ruts in the dark! Just about keeping the wolf from the door. Anyway no shortage of moisture to wash it in.
- Location
- Dorset/Wilts
As long as you are going forward quicker than you are going down??
- Location
- Dorset/Wilts
Still some heavy ground wheat and hilly bits not had anything yet.....and the grass had had nothing
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Not actually sinking at all. Most of the fields were only disced up and rolled, so it's firm, if greasy, going. Doesn't look especially tidy, but tbh my farm looks a disgrace anyway at the moment.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Putting on a multitude of straights rather than a blend is particularly tiresome as multiple passes are really churning up the tramlines. I’ve never really found a way round this problem though I did consider fitting another spreader on front linkage. I’ve Polysulphate, MOP and urea going on in a very compressed timeframe. The sand doesn’t hold onto them for long so they need to go on a month or so before peak demand.
Can you not get a compound/blend of n p k and one pass would save churning up tramlines as much. Yara do lots of different compounds surely you could get one to suit
- Location
- Lincolnshire
The problem is they are much much more expensive than straights.
For sulphur I use Polysulphate which has a bit but not enough potash, so I also need MOP. Then a nitrogen source usually in 2 doses. Thats 4 times over.
In the good old days we just applied 2 bags per acre of 0 24 24 in the autumn and nitrate in the spring. Then it was decided that potash was better applied in the spring to avoid over winter losses. Then they closed the coal fired power stations and we needed to apply sulphur which was initially ammonium sulphate in feb which served two purposes - a shot of early N ahd sulphur. Then it got too expensive and we went to Polysulphate. The number of passes is ridiculous now really. I’m going over the same field three times in a day at the moment due to very limited weather opportunities to get anything on. Maybe it’ll force us down the compound or blend route. It’s not helping my arthritic joints either!
- Location
- Lincolnshire
What do you reckon the potash losses between September and March are?