Spraying with a frost at night.

Steevo

Member
Location
Gloucestershire
a few years ago hatra antlantis aplied followed by frost hammered the wheat unless it was a very strong well fertilised september planted forward crop

I was only thinking today when spraying that the Hatra appears to have done a great job on some weeds at the edge of the fields, and also in the inside corners where the boom overlaps the wheat is very severely knocked, almost dead compared to normal.
 

Hampton

Member
BASIS
Location
Shropshire
I've stopped applying Hatra or Palio. Anything with Moddus in too. My agronomist wrote tickets for T0 with Canopy in which made me wince but it is kinder on the crop, apparently.
Gave a field of wheat right next to my father’s house a good belting with some Palio last Friday. Hoping for some rain to improve it and stop him moaning about it!
 

robbie

Member
BASIS
That's partly why I've gone for su/hormone and will follow with topik. Broadway star would be ideal, it would do everything, BLW,AMG lurking in the bottom,oats and odd brome/RG but I feel it's too risky with the current cold and dry conditions.
 

Hampton

Member
BASIS
Location
Shropshire
That's partly why I've gone for su/hormone and will follow with topik. Broadway star would be ideal, it would do everything, BLW,AMG lurking in the bottom,oats and odd brome/RG but I feel it's too risky with the current cold and dry conditions.
It will recover, looks like it’s had liquid fert
 

robbie

Member
BASIS
It will recover, looks like it’s had liquid fert
I know but it looks rather drastic for a while.
I remember several years ago I sprayed a field with Pacifica on instruction of a agronomist and I thought I'd killed it it went yellow and looked completely fudged so much so it got the agro worried as he'd never seen it happen that bad before.
I sprayed the field with MN a few days before the Pacifica and we think it must have been that that dewaxed the leaves somehow🤷
 

Grass And Grain

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Yorks
Thinking of missing the growth reg out for the w. Barley. No rain forecast this week, but might get started irrigating next week. Crops are allready affected by the drought though.
 

Case290

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Worcestershire
Do not spray when it’s go to be frosty or has been frosty. 50 acres sprayed yesterday water tank frozen this morning .. ffs no frost was forecast. Just unreal this yr. and the wheat has started going backwards cuz the dry.
 

Chae1

Member
Location
Aberdeenshire
Slightly frosty when I started this morning. Induction bowl wouldn't run.

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Farmer_England

Member
Arable Farmer
Same conundrum in 2022. With yellow rust about in skyfall, windy conditions and frosts at night into next week, is it worth putting a fungicide on if wind allows? Also got some glyphosate to be getting on with before the drill.... as per, weather is being a nuisance
 

Steevo

Member
Location
Gloucestershire
I won't be applying any grassweed herbicides during this cold spell - too much risk of crop damage and wasting money with crops not growing sufficiently.

Not much loss in waiting a week until the plants can take up the herbicide more effectively.
 

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