Recent content by Flintstone

It’ll be absolutely fine. Don’t worry about it at all.

Back in early March I stitched some spring wheat into some areas of patchy winter wheat. There’s a photo of it below. The spring wheat has filled the gaps nicely, and I’ll just give these areas a litre of glypho as soon as the spring wheat is at cheesy ripe stage. It was about 4 hectares in a 20...

Count yourself lucky. A couple of mine are stuck on 19%! :D

Ok, putting the Winter/Spring rainfall aside for a minute, is anyone else finding this a strange Spring? The local Reading University soil and air temperatures (link below) have been well above seasonal average, but I’m finding everything to be so slow to get away this year. We are now into the...

Visually, the flowering has evened up a bit now. However, I’m becoming less convinced by the day that it will improve yield…. The combine yield map will be the ultimate answer.

I bet you’re a right laugh at the office Christmas party.

Weirdly, the thinned area is coming into flower much more slowly. :scratchhead: Red marks show thinned area. I’m glad I didn’t do any more now. The proof will be in the yield map.

How long are your dog’s legs? :LOL:

To be fair, there’s no system that will be guaranteed to work with daily rainfall like we’ve all had since November. The opportunities to get on drilling have been largely dictated by soil type, and the length of ‘dry window’ needed before different soils have been able to drill. Sometimes only...

I’m a bit of a direct drilling convert, and I do hope that lots of people don’t give up on DD in their first/second year of it due to how their crops look this season. It really isn’t the system’s fault. No matter what establishment method has been used this year, it has been unprecedented in...

£1,072,000, yes. I did think about it on 430 ha. £461,000, and no risk.

I have 50 hectares of it. It’s a good option for poorer areas of land, and/or awkward shaped bits. The rate went up from £800 to over £1,000 per hectare back in January, and there aren’t many crops that can be grown on marginal land at the moment that will beat the margin it gives. Drill at...

That guy’s voice is so high that he must be a Fendt driver, and therefore must not be believed in anything he says!

There’s always one, isn’t there….

I’ve messaged you, and I think you’ll be surprised with what you read.