snipe
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- Location
- west yorkshire
OSR Drilling 2019
- Thread starter JCfarmer
- Start date
- Location
- Dorset/Wilts
I kinda of get what you mean, and you hear it alot when it comes to rape drilling. But by doing the "nothing to lose" method, you are in fact forfeiting the chance to do it properly.
I had half a mind to stick a bit of osr in on some continuous wheat ground. Time was getting on when cut, then needed baling, then carting. Thought about slapping some fss about and seeing what happens for a few pence. But I figured pretty soon I would need to decide if it needed pellets, then if it needed more. Then herbicide of some sort at some point. Point being pretty early you have to decide to invest in the crop or not and I bet I would had ended up with a half arsed crop that would end up similar spending to stronger one......and I would had ballsed up a (whisper it) potentially profitable break crop.
I will do it properly next year.....I hope
- Location
- Lincolnshire
I can understand that. We have done half of our rape "properly" and the other half is an "experiment" but "well begun's half done" as they say.
Not putting in the ground work because we think it will be knobbled by beetle can lead to a poor stand even without the beetle.
I am a bit wary of the "farm saved seed" approach as well. By the time you have faffed around cleaning it, got varietal impurities, a half blocked seeder, some diseased seed, and possibly a fair amount of small weed seed in it, does it really save that much?
We have also swithered a lot with indecision because of flea beetle uncertainty.
Next year we will do it all properly. (Unless it works well this year).
Yes I have DD into very wet stubbles in 2012, if I hadn't i wouldn't have planted a thing.
It was the first real DD I done with my kv tineseeder.
Could barely walk on the fields after drilling and the subsequent rain, it was like snot, however by the time we got to the next harvest it yielded incredibly well at close to 12t/ha.
I've been DD eversince, now using the weaving gd.
Still have the kv in the shed though.
- Location
- the brecks norfolk
He's a beneficial and will be munching away at your flee beetle.
I can't remember his name of the top of my head but my rape is swarming with them.
I can't remember his name of the top of my head but my rape is swarming with them.
No comment robbie , no munching or holes yet , with the shiny black critters ,
Do you think the low disturbance and rather long stubble helps ,or is it rubbish, dit not put rubbish tff police put that i meant bolloc##
lloyd
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- Location
- Herefordshire
Just come in from checking on flea beetles.
If you can stomach the risk temperature would be ok on hybrids atleast.
Keep seed rates up, choose a variety with good autumn vigour, and don't waste time. And roll & pellet it properly!
Sorry but the fly is a turnip saw fly ,the larvae are black catapilers will make csfb look quite ?
- Location
- the brecks norfolk
Are you sure? From @will1594 photo I thought it was a soldier beetle.
It’s a bit blurry but it seems like it has the wings of a fly not beetle. Looks more like turnip saw fly to me.
We put ours in really early no till into chopped and stripped spring barley. Buckwheat and clover companions. Havnt grown any rape for a while so bought in new conventional seed to grow on which has put cost up abit. No insecticide so happy so far but could keel over in the spring from larvae? Done about 180ha.
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- Snodland kent
What did you use to establish into stripped straw?
- Location
- the brecks norfolk
I know that!!!!!
From the blurry picture I thought it was one of these!!!!
They come in all sorts of variations of orange and black colouration. My rape is full of them.
Fair enough. Good call. It was a blurry picture. Look for the black caterpillar larvae just in case though. Sawfly larvae will strip leaves very quickly.
Is that RTK'd between the rows of the previous crop. Looks very good.
CORK
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- Location
- East Cork, Ireland
Strip tilled Expansion starting to show in rows.
One application of slug pellets just in case as there’s a lot of trash.
The seeds were sown straight into moisture which is very useful in a dry September like this, it has led to quite uniform establishment.
One application of slug pellets just in case as there’s a lot of trash.
The seeds were sown straight into moisture which is very useful in a dry September like this, it has led to quite uniform establishment.