Recent content by James H

Is the pH fluctuation your own observations or from research? Early Feb some small out the way fields received a very large dose of N so will only get two splits for the whole season, Now i'm thinking time saved may only be replaced by sitting on the sprayer more! hopefully the clover trial will...

Just gone through my springs with a teb as there is a bit of rust just coming in 1st fungicide and not sure its worth it so left a couple of tramlines untreated as a trial.

Does anyone know the best time to take out the Vetch inter-row cropped with osr? agronomist is concerned that if I don't check it now with astrokerb then It could start to affect yield as it could be quite a monster by spring

Thanks Andy, rape is just coming through and the vetch is chitted

Drilled our rape on Friday, later than I had hoped but managed to calibrate the two hoppers separately on the 750a and inter-row cropped with vetch. Osr 3kg/ha - Vetch 17kg/ha. I would be interested to know what rate I should have used, just have to wait and see now.

I was wondering at what population of benifical insects using insecticides became counter productive? I must have 3 ladybirds pupating per bean plant Plus Hoverflies as shown below and have also observed parasitic wasps emerging from a catapillar too. The field is after a cover crop and I think...

I agree but needs must the ground was like concrete (so dry) and sweet corn is a pathetic seed. 80 bales from 3ha but countered by the irrigation X2, economics? Not sure. Need to find another late drilled crop as the rooting was impressive so pleased with the concept

Yes the 8m sprinter is two row

Covercrop was volunteer Ww, Spring wheat, vetch, clover and mustard drilled with the Horsch duet coulter and changed to a simple single tine Horsch bean coulter for the spring. The mustard was a bugger to get through the drill, all 3ft stalks and left bare ground where it was over competitive in...

Cover crop trial (vetch, clover, mustard, sp.wheat) mustard was a mistake, flowering in February, stalks blocking the drill and holding more pheasants than the gamecover. Spring beans drilled into the cover on 8-4-2015 sprayed of the day before, other images taken on 23-5-2015. Spray miss...

Spring beans drilled 28-3-15 with 8m horsh sprinter stuble sprayed of and good structure, roots on the 8-5 and growing well on 23-5-15

Was thinking of doing the same with front back plumbing for inter-cropping osr and vetch, plus row cleaners for the osr, as some no til canola growers use them in canada, any thoughts?