State of your crops -2022
- Thread starter Jerry
- Start date
- Location
- Lincolnshire
This is October drilled Gleam in northern Lincs!
APJ
Member
- Location
- West Midlands(Shropshire borders)
I wasn’t impressed to start with, it was extremely slow to get going, but looks good to the eye now, hoping it’s a Costello replacement going forward. I’ll keep you updated as the season goes forward.
No till spring barley looks much worse than no till spring oats. Definitely more fussy.
Some is after spring wheat which looks reasonable, but after winter wheat with a heavy chopped straw load it doesn’t look great.
I think going foward for spring barley we will remove the straw and establish the cover crop with abit more surface soil movement than we have been doing. We have a Claydon drill coming so that should do that job quite nicely.
we keep learning more every year with this no till job.
Some is after spring wheat which looks reasonable, but after winter wheat with a heavy chopped straw load it doesn’t look great.
I think going foward for spring barley we will remove the straw and establish the cover crop with abit more surface soil movement than we have been doing. We have a Claydon drill coming so that should do that job quite nicely.
we keep learning more every year with this no till job.
Chae1
Member
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Spring barley might need some pgr I think.
No till spring barley looks much worse than no till spring oats. Definitely more fussy.
Some is after spring wheat which looks reasonable, but after winter wheat with a heavy chopped straw load it doesn’t look great.
I think going foward for spring barley we will remove the straw and establish the cover crop with abit more surface soil movement than we have been doing. We have a Claydon drill coming so that should do that job quite nicely.
we keep learning more every year with this no till job
Some is after spring wheat which looks reasonable, but after winter wheat with a heavy chopped straw load it doesn’t look great.
I think going foward for spring barley we will remove the straw and establish the cover crop with abit more surface soil movement than we have been doing. We have a Claydon drill coming so that should do that job quite nicely.
we keep learning more every year with this no till job
...'lots of blackgrass in strips straight behind the combine...' Would that not have come over the rotors? Will the seed destructor not just take the material that comes over the sieves? Or is the latest incarnation able to cope with all of the straw too?
TIA Tim
It takes all the chaff material.
it’s exactly the same whether we have chopped or rowed up straw.
Early sown Dawsum (mid September)looking the best out the wheats here,mid October sown field however
looking decidedly 2nd place to the Skyfall next to it.
Claydon drilled s.beans and s.oats now flying.
I think a light cultivation before the drill pays, where the s.oats were claydon direct drilled and A share failed to penetrate (clay patches) crop is behind.
looking decidedly 2nd place to the Skyfall next to it.
Claydon drilled s.beans and s.oats now flying.
I think a light cultivation before the drill pays, where the s.oats were claydon direct drilled and A share failed to penetrate (clay patches) crop is behind.
- Location
- Kenilworth
- Location
- Lincolnshire
as it’s important to show the good and the bad, this is quite an extreme example of blackgrass straight behind the combine in some second wheat. Quite a poor bit of soil and usually does have blackgrass. The crop in the wheelings is perhaps slightly thinner than the crop inbetween but no way near enough to let this much BG grow!
oil barron
Member
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Do you see a link between using PGR and skinnings? My brother says it’s a clear link. Probably not an issue these few years with the price of feed though.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Are they previous tranline wheelings that were subsoiled?
- Location
- Bedfordshire
Crops generally looking good, (apart from some OSR) but too much blackgrass around. We generally do better in a dry year, but not this dry!!
Flags just coming out and they look pretty small, but they never look as good now as they used to 30 years ago, is it varietal?
Spring crops not suffering too much yet.
Nelson after peas looks topping.
Flags just coming out and they look pretty small, but they never look as good now as they used to 30 years ago, is it varietal?
Spring crops not suffering too much yet.
Nelson after peas looks topping.
No, that particular one is not a tramline but just a combine mark. Not even had a trailer on it as they all stay on the main 36m tramline, got a long spout
Bossfarmer
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- Location
- between Perth and Inverness
This field been in grass in the previous 3 years?