State of your crops -2022

Renaultman · Jan 11, 2022

Scruffy Kerrin after OSR drilled early as seed was over year and didn't test very well

Campus OSR canopy being managed by pigeons

Winter beans, first year growing them

Grafton after Spring beans

Grafton as a second wheat

Mascani oats

Renaultman · Jan 11, 2022

Not my own but contract Astronomer, horrible low tgw seed sample. Looks like it's got a lot of promise

sahara · Feb 22, 2022

Out and about this afternoon.
Some Grafton after Beans,

Quite pleased with this.

APJ · Feb 27, 2022

Oilseed rape is certainly on the move now, looks to be flowering early this yr.

teslacoils · Feb 27, 2022

This time last year I started the feet on the wheat. Might roll a field this afternoon.

DRC · Feb 27, 2022

APJ said:
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Oilseed rape is certainly on the move now, looks to be flowering early this yr.

Gosh you’ve done well keeping pigeons off that. Ours has been stripped back a lot

APJ · Feb 27, 2022

silverfox said:
Gosh you’ve done well keeping pigeons off that. Ours has been stripped back a lot

Really haven’t seen many pigeons this winter, could of done with a few! It’s had plenty of water over it, which hasn’t slowed growth down.

Beefsmith · Feb 27, 2022

Jerry said:
Well seeing as it’s new year and last years thread on this topic ram to 80 pages, thought it time to start a new one for this year’s harvest.

I don’t have a lot of winter corn in but what I have is looking ok. The warm December certainly did no harm. A selection as off today.

Graham after maize

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Bit of an experiment. Skyfall drilled direct into a 3 year old grass / clover ley. Looked “interesting “ when the drill was in field but pleased with it now. Bit of clover hanging in but hopefully also feeding it
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momento winter barley. Looking a little thin in places but it’s all there. Will need a feed sooner rather than later.

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I think we are currently looking average to be honest. It’s all there but nothing looking fantastic. First lot of feet due to go on within the next 10 days though so that will pick things up.

Devon James · Feb 28, 2022

Memento barley with pig slurry applied on the right. OSR is a bit happy this year. Pigeons have been on it all winter

Trial Officer Barney · Feb 28, 2022

Does anyone grow winter triticale or/and winter oats in Northamptonshire (or Oxfordshire)? I would like to set up crop safety trials. For oats, it would be preferable a late drilled, just start of tillering (max. 2-3 tillers) crop.

Please let me know if you are interested and I will get back to you with further details.

ajd132 · Feb 28, 2022

Took these last week. Osr, Dawsum after osr, extase second wheat.

APJ · Feb 28, 2022

ajd132 said:
Took these last week. Osr, Dawsum after osr, extase second wheat.

ajd132 said:

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We have Dawson after osr also, it’s been extremely slow to get going this autumn winter compared to gleam, be interesting to see how it goes this season, what’s your opinion on it?

ajd132 · Feb 28, 2022

Yes it will be, its a replacement for Costello which is also really slow. I drilled some later on which doesnt look great, i will only drill it early next year i think. Costello has always been a variety that is not showy, but has incredible quality and stays green for 2 weeks longer than anything else

APJ · Feb 28, 2022

ajd132 said:
Yes it will be, its a replacement for Costello which is also really slow. I drilled some later on which doesnt look great, i will only drill it early next year i think. Costello has always been a variety that is not showy, but has incredible quality and stays green for 2 weeks longer than anything else

Yes big fans of senova Costello and Diego have been great varieties that’s why I chose Dawsum, I do think it has potential but needs to be in early I think.

willy · Mar 1, 2022

@ajd132 when was the rape drilled?

ajd132 · Mar 1, 2022

willy said:
@ajd132 when was the rape drilled?

Early august

teslacoils · Mar 10, 2022

Gleam wheat. One drilled after ab6 in mid October. One drilled mid November after grass. The latter has had some fert and will get a rolling hopefully next week.

Chae1 · May 2, 2022

Spring barley on light land got a good start.

Osr away now. First year growing it.

teslacoils · May 2, 2022

I'm saying nothing for another fortnight until the bg shows itself. Or doesn't. I've seen a few plants and a patch of wild oats so far but nothing awful. Ground is cracked like you'd not believe so a good rain could help the crop but also release the weed.

ajd132 · May 3, 2022

Wheat - crops look good generally apart from a few later drilled fields. Way too much blackgrass in second wheat, a greedy gamble that will pay well financially but not agronomically. A couple bad fields after some poor osr too. Rust in gleam is going to be hard to control this year. Overall okay.
Osr - mega
W barley - good
Spring crops - average to poor, very thirsty but have established pretty well on the whole.

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