Flea Beetle 2019

teslacoils · Sep 15, 2019

I'd use my smug face if I wasn't still waiting to drill the grass I am using instead of osr. Sigh

Zippy768 · Sep 15, 2019

spikeislander said:
Good luck to you guys with osr I didn’t risk it after near 100% failure last year . But that 100% failure was due to me not really accepting half crops and big patches so tore the lot up .
After walking the fields countless times and spraying several times in a perverse way it was satisfying to be tearing it up and putting in another crop which turned out to do extremely well.
I know everyone’s attitude is different and I’m far from saying I’m right but it was absolutely the right decision here and the old saying of first loss is the best loss I fear is true .
As said good luck and I do hope and think the risk should be rewarded but we are stepping away until some clear way of controlling them arrives

What did you put in instead?

DrWazzock · Sep 15, 2019

Chucking it down now. It will help a bit, but mostly dry forecast for week ahead. It's on a knife edge.

Zippy768 · Sep 15, 2019

DrWazzock said:
Chucking it down now. It will help a bit, but mostly dry forecast for week ahead. It's on a knife edge.

Was reading something yesterday that said they didn't like rain so would stay hidden........instead just nibble the rape off at the stem

spikeislander · Sep 15, 2019

Zippy768 said:
What did you put in instead?

A third wheat on most of it , the osr was subsoiled in sonpulled a terrano mt through it and drilled , Siskin out of the shed just touched 4.75t/a but appreciate it was a very good year. Had minimal spend on it too, absolute star for us.

Zippy768 · Sep 15, 2019

spikeislander said:
A third wheat on most of it , the osr was subsoiled in sonpulled a terrano mt through it and drilled , Siskin out of the shed just touched 4.75t/a but appreciate it was a very good year. Had minimal spend on it too, absolute star for us.

I suspect I'd end up with take-all.

turbo · Sep 16, 2019

DrWazzock said:
Chucking it down now. It will help a bit, but mostly dry forecast for week ahead. It's on a knife edge.

Just tipped 14 mm out the rain gauge,got to of done some good

Flintstone · Sep 16, 2019

I also stopped growing it this year after 20 years. Good luck guys - you’re all braver than me.

willy · Sep 16, 2019

The main problem will be the over supply of all other break crops. Beans oats will be worth nothing if we all swap osr for these.

Hammer · Sep 16, 2019

willy said:
The main problem will be the over supply of all other break crops. Beans oats will be worth nothing if we all swap osr for these.

Surely the viability of growing beans is also soon to be fudged with the loss of CTL...

spikeislander · Sep 16, 2019

Zippy768 said:
I suspect I'd end up with take-all.

That was my fear but we caught rain just when needed so I don’t think it had as much effect as some years

Brisel · Sep 16, 2019

Flintstone said:
I also stopped growing it this year after 20 years. Good luck guys - you’re all braver than me.

What are you growing instead?

farmerm · Sep 16, 2019

willy said:
The main problem will be the over supply of all other break crops. Beans oats will be worth nothing if we all swap osr for these.

At which point I will finally cash in and grow OSR... How far do flee beetle travel? I probably should have drilled some this year, couldn't see a field of rape anywhere around us from the top of the grain store.

Brisel · Sep 16, 2019

Volunteer osr over the hedge from a newly sown field of osr that is being eaten. So much for volunteers being a sacrificial crop designed to lure them away from the drilled crop!

lloyd · Sep 16, 2019

farmerm said:
At which point I will finally cash in and grow OSR... How far do flee beetle travel? I probably should have drilled some this year, couldn't see a field of rape anywhere around us from the top of the grain store.

Why wait
Oat price is rubbish!

farmerm · Sep 16, 2019

Brisel said:
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Volunteer osr over the hedge from a newly sown field of osr that is being eaten. So much for volunteers being a sacrificial crop designed to lure them away from the drilled crop!

perhaps if you Cambridge roll it to release the aroma it will be a better lure?

lloyd · Sep 16, 2019

Brisel said:
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Volunteer osr over the hedge from a newly sown field of osr that is being eaten. So much for volunteers being a sacrificial crop designed to lure them away from the drilled crop!

You could have just pretended that was this years planting and it
was so thick you wanted some flea beetles to thin it out.

farmerm · Sep 16, 2019

lloyd said:
Why wait
Oat price is rubbish!

the fear of slugs

John · Sep 16, 2019

Went and had a look at 125ac I drilled 10 days ago, ruined lack of rain and flea beetle slaughtering it as it comes through. Will be ripped up by end of week.

texelburger · Sep 16, 2019

Well we in the west thought we were safe from the dreaded beetle having never seen much damage in previous years.This year they have arrived in great numbers like a flock of locusts.We sprayed some last night,will do some more tonight but,I fear,we are going to lose the battle.

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