- Location
- East yorks
Stuff looking good but a bit of crap germinated in the wet and making the odd bits look scruffy
State of your crops?
- Thread starter Jerry
- Start date
Yes, good day down here. Finished the T2 on SB and sprayed off the WB. Maybe a bit late on the Hawking.Hope you got more sun today than we did.
Tractor Boy
Member
- Location
- Suffolk
My spring oats and spring barley haven’t enjoyed these heavy rains and storms over the last two weeks in Suffolk. Double overlaps in spring barley started to go down a fortnight ago and have tried to grow back up. Today we had a torrential 14mm in about 20-30 minutes and it’s knocked loads down. How many times will barley try to get back up and will oats even try to grow back up?
- Location
- Northumberland
Ideal places for the crows to get in,and flatten even more down.From there,it will grow secondary growth.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Can't be liking this weather.
Mr Charisma
Member
- Location
- stratford on Avon
Thought I'd better report in, Valerie 2 row Winter Barley has greatly improved since early spring, a third of the acreage which was planted after fallow has good potential, the remaining two thirds planted after spring barley struggled from Nov to May, time will tell but shouldn't be disastrous
Wheats, mainly Ziatt and Skyfall look promising., went in well and all apart from one field have had good BG control, I missed out on decent T0 timing due to planting Spring Barley and let yellow rust in much to my annoyance but have managed to get back on top and crops look excellent, even managed to pickup a first prize for milling wheat with our local growing crops comp,
Spring Barley is spring barley, some okay and some not so okay, any grown on red marl in the field will need some patience as we had delayed germination, how will it yield??? Not a clue
Linseed, went in fairly late, some good but some is struggling with weed competition, groundsel is a huge problem here now, also have a field which Orache has made a appearance, never seen it before
Maize, went in well but hated the deluge that happened, didn't get a pre em on and have battled with weeds ever since, weeds and maize do not go well together
This harvest will be the first without dad looking over us, will be difficult but life goes on, he would certainly be chuffed to bits to win the wheat comp
Wheats, mainly Ziatt and Skyfall look promising., went in well and all apart from one field have had good BG control, I missed out on decent T0 timing due to planting Spring Barley and let yellow rust in much to my annoyance but have managed to get back on top and crops look excellent, even managed to pickup a first prize for milling wheat with our local growing crops comp,
Spring Barley is spring barley, some okay and some not so okay, any grown on red marl in the field will need some patience as we had delayed germination, how will it yield??? Not a clue
Linseed, went in fairly late, some good but some is struggling with weed competition, groundsel is a huge problem here now, also have a field which Orache has made a appearance, never seen it before
Maize, went in well but hated the deluge that happened, didn't get a pre em on and have battled with weeds ever since, weeds and maize do not go well together
This harvest will be the first without dad looking over us, will be difficult but life goes on, he would certainly be chuffed to bits to win the wheat comp
4course
Member
- Location
- north yorks
loving it here ,for the first time in what feels like a lifetme !!, this last month been almost perfect, got all the hay/haylage in without getting wet ,sunny when cereals flowering ,plenty of rain without any torrential floods moisture in the ground to help grain fill crops have improved from what they looked like in march april whilst cant see us having a worldbeater harvest due to the poor start it looks like we have half a chance im starting to feel much better though some of that could be due to at last having been away from the place for a week .
As an aside anyone else noticed that the trees and bushes etc have grown a lot more than usual this year
- Location
- norfolk
I see on look east Peterborough andNorwich had flash flooding where we didn’t have a drop thankfully
Combining Monday then?!
- Location
- norfolk
It was on the cards for this week before I went away last week, weather looking catchy monday Tuesday, but looks good Friday
- Location
- Bedfordshire
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Can't believe how tall my peas are. As long as they stay tall and not go flat.
They looked a bit thin when they came up, but I'm not worried now. 10-20 % are stunted and short around the headlands, wet spots, pigeon damage and tramlines which will bring the average down. And all done without the use of a Direct Drill, Triton Drill or regen Ag!
- Location
- Northumberland
They look great,but how long before harvest?
- Location
- Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos
The secret to high yielding Peas and beans is plenty of rain during flowering. Which you have had this year.
In dry years you can still get plenty of stem growth, but with bugger-all pods and seeds.
Fish
Member
- Location
- North yorkshire
Secret to high yielding peas, is not so much water at flowering ,but it helps, the real enemy are high temperatures and direct Sun.
25c and blazing hot sun, then many of the flowers will abort, leading to only 3/4 pairs of pods and low seed numbers per pod.
Those peas look good, Blue time ?
25c and blazing hot sun, then many of the flowers will abort, leading to only 3/4 pairs of pods and low seed numbers per pod.
Those peas look good, Blue time ?