icanshootwell
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- Location
- Ross-on-wye
morning due will chit turnip seed, will just shrivel up or get eaten.
Drilling turnips during hot weather
- Thread starter paul&mandy
- Start date
I wouldn’t bet on dew chitting it from past experience
beardface
Member
- Location
- East Yorkshire
Is this lack of establishment going to affect store lamb prices I wonder?
Doubt it. Plenty of underfinished lambs early on put through the marts to clear fields means demand will remain strong. Can't see good store lambs making less than 75 quid, which is enough for me even with white diesel where it is. Feel for blokes paying fortune for feed and fert though. Export job will likely come on board again before long due to drought in Europe. Will be sending as much food out as they'd normally send us. Bit like the gas and electric job.
- Location
- Ceredigion
Seed cost is cheap around £6 acre if it has to be redrilled ,but drilling costs aren't cheap
icanshootwell
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- Location
- Ross-on-wye
They did here after it was combined, you should see them now, all shriveled up and half eaten.
At the moment seed costs are reasonable. If everyone wastes there seed by planting in unsuitable conditions, seed supply could soon get tight.
- Location
- Ceredigion
Don't think so , everyone i speak to as ample stocks
I've got tons of seed here as I store a lot for next season for use before new crop comes
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Bit different to drilling them
icanshootwell
Member
- Location
- Ross-on-wye
For sure but the headlands always germinate, which they did this year but withered up now. Even drilling now would be a waste of time imo, what with the cost of fuel, seed etc, would pay to wait and not fight mother nature.
- Location
- Welshpool Powys
Putting some in today into burned off turf
Bit of moisture down in.
Bit of moisture down in.
Yeah I agree it is too dry
- Location
- Welshpool Powys
Thunderstorms forecast Monday Tuesday next week
(Hope Timmy mallet isn’t on his bike)
(Hope Timmy mallet isn’t on his bike)
paul&mandy
Member
- Location
- surrey/west sussex
Ive DD about 95 acres into 0 moisture. Holding off anymore as the rain promised looks like it might miss us now.
Been offered some more ground so may need some more seed. Will see what next week brings. What's the availablity like?
- Location
- Ceredigion
Still got plenty left, Samson and Frisia
Roll it well if its not like dust mind
Sprayed our turnips last night. Flea beetle starting to move in. Crucial period now with this hot weather. Hopefully they will pull through
icanshootwell
Member
- Location
- Ross-on-wye
I got some grass seeds to drill in a week or so, might add some turnips in the mix.
Been no green grass here since mid June!!!!!
Its a numbers game, they favour bigger areas of it and in monoculture .
- Location
- Ceredigion
What did you spray with