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Only the proportion that doesn't grow maizeBest thing for dairy industry would be a nationwide failure of 2016 maize crop!.(Tin hat on).If you need plastic at god knows what cost should you be growing it.!
Only the proportion that doesn't grow maizeBest thing for dairy industry would be a nationwide failure of 2016 maize crop!.(Tin hat on).If you need plastic at god knows what cost should you be growing it.!
is it a terrible if drill after june ?Got 380 acres to go in. Sometimes to have patience is a good thing.
is it a terrible if drill after june ?
is bad if have drill maize in early june ?Sorry, you don't make sense. ?
is bad if have drill maize in early june ?
seen some maize drilled may 31st in north wales and wasn't even a wet year and crop grew okI would think if you are doing that then you need to grow another crop instead of maize !!
who needs plastic !
Have used plastic the last 3 years but decided not too this year for several reasons and I don't think ground conditions would of let us plant any earlier anyway so not losing too much sleep over it.who needs plastic !
see a fair bit of maize under plastic in north wales,Have used plastic the last 3 years but decided not too this year for several reasons and I don't think ground conditions would of let us plant any earlier anyway so not losing too much sleep over it.
see a fair bit of maize under plastic in north wales,
not sure what mean by that ?Is that how they are reducing costs?
Very wet tonight Will. Contractors nipped in here on Sunday morning, and got 35 acres done , before going back to the farm they were rained off at. I've worked another 14 acres that'll need another pass. Hope it doesn't turn into a pudding . I've used 25-5-15 as a starter fert before, which would be fine with good indices, and cheaper than DAP .None planted here, ploughed ground still drying at weekend. Raining now and tomorrow looks wet. Weekend drilling at the earliest.
Bearing in mind the late ish drilling, anybody think there is some mileage in reducing seedrates from 45000 to 42500 seeds an acre? We sell the crop by weight so don't want to miss out on crop bulk.
Also being a cheapskate could I get by replacing the down the spout DAP with say urea to give the crop a kick start? Soils all Index 2 plus for P and sludge cake has been ploughed down. DAP and final seed not yet on farm, so potential for input savings or 'penny wise pound foolish'. Thoughts please?
Plenty wet enough here as well, when to get some filters from Edwards and Farmer this afternoon, a lot seems to have been drilled around Shrewsbury but round here very little seem to have been drilled.Very wet tonight Will. Contractors nipped in here on Sunday morning, and got 35 acres done , before going back to the farm they were rained off at. I've worked another 14 acres that'll need another pass. Hope it doesn't turn into a pudding . I've used 25-5-15 as a starter fert before, which would be fine with good indices, and cheaper than DAP .
Most of the fields immediately around me, have been drilled. Must've been four different contractors working nearby last week. But, as you know, it's boys land down here in the village, the problems start on the heavier land at the top end of the farm.Plenty wet enough here as well, when to get some filters from Edwards and Farmer this afternoon, a lot seems to have been drilled around Shrewsbury but round here very little seem to have been drilled.