DD Soya (2018)
- Thread starter tw15
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New Puritan
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- Location
- East Sussex
Looking at the dates it hasn't sped up quite as much as I would have expected as we have got into June. Is this your experience @dontknowanything @Simon Chiles
dontknowanything
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- Location
- Cambridge
Ours is going to be a write off, almost certainly. Has had several problems, but now the hares are polishing off the survivors which have stalled as it's so dry.
bummer. sorry to hear that.
Many of us need rain that’s for sure.
Simon Chiles
DD Moderator
- Location
- Surrey/ Kent Border, UK
Probably just the year, my blue lupins have done the same, they’ve stood still for weeks ( we didn’t help the job by knocking them a bit hard with a herbicide) but they’re starting to grow a bit more vigorously now. I dug one up and it’s nodulating well, I think the plants put a lot into feeding the rhizobium knowing they’ll get paid back later which could also account for the apparent stalling.
Without doubt a difficult crop to get established !
- Location
- Romsey, Hampshire
I have had to write mine off. Summer cover crop and then cereal. Frustrating because it worked pretty well last year, but there is a real challenge balancing soil temp and moisture I have found.
Indeed. For a crop which is direct drilled around the world in places which are quite dry etc, it would have seemed that this was an almost perfect start to the year yet many are not having much joy.
Steevo
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- Location
- Gloucestershire
Maybe they need to come over and show us how it’s done?!
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