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Back in early March I stitched some spring wheat into some areas of patchy winter wheat. There’s a photo of it below. The spring wheat has filled the gaps nicely, and I’ll just give these areas a litre of glypho as soon as the spring wheat is at cheesy ripe stage. It was about 4 hectares in a 20...

Count yourself lucky. A couple of mine are stuck on 19%! :D

Ok, putting the Winter/Spring rainfall aside for a minute, is anyone else finding this a strange Spring? The local Reading University soil and air temperatures (link below) have been well above seasonal average, but I’m finding everything to be so slow to get away this year. We are now into the...

Visually, the flowering has evened up a bit now. However, I’m becoming less convinced by the day that it will improve yield…. The combine yield map will be the ultimate answer.

I bet you’re a right laugh at the office Christmas party.

Weirdly, the thinned area is coming into flower much more slowly. :scratchhead: Red marks show thinned area. I’m glad I didn’t do any more now. The proof will be in the yield map.

How long are your dog’s legs? :LOL:

To be fair, there’s no system that will be guaranteed to work with daily rainfall like we’ve all had since November. The opportunities to get on drilling have been largely dictated by soil type, and the length of ‘dry window’ needed before different soils have been able to drill. Sometimes only...

I’m a bit of a direct drilling convert, and I do hope that lots of people don’t give up on DD in their first/second year of it due to how their crops look this season. It really isn’t the system’s fault. No matter what establishment method has been used this year, it has been unprecedented in...

£1,072,000, yes. I did think about it on 430 ha. £461,000, and no risk.

I have 50 hectares of it. It’s a good option for poorer areas of land, and/or awkward shaped bits. The rate went up from £800 to over £1,000 per hectare back in January, and there aren’t many crops that can be grown on marginal land at the moment that will beat the margin it gives. Drill at...

That guy’s voice is so high that he must be a Fendt driver, and therefore must not be believed in anything he says!

There’s always one, isn’t there….

I’ve messaged you, and I think you’ll be surprised with what you read.

You’re very brave. I’d stay well away from them if I were you.

The forecasts are all contradicting themselves. The BBC news gave a dry week when I watched it this morning, but my WeatherPro app looks like a dire fortnight ahead. I honestly don’t think they have a clue what’s going to come.

Maybe just drill over the bare patches with some spring wheat, and then squirt a litre of glypho over those areas a couple of weeks before you combine the field as a whole?

I’d like to, but I’m not sure I’m brave enough! The crop is romping on now, and I’m worried that the Glypho will be less accurate through the stream nozzles when the crop is so tall. Next year I’ll definitely plant 10 kgs and then thin accordingly across the lot.

The difference is becoming quite remarkable now. I wish I’d done the whole 59 ha. Unthinned. (Boot for scale). Thinned.

WeatherPro were forecasting a dry week next week. They’ve now changed their mind and are now saying it’s another two wet weeks down south. FFS.