- Location
- Essex
If anyone has about a tonne of spring oat seed spare, I can collect. Cash on collection.
What % of winter crops not planted or destroyed
- Thread starter snipe
- Start date
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Spring sowing starts tomorrow.
- Location
- Bedfordshire
Second field in today, only another 10 to go, approx 600 acres. one bit is still too wet to spray off 
west norfolk here
started irrigating tulips
, thursday and other farm on silt has had drip irrigation going on onionsAttachments
High value crop so best looked after sirwest norfolk here
started irrigating tulips
apart from bulb value for belmont . field should raise over 200k this time for hospice . 25000 tickets 7.50 each sold in 90 minutes , then all walk ins and donationsHigh value crop so best looked after sir
And that is an excellent use of water at 10p a cubic metre or less.. well done
makes wheat at 174 per tonne look like a jokers game
stock the bar well- Location
- East yorks
Well busy patching and redrilling barley where we can travel into failed wheat, just about done as cannot be arsed to do anymore. The soul has been well and truly destroyed.
Mixedupfarmer
Member
- Location
- Norfolk
How are you going to separate it at harvest?
glasshouse
Member
- Location
- lothians
Ploughing it under is not putting it out of reach
Mixedupfarmer
Member
- Location
- Norfolk
Not what the merchant / mill would say, but ok for hoe use.
4course
Member
- Location
- north yorks
History repeating itself , walking your crops of the farm as grandad did could well be the way to go
Well, its not where a cow would put it, and where nature has evolved to break it down. But I know where you're coming from.
glasshouse
Member
- Location
- lothians
Worms pull it down, plough does it quicker
I understand that. But I still don't see the point.
glasshouse
Member
- Location
- lothians
Of what?
- Location
- Essex
Worms do it for free.
- Location
- Shropshire
50% spring beans in, 100% spring wheat, 0% spring barley. We are pushing as hard we can but the whole less is more thing in respect to cultivation is out of the window. Horse power and diesel is order of the day as we don’t have the time for anything else. Some good seed beds being created after a combined 500hp+ and two power harrows later….
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