Hybrid rye has been a complete failure this year, bugger all of it has grown just drowned in the ground... Can you get spring hybrid (or non hybrid if its any good?) for combining? If so what variety is best. We really liked the winter hybrid rye grown last year, shame its not worked out. Straw...
Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland
The Agricultural and Horticultural Development Board (AHDB) has published the provisional results from it’s ‘Early Bird’ planting survey for autumn 2023.
Autumn drilling conditions have been poor in many parts of the UK in later weeks of the planting...
Has anybody experience of this? Presumably rye needs vernalisation? Are there spring varieties etc?
When would it mature and what would it yield?
specifically for ad Wholecrop so I’m not too worried what might be “better”!
thanks
Hi,
I work generally in the east of England and I'm looking to expand my network of growers. My company conduct independent trials gathering registration data for new actives. I do occasionally have variety/ demo trials too. If anyone would be open to chat about hosting trials please let me...
Time to batten down the hatches?
Residents of Brechin in Scotland, have been told to evacuate this afternoon, before the storm's arrival
https://news.sky.com/story/uk-weather-storm-babet-forces-evacuations-in-red-alert-area-of-brechin-due-to-floods-12987536
To introduce myself: my name is Peter Martens, we operate 1900ac/760Ha of Organic land roughly 400km north west of New York City. Most of our ground is loamy though we have areas of heavy clay made up of weather shale. We have plenty of round rocks but not too many flat rocks.
We currently...
Next year I will likely have to buy meal for lambing in big bags or get it blown into....... something. A proper silo is out of the budget and I have a neighbour that'll cause issues. Too many tipsy/jfc type meal bins would be required. Ratty will eat his way into IBC tanks. Small regular...
17 acres of May drilled spring barley to harvest here, praying for Saturday to be as good as forecast. 14 acre of it looks ok, 3 acre in a remote corner not seen it so hope so.
Am I the last?
Under request from @Bokey I have decided to dedicate a thread to the trials and tribulations on the farm, I shall endeavour to splice the good with the bad. A bit about us, 600 acres all told, 450 cropable, 8 years into organic, mainly arable with a few wooly critters, an impatient old man and...
Starting to get a little worried now. Spring seed might be short... Weather doesnt look great on the forcast - given how sh!t harvest was, could we be in for just as bad an autumn?
Has anyone ever autumn established SFI AHL2 after a crop off winter wheat, grown fast seeding crops such as mustard and then gone into a spring barley late March early April?
Probably a good reason why it isn’t being done!
5.45 am this morning rec email from defra saying as youve registered your interest you can now start your application. ok thinks me will try .
First thing to do will be go get some more ink and a couple of reams of printer paper as will have to download the 40 pages of the new guidance of how...
What would a suggested seed rate be, normally 100kg wheat per acre
So 10/15kgbeans? And drop wheat or not?
Plan is to spray beans out in spring and combine wheat.
Pre em suggestions?
Normal wheat pre em is my suggestion as if I plough beans down pre em be weaker by time they are through?
Morning
Presumably most are still planning on planting wheat in the next month or so.
With current prices and profitability what’s everyone’s thoughts on pre em choices and rates ?
cheers
Do you think just growing 1 variety of wheat is a risk. Do some variations do better some years with weather conditions than other. I have stuck to one per year for ease and only have 1 shed for wheat but I will have a 2nd she's for wheat next harvest.
Would you know milling as a 2nd wheat and...
Latest SFI update has now given option for NUM3 Legume Fallow to be rotational.
See screenshot of the guidance.
Non-rotated we have to establish within 13 months of agreement start date, so say we start agreement 1st Sept 2023, then we'd need to establish by 31st Aug '24, then leave it there...
Considering growing a field to try this year in place of a spring barley crop which generally performs poorly on gravel.
Anyone a regular grower? How much N are you using, fungicide programme, yield?
And are you blending it in with a feed wheat heap to market?
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