Snap.
We‘ve had to re drill that field I put a pic up of. Going to umbilical slurry via splash plate over the whole thing tomorrow and get the gas banger going.
Maize 2023
- Thread starter Bald Rick
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Snap.
We‘ve had to re drill that field I put a pic up of. Going to umbilical slurry via splash plate over the whole thing tomorrow and get the gas banger going.
We dribble barred slurry on at a diagonal to the planting and it seems to have confused the crows
Will everyone stick with maize next year once the seed treatments are banned? Or will you grow some wholecrop or something to spread the risks?
- Location
- North Norfolk
We are working on getting the import from the Continent approved, there is still some hope.
stablegirl
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- Location
- North
Does this count?
ollie989898
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There will be plenty of maize knee high by July 4 if this warm weather keeps up. There normally is around here.
ollie989898
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Crop looks well. 
If this weather carries on it will be far higher than your knee by July.
If this weather carries on it will be far higher than your knee by July.
About 80 units of N here give or take
Me and my son went crop walking this afternoon, pleasantly surprised at how far on our first drilled maize was, drilled 1st may, gatsby and resolute, 400 gal acre slurry chisel ploughed, one pass with cultivator and drilled with 30kg map , pre emergence spray mixed with 100 units of liquid fert. . favorable land and 100 ft above sea level.
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ollie989898
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Look at it go. You've done a lovely job there.
frederick
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- Location
- south west
And people argue early drilling doesn't help.
That crop is in a great place to keep growing. It will suffer far less fro a moisture deficit than a lot of later drilled crops.
1st of may is hardly early !It was this year though!
kp_n_plghng
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And yet when they drilled it you said it wasn't warm enough
, sorry, couldn't resist. Sometimes the farmer really does no best. My early stuff looks fantastic, unfortunately I have some late stuff too.....
ollie989898
Member
And yet when they drilled it you said it wasn't warm enough
I don't know where this crop is, it was certainly too cold to be drilling the stuff on May 1st around here, especially on the local dirty. Seen that before. Drilled it. Stays cool and damp for two weeks and the stuff comes up and sits looking at you, checks the crop hard.
ollie989898
Member
I can tell you if you persist in drilling early around here one year you will get caught out and the stuff will sit there looking yellow.
I don't know what the weather is with you but it was chucking it down day after day around here prior to this hot weather. All the crops locally look well.
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Put it this way- I have walked thousands of acres of maize of varying varieties, established or drilled in differing ways across a range of soil types and I can categorically state I have seen more maize crops borked by poor seed beds or cold/wet conditions than crops borked by hot weather or 'drought'.
What people get away with in Hampshire or the East or in the big arable regions is an entirely different matter to what applies to us down here.
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