With this extreme weather bursts we get now, its got me thinking what is the right drill for all weather conditions? We have all been led to believe direct drilling or min till is the best for your ground? but what is best for your income? After all this wet all us direct drill boys are now...
Let’s start a harvest 23 thread! So how far do we all think we are from starting? Winter barley rapidly ripening here early start is on the cards. First week of july maybe, rape just starting to lose its greenness also!
Some sickish looking wheat had late Hatra/Atlantis, is there any recommended nutrient mix to try and perk it up and get it looking greener?
Asking for a friend ;)
Parting ways with our agronomist and the parent company which is a well known, supposedly well respected and reviewed farming/ management service company.
Long story short, lack of agronomist visits, agronomy done on timings rather than in field situation, non existent weed control this season...
Is there anything that will do both of these in one pass?
Blackgrass has got away a bit so don't think anything will touch it now,other than a knapsack
Due to the lack of spraying weather starting to get behind with it . Still have some Atlantis type products to put on winter wheat then all the wheat will need T0 very soon. Agronomist saying leave the herbicides very soon and move on to the T0 s . Weather is driving me crazy two nice days then...
Not for the first time have I read of a direct drill comparison and found the best margins were obtained by quite a large percentage by a more conventional approach. ( This weeks FW )
Is it possible that DD and cover cropping can work and can be successful but if you are not bothered about being...
I've got a field of winter wheat that has unfortunately ended up with a lot of rye grass in, had Cougar in a pre em and Hatra post emergence which did get on top of it at the time, however, at a cost. Fast forward to this spring, a huge amount of ryegrass is coming back and I've decided its a...
I was always told that February nitrogen flattens crops.
RB209 recommends nothing until the start of stem extension, and not before early April, unless it has low tiller numbers.
Yet everybody else seems to start chucking it on now and their crops look strong and green where as mine look crap...
I inherited a trailed Horsch sprayer last year, its currently got 035 and 05 AI nozzles on it. it does have the 25cm spacing also but find when we have used that it is very liable to block the filter etc.
it needs a new nozzles, my other sprayer I run a set of flat fans and a set of 035's...
Consider your spring herbicide programme carefully to avoid carry-over of any residual activity from spring applied SU herbicides, particularly if it remains dry and then turns wet later in season...
“This is particularly the case for those growers who are thinking about increasing the areas of...
Better than mine I hope:
Thats winter wheat by the way...
Or was.
Anyway, despite going on in good conditions, 0.51 liberator and 3lts defy has turned out to be mediumly rubbish. How's everyone else's?
we’ve got a field of W barley that’s got a bad brome problem, I knew it was there in the wheat last year as it had a few bits that had been waterlogged and killed the crop but I’d no idea it would be as bad as it is the field hasn’t had brome in before 3 years ago and was permanent grass till...
Probably been discussed a million times but reviewing again to reduce overheads.
If I go down to 155 litres per ha instead of 200 I only need to visit each block of land once with my 2000 litre tank which is a big saving in time and clat factor.
Is 155 litres per ha adequate for fungicides etc...
We have some quite bad ryegrass can you tell me what is the best practice ie autumn cultivations and then cultivations pre spring drilling . Fields are in arable rotation and we want to continue with this . Thanks
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